LUIGI PRETOLANI

He had a good career as a cellist, graduating in Florence in 1991, specializing in Munich with teachers of international level, giving more than 500 concerts, in various formations, throughout Europe, recording for radio broadcasts and recording three CDs. In 1997 he began a new professional path by founding the Bruno Maderna Orchestra of Forlì and immediately took over the organizational and administrative leadership as President. In a few years from its foundation, the B. Maderna Orchestra, thanks also to the adequate funding of the Cassa dei Risparmi Foundation and the agreement with the Municipality of Forlì, has been able to be appreciated nationally and internationally, becoming the main production body within the programming of the Diego Fabbri Theater in Forlì, a permanent artistic ensemble in the Summer Music Festival of the Province of Forlì and Cesena. 

In 2002 Luigi Pretolani was commissioned by the Ravenna Festival to manage the orchestra, the choir and the setting up of the stage for the Musicians of Europe project which saw Maestro Riccardo Muti conducting 93 orchestral first parts of the main European orchestras and 85 choristers, in Ravenna, at Avery Fischer Hall in New York, and at Ground Zero, for a commemoration in honor of the victims of 9/11 in New York.

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ANTONIO MOSTACCI

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Antonio Mostacci graduated with Sante Amadori at the Pesaro Conservatory and studied with Franco Rossi, J. Starker and Ivan Schiffoleau in Paris. He began his concert activity at the age of 16 in a Trio with his father Luigi Mostacci at the piano and the clarinetist Italo Capicchioni (Italian Chamber Trio) playing in all the most important European cities. He won the first prize at the Vittorio Veneto, Catanzaro, Stresa, Moncalieri competitions and was awarded in international competitions such as "Maria Canals" in Barcelona and "Viotti" in Vercelli.

He actively dedicates himself to Chamber Music and to the teaching of the Cello at the Conservatory of Bologna.

He has also played as a soloist with various orchestras in Italy and abroad, in Duo with Miriam Garagnani throughout Europe, the United States and Japan and in Australia with the Trio Metropolis (Annamaria Morini, Flute and Miriam Garagnani Pianoforte).

He was part of the Quartet formed by the violinist Nigel Kennedy on the occasion of the Chechester Music Festival (GB).

He collaborated and collaborates as first cello with the orchestra of the Massimo Bellini Theater in Catania, with the Marche Regional Orchestra, with the Philharmonic and the Municipal Theater of Bologna, "gli Archi di Firenze", the Officina Musicale (L ' Eagle).

He is currently the first cello of the Tirol-Festspiele Erl (Austria) and of the Camerata Montegral conducted by Gustav Kuhn. He has held Master Classes in Italy, United States, Finland, Czech Republic. He plays a 1730 M.Klotz cello owned by the HPH Privatstiftung Foundation .