Chorus Urbanus Productions has announced that it has managed to secure the services of the ‘maestro collaboratore’ of the Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano to conduct a ‘Choral Workshop and Vocal Master classes’ project.
“This project was submitted to the Malta Arts Council and partial funding was granted from the Malta Arts Fund, who saw the professional educational value of such a worthy initiative,” Chorus Urbanus Productions said.
The project is being conducted by Mro. Marco de Gaspari and will take place from Monday 16th to Thursday 26th July 2012 in Gozo. Some of the sessions will also be open to the general public.
Different genres will be concentrated on, which will include vocal works written by the choir’s musical director, John Galea.
After completion of his studies at Milano Conservatory, Marco de Gaspari founded the Italian Contemporary Ensemble, a chamber ensemble directed specifically to the music of the 20th-century with whom he won various international competitions and gave performances in several European countries.
In 1998, Marco de Gaspari was enrolled as collaborator to the chorus Master of the Coro del Teatro alla Scala and ripetiteur to the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala. Here he collaborated with various conductors such as Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta and many others.
As a choir master the services of Marco de Gaspari have been secured by theatres such as Tokyo, Osaka, Lebanon and Parma apart from featuring regularly at the Teatro alla Scala. He has performed numerous times in small formations on the stage of Teatro alla Scala. In 1992 he performed as a soloist and on radio with Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, the Symphony Orchestra of Madrid at the National Auditorium, and in 1996 he conducted a concert at the ‘Palau de la Musica’ in Barcelona together with the Philharmonic Chorus of La Scala.
Marco de Gaspari has recorded works by Rossini and Mozart for the magazine ‘Amadeus’ and recorded for BBC Three and RAI Radio Tre. He also collaborates regularly with leading orchestras such as the La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, the RAI Symphonic Orchestra of Milano and Torino, the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Milano Classica, the Orchestra Sinfonica Verdi, RTSI Lugano and Nuove Sincronie.