Orchestra Mozart Academy


The Orchestra Mozart Academy is an Italian chamber orchestra based in Bologna.

Creation

The orchestra was created in 2004 by Claudio Abbado as a special project for young musicians within the Regia Accademia Filarmonica of Bologna and managed by and Caterina Coretti..
The orchestra gave several concerts in Italy and abroad.

Composition

The orchestra is basically a chamber orchestra.
However, the number of musicians sometimes exceed this format: in the , the orchestra played Mozart and Gibelli - conducted by Boris Schaefer - with trumpets, timps, choir and soloists.
The orchestra acts as a meeting-place for young musicians from many countries, selected every 2–3 years by experienced musicians like the violinists Giuliano Carmignola and Gisella Curtolo, Raphael Christ, Cristiano Rossi, the viola player Danusha Waskiewicz, the cello players :it:Enrico Bronzi|Enrico Bronzi, Walter Vestidello, Gabriele Geminiani, the double-bass players Alois Posch, Lutz Schumacher, the flautists Jacques Zoon and Andrea Oliva, the oboist Lucas Macias Navarro, the clarinet player Alessandro Carbonare, and many others.

Conductors and soloists

Orchestra Mozart Academy was conducted, among the others, by , Giuliano Carmignola, Sergej Krylov, Alexander Lonquich, Jacques Zoon, Lorenza Borrani, Alessandro Carbonare, :it:Enrico Bronzi|Enrico Bronzi, Lucas Macias Navarro and many others.

Recordings

The orchestra conducted by :it:Enrico Bronzi|Enrico Bronzi is featured on a CD edited by Italian musical review Amadeus with music of C.P.E.Bach