On Friday, October 18, AbanoRITZ hosts the International Trio composed by Carol Wincenc, Luisa Sello and Aurora Sabia for the “Virtuoso Flute Stars” concert. From 21:15, the gorgeous Mirror’s Room on the first floor will resonate the melodies for flute and piano of the great masters of classical music.

The concert is realized in collaboration with the Klyo Music Association.

The ticket is available in advance at a cost of 10,00 €.

The program

Carol Wincenc & Luisa Sello, flute
Aurora Sabia, piano

F. Mendelssohn

2 arie per due flauti e pianoforte

Friedrich Kuhlau

Trio in sol maggiore op. 119 for 2 flauti e pianoforte
Allegro moderato, Adagio patetico, Rondo

Cecile Chaminade

Concertino op.109 per flauto e pianoforte

George Bizet

Fantasia brillante sulla Carmen per flauto e pianoforte

Franz Doppler

Fantasia brillante sul Rigoletto di Verdi

The musicians

Luisa Sello

Eclectic and innovative artist, international flute player with an intense solo activity in Europe, the Far East, USA and South America, is host to orchestras such as Wiener Symphoniker, Salzburger Kammerorchester, Miami Great Symphony Orchestra, Italian Virtuosi. A unique artist, a musician with exceptional versatility and a charming charisma, who can get into the soul of the listener, leaving an emotion hard to forget. Her repertoire embraces different times and art forms, in a journey she conceived as a performer, author and director, finding unanimous consensus for class, elegance, presence, talent, emotion.

She worked with the Milano Scala Theater Orchestra under the direction of Riccardo Muti and played alongside Alirio Diaz, Trevor Pinnock, Edgar Guggeis, New Quartet Italian, Jess Trio Wien. Ambassador of Italian music to the world, is among the artists supported by the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Cultural Activities. She is a creator of very original and new shows, she offers classical repertoires and rediscovered programs, in a personal pathway open to various forms of art that she has been creating as a musician, songwriter and director. Professor at the Conservatory of Trieste and guest professor at the University of Vienna and Graz, is regularly invited at Academic Institutions in Japan, China, Argentina, USA, Russia, Austria, Germany, Spain, Estonia.

With a Degree in Languages ​​for International Communication and Modern Literature, has published comparative tests between literature and music and has won several literary awards for poetry. She records for Stradivarius, one of the European most famous record label, and Beijjing Honhchen Millennium & Art, in China. Luisa Sello studied in Paris with Raymond Guiot, the first flute of the Opera, and was one of Severino Gazzelloni’s favorite pupils who wrote about her “excellent quality, technique and sound, combined with a great interpretative sensibility”. After the success of the “Speciale Start Cup 2008” award for the “Pierrot Solaire”, and “Singing for Life”, commissioned for the Unesco 2008 Prize, is now working on “Bach, eternal music” and “Color paintings” projects.

Aurora Sabia

She graduated from the Conservatory of Trieste with Prof. Trevisan and worked with G. Nador, S. Young, J. Von Vintschger, J. Kropfitsch, P. Lassmann, P. Bordoni, S. Gadjiev, K. Eickhorst, B Lupo, K. Barth, A. Léger, R. Clini. Winner of the Ananian Foundation Award, she attended high-level piano studies with M ° A. Delle Vigne at the Schola Cantorum in Paris. She then worked as supporting pianist in France, at the Conservatoire Régional in Rennes and in Turkey at the Yaşar University in Smyrna. She performs concert activities, both as a soloist and as camerist.

Carol Wincenc

American flutist who lives in New York, is known for her solo performances and chamber music and her support for a new flute music. She teaches at Juilliard School and Stony Brook University. She began to take violin lessons from her father, a violinist and orchestra conductor, and at the age of nine she preferred the flute and studied with Edna Comerchero. After studying in Italy with Severino Gazzelloni at Santa Cecilia and Chigiana Academies, she began her studies at the Oberlin Music Conservatory, then moved to the Manhattan Music School where she graduated with the highest marks at Juilliard in 1972. After completing her studies at Juilliard, Wincenc joined the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra at the age of 22 as the principal flutist from 1972-1977. In 1978 she won the Solo Flute Walter W. Naumburg Foundation.

In the 1980s she became a flute professor at Juilliard and Stony Brook University. She taught at the Manhattan Music School, the University of Indiana and the University of Rice. Wincenc was soloist with the Symphonies of Chicago, San Francisco and London, the Dutch Concertgebouw and the Warsaw Philharmonic. She performed with the quartets of Guarneri, Emerson, Tokyo and Cleveland and pianist Emanuel Ax and cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The Los Angeles Times described her as “virtuosity brilliant but effortless” and praised her “lush tone”. She is a member of the New York Woodwind Quintet and is a founding member of “Trio Les Amies“.

Wincenc took part as a judge at Rampal and Kobe flute competitions. In “Carol Wincenc Valentines,” published by Carl Fischer, she performed 11 new flute works including Paul Schoenfield, Roberto Sierra, Peter Schickele, Tobias Picker and Michael Torke. She performed the first performances of Christopher Rouse’s flute concert, Henryk Gorecki’s Concert-Cantata, and the Renaissance Concert by Lukas Foss. In 1979, Donald Henahan, critic of the New York Times, wrote that the first of Daniel Paget’s “Romania” written for Carol Wincenc “raised the audience to heaven.” In the 2009-10 season, Wincenc performed for the first time six works just commissioned by composers Joan Tower, Jake Heggie, Thea Musgrave, Shih-Hui Chen, Andrea Clearfield and Jonathan Berger.

For further information and ticket presales, get in touch with Associazione Klyo Music writing and email to eventi@klyomusic.it or calling +39 3884771039. Web: www.klyomusic.it.