concertodautunno - fotoservizio 2015

Joe Yamaji, conductor, direttore
Began learning to play the piano at the age of five. After completing his studies at the Music Conservatory of Meiwa Senior High School in Nagoya, he studied at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts on Musicology. He studied conducting under Prof. Masao Kai in Japan and after that he went to the United States to continue his studies at George Fox Univ., where he studied the organ and improvisation and he pursued his studies of orchestrai music. As a conductor, Mr. Yamaji has appeared 20 countries and worked with many professional orchestras such as Voronezh State Philharmonic Orchestra in Russia, Shanghai City Symphony Orchestra, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra in China and also orchestras in Japan, Taiwan and so on. Also he has participated in international festivals such as Ravinia Festival in USA. Mr. Yamaji's work covers not only the field of professional orchestras but also the field of youth orchestras and amateur orchestras.

Mario Gioventù, conductor, direttore
Was born in Milan on 1955. He has got a flute diploma at "Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano" and studied composition and conducting at "Conservatorio di Musica G.Verdi". He followed the Franco Ferrara conductor's summer courses at "Accademia Chigiana" in Siena and "Accademia S.Cecilia" and the "Muenchner Philarmoniker" courses held by the legendary Sergiu Celibidache. As a tlutist he played with RAI Symphony Orchestra and various Opera orchestras. As a conductor he performed with "Milano Classica", "I Pomeriggi Musicali, "Città di Magenta" and for several years has been conductor of the orchestra "Città di Vigevano", working with the "Jazz Company Big Band" and soloists as G.Comeglio, B.De Filippi, E.Soana, A.Dulbecco. For 15 years has been teaching chamber music at Civica Scuola di Musica di Casatenovo". Now he conducts two polyphonic choirs, "Libercanto" and "Acqua Potabile" and the chamber orchestra "Agorarte".

Federica Vitali, soprano
Was born in Busto Arsizio (VA, Italy) in 1988 and is graduated in Communication Psychology at the State University of Milano-Bicocca. She studied music privately and since 2009 she has been studying lyrical singing with Maestro Davide Rocca, baritone and pianist. She attended International masterclasses with Giuseppe Sabbatini, Alessandra Althoff-Pugliese, the director Stefano Vizioli, Monserrat Caballè and the conductor Riccardo Frizza. She won various international prizes and she made her debut in 2010 as Clarina in "La Cambiale di Matrimonio" by G. Rossini at the Art Academy of Milan and she also made her debut as Annina in "La Traviata" by G. Verdi and as Serpina in "La Serva Padrona" by G.B.Pergolesi. In 2015 she performed Adina in "Elisir d'Amora" by G.Donizetti, Mimi in "La Boheme" by G.Puccini at Teatro Municipale of Casale Monferrato and Violetta Valery in "La Traviata" by G.Verdi at Teatro Filodrammatici of Milan.

Elena Ronzoni, concertmaster, was born to a family of musicians and studied at the State Conservatory of Milan «Giuseppe Verdi» under Paolo Borciani, wherewith graduated with the highest marks. Then she specialized with Dora Schwarzberg. Awarded by national and international contest prizes, she has been second violin of the Borciani String Quartet since 1988 until its breakup, after more than twenty years of concerts and recordings. Later Elena has been one of the founders of the Goffredo Petrassi String Quartet. Beside her performing activity, she dedicates herself to the realization of musical theatre productions for the young. She has always had a keen interest in different kinds of musical expressions, as popular and jazz music. She is now teacher of String Quartet at the Conservatory Vincenzo Bellini in Palermo and holds seminars in Italy and abroad.

Violin Yukiko Arino - Japan Nina Baratti - Italy Francesco Calandrina - Italy Consuelo Cova - Italy Antonia Di Donato Krauss - Italy David Eckhaut - France Maryem Fama - Spain Marco Grippa - Italy Haruo Hiramatsu - Japan Gyeom Jung - Korea Hiroshi Kakiuchi - Japan Kyota Kakiuchi - Japan Kyungmyung Kim - Korea Chiang Sheng Johnny Kuo - USA Minyoung Lee - Korea Liina-Grete Lilender - Estonia Kikuko Morishìta - Japan Kanako Naka - Japan Tommaso Napoli - Italy Keiko Narita - Japan Naoko Omori - Japan Setsuko Otani - Japan JeongGwang Park - Korea Tommaso Pavolini - Italy Cristina Selvaggi - Italy Riks Shimada - Japan	Viola Tamara Auer - Australia Daniele Colella - Italia Giuliana Fumagalli - Italia Francesco Ghigo - Italia Taave Lips - Estonia Alice Marini - Italia Valerla Mundula - Italia Priscilla Panzeri - Italia Adelio Ronzoni - Italia Christine Wagner - Germania Cello Paolo Burlo - Italy Giovanni Capino - Italy Vassilia Chachlakis - Italy Riccardo Donadio - Italy Carolina Ferraris - Italy Konstantinos Giannos - Cresce Euna Jung - /Corea Lydìe Lane - France Giacomo Molteni - Italy Valentina Vicario - Italy Jihae Yoon - Korea
Harp Maryem Fama - Marocco Doublé bass Beppe Barbareschi - Italy Sergio Brenna - Italy Max Gonfalonieri - Italy Giorgio Dini - Italy Federico Donadoni - Italy Fabio Longo - Italy Stefano Scopece - Italy Flute Shigenori Fukuda - Japan Seorim Kim - Korea Jiyoung Lee - Korea Francesco Marzano - Italy	Oboe Edmondo Canonico - Italy Antonella Varvara - Italy Beike Wang - China English horn Alex Van Beveren - Belgium Clarinet Peder Krabbe - Denmark Elisa Pezzulla - Italy Daniele Primucci - Italy Bassoon Takuya Nishizawa - Japan Luca Pellegrini - Italy Emanuele Vinci - Italy
French horn Ivo Paul Gienal - Switzerland Daniel Kellerhals - Switzerland Andrea Ternavasio - Italy Heinz Zimmermann - Switzerland Trumpet Eurico Alves - Portugal Alessio Dal Piva - Italy Letto Maio - Italy	Trombone Max Kutsenko - Ukraine Claudio Mainardi - Italy Marten-Ingmar Merivee - Estonia Viido Pòldma - Estonia Tuba Angelo Maccarone - Italy Timpani Vincenzo Mazzoccoli - Italy

World Federation of Amateur Orchestras
Even though the acronym WFAO, World Federation of Amateur Orchestras is difficult to misinterpret, it's definition is anything but simple, and to stumble upon its activities, which have been established for over 20 years, for an Italian, is a very rare phenomenon. In fact those who write to us, discovered us by chance, or better yet as was the case with me, discovered us indirectly as a consequence of a research Project undertaken for a doctorate thesis at Venezia's IUAV University. I was searching for examples of amateur music from around the world which had a minimal online presence and this was how I stumbled upon it, in the summer of 2012 at a WFAO event. I decided to apply to participate (the repertoire included Mahler Symphony n.2). I received my officiai invitation and went and played in Shizuoka, Japan.
In it's initial period (1991-1997) the WFAO (World Federation of Amateur Orchestras) was not called the WFAO, but rather WYOC: "World Youth Orchestra Conference". It was comprised of an annual conference of representatives and managers of youth Orchestras that began in August 1993. The objective following Venezuelan Abreu's 'El Sistema' education System, was to "promote and increase youth orchestra activities around the world, through the exchange of Information and exchange programs". The organisation based itself around three principal areas: the creation of new youth Orchestras around the world, the publication of a newsletter, and the organisation of an annual conference of representatives of youth orchestras from around the world. It was only in 1996 that a new federation of Orchestras was created, which was no longer youth orientated but rather encompassing a more generai definition of 'amateur musician' under the WFAO logo, which was presented as an extension of WYOC. This transition however took a few years to take piace, where in 1997 a preparatory committee was created and from 1998 annual meetings were held again.
The objective became not to increase the number of youth orchestras, but rather to "promote exchanges between youth orchestras and amateur orchestras". The method was the same but the user base changed. The target group widened to include adult amateur orchestras. The first International meeting of this new body was organised in Caracas Venezuela, and was hosted by FESNOJIV, the foundation that was created by Antonio Abreu. From 2004 onwards it was seen as necessary to make an institutional switch. The WFAO took on the principal objective to "promote orchestrai practice for ali members of society and to facilitate exchanges between numerous amateur orchestras around the world", which went well beyond the originai extended role of the WYOC.
The milestone events in this transformation were the following: in 2003 the preliminary meeting was held in Glasgow; in 2004 in Amsterdam; and in kù04 at Nagoya during Expo. Administrative roles were progressively renewed and this led to the 2007 meeting in Shanghai. Furthermore, WFAO was paired side by side with the creation in 2007 of the NPO-WFAO (Non Profit World Federation of Amateur Orchestras), a foundation based in Japan, created by Mr Motoyasu Morishita whose purpose was to assist with the administrative and financial support of WFAO. From then on the activities of WFAO have been oriented towards the possibility of making exchanges between Asian and European amateur orchestras happen (both with youth and adults) and these activities have been financed by amateur activity in Africa and other developing countries (like Nepal). The will to put together a meeting for orchestrai managers together with performances by orchestras made up of musicians from diverse affiliated entities was also established. The first festival where this type of orchestra performed, was in Shizuoka in 2012. It's creation carne about a little over a year after Mr Morishita's departure, who was substituted by Alex Von Beveren, Vice President and one of the few people present on the board of directors right back in 1993. The 2012 festival had more than 500 participating musicians, divided into three orchestras (one of which was a youth orchestra), coming from at least thirty different states. The majority of participants were Japanese, seeing as that was where the festival took piace, but there were also representatives from China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, as well as India and Nepal. Apart from a group of eight representatives from Germany, there were very few Europeans, for the most part they were Scandinavians, Belgians, and myself representing Italy. At the main event, not only were musicians participants, but Princess Takamado, the Mayer of the city of Shizuoka where the festival was taking piace, the president of the region, and the Japanese minister for culture also participated.
Steaming from this experience in September 2013, I was invited again to participate in the WFAO Festival, and it was then that I was given the task to study whether it was possible to organise this festival here in Italy in 2015 as it was the city chosen to hold also Expo 2015.
From this experience, a combination of chance and research, this concert was possible today. It's the first time that a Festival for WFAO is taking piace outside of Japan and is creating an ad hoc orchestra of 90 players, made up of amateur musicians from around the world, coming from ali five continents to tota! 16 different states. *
Tommaso Napoli
AIMA - Associazione Italiana Musicisti Amatori

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