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Filippo Farinelli was born in 1976 and lives near Assisi, in central Italy.

As a child he sang for five years with the school of the Piccoli Cantori of the Musical Chapel of the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi under Fr Alemanno. In 1999 he graduated cum laude with a degree in piano from the Morlacchi Conservatory in Perugia, studying with Carla Alunni and Franco Pacioselli. He studied chamber music with Francesco Pepicelli and composition with Stefano Bracci.

Farinelli took specialized courses with Paolo Vergari and master classes with Dario De Rosa, Irwin Gage, Dalton Baldwin (who invited him to the Académie Musicale de Villecroze for the master class in accompaniment in June 2010), Guido Salvetti and Stelia Doz, Elisabetta Lombardi, the Pepicelli Duo, Jan Kadlubiski, Costantino Mastroprimiano and Ciro Scarponi. In 2007 he earned the 2nd academic diploma at the Briccialdi Musical Institute in Terni (Italy) with a thesis on André Jolivet’s works for flute and piano, and a diploma in vocal chamber music from the Campiani Conservatory in Mantua under Thomas Busch. He earned both degrees cum laude.
In June 2009 he completed the two-year postgraduate programme in Lied Vokalbegleitung, with a grade of Sehr Gut, at the Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna, where he studied under Charles Spencer.

Since 2001 he has been part of a duo with the saxophonist David Brutti (Duo Disecheis), which has won numerous national competitions, including the 3rd National Feroci Competition of San Giovanni Valdarno, the National Gesualdo da Venosa Competition of Potenza (2002) and the 27th National Francesco Cilea Competition in Palmi (2003). The duo has also gained extensive recognition on an international level: second place at the 11th International Riviera del Conero Competition in Ancona and the 18th International Competition of the Province of Caltanissetta; third place in the 21st International Competition in Trapani (2004); second place at the Competition of 20th-century and Contemporary Music in Rome (2006); second place at the International Gaudeamus Interpreters Competition in Amsterdam (2007).
The two musicians continued their studies with Pier Narciso Masi at the Piano Academy in Imola, earning a three-year master’s degree in Chamber Music.
The two have long collaborated with young composers such as Marco Momi, Marco Marinoni, Stefano Trevisi, Mauro Porro and Paolo Baioni, who have written compositions for the duo.

In his career Farinelli has played for important institutions such as the Amici della Musica Associations of Perugia, Modena, Foggia, Catanzaro and Fabriano; the Associazione Filarmonica di Terni; AGIMUS in Perugia and Rome; the Ljubljana Festival; the “Violino magico” Festival of Portogruaro; MusicaRivaFestival; the BadiaMusica Festival; the Festival da Bach a Bartòk in Imola; the Cinque Terre Festival; the Festival delle Nazioni in Città di Castello; the Festival Automne Musical in Châtellerault; and several contemporary music festivals, such as Harmonia Mundi in Assisi and Compositori a Confronto in Reggio Emilia.

He has worked with musicians of the calibre of the cellist Melissa Phelps, the violinist Elisabeth Perry, the saxophonist Federico Mondelci, the trombonist Ivo Nilsson, the clarinettist Guido Arbonelli, the flautist Mario Caroli, the bassoonist Patrick De Ritis, the French horn player Jonathan Williams, the mezzo-soprano Sophie Marilley, and the baritones Christian Immler and René Perler.

As an orchestra professor he has collaborated with the Orchestra Haydn of Bolzano and Trento under Federico Mondelci.

He studied orchestra conducting with Ennio Nicotra and has conducted the Moldavian Radio Television Orchestra, the Bacau Philharmonic, the Inégal Orchestra, the Assisi Musiche Orchestra and the Italian Saxophone Orchestra.

Farinelli has recorded with various labels: Brilliant Classics, Materiali Sonori (San Giovanni Valdarno, Florence), Max Research (Arezzo), Aliamusica (Parma), Domanimusica (Rome) and Rai Radio Tre (Rome).

Farinelli also collaborated with the composer and guitarist Battista Lena on the soundtrack for Francesca Archibugi’s film Questione di cuore, released in April 2009.

He currently collaborates as a pianist with the Coro Lirico dell’Umbria at the Perugia Conservatory for the instrumental classes of flute, violin and saxophone.

Wednesday 11 February 09

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