Filippo Maria Bressan

Filippo Maria Bressan (born 28 November 1957 in Este, Veneto)[1] is an Italian conductor. He was chorus master of the Choir and Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia from 2000 to 2002 in place of Norbert Balatsch,[2][3] then of his own ensemble, the Athestis Chorus,[4] and conductor of the Baroque orchestra Academia de li Musici. Although the Athestis Chorus is primarily associated with Baroque works, the choir has also sung modern works by composers such as Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Gian Francesco Malipiero, and Viktor Ullmann.[5] and as chorus master of the Athestis Chorus. Bressan collaborated under conductor Roberto Abbado in Juan Diego Flórez' recording of bel canto Arias for Rubini (2007). In 2000 the choir and Bressan performed on conductor Jeffrey Tate's recording of Joseph Haydn's Die Schöpfung winning the Abbiati Award for 2000. He has collaborated with Carlo Maria Giulini, Claudio Abbado, Eliahu Inbal, Jeffrey Tate, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Lorin Maazel, George Prêtre, Arvo Pärt, Mstislav Rostropovich, Luciano Berio, Frans Brüggen and Roman Vlad.

He is permanent director of the Savona Symphony Orchestra and the Schio Academy Orchestra (later called Jupiter Orchestra).[6] He has been guest director for five years at Teatr Wielki, Poznań, for two years at Teatro Lirico of Cagliari, principal director of Accademia de li Musici and at present of Voxonus. He has directed the Saint Petersburgs State Academic Symphonic Orchestra,[7] the RAI National Symphony Orchestra of Turin, the La Fenice Orchestra and Choir of Venice, the Coro Giovanile Italiano from 2003 to 2005, the World Youth Choir in 2002 and the Estonian National Male Choir. He has directed with the Athestis Chorus the Messa arcaica, the opera Il cavaliere dell'intelletto and the album L'ombrello e la macchina da cucire by Franco Battiato.[8][9][10] He has collaborated on several projects for Feniarco, ECA-Europa Cantat and IFCM. In 2005 he joyned the jury of the International Competition for Choir Conductors Mariele Ventre of Bologna.[11] From 2014 he has a three-year assignment for the direction of Choeur National des Jeunes.

He is a teacher at the Conservatory from 1995, first to Bari and currently at the "Nino Rota" Conservatory of Monopoli.[12]

Discography

  • Concerto per violino e orchestra n. 1 op. 26 by Max Bruch – Sinfonia n. 3 in la min. op. 56 Scozzese by Felix Mendelssohn B. Edoardo Zosi, violino – Filarmonica di Torino – Filippo Maria Bressan, conductor – Amadeus (Italy, February 2012)
  • Messa per San Marco by Baldassarre Galuppi: Athestis Chorus & Academia de li Musici – Filippo Maria Bressan, conductor – Chandos Records (Great Britain, 2003)
  • La Resurrezione di Lazzaro by Antonio Calegari: Athestis Chorus & Academia de li Musici – Filippo Maria Bressan, conductor – Chandos Records (Great Britain, 2001)
  • Arianna by Benedetto Marcello: Athestis Chorus & Academia de li Musici – Filippo Maria Bressan, conductor – Chandos Records (Great Britain, 2000)
  • Requiem by Benedetto Marcello: Athestis Chorus & Academia de li Musici – Filippo Maria Bressan, conductor – Chandos Records (Great Britain, 1999)
  • Vespro della Beata Vergine Maria by Pier Francesco Cavalli: Athestis Chorus, Schola Gregoriana Ergo Cantemus – Filippo Maria Bressan, conductor – Tactus (Italy, 1998)
  • Isolamenti 1938–1945 Vol. 5 by Gian Francesco Malipiero, Viktor Ullmann, Karl Amadeus Hartmann – Athestis Chorus – Filippo Maria Bressan, conductor – Nuova Fonit Cetra (Italy, 1996)
  • Arias for Rubini – Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti: Juan Diego Florez, Coro e Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Filippo Maria Bressan, choirmaster – Roberto Abbado, conductor (Decca, 2007)
  • Pezzi sacri by Giuseppe Verdi: Coro e Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia – Filippo Maria Bressan, chorimaster – Myung-Whun Chung, conductor (Deutsche Grammophon, 2000)
  • Die Schöpfung (The Creation) by Franz Joseph Haydn: Athestis Chorus, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai – Filippo Maria Bressan, choirmaster – Jeffrey Tate, direttore – Rai (Italy, 2000) (Premio Abbiati 2000)

References

  1. ↑ Ministero dell'istruzione, dell'università e della ricerca (ed.). "Modifiche graduatorie – DIREZIONE DI CORO E REPERTORIO CORALE PER DIDATTICA DELLA MUSICA" (PDF).
  2. ↑ Massimo Rolando Zegna. "Filippo Maria Bressan. Il gusto del nuovo" (PDF). Amadeus. pp. 44–45.
  3. ↑ Notes Pezzi sacri Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung (Deutsche Grammophone, 2000)
  4. ↑ Profile at bach-cantatas.com
  5. ↑ Booklet, Isolamenti – Athestis Chorus – Conductor: Filippo Maria Bressan, Nuova Fonit Cetra (Italy, 1996)
  6. ↑ "Bressan nuovo direttore d'orchestra dell'Accademia musicale «Più attenzioni da istituzioni locali»". www.ilgazzettino.it. Retrieved 2017-10-22.
  7. ↑ "Filippo Maria Bressan, Conductor".
  8. ↑ Parlapiano, Rosalia Bigliardi; Mozzoni, Loretta (1998). Le stagioni del Teatro Pergolesi, 1798-1998: Documenti e cronologie (in Italian). Comune di Jesi. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  9. ↑ Posta, Annino La (2011-02-23). Franco Battiato (in Italian). Giunti Editore. ISBN 9788809766365. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  10. ↑ Zingales, Christian (2010-09-09). Battiato on the beach (in Italian). LIT EDIZIONI. ISBN 9788862316132. Retrieved 2017-11-07.
  11. ↑ "Fondazione Mariele Ventre".
  12. ↑ "Filippo Maria Bressan".
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