Ignacio Ceballos Martín Born in Valencia, he obtained his percussion diploma at the Conservatorio Profesional “MaestroVert” de Carcagente, Valencia, Spain with Ángel García and carried on his studies at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Zaragoza with Manel Ramada. He perfected his playing at the Civica Scuola di Musica “Claudio Abbado” di Milano under the guidance of Mike Quinn, Johnathan Scully and David Searcy. He has participated in numerous master classes with soloists of international renown such as Michel Cerutti, Sylvio Gualda, Karl Mehlig, Rainer Römer, Emmanuel Séjourné, Robert Van Sice, Bernard Wulff. Since 1994 he has collaborated as timpanist with the principal italian orchestras: l’Orchestra Teatro della Scala, l’Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, l’Orchestra Maggio ANNUAL COURSE Musicale Fiorentino, l’Orchestra Teatro “San Carlo” di Napoli, as well as many famous international orchestras such as: the Philarmonia Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Bilbao Orchestra TIMPANI & PERCUSSIONS Sinfonikoa, under the baton of Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Herbert Blomstedt, Pierre Boulez, Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly, Cultural Association Gustavo Dudamel, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Kirill IGNACIO CEBALLOS MARTÍN Petrenko, Georges Prêtre, Gennadij Roždestvenskij, Giuseppe & School of Music Sinopoli, Jurij Temirkanov. 00169 Rome - Via Casilina, 1101 Since 1997 he has been the Prinicipal Timpanist of the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma. He has, for several years, also been very ph. + 39 06.2389732 active in the didactic field taking part in international percussion www.ariadimusica.com seminars and festivals. At present he is holding specialised timpani [email protected] courses at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica “Ottorino Respighi” in Principal timpanist Latina and the Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco (Musikene) in San Sebastián. Orchestra of the Facebook pages: Teatro dell’Opera Rocco Luigi Bitondo Ariadimusica He studied and graduated brilliantly at the Music Conservatory of Ariadimusica & Cartoons di Roma Matera and graduated with honors in the Specialist Degree in Percussion Instruments at the Music Conservatory of Potenza. He collaborated with several opera theatres and orchestras including: Philharmonia Orchestra of London, Accademia Nazionale of Santa Cecilia, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Teatro Comunale in Bologne, Roma Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Italian Film Orchestra, Magna Grecia Orchestra in Taranto, Youth Orchestra of Fiesole, Marrucino Theatre of Chieti, Lucan Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra ROCCO LUIGI BITONDO JFutura of Trento, National Orchestra of Italian Conservatories and others. He worked with Directors and World-renowned artists as Riccardo Muti, Ennio Morricone, Yuri temirkanov, Luis Bacalov, Jeffrey Tate, Charles Dutoit, John Axelrod, Eliau Inbal, Jennady Percussionist Rodzendwensky, Pintchas Stainberg, Gianandrea Noseda and more. There are several collaborations in contemporary, modern, chamber Orchestra of the and jazz music. He took part in a lot of international music festivals Teatro dell’Opera as: Biennale of Venice, Grobe Festspiele of Salzburg, Ravenna di Roma festival, Tokyo Opera Festival and more. At December 2008 he won the competition as a percussionist in the National Police Band of Italy and in November 2012 he won the International Audition for Percussionist obliged to Keyboards and Timpani at Rome Operahouse where he currently works. The course will focus the study of Timpani and Percussions and the use in orchestra, as a soloist and in chamber music. The course is opened to all kind of students: for those who approach percussions for the first time (drum, xylohphone, cymbals, bass drum, timpani etc.) and for musicians who ANNUAL COURSE want to improve for competitions and/or auditions. TIMPANI & PERCUSSIONS No. 4 lessons/month + certificate of attendance for any further information email us at [email protected] On Mondays .