Pas de Deux - Miquel Tamarit (Clarinet), Renata Benvegnu (Piano)

In collaboration with Ente Villa Carlotta
The ticket includes the visit of Villa Carlotta. You can enter the garden and the museum from 16:00. Concert will take place at 18:30. Festival box office at Villa Carlotta opens at 16:00.

PROGRAM

Bernhard Henrik CRUSELL: Introduction et Air Suédois varié Op. 12

Renata BENVEGNÙ: Leaves

Francis POULENC: Clarinet Sonata Op. 184
Allegro tristamente
Romanza
Allegro con fuoco

Renata BENVEGNÙ: Rain

Béla KOVÁCS:
Salute, Signore Rossini!
Ich Bregurüsse Sie, Herr Johann Strauss!
Il Carnavale di Venecia!

Carlos GARDEL: Tango

THE ARTISTS

Miquel Angel Tamarit, clarinet

Born in Valencia, he graduated from the Higher Conservatory of Music of Valencia, furthering his studies at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, with Professor Alfred Prinz and later at the Hochschule für Musik und Dasrstellende Kunst in Vienna, Austria, where he received clarinet classes. and chamber music with professors Alfred Prinz and Ernst Ottensamer.

In 1990, he founded the Johannes Brahms Trio and received a scholarship from the European Union in 1994 for the Kaleidoscope Project, he expanded his studies in Chamber Music with professors F. Zadra and P. Vernikov, performing concerts in numerous Spanish and European auditoriums. Likewise, he participates in numerous concerts with the Turiae Camerata, Silvestre String Quartet, Resident Quartet of Salzburg, 20th Century Music Society, Quintet de Vent of Valencia and String Quartet of the European Symphony Orchestra.

Founding member of the Zaragoza Conservatory Orchestra, he has collaborated with the Valencia Municipal Orchestra. In 1990 he filled the position of Clarinet Soloist in the Philharmonic Orchestra of Las Palmas, Canary Islands and in 1999 until 2003 clarinet soloist of the European Symphony Orchestra. He has collaborated with musicians such as Josep Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Cristian Florea, Rasvan Neculai, Bela Kovacs, Lluis Claret, Teresa Berganza, etc.

He teaches numerous master classes at various Spanish conservatories and since 2005 in Germany, performing concerts in France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany, as a soloist and with chamber music groups. He specializes in the performance of original clarinets from the 18th century and collaborates with classical instrument groups such as the Bocherini Trio, the Salamanca Baroque Orchestra and founded in 2003 “Ritornello Quintet”, a wind quintet and quartet with Pianoforte and original 18th century instruments.

Jury Member of the prestigious competition “The International Competition. Three Generations of Mozart” in Hagen, Germany and professor of clarinet at the Clarinet Chair at the University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany, since 2000 he has been regularly invited to the most prestigious European festivals, performing in countries such as France, Italy. Switzerland, Germany, Czechia, Norway, Switzerland and Finland. Among them the subscription concerts for the Salzburg Mozart Society in Turin, Emäsalo Music Festival and Porvoon Festival in Finland and Grieg in Bergen, Norway.

Since 2004 he has performed chamber music concerts with the Szymanowski Quartet (Germany) and the Sestetto Stradivari (Italy) and the String Quintet of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, performing the clarinet quintets of Mozart, Weber and Brahms, the concerts with the Ventus Quintet and the recitals of French and German music with the pianist Kei Hikichi, as well as the recitals of Italian music with the pianist Renata Benvegnu, an activity carried out in the best national and international concert halls with public and critical recognition.

In 2019, he is elected “Yamaha Artist”, Tamarit plays with Yamaha model YCL-CSG III clarinets.

Renata Benvegnù, piano

She graduated in Piano with full marks, Honors and Special Mention under the guidance of maestros Federica Righini and Giampaolo Nuti at the A. Buzzolla Conservatory in Adria. She obtained her Master of Music from the Royal Academy of Music in London, obtaining first class honours. Christopher Elton, the Diploma of High Piano Specialization with top marks from the Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia in Rome in the class of m. Sergio Perticaroli, and the Diploma in Chamber Music at the Accademia Incontri col Maestro of Imola obtaining the title “Master” with top marks, under the guidance of m. Piernarciso Masi.

In 2010 she was among the ten pianists selected from all over the world to attend the prestigious Music Academy of the West in California with “full scholarship” where she studied with M. Jerome Lowenthal and participated in the Summer Music Festival of Santa Barbara (Los Angeles) with a cycle of 18 concerts.

Renata has won the First Prize and the Absolute First Prize in more than thirty National and International Competitions, among these: the European Piano Prize Riviera di Rimini, the prestigious Concurso Internacional de piano de Ibiza in Spain (out of over 95 participants), the “Best Graduate of Italy 2006” at the Castrocaro event, the “Solti Foundation Award” in Belgium, the World Championship of Performing Arts (USA-California) and many others.

She has an intense concert activity which leads her to perform with great success throughout Italy, Switzerland, England, France, Spain, the United States, Latin America, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and in China.

You have played with important orchestras, including the Solisti Veneti directed by m. Claudio Scimone, the Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, the Proart Orchestra of Seoul and collaborates with the violinist Giulia Brinckmeier, first violin of the Bilbao Symphony, the flautist Ludovico Degli Innocenti, first flute of the St.Gallen orchestra, the clarinettist Miguel Tamarit, teacher at the Valencia conservatory and pianist Fabio Crocco with whom she started an innovative project of concert lessons in theatrical-musical form which is enjoying great success and has become an integral part of the Education programming of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice with a cycle of 15 performances per year.

Her versatility has led her to delve into more modern and contemporary musical genres, in fact she collaborates with the Piano Sky project created by Cardinali Group, for which she performed in numerous Italian cities, opening the inaugural ceremony of Procida Capital of Culture and also in Spain, in France, in Slovakia, in Romania, in Saudi Arabia, in Bahrain, in Mexico where Piano Sky was the protagonist of the Festival Internacional Santa Lucia recording a total of 44 thousand attendances in its 15 days of concerts and recently participated in a television program on Rai2.

She is currently a tenured teacher of Main Piano at the A. Buzzolla Conservatory of Adria, and was a Visiting Professor at the Trinity School in London.