THE ORCHESTRA
The Baraccano Orchestra was born within the activities of the Piccolo Teatro del  Baraccano di Bologna, where the theater production and research project is carried out  musical SOUND ACTS .

The Orchestra was founded in 2013 and is directed by its artistic director Giambattista  Juggles .
Within ATTI SONORI he has produced various musical theater projects both  independently both in co-production and collaboration with the Teatro Comunale di Bologna e  BSMT productions of Bologna.

In 2013 he made the musical A Little Night Music ; in 2014 Stephen's Sweeney Todd  Sondheim and Histoire du Soldat by Igor Stravinskij. In 2015 At the Opera! , symphonies,  interludes and overtures of the Italian opera. In 2016 the 4th Gustav Mahler, the fourth  Symphony by Mahler, arranged for chamber orchestra.

In 2017, the planned projects are:  Popular songs , with soloist Cristina Zavalloni e  a new Histoire du soldat with the reciting voice of Ivano Marescotti .

The orchestra's vocation is to specialize in the production of musical theater and  chamber opera.
 

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GIAMBATTISTA GIOCOLI
Clarinetist and conductor , born in 1976, he began his clarinet studies with Vincenzo Perrone at the Matera Conservatory, then graduating from the Bologna Conservatory with Maestro Enrico Quarenghi.

He performs as a soloist accompanied by orchestras, including the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna (Copland concert, 1998).

He has made recordings for Radio Emilia-Romagna, Lucania and for the national RAI-Radio Tre, for RAISAT and on the Internet, for the CLASSICA pay TV channel and for the Japanese television Fuji Television network. Among the CD recordings we remember a monograph on Giacinto Scelsi, several historical works of the twentieth century and world premieres by contemporary authors, and an engraving for the Deutsche Grammophon with Placido Domingo.

He had an eclectic training that allowed him to perform using all the members of the clarinet family, from the piccolo in Eb to the bass clarinet, to the basset horn in Mozart's Requiem , broadcast worldwide and on Italian RAI TRE in 2000.

He studied with Gaspare Tirincanti, specializing in the contemporary repertoire for solo clarinets. He has collaborated, as bass clarinet, small solo clarinet and clarinet in a row, in the lyrical and symphonic seasons of various orchestras including the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna with which he has collaborated regularly for 10 years.

He collaborated with the FontanaMIX Contemporary Music Ensemble, with whom he held contemporary music workshops at the DAMS of the University of Bologna, and with the Sentieri Selvaggi ensemble of Milan, with whom he performed in Belgrade and Uzbechistan. .

He studied in Siena at the Accademia Chigiana with Antony Pay and with Alessandro Carbonare at the Academy of Emilia-Romagna AFOS.

Among the most important international festivals in which he participated we remember Bologna Festival, Nuove Consonanze di Roma, Angelica Festival, Milano Musica and the Rovereto Mozart Festival.

In June 2002 and 2006 he made a tour in Japan with the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, conducted by the masters Daniele Gatti and Friederich Haider.

In duo with piano he is awarded in various musical competitions among which we remember the one in Viareggio 2003 and the Festival delle Arti 2003 in Bologna.

He is the artistic director of various musical reviews in the Bologna area, including the musical theater review ATTI SONORI .

In 2013 he made his debut as conductor in the production of the S. Sondheim musical A Little Night Music , receiving critical and public acclaim. In the same year he founded the Baraccano Orchestra .

In 2014 he directed L ' Histoire du Soldat by I. Stravinskij and the most famous and demanding musical by Sondheim Sweeney Todd .

In 2015 he produced the project on opera interludes and symphonies All'Opera! . In December 2015 he made his debut at the helm of the Toscanini Orchestra of Parma .

In 2016, in addition to touring the projects produced so far, he made his debut with the 4th Gustav Mahler project and in the Popular songs program, a concert of popular cultured songs, with the voice of Cristina Zavalloni and the harp of Davide Burani.

In 2017 he will continue his collaboration with the Toscanini of Parma and will make his debut at the direction of the Rossini Symphonic Orchestra of Pesaro in a small tour in Italy.  

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CRISTINA ZAVALLONI
Cristina Zavalloni was born in Bologna. Trained in jazz, at the age of eighteen he began studying bel canto and composition at the Conservatory of his city. For many years he also devoted himself to the practice of classical and contemporary dance.

He performs in the most important theaters, in international concert seasons and jazz festivals , including the Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Antwerp Free Music Jazz Festival, Moers Music, Bimhuis, London Jazz Festival, Klara Festival, International Jazz Festival of Rotterdam, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Bruges Concertgebouw, Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, Walt Disney Hall, Milan Scala Theater , Barbican Center, Beijing Concert Hall, Moscow International House, etc.

She has performed with orchestras such as the London Sinfonietta, BBC Symphony Orchestra , Schoenberg Ensemble, Sentieri Selvaggi, Musik Fabrik, Orkest De Volharding, Orchestra della Rai Torino, Los Angeles Philharmonic , ORT, Orchestra Toscanini , Irish Chamber Orchestra, and was conducted by Martyn Brabbins, Stefan Asbury, Reinbert De Leeuw, Ivan Fischer, Oliver Knussen, David Robertson, Jurjen Hempel, Georges-Elie Octor, Andrea Molino, Marco Angius, among others.

She collaborates with the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen , who has written for her some of her most recent works including A tram ride to America and back, The Passion, Inanna, Letter from Cathy, Tale from Hell , Dante's part The Comedy , the Anais Nin monodrama and the part of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in the opera Theater of the World . He is the interpreter of first performances of Carlo Boccadoro, Luca Mosca, Emanuele Casale, Michael Nyman, Mauro Montalbetti  and some compositions by James McMillan (the USA premiere of Raising Sparks, Carnegie Hall, 2011).

He attends the Baroque repertoire ( Coronazione di Poppea, Combattimento di Tancredi and Clorinda ), collaborating with directors and choreographers such as Mario Martone and Alain Platel (VSPRS and Pitié!, To music by Fabrizio Cassol) or with Brass Bang! (Paolo Fresu, Gianluca Petrella, Marcus Rojas, Steven Bernstein).

His most recent jazz collaborations include voice and piano duos with Jason Moran, Stefano Bollani , Benoit Delbecq, Alfonso Santimone, collaborations with Radar Band, Uri Caine and his Special Dish quartet.

He made for Italian television ( RaiTre ) the Musical Ephemerides - a series of pills aired in the 2013/2014 season, in which he talked about some of his own musical projects.

He has recorded over 20 CDs.

cristinazavalloni.it

DAVIDE BURANI

Graduated in piano and harp , he obtained with full marks and honors the second level Academic Diploma in harp at the “Arrigo Boito” C onservatory in Parma, under the guidance of Emanuela Degli Esposti. Perfected with Fabrice Pierre and Judith Liber, he won numerous national and international competitions (finalist with honorable mention at the "Tournoi International de Musique" XI ed. In Salon de Provence and overall winner of the " Music World " of Fivizzano (2004 He has performed as a soloist in prestigious concert venues in Italy and abroad: Teatro Regio di Parma , Teatro Comunale di Ferrara ,  Philharmonic Academy of Bologna , Franchetti Gallery at Ca 'd'Oro in Venice , Doge's Palace in Venice, Sala Puccini of the “Verdi” Conservatory in Milan , KKL of Lucerne , Cadogan Hall in London , Opera House in Prague , International Center for Beijing Arts, Tokyo Opera City, Osaka Symphony Hall. He has collaborated as first harp with the Orchestra of the Municipal Theater of Bologna, with the Orchestra of the Swiss Italian Radio of Lugano, with I Virtuosi Italiani, with the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra of Parma, with the Regional Orchestra of Emilia Romagna, with the “Bruno Maderna” Orchestra of Forlì. He has participated in numerous radio and television broadcasts and has been invited to present his record works at the Radio Uno studios of the Swiss Italian Radio and at the Radio Tre studios during the Radio Tre Suite and Piazza Verdi broadcasts.

He has recorded several CDs . He held Arpa Masterclasses.

Since 2014 he has collaborated with Maestro Leo Nucci accompanying him on his international tours and the Italian Opera Chamber Ensemble.

Since 2009 he has been teaching harp at the “Achille Peri” Higher Institute of Musical Studies in Reggio Emilia.

davideburani.com

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