Danilo Rossi
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Besides the exploration of a new operatic expression in the chamber opera, our repertoire is focused on the contemporary opera and its influence on the modern art. Discover the best performers and plays.
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Besides the exploration of a new operatic expression in the chamber opera, our repertoire is focused on the contemporary opera and its influence on the modern art. Discover the best performers and plays.
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Besides the exploration of a new operatic expression in the chamber opera, our repertoire is focused on the contemporary opera and its influence on the modern art. Discover the best performers and plays.
Box 1
Besides the exploration of a new operatic expression in the chamber opera, our repertoire is focused on the contemporary opera and its influence on the modern art. Discover the best performers and plays.
Box 2
Besides the exploration of a new operatic expression in the chamber opera, our repertoire is focused on the contemporary opera and its influence on the modern art. Discover the best performers and plays.
Danilo Rossi & The New Gipsy Project
Danilo Rossi – viola
Albert Florian Mihai – accordion
Marian Serban – cymbalom
Nicolae Petre – double-bass
This project was born from an idea of Danilo Rossi, First viola of the La Scala theater in Milan and of the Roma ensemble The New Gipsy Project: to anchor the popular tradition to the repertoire of the great classical composers who were inspired by traditional gypsy music. A geographical and cultural journey that crosses the Balkans and authors such as Dvoràk, Brahms and Bartok, with a multi-faceted and extremely versatile ensemble that interprets, among others, these three pillars of the history of music, different from each other and yet similar in one thing: the fascination towards the rich gypsy folkloristic repertoire. A journey looking to the East, from which all Western music has drawn so much. Frenzied rhythms and a continuous challenge of notes.
“I wanted to understand the Roma world and I was fascinated by the stories of these three gypsies. Because that is what they call each other, in spite of stereotypes. And today I aspire to be elected an honorary gypsy” (Danilo Rossi).
Chosen at just twenty years of age by Riccardo Muti for the role of First viola at La Scala in Milan, Danilo Rossi is the youngest instrumentalist in the history of the Scala theater to have held this role. He has performed all over the world in the most prestigious theaters and festivals and collaborated with the most important conductors and soloists in the world as well. New Gipsy Project is made up of instrumentalists from Bucharest, all children of art and who arrived after various experiences in Italy, boasting collaborations with artists such as Moni Ovadia, Ennio Morricone, Samuele Bersani, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Vinicio Capossela, Stefano Bollani, Emir Kusturica.
Albert Florian Mihai, accordion
He was born in Romania in 1976 into a family of Roma gypsy musicians. His father, an accordionist, gave him a toy accordion from which Albert began to make music “byear” at the age of 5. At 10 he starts playing at weddings and later in the largest and most prestigious popular orchestras of his country. He traveled to Western European countries to play and get to know other musical realities and musicians: Italy, France, Germany, Spain, Holland, enrich his musical culture and his life experience. He settles in Rome where he forms the quartet Taraf de Metropulitana, with which he stands out for his virtuosity and his intense interpretations. Subsequently he worked for television, both on Rai and Mediaset channels; he participates in the broadcast of Serena Dandini with Claudio Bisio. Finally he joins the Moni Ovadia Orchestra.
Marian Serban, cymbalom
Born in Romania in 1970 to a family of Roma musicians, his maternal grandfather and uncle were both cymbalom virtuosos. He started playing very young and at the age of seven he already performed with his older brother, Nicola. At the age of fourteen he was a soloist. In 1988 he joined the prestigious Bucharest musical ensemble Rapsodia Romana, and from that moment he began to collaborate with some of the most prestigious groups of the country, in particular with the famous Danubiu ensemble by Turnu Severin. In 1994, after the fall of the communist regime, he left Romania for Italy where he currently resides. Marian Serban’s exceptional musical qualities make him sought after by groups and composers and he is involved in countless prestigious projects. With a group of his Roma comrades he creates the quartet Taraf de Metropulitana. He joins the Aquaragia Drom group and collaborates with Alexian Group of Santino Spinelli, Daniele Sepe, Taraf Destrani, Roy Paci, Francesca Comencini, Samuele Bersani, Serena Dandini, Claudio Bisio, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ennio Morricone. He performs with the Piazza Vittorio Orchestra and becomes a stable and fundamental member of the Moni Ovadia Stage Orchestra.
Nicolae Petre, double-bass
Nicolae Petre was born in Romania into a family of musicians, his father was a famous violinist. Petre began playing at the age of 10, at 20 he performed throughout Europe and South America with the Doina Bucuresti ensemble. In 1997 he moved to Rome and founded the Taraf de Metropulitana group. Since 2000 he has participated in television
broadcasts and theatrical performances with Serena Dandini, Claudio Bisio, Emir Kusturica, Vinicio Capossela, Acquaragia Drom, Stefano Bollani, Daniele Sepe and Moni Ovadia.
Discover here “Polimero, un burattino di plastica”, the project with Danilo Rossi, Giobbe Covatta and the “Bruno Maderna” Orchestra conducted by Stefano Nanni
Bio
Pupil of some of the most important viola and music chamber Masters, Danilo Rossi graduates at 19 with full marks and praise, but he has already standed out from the age of 16, winning his first International Competition. Shortly after graduating, he passes the competition for First Viola Soloist of the Teatro alla Scala’s Orchestra in Milan, becoming the youngest instrumentalist in the history of the Milanese theater to have held this role. From that moment on Danilo Rossi's career will be studded with a series of meetings, concerts, festivals, recitals that will take him around the world, performing in the most important Theaters and Concert Halls.
Immersed in music like few others, Danilo Rossi has spaced countless times in musical genres, even the most different between them. Hence, the numerous collaborations with great artists in the jazz or pop fields have made Danilo Rossi a unique example of how it is possible to experience music in its entirety, without any barrier. Danilo Rossi lives music in its entirety. Always open to the most diverse experiences, he has numerous meetings to his credit with actors, writers, poets who led him to perform in the most various environments: from prisons to the forests of Trentino, from the swamps of Sri Lanka to the Off Theaters in the suburbs. Thanks to the great Masters with whom he studied and to the important ones artistic encounters in his over thirty years of career, Danilo Rossi has been able to acquire so many musical and human certainties to confer extraordinary results to the many students who have had the constancy to follow him.