Associazione Corale Goriziana C.A. Seghizzi is pleased to introduce the jury of the 21st International Chamber Singing Competition “Seghizzi”.
Jury's President
Eddi De Nadai (Italia)
Eddi De Nadai is an associate conductor at the following institutions: Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Staatsoper in Hannover, Verdi in Trieste, Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto and Sociale in Trento. He graduated in piano and harpsichord at the Venice Conservatory and he studied conducting with Romolo Gessi, Donato Renzetti, Lior Shambadal and Deyan Pavlov.
A passionate connoisseur of Lied and vocal chamber music, as a pianist he studied with Erik Werba, Elly Ameling and Rudolph Jansen.
He has been a guest conductor at the Izmir Opera House and, from 2009 up to the present, he’s been invited at the Bolshoi Theatre in Tashkent as referent for the Italian opera repertoire, too.
De Nadai carries out an intense activity of collaboration with prestigious orchestras (Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, City of Ferrara, Mitteleuropa Orchestra, Slovenian Radio and Television, Cordoba Symphony, Orpheus Kammerorchester Wien, Bacau Philharmonic, Odessa Philharmonic, Kiev String’s Orchestra, Albanian Radio and Television, Opera of Belgrade and Ljubljana, Astana Opera) and important soloists such as Bruno Canino, Rocco Filippini, Enrico Pieranunzi, Luciana D’Intino and Katia Ricciarelli. Furthermore, he directs a wide symphonic and opera repertoire in Italy and abroad.
He conducted Nabucco and Aida at the Taormina Opera Stars, Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, The little sweep by Britten at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa, La Cecchina by Piccinni and Maria de Buenos Aires in Piazzolla at the Teatro Comunale in Treviso.
He inaugurated MittelFest 2016 in Cividale with the world premiere of Menocchio by R. Miani and he conducted the world premiere of Mauro Montalbetti’s Still Requies at the Milan Triennale and at the Teatro Grande in Brescia.
Eddi De Nadai is the founder and artistic director of the Ensemble Orpheus, which is dedicated to the instrumental literature of the 20th Century.
He is also the creator and artistic director of the project “All’Opera, ragazzi!” for the divulgation of the contemporary opera repertoire for young people, now in its 14th edition.
Over the last few years, De Nadai has produced and conducted:
ll vestito nuovo dell’Imperatore by Paolo Furlani, Arcibaldo Sonivari by Mario Pagotto, The little sweep by Benjamin Britten, La Fuggitiva by Lucio Gregoretti, La notte di San Silvestro by Renato Miani, The Wizard of Oz and The Little Prince by Pierangelo Valtinoni, Racconto di Natale by Carlo Galante
Cooperator of internationally renowned singers, he has performed concerts for prestigious institutions and important festivals throughout Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, Argentina, Mexico and the United States.
From 2002 to 2010 he was the official pianist at the International Chamber Music Competition for Solo Voice in Gorizia. He taught piano at several Italian conservatories, most recently at the Conservatory of Milan.
Jury
Pia Brodnik (Slovenia)
Soprano Pia Brodnik dedicated her creative musical life to performing throughout her native Slovenia and across Europe in opera houses in Slovenia, Switzerland and Czech Republic, at numerous international festivals in Germany, Croatia, Italy, Romania, Serbia, Kosovo, Belgium, Montenegro etc., with renowned artists, such as bass-baritone Marcos Fink, violinist Sylvie Gazeau, pianists Marina Horak and Charles Spencer, conductors Anton Nanut, Dejan Savić, Claude Villaret, Lior Shambadal, Wolfgang Schmidt, John Axelrod, with the London Symphony Orchestra, the Belgrade Opera Orchestra, the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and many others. She has recorded solo CDs of songs by Chopin, Duparc, Ipavec, Lajovic, Sacred songs, Slovenian folk songs, major soprano arias from all Puccini operas Vissi d’arte and the contemporary Slovenian opera, The Name on the Tip of the Tongue. In addition, a number of solo recordings of operas, arias, songs and live concerts can be found in the archives of Radio and Television of Slovenia and elsewhere.
Pia Brodnik is professor of voice at the Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana, where she also served as Head of Voice department for almost ten years. She wrote the new curriculum for voice studies for the Bologna reform and was the professional reviewer for domestic and foreign curriculum. She regularly conducts master classes, summer schools and seminars, and adjudicates at international singing competitions. Her students are soloists at opera houses in Slovenia and abroad (Stockholm, Trieste, Versailles, Paris, Rijeka, Zagreb, Split).
She is a founding member of the Slovenian Association of Teachers of Singing (DSPP), a member of EVTA as well as NATS.
Pia Brodnik is a graduate in Voice Performance from Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada in the class of dr. David Falk, and Music pedagogy from the Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana.
She is the recipient of many awards, including The Golden Plaque of University of Ljubljana, Award of the Municipality of Domžale, the Honorary member of Slovenian Association of Teachers of Singing and the Golden Linhart Badge of Republic of Slovenia Public Fund for Cultural Activities, among others.
Amelia Felle (Italy)
Amelia Felle is an Italian operatic soprano and voice teacher. Born in Bari, she graduated with honours in both Piano and Singing at the “N. Piccinni” Conservatory. At the same time, she studied Architecture.
She made her debut at the age of 19 as a soprano with the Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari. She won the International Lieder Competition in Finale Ligure and the “New Voices for Opera A. Belli” of Spoleto under the guidance of the soprano Maria Vittoria Romano (special prize at the Mozarteum in Salzburg). She made her debut in the main roles of The Elixir of Love, Don Pasquale and in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, directed by Gigi Proietti.
She then made her debut, again at the Rome Opera, in the role of Donna Anna in “Don Giovanni” by W.A.Mozart, conducted by Peter Maag, an opera that she repeated in Brescia and Bergamo with the winners of the Pavarotti Competition and A.S.L.I.C.O.
Under the direction of Gianluigi Gelmetti, she played Sofia in Rossini’s “Il Signor Bruschino” and Lauretta in Giacomo Puccini’s “Gianni Schicchi” at the San Carlo Theatre in Naples, directed by Roberto De Simone and live on the radio (RAIDUE); she has performed the same opera by Rossini at the RUNDFUNK in Stuttgart, at the Schwetzingen Festival and at the Cologne Opera (DVD TELDEC). Also in Cologne, with live radio broadcast, she played Eurydice in Offenbach’s “Orpheus in Hell” alongside Peter Ustinov, with the Süddeutsche Rundfunk Orchestra. With the same orchestra, always with live radio, she performed the “Stabat Mater” by G. Rossini, also performed again at the National Theatre of Saint Charles in Lisbon and in Prague conducted by Alberto Zedda.
She has always collaborated as a soloist for the symphonic repertoire with the Collegium Musicum of Bari and with the Rai Orchestras of Milan, Rome, Naples; with the Symphony Orchestras of Bari, Lecce, Naples, Rome; with the Orchestra of the “Pomeriggi musicali” and with the “Verdi” symphonic institution of Milan; with the Orchestras of the German Radio and Television in Stuttgart and Cologne, with the Junge Philharmonie in Berlin, with the Chamber Orchestra in London, with the National Orchestras of Zagreb, Prague, Madrid, Lisbon etc.
Amelia Felle has to her credit the staging and direction of Donizetti’s “Conventions and Inconveniences of the Stage” in Taranto.
She has been awarded several times as one of the most successful Italian voices: Gold Plaque Mario del Monaco; Gold Plaque Beniamino Gigli; Special Arena di Verona Award; Tullio Serafin Gold Plaque; Special Prize Nino Rota and many others.
Simultaneously with her solo and theatrical career that has taken her to the greatest European theatres, Felle has continued her teaching experience and now she is a professor at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome and more than 40 of her students are winners of international awards (A.S.L.I.C.O., Arts Prize, Stravinsky Prize, Romafestival, Ottavio Ziino Prize, BBC Cardiff Singer of the World, Operalia, Voci Nuove per la Lirica di Spoleto and many others). In addition, she conducts courses and master classes for the Universities of Barcelona, Weimar, Leipzig, Dublin, Karlsruhe, Palma de Mallorca, Istanbul, Malta etc.
For further information, please visit the official website via the following link https://ameliafelle.it/
Angelo Nicastro (Italy)
Angelo Nicastro, born and raised in Romagna, graduated from Dante Alighieri High School in Ravenna with a classical high school diploma, a diploma in Viola from the Bologna Conservatory and a degree in Philosophy with a thesis on music education from the University of Bologna. He further explored the study of string quartet with Professor Enzo Porta, perfecting himself at the Fiesole School of Music directed by Piero Farulli.
In 1983 he founded the Accademia Bizantina to which he devoted himself both as a musician and as artistic director and coordinator, leading it to become one of the most internationally accredited Italian ensembles, establishing close collaborations with great artists; particularly strong was the parternship with composer Luciano Berio, who later became its honorary president.
Until 1998, he organized with the Accademia Bizantina an intense series of performances in prestigious events and venues in Italy and abroad, as well as numerous labels recordings for the Denon, Frequenz and Arts; He also pursued teaching positions as Viola and Quartet teacher at Istituti Musicali Parificati. In 1998 he accepted the position as Co-Artistic Director of Ravenna Festival and Artistic Director of the Opera and Dance Seasons of Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, conceiving and developing numerous projects.
He coordinated the initiative on the “Neapolitan School” wanted by Maestro Riccardo Muti, aimed at the rediscovery and valorization of the musical, opera and sacred heritage of the Neapolitan 700s. Being the product of a collaboration between Ravenna Festival and the Pfingstfestspiele in Salzburg, the project led to numerous productions staged in major European theaters such as the Paris Opera and the Opera Real in Madrid.
He is frequently convoked as a jury member in international opera competitions, holds seminars and masters in the field of artistic education.
Since 2012, he has been Artistic Director of the Renata Tebaldi Foundation, which promotes the international opera competition named after the great soprano. He collaborates with the Italian Opera Academy inaugurated in 2015 by maestro Riccardo Muti.
Stephan Genz (Germany)
Stephan Genz is a German baritone, born in Erfurt, GDR, in 1973. At the age of 8, he joined the St. Thomas boys’ choir in Leipzig where he remained a “Thomaner” until 1991.
He then pursued his studies with Hans-Joachim Beyer at the Leipzig Conservatory, Mitsuko Shirai and Hartmut Höll at the Karlsruhe Conservatory, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Berlin and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in Zurich.
He earned his first successes by winning the international competition “Johannes Brahms” in Hamburg (1994) and “Hugo Wolf” in Stuttgart (1994). In 1998, he got awarded the “Brahms-Preis” of Schleswig-Holstein and in 2000, he was elected “Young Artist of the Year” by the Belgian Critics.
Recognized for his interpretations of Lied and German repertoire, he divides his career between opera, recitals and concerts. He sang on international stages such as the Berlin Staatsoper, the Hamburg Staatsoper, the Bastille Opera, the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées and the Châtelet in Paris, the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Grand Théâtre in Geneva, the Semperoper in Dresden, the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Bolshoi in Moscow as well as on the stages of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, the Kölner Philharmonie in Cologne, the Opéra Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels, the Louvre in Paris, the Alice Tully Hall, Frick Collection and Rockefeller Center in New York, the City Opera, Oji Hall and Suntory Hall in Tokyo and in numerous the festivals including the Edinburg festival, the Schubertiade (Feldkirch, Hohenems, Schwarzenberg), the festival d’Aix-en- Provence, the Maggio Musicale Firenze, the festival de Zermatt and the festival de Verbier.
He worked under the direction of conductors such as Teodor Currentzis, Myung-Whun Chung, Gerd Albrecht, Daniel Harding, Philippe Herreweghe, Thomas
Hengelbrock, Gustav Kuhn, Sigiswald, Kuijken, Rene Jacobs, Jesus Lopez-Coboz, Fabio Luisi, Georges Pretre, Bruno Bartoletti, Kent Nagano, Jeffrey Tate, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Kurt Masur, Eliahu Inbal, Mario Venzago and Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
Stephan Genz released more than 50 recordings. His recital CD’s got awarded international prizes such as the “Gramophone Award”, the “Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik”, the “Platinum Timbre” and several “Diapason d’Or”.
Since October 2020, he is responsible for teaching Lied and Oratorio at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He divides his time between Geneva, Salzburg and Paris, where he teaches German repertoire at the Conservatoire National de Paris.
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