ENSEMBLE AMADEUS è un prestigioso ensemble di musica da camera dedicato all'interpretazione di composizioni classiche e contemporanee.
ENSEMBLE AMADEUS
Augusto Ottaviani violino
Valentina Mariani viola
Maurizio Massarelli violoncello
Andrea Colocci contrabbasso
Roberto Romitelli oboe
Eleonora Conti pianoforte
About
ENSEMBLE AMADEUS
The Ensemble Amadeus is formed by musicians who graduated from the “Francesco Morlacchi” Conservatory of Perugia and the “Giulio Briccialdi” Institute of Music in Terni, and who furthered their studies in Italy and abroad under the guidance of distinguished teachers such as A. Loppi, H. Elhorst, J. Mezaros, W. Dal Canto, M. Morgan, F. Mezzena, F. Cusano, E. Porta, M. Lenzi, E. Hurwitz, H. Van Dijk, M. Flaksman, U. B. Michelangeli and S. Argiris, winning prizes and awards in important international competitions.
In addition to recording several CDs for Fonit Cetra, Quadrivium and Bongiovanni, members of the ensemble have taken part in recordings for RAI (Italian National Broadcasting), Swiss Radio, Maltese National Television, Tunisian National Radio, and Canal 22, the Mexican national cultural television channel, which broadcast an interview and concert by Ensemble Amadeus during the XVI Festival del Centro Histórico in Mexico City.
Numerous local radio and television networks have also broadcast live concerts and interviews with the ensemble.
Ensemble Amadeus has also recorded and produced, in world premiere, the Quartets by J. Ch. Bach preserved at the Estense University Library of Modena.
The New Formation
The Ensemble Amadeus has recently expanded into a sextet, with the addition of piano and double bass, further enriching the ensemble’s expressive and timbral palette.
With this new formation the ensemble has developed an artistic programme devoted to the chamber reinterpretation of famous film scores and great works of the twentieth-century repertoire.
The programme explores a musical territory at the crossroads between classical tradition and the popular musical languages of the twentieth century, including works by composers such as Astor Piazzolla and internationally renowned melodies that have shaped the musical imagination of the modern era.
Press Reviews
Wherever it has performed, Ensemble Amadeus has received enthusiastic acclaim from both audiences and critics.
“Though still young, the members of the Ensemble Amadeus must have been playing together for some time for their performance possessed an impulse and excitement possible only from a group of players with the closest knowledge of each other’s musicianship. Their quality of tone is handsomely full and they have superb attack and depth of tone.”
Cecilia Xuereb – The Sunday Times
“The Adagio cantabile (Luigi Gatti’s Quartet) could not be anything but that, given the smoothly polished playing of the ensemble and the expressive touch which they applied to it.”
“Britten’s Britishness is very evident, yet his appeal transcends boundaries and the music proves it could be well-handled by competent hands such as this ensemble.”
Albert G. Storace – The Times
“Añadir al sonido brillante y redondo por un arco, el amplio cuerpo apenas ronco y firme que el oboe produce resulta una mezcla inusitadamente atractiva.”
Sergio Raul Lopez – La Crónica de Hoy
“Magnifica capacidad interpretativa del grupo Ensemble Amadeus.”
Novedades
“Chamber music had its peak during the baroque and classical eras. Here’s a delightful taste of it.”
The News
“Impeccabile prova dell’Ensemble Amadeus… interpretazione fine e vivace…”
Messaggero Veneto
“Four talented musicians comprising the chamber music outfit The Ensemble Amadeus paid Malaysia a visit and showed some of their magic.”
The Star
“Augusto Ottaviani (Violin), Valentina Mariani (Viola), Giuseppe Dolci (Cello) and Roberto Romitelli (Oboe) delivered a concert of high artistic level…”
Hugo Guerra – Puntal
“Polished, poignant and passionately classical the evening proved to be a milestone for lovers of a world that is dictated by the dynamics of sound.”
Uma Nair – The Asian Age
“The concert bore marks of musical scholarship.”
G. George – The Statesman
Repertoire and Musicological Research
The repertoire of Ensemble Amadeus ranges from Baroque to contemporary music.
The ensemble is also the only permanent quartet of this type in Italy, and one of the very few ensembles worldwide to have gathered the complete repertoire written for this specific formation.
To achieve this, Ensemble Amadeus conducted extensive international bibliographic research, consulting the most important publications dedicated to world musical resources and collaborating with major European libraries and publishing archives, where many of the works now included in its concert programmes are preserved.
Alongside the famous quartets by Mozart and Britten, Ensemble Amadeus is therefore able to present a unique and largely unpublished repertoire, often never printed in modern editions and rarely performed.