Irene Rinaldi - Kurt Weill: An European In Broadway - Philipp Jarnach: Piano Music (2020)

Hamsa Irene Rinaldi: She graduated in singing from the Santa Cecilia’s Conservatory in Rome. She studied under Ilaria Piccin and received further voice training from the acclaimed Franca Forgiero and recently with Elizabeth Norberg Schulz She attended acting classes, in Italian diction and dubbing at the “Piccola Accademia della Comunicazione e dello Spettacolo” of Stefano Jurgens. She attended the following courses: “Scenic art” workshop, “Directing”, “Background music and Soundtracks”, “Film review” , “Screenplay”, “Vocal technique for Musicals” , “Jazz improvisation”. In the years she discovered different composers and music genres expanded her repertoire from Opera Aries to Sacred Music, from romance to songs, from lieder to chansons, from musicals to Background Music. She adores above all the composer George Gershwin. She has performed as a solo singer a variety multidisciplinary shows since 2009, mainly in Rome, at the Vascello Theater, at the Ghione Theater, at the Ambra Jovinelli Theater, at the Scuderie Villino Corsini inside the Villa Pamphilj Park, at the Caravita’s Oratorium, at the Santa Rita’s concert-hall, at the Policlinico’s Hall “A. Gemelli”, at Sala Campidoglio, Academic Hall of Conservatory of Music of Santa Cecilia. She participated as a chorister, always in Rome, in different concerts in beautiful sacred places, such as Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, Ara Coeli’s Church, Vatican Basilica. She was lucky enough because she was accompanied to the piano several times by Michelangelo, with whom she recorded a CD “Melodie e Arie d’opera”. Recently she performed, always together with Michelangelo, at the Italian Institute of Culture-Oslo for a concert in three parts: the first dedicated to Italian composers with famous opera arias and romances, the second, a tribute to Norway with the opera aria Solveigs Sang and the song Santa Lucia / Sankta Lucia, the latter is in Neapolitan and in Norwegian, and the last part dedicated to Christmas songs. She collaborated with GianLuigi Zampieri, Stefano Micheletti, Massimo Scapin, Emanuele Stracchi. She has been a teacher since June 2011 certified by the Krishnamacharya Healing and Yoga Foundation (KHYF). For two consecutive years, as a teacher, she directed her own program "An orchestra: the voice and the breath”at the Yoga Festival in Rome and then at the Festival Tolfarte Kids in Tolfa, with her own program “Help me that I help you”. She shares the thought of Audrey Hepburn: “It’s not just words, but also the tune and the intonation to make a song beautiful.[...] it doesn’t matter only what you say, but how to say it.”

MICHELANGELO CARBONARA (Piano): He graduated at Conservatory Santa Cecilia in Rome under Fausto Di Cesare’s guidance. In 1999 he was awarded Piano Specialisation Degree by the Academy of Santa Cecilia with Sergio Perticaroli. He continued his studies at Salzburg Mozarteum and at Académie Musicale de Villecroze in France. He attended masterclasses by Bruno Canino, Dominique Merlet and Gyorgy Sandor. In 2001 he was admitted to the International Piano Foundation “Theo Lieven” and the International Piano Academy Lake-Como with Martha Argerich. He had coachings with many renown pianists such as Leon Fleisher, Dimitri Bashkirov, Fou Ts'Ong, Menahem Pressler, Andreas Staier, Peter Frankl and Alicia De Larrocha. He has won 17 prizes in International piano competitions (including the Schubert International Piano Competition in Dortmund). In 2003 he gave his first performance in China, and a masterclass at the Central Conservatory in Beijing. In 2007 he made his debut at Carnegie Hall, New York and he now performs regularly in Europe, America, Asia and Africa. He recorded for Papageno, Tactus, Nascor-Ysaye Records-Harmonia Mundi, Egea, Brilliant Classics, Piano Classics. He gave chamber music masterclasses at USAC in Viterbo and piano masterclasses in Romania, China and Canada. In 2005 he was invited at the National Prize for Arts, promoted by the Italian Ministery for Culture, as testimonial for Italian music.