Luisa SELLO - flute
One of the most important Italian artists, Luisa Sello has been nominated honorary Ambassador of Udine in the world, to represent Friulian culture in Italy and in the world.
She is defined by the New York Concert Review “lovely mix of extroverted passion and genuine tenderness, with excellent breath control, brilliant technical rendering, engaging intensity, sonorous range and abundance of charm”, she is a Flute Miyazawa Artist and an Ambassador of Music and Italian Culture, supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture. Her international career includes collaborations with Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo Muti, Wien Symphoniker Orchestra, Thailand Symphony Orchestra, Trevor Pinnock, Alirio Diaz, Philippe Entremont, Bruno Canino, Karl Leister, Carnegie Hall, Juilliard School, Suntory Hall, Prazak string quartett, the composers Salvatore Sciarrino, Aldo Clementi, Rainer Bischof (first performances). Already Flute Professor at the Academy of Music in Milano and Trieste (Italy), she is actually Doctoral Professor at the New Bulgarian University of Sofia (Bulgaria) and visiting professor at the Universities in Vienna, Madrid, Edinburgh, Beijing, Melbourne, Toronto, New York, Kyoto, Bangkok, Buenos Aires, among others. In obtaining both her ArtD in Performing Arts and her PhD in Linguistic and Literary Sciences, she studied in Paris with Raymond Guiot and Alain Marion, who proclaimed her “very musical, superb,” at the Accademia Chigiana with Severino Gazzelloni, who remarked her “magnificent interpretive sensibility and excellent sound”, and with Conrad Klemm in Rome. She records for Stradivarius, Dynamic (Italy) and Millennium (Beijing). Luisa Sello plays on Miyazawa flutes.
Knight of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Romain Garioud is prize winner at such prestigious international competitions as Moscow’ s Tchaikovsky (2001) and Paris’ Rostropovitch (2002), he is also a second prize winner at Chile’s Vina del Mar competition in 2002. In 2005, Romain Garioud wins the 1st Prize of Bucchi’s International cello Competition. He graduated from Paris’ s Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique with a First Prize in both cello (1997) and chamber music (1998) and Konzertexam. Known for his outstanding sound and sense of phrasing, Romain Garioud has had the privilege of working with such widely renowned cellists as Philippe Muller, Anner Bylsma, Natalia Chakovskaia, David Geringas, Steven Isserlis. Nowadays, his career alternates between solists engagements on every continents, Masterclasses and his positions of Professor in the « Akademie für Tonkunst » of Darmstadt and in the « Akademie für Musik » of Berlin. He’s playing an exceptional Nicolai Gagliano’s cello from 1760, generously lent by Gabriele & Michael Andreae-Jäckering.
Daniela Dikova is a dynamic and versatile musician, committed to performing and teaching in the full spectrum of collaborative musical genres. Dr.Dikova is a Professor of Collaborative Piano in the Chamber Music and Accompaniment Department at the National Academy of Music – Prof. Pancho Vladigerov, and has been the staff pianist for the Violin Department at the same institution since 1988. Her extensive chamber music experience includes performances in various chamber formations In 2004, after many years of duo collaboration with the American cellist Geoffrey Dean, she became the founder of the “Ardenza” Trio. In 2009, the ensemble was given the “Crystal Lira” award by the Bulgarian Union of Music and Dance Artists.
