Marta Mari - Licinio refice: 22 art songs (For soprano and piano) (2020)

Edmondo Savio, Pianist: He was born in 1969 and completed his piano studies under the menthorship of S. Marengoni and E. Firmo. He graduated with honors from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Milan. He has performed with numerous chamber and vocal ensemble and as conductor with various orchestras with a wide repertoire. Selected among the best 12 participants at the International Courses for Orchestra Conductors at the Teatro di Como, dedicated to F. Ferrara, under the guidance of L. Salomon; he participated also at the five-year course for conductors H. Swarowski in Vimodrone (Milan) under the guidance of J. Kalmar. In October 2011, he participated at the Permanent Laboratory for Choir Conductors in Cagliari under the guidance of Paolo Scattolin. In 2013, he founded as artistic and musical director the Chamber Ensemble “I Carissimi” and the trio “Les Indes Galantes” with which he performed in several baroque concerts in important frames, such as the installation of the artist Christo: Floating Piers. In 2014, he collaborated with the Franciacorta Philharmonic Orchestra, even for a private concert in honor of His Holiness Benedict XVI in Rome, conducting an all-Mozart program. In 2016, with the Colli Morenici Symphony Orchestra he performed at the Teatro Comunale in Vicenza for the traditional concert sponsored by Confindustria. In 2017, he was appointed director of the Philharmonic Choir of Franciacorta with which he produced with Renato Zero the show Zerovskij. Each date of the tour was a full-success, both with audience and critical acclaim. In the same year, he conducted a program of Russian musicians at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza with Colli Morenici Symphony Orchestra and the Bolshoi first dancers Anastasia Stashkevich and Vyacheslav Lopatin. Since October 2017, he is the music director at the Brescia Philharmonic Choir.

Marta Mari, Soprano: She was born in 1992 and she graduated in 2015 with full marks. She studied with Daniela Dessì and Barbara Frittoli and took part in masterclasses with Vittorio Terranova (2013), Giuseppe Sabbatini (2013), and Rajna Kabaivanska (2014) at the Chigiana Academy (Siena). In the same year she won the audition and joined the cast of the Ensemble Opera Studio (Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa). She won several first prizes such as "La città Sonora - Salvatore Licitra" International Opera Competition (November 2014), “Riccardo Zandonai” International Competition (May 2016 ), “Spiros Argiris” International Competition (July 2016), “Magda Olivero” International Competition (November 2016), “Giusy Devinu” First International Competition (October 2017). In May 2017, she sang at the first “Daniela Dessi Galà”, alongside with singers like Barbara Frittoli, Fabio Armiliato, Luciana D’Intino, Juan Ponce conducted by Valerio Galli and Marco Boemi. She was cast in Semiramide (Azema) conducted by Gustav Kuhn (July 2017), in Suor Angelica by G. Puccini conducted by Donato Renzetti (Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, February 2018), in Semiramide (Azema) with Jessica Pratt and Alex Esposito conducted by Riccardo Frizza (Teatro La Fenice, Venice, September 2018), in La Bohème (Mimì) conducted by Alessandro Palumbo (Teatro san Carlo, Naples, December 2018), in the Symphony No. 2 by F. Mendelssohn conducted by Alpesh Chauhan (Arena di Verona, March 2019), in Il Trovatore (Leonora) conducted by Lorenzo Tazzieri at the Teatro Zandonai (April 2019). In December 2016 her first CD with tenor Fabio Armiliato and pianist Marco Sollini was released for Urania Records.