Germana Porcu & Gabriele Zanetti - Giacomo Merchi: Chamber Music with Violin and Guitar (2019)

Zanetti, Gabriele (Guitarist), Gabriele Zanetti graduated in guitar at the Marenzio Conservatory of Brescia. Parallel to classical studies, he has always been interested in acoustic and electric guitar. He plays in the Mandolins and Guitars Orchestra “Città di Brescia” directed by M ° Claudio Mandonico, with whom he has recorded several monographic works devoted to important authors of the original repertoire. Active as chamber musician, he recorded over ten records. He wrote the didactic method for children “Musichiamo con la chitarra”. He published “Red Hot Peppers”, a essay on the birth of jazz and popular music. He wrote the romance “Tar and the guitar of time”, a novel in which the guitar history is explained through the journey of a cat. He rediscovered the manuscript of the Sixth Concerto by Niccolò Paganini in the original version for violin and guitar and has edited the review for the Japanese publisher DaVinci. He has an intensive teaching activity in the province of Brescia.attività didattica della provincia di Brescia e presso la SMIM di Adro.

Germana Porcu: born in 1988, Germana began her musical studies under the guidance of M °F.Cusano. She got degree with highest honors at Istituto Musicale G.Donizetti in Bergamo. In 2010, as the best graduating, she was awarded the prestigious "Premio Rotary" from the city of Bergamo. Since 2006 she is violinist at "Orchestra Bergamo Musica Festival" of Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo with whom she toured in Italy, Japan and Sweden. In 2009 she performed under the guidance of the composer Giya Kancheli his composition "In l'istesso tempo", enjoying the warm appreciation of the author. She won several competitions, including: 1st Prize at the "III International Music Competition of Chamber Music Miryam and Pierluigi Vacchelli"; 1st Prize at the "XI International Music Competition Italian Festival", with the Special Prize "Soloist with Orchestra" – so she was invited to perform Concert no. 5 K 219 by W.A. Mozart with Orchestra “Alessandria Classica”; 3rd Prize at the XXX edition of the prestigious "International Competition for Violinists Michelangelo Abbado" (1st-2nd Prize not awarded); 1st Prize as Soloist with Orchestra, at the "26° European Music Competition". She won a scholarship donated by M° Claudio Abbado. In 2013 she was nominated "Most distinguished violinist" at "World Music Competition Ibla Grand Prize". In 2015 she won the 3rd Prize at "V Concurso y Festival Internacional de Músicos" in Madrid, debuting in the same city, with great appreciation of the Jury President Victor Abramyan (Professor of violin at Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire) and of the audience. She has performed in many concerts as a soloist and in chamber music ensembles in Italy, Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain. Germana studied with M° F. Cusano in Fiesole, with M° S. Gessner in Paris and currently she is attending lessons with M° K. Sahatci in Lugano. She attended also masterclasses with M° I. Volochine, M° S. Makarova, M° P. Vernikov. Since 2015 she plays in duo with pianist Sara Costa, with whom, together with cellist Matilda Colliard, she founded Trio Carducci.