Marco Ambrosini & Ensemble Supersonus – Resonances Review

Italian musician, composer and arranger (born 1964)

Marco Ambrosini
Marco Ambrosini with the Nyckelharpa
Background data
Built-in	1964 (age 57–58) Forlì, Italy
Genres	Early music, baroque, contemporary
Occupation(southward)	Musician, composer, arranger
Instruments	Violin, viola, nyckelharpa
Years active	1991–nowadays
Labels	ECM, SONY
Website	world wide web.ambrosini.de

Musical artist

Marco Ambrosini (born 1964 in Forlì, Italia) is an Italian musician, composer and arranger living in Deutschland.

Studies [edit]

From 1971 to 1981, Ambrosini studied violin and viola (with Adrio Casagrande) and composition with Mario Perrucci at the "Instituto Musicale One thousand.B.Pergolesi" in Ancona and at the solarium "G.Rossini" in Pesaro.

Musician [edit]

Ambrosini debuted as a soloist and nyckelharpa thespian in the theatre "Alla Scala" in Milan, in concerts for the Royal Swedish Concert Agency, in the Alte Oper Frankfurt, in the Philharmony in Cologne, Berlin, Moscow, in the Carnegie Hall of New York and also perform with different ensembles for early on music, baroque music and gimmicky music. Worldwide concert activity includes over 150 CDs, circulate and telly shots as a composer, soloist, or as fellow member of the Katharco Early Music Consort and the ensemble Oni Wytars (Germany), Els Trobadors (Kingdom of spain), ensemble Unicorn, ensemble Accentus, Clemencic Consort, Armonico Tributo Austria, Ensemble Kapsberger (Rolf Lislevand, Norway), 50'Arpeggiata (Christina Pruhar, France), Giovanna Pessi Ensemble (Switzerland), Lucilla Galeazzi, Ensemble La Chimera (IT), Vocalization Clamantis (EE), Jean-Louis Matinier and with Michael Riessler.

Music [edit]

• Since 1991 Ambrosini played together with Katharina Dustmann as artistic director/usher of the "Studio Katharco - sound:creations".
• In 1993 Ambrosini was selected past the German radio station "SWR" as a composer for the "New Jazz Meeting".
• To celebrate the jubilee of 1200 years of the city of Frankfurt am Main he composes the musical theater production "Emperors Coronation" (management: W. Lenssen).
• In 1995, on behalf of the Ministry for Education and Culture, he composed the music for the musical theater production "La Divina Commedia." (theatre forum, direction: W. Lenssen).
• In 1996 he was selected information technology by the Swedish radio as an interpreter and composer for the Nordic Jazz Coming together.
• In 1997 he was musical director for the Commemoration of the Renaissance in Lemgo (Germany).
• By order of the concert hall "Alte Oper – Frankfurt" and the Italian Plant of Culture he composed in collaboration with Katharina Dustmann "The Return of the Marco Polo". premiere 1998.
• In 1999, premier of "Between Skies and Hell" (composed together with Katharina Dustmann), direction: Wolfram Lenssen
• 2000 premier of "misch:lagen".
• 2001 premier of "Zechenzirkus".
• 2002 premier of "Illumina" (for the European exhibition of the art of gardens "EUROGA 2002") and "QuasiBolero" (for the engagement of an onetime High german mine "Zollverein" every bit a World Heritage Site by the UNESCO.
• 2003 "Illumina 2", "ExtraSchicht" and "Ensemblia" (composed together with Katharina Dustmann), direction: W. Lenssen.
• 2004 "Magic Illumina" and "Centro" (moving-picture show music, composed together with Katharina Dustmann), direction: W. Lenssen.
• 2006 "Wasserquintett", composed together with Katharina Dustman, direction by Imma Schmidt.
• 2007 „Dice Pennschnecke Jonathan", a radio drama by Thos Renneberg
• 2011 „LA FOLLIA - the Triumph of Folly", (Sony music)
• 2013 "Janicar super Ambarabaccicciccoccò", for the European union-project ENCORE (www.encore.nyckelharpa.eu)
• 2014 Inventio, with J.-Louis Matinier (ECM)
• 2016 Pippi Langstrumpf - Hallenberg, mit Katharina Dustmann
• 2017 Jim Knopf - Hallenberg, mit Katharina Dustmann

Discography [edit]

A discography with more 160 CD published between 1991 and 2019 can be found on the homepage of Marco Ambrosini.

Publications [edit]

"Einführung in die mittelalterliche Musik" (introduction to the medieval music, just in German, in collaboration with Michael Posch, 1992, ISBN 3-927240-13-3)

"The search for a methodology in devising exercises suitable for different types of nyckelharpa", 2011, CADENCE e-book

Marco Ambrosini playing his nyckelharpa at the monument of the great Swedish Nyckelharpa player Eric Sahlström (March 2008)

"Nyckelharpa - EXERCISES for daily practice", 2012, ISBN 978-3-943060-04-1

"Nyckelharpa Symbols and Note", (in collaboration with Jule Bauer) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943060-01-0

"A.Vivaldi: La Primavera" (Edition for 3 Dudays and B.c.), 2013, ISBN 978-3-943060-10-2

"A.Vivaldi: 50'Autunno" (Edizion for 4 Dudays, viola e B.c.), ISBN 978-3-943060-11-9

"Orlando Gibbons, Fantasies of Two, Iii and Six Parts" (Edition for Nyckelharpa- Schlüsselfidel-Viola d'affection a chiavi, ISBN 978-3-943060133

"Johann Sebastian Bach, Zweistimmige Inventionen - Two Parts Inventions" (Arranged for Nyckelharpa-Viola d'amore a chiavi & Accompaniment), 2018, ISBN 978-3-943060-15-seven

Nyckelharpa [edit]

Since 1983 Ambrosini has played the Nyckelharpa every bit one of the showtime full-time musicians since the baroque fourth dimension outside of Sweden.

Together with the old skilled violin makers and today's Nyckelharpa makers Jean Claude Condi and Annette Osann (French republic) he helped further develop the musical instrument.

Pedagogics [edit]

Ambrosini is teaching early music at the "Stages for Early on Music at castle Burg Fürsteneck" (Deutschland) and on other occasions.

He is the initiator and conductor of the "European Nyckelharpa Training", that takes place in co-operation of the "Scuola di Musica Popolare di Forlimpopoli", Italy, the academy "Burg Fürsteneck" near Fulda, Germany, and the "Eric Sahlström Institutet" in Tobo, Sweden, every bit a vocational trainer for musicians on the Nyckelharpa. He is besides the didactic managing director of the Early Music Summer Master Classes in Bertinoro, Italian republic, in co-operation with Fondazione Alma Mater (Bologna Academy) and the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.

External links [edit]

• Homepage of Marco Ambrosini
• European Nyckelharpa Training
• "Etappen für Alte Musik" (Stages for Early Music at castle Burg Fürsteneck)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Ambrosini

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