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Carlo Aonzo, Mandolin & Elena Buttiero, piano - Fantasia Poetica: The Italian Romantic Mandolin
Works by Ludwig van Beethoven, Carlo Munier, Raffaele Calace, Nicodemo Bruzzone <br><br> Carlo Aonzo performs regularly in Europe and the United States, where he has established himself as a principal proponent of the classical mandolin. Graduating with honors from the conservatory in Padua, he has played with several musical institutions such as the Philharmonic Orchestra of La Scala in Milan and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra. Among his awards are the "Vivaldi" first prize at the Vittorio Pitzianti National Mandolin Competition in Venice, and first prize at the Walnut Valley National Mandolin Contest in Winfield, Kansas. <br><br> He leads the annual Manhattan Mandolin Workshop and in 2006 he began the International Italian Academy for the Mandolin. As a researcher, he has worked on the origins of his instrument. He has collaborated with the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and has edited books on music for Bèrben publishers. He has given presentations on the iconography of the mandolin at institutions such as Boston University and the National Instrument Museum in Rome. <br><br> Elena Buttiero earned her degree in piano from the Cuneo Conservatory. She recorded two CDs, on which she plays the harp, with the Birkin Tree: Continental Reel (Robi Droli, Cgd East, 1996) and A Cheap Present (Felmay, 1998), which is distributed in Europe, Asia and America. In the field of music pedagogy, she has published a solfeggio method, Il Centone (Caruso Ed. Musicali, 2006). Since 1990 she has been a piano instructor on the faculty of the Scuola Media ad indirizzo musicale di Savona (Savona's music-oriented middle school).
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