Carlo Ambrosio - Cedar Park, Murray Road, Mickleover, Derby
Saturday September 26th., 2009 at 7:30 p.m.
Carlo Ambrosio was born in Rome in 1958 and received a classical guitar for his fifth birthday. At the age of ten he moved to London to continue his guitar studies and to follow composition and orchestral conducting classes at the Royal College of Music. In 1970, he began his studies of the Renaissance Lute. In 1977, after having completed his education, he began teaching guitar at the Montclair State College in New Jersey U.S.A. followed by the Mimar Sinan University of Istanbul, the Jyväskylä University in Finland and at the Sibelius Akademie in Helsinki.
During his numerous tours, he has taught courses and seminars in countries throughout the world including the following:
Sibelius Akademie in Helsinki, Suomen Kitara Seura in Helsinki
Jyväskylä University in Finland, Turku University in Finland
Mimar
Sinan Universitesi in Turkey, Istanbul Devlet Konservatorium in
Turkey
Izmir Devlet Konservatorium in Turkey, Caracas
Conservatory in Venezuela
Guitarre Academie Neuchatel in
Switzerland, Aachen Hoch Musik Schule in Germany
During the same period he held conferences on musicology subjects in the above mentioned universities and conservatories as well as for many other musical institutions:
The
Lute in the European Renaissance: An overview upon different Schools
and Styles.
The Elizabethan Period: the Golden Age of English Lute
Music.
The Guitar in the Nineteenth Century: Italy, Spain and
Mittel-Europa.
The Italian Virtuoso Music of the Nineteenth
Century.
XX Century Guitar: Influence of “Popular
Expression” in Classical Aesthetics.
Between 1975 and 1989 he performed over two thousand concerts both as a lute and guitar soloist, along with orchestras, string quartets and duos with many of his colleagues. During this period he made twenty four recordings, many of which were worldwide premiere. He also recorded several recitals for radio and television networks all over the world.
In 1989, after having taken more than three thousand airflights, he was involved in two plane accidents. The second accident, in Spain, led him to interrupt his concert career (on February 28, 1989, at the Palau della Musica in Valencia, he walked onto a classical music auditorium stage for the last time in fifteen years). He started writing film music for Primrose Music London in his recording studio and he devoted himself to music production.
In 2003 he decided to resume his concert activities and since then he has visited Scandinavia, Switzerland, France, Spain, England, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Egypt, in addition to several concerts performed in Italy. In 2006 he recorded the double CD “Mirrors”. And he is currently involved with the recording of a series of five CDs dedicated to XIX century works for guitar. He is about to publish and record his entire production of compositions for the classical guitar.
Carlo Ambrosio has performed in:
Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Scandinavia, Finland, Denmark, United Kingdom, Hungary, Poland, USSR, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Kenya, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Canada, USA, Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, India, Australia.
Programme
Please note that tonight's concert will not include an interval at the performer's request.
Suite in A minor ….................................................................. Francois Le Cocq
Air (arr. C. Ambrosio)
Passapied I II
Sarabande
Gavotte
Menuet I II I
Gigue I II I
Fantasie Elegiaque Op. 59 ....................................................... Josè Fernando Sor
Largo
Marche Funébre
Sonata in A Maj .......................................................................... Anton Diabelli
Allegro (arr. J. Bream)
Adagio
Scherzo con Trio
Homenaje …............................................................................ Manuel De Falla
Nocturnal Op. 70 after John Dowland …........................................ Benjamin Britten
Musingly
Very agitated
Restless
Uneasy
March-like
Dreaming
Gently rocking
Passacaglia
Slow and quiet