Flute Masterclass

RICCARDO GHIANI Principal flute of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari Orchestra He was trained in Cagliari, Paris, and Geneva. His teachers included Salvatore Saddi, Raymond Guiot, Maxence Larrieu, Alain Marion, and Robert Dick for flute, and Bruno Canino and Maurice Bourgue for chamber music. For several years he was a member of the Ensemble Spaziomusica of Cagliari, with which he carried out extensive activity in the field of contemporary music. He has collaborated with the Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, the Ensemble Instrumental de l’Île-de-France, the Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, the Orchestra Haydn of Bolzano and Trento, and the Konzerthaus Orchester Berlin, performing under the direction of prestigious conductors such as Gérard Korsten, Lorin Maazel, Carlo Maria Giulini, Pinchas Steinberg, Cristopher Hogwood, Roberto Abbado, Christopher Hogwood, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Emmanuel Krivine, Georges Prêtre, Iván Fischer, George Benjamin, Frans Brüggen, Ton Koopman, Trevor Pinnock, Peter Schreier, Luciano Berio, Serge Baudo, and Lothar Zagrosek. From 1996 to 2001 he was assistant teacher to Aurèle Nicolet at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, and from 2001 to 2006 at the Summer Academy in Hvar in Croatia. He taught in the advanced courses of the Academia Flautistica Travesera Siglo XXI in Madrid. He is regularly invited to give masterclasses and to serve as a jury member in Italy and abroad. He was a founding member of the Hoffmansthal Ensemble and co-artistic director of the Festival Le piace. He is regularly invited as an expert for final master’s examinations at the Haute École de Musique de Genève (HEM). He teaches at the Bosa Antica Summer Academy, at the Cursos de Musica de Segovia, and at the Non solo Flauto Academy in Poggio Ubertini (Montespertoli). He is currently a teacher in the second-level master’s program at the Conservatorio “P. da Palestrina” in Cagliari and in the advanced flute specialization course at the “Music Art House Academy” in Palermo.