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“Colour directly influences the soul. Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another purposively, to cause vibrations in the soul.”
OUR IDEA
The idea for this project was born after a reflection, we wondered: how can we enhance the communicative power of music? Is it possible to turn music into a more concrete art form? Music is intangible. Therefore, listening to music appears as a more demanding art form than others.
In the human nature the visual aspect is crucial for communication: for example, how you move your body while speaking, the clothes you wear, everything conveys a message. Our goal is to take advantage of this effective communication tool and to use it to enhance the communicative power of music.
We will combine music and visual arts: we will offer to the audience the opportunity to see how a painting can be born and inspired by music, and how it can reflect the atmosphere suggested by a musical piece. Moreover, we will invite our audience to actively participate in our concert/workshop, and to create their own artwork.
In art history, music has always been a source of inspiration: we could mention Concert (the musicians) by Caravaggio, Man with a guitar by Georges Braque, The three musicians by Pablo Picasso and The music lesson by Johannes Vermeer. With our music, we would like to be an inspiration for our audience and stimulate their creativity in the same way.
VITTORIO ZELOCCHI
ISABELLA MANCIN CATTANEO
Cello
Flute - Principal Manager
ELENA ROTA
TADAS ČELIAUSKAS
Cello
Double bass
ISABELLA MANCIN CATTANEO
Isabella is a musician and flute player born in Italy. Before moving to the Netherlands in 2021 she studied flute at the Conservatorio G. Cantelli in Novara where in 2019 she got her bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in 2021.
During her years of studies in Italy, she took part in many flute competitions (1st prize at the “III Concorso Flautistico Nazionale 2019” in Venezia,
2nd prize “Xth International competition for young musicians 2020”). She gained experience in various orchestral training courses (“Rotary International District 5340 MusiCamp” in San Diego 2019, “Filarmonica Teatro Regio di Torino” 2019-2020). She participated in masterclasses held by internationally renowned flutists such as M. Michele Marasco, M. Mario Caroli, M. Felix Renggli.
Since September 2021 she is attending the Master of Music in flute at Prins Claus Conservatoire: she dedicates herself to various chamber music groups and genres, and she cultivates her passion for teaching. She will start her internship with the Noord Nederlands Orchestra for the upcoming season 2022/2023, which makes orchestral playing a significant role in her repertoire as well.
TADAS ČELIAUSKAS
Tadas is a musician from Lithuania. His musical journey started from an early childhood where his self- taught multi-instrumentalist father gave him a try of saxophone, accordion, clarinet and piano. In the end none of these instruments suited Tadas, eventually he picked up the double bass at age 15 and decided to become a professional. In Stasys Simkus Conservatoire in Klaipeda (high school with musical education) he studied Classical double bass, piano, conducting, obtained a musicology degree. Currently he is finishing his bachelor studies under professor Sorin Orcinschi in Prince Claus Conservatorium in Groningen. Tadas is a passionate musician in all fields - as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestra bassist. He had masterclasses with Wolfgang Guttler and Catalin Rotaru and worked with various artists in Netherlands and Germany.
ELENA ROTA
Elena started playing the cello when she was five years old. From 2009 to 2018 she studied at Conservatorio "G. Donizetti" of Bergamo under the guide of M° Roberto Ranieri and she got her diploma of violoncello with full marks in October 2020 under the guide of M° Andrea Cavuoto at Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali "Peri-Merulo" of Reggio Emilia.
She collaborated on a professional level with important Italian cellists such as Enrico Melozzi, Claudio Giacomazzi, Manuel Zigante, Marcello Rosa, Flavio Bombardieri and she did some performances on national television and radio channels.
In September 2020 she won the audition for the Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza.
She played as soloist, first cello and concertino with the National Orchestra of Italian Conservatories (ONCI), Donizetti Opera Orchestra, Filarmonica Mousiké (Bergamo), the Orchestra Carish (Milan), “I Musici del Teatro” of Treviglio (Bergamo), Alpine Music Youth of Friuli Venezia Giulia, Orchestra Filarmonica Settenovecento of Rovereto (Trento) and Orchestra Giovanile della Via Emilia.
She took part in masterclasses and academies (Orchestral Academy of Teatro Comunale di Bologna and “Collegium Musicum Internationale 62. Sommer-Akademie” at the Weißenstein Schloss in Pommersfelden, Bamberg) and specialised with Andrea Cavuoto, Vadim Pavlov, Kate Gould, Enrico Bronzi, Jozef Podhoransky, Walter Vestidello, Johannes Krebs, Claudio Mondini, Francesca Monego, Jan-Ype Nota, Francesco Parazzoli, Michel Strauss and Fiona Bonds.
In September 2021 she started her Master of Music in Violoncello at Prince Claus Conservatoire (Groningen, Netherlands) under the guide of M° Jan-Ype Nota. Since then, she performed already in a few important halls and theatres, such as the Tivoli Vredenburg in Utrecht, De Oosterpoort in Groningen and the AE Hall in Prins Claus Conservatorium.
VITTORIO ZELOCCHI
Vittorio started his musical studies at the age of 10 at the "Vecchi-Tonelli" Higher Institute of Musical Studies (ISSM), Modena, Italy, under the guidance of Maestro Alessandro Andriani with whom, in the winter of 2019, he completed Bachelor Degree Academic studies in Cello, graduating with 110/110.
He studied with S. Cerrato at Dedalo Music School in Novara. Vittorio attended masterclasses held by E. Bronzi and D. Scarpa (at S. Cecilia Academy in Portogruaro), G. Boselli, V. Paternoster, A. Andriani, P. Andriotti, M. Montore, D. Bovo, F. Biondi and R. Baldini. In 2015 he won the 2nd prize with 95/100 at the 5th G. e S. Martinelli Music Competition in Castelnuovo del Garda, obtaining the mention for the interpretation of Sonata Op. 38 by J. Brahms. In 2018 won the audition as principal cellist of Orchestra Giovanile della Via Emilia.
In the summer of 2019 he joined in “Campus musica d’estate” in Bardonecchia, organised by the Music Academy of Pinerolo with the teacher Marianne Chen. At the same time, he recorded a CD, “Vocal Chords”, with “On the Bridge” a Cello Ensemble. In the CD we focused on pieces written by Francesco Cerrato, Joseph Noyon, Pierre Petit, Benjamin Britten, Heitor Villa-Lobos, John Dowland, Giovanni Maria Nanino and Johann Sebastian Bach.
During the academic year 2019/20120 he participated in the advanced training courses offered by the 'Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo', Pinerolo, Italy and by the School of Music 'Dedalo' in Novara, Italy, under the guidance of the teachers Marianne Chen and Stefano Cerrato. From 2020 he started to study with the cellist Jan-Ype Nota at the Prince Claus Conservatory in Groningen, Netherlands with the Pre-master program and in 2021 he began the Master of Music in the same conservatory.
