Michele Mangani: Memories from Heaven

Riccardo Bartoli graduated with the highest marks and honours from the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. He continued his piano studies with Aldo Ciccolini and Sergio Fiorentino, winning prizes in national and international competitions. His qualifications also include the Diplôme Supérieur d’Exécution, awarded unanimously by the jury at the École Normale de Musique Alfred Cortot in Paris, a Diploma of Merit from the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, and a degree in music from the University of Bologna.

As a soloist and chamber pianist, he has performed extensively in Italy, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, Norway, the United States and China. He has recorded for RAI and made CDs for Naxos, Arcam and Bongiovanni. His recordings have received recognition from the international music press, including Fanfare in the United States, Diapason in France and Italian specialist magazines. CD Classica selected his Carl Reinecke recording as CD of the Month, with an artistic assessment of “Exceptional”.

Alongside his performing career, he has taught piano at the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, where his teaching responsibilities have included practical keyboard skills.

Sergio Bosi began studying music at an early age, graduating at sixteen and winning numerous international competitions as both a soloist and chamber musician. His career has included serving as principal clarinet of FORM–Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana and teaching clarinet at the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro.

A specialist in Italian repertoire, he has recorded numerous CDs as a featured artist for Naxos, Bongiovanni, Arcam-Cambridge and Mondomusica EMI. He has been invited to international clarinet congresses and has given masterclasses at institutions including Madrid’s Real Conservatorio Superior de Música, the Zhejiang Conservatory of Music and music institutions in Vienna, Ghent and Castellón.

He edits the Rare Italian Clarinet Music series for Eufonia, preparing editions of important works, including a critical edition of the manuscript of Gioachino Rossini’s Variazioni in Do and Aurelio Magnani’s complete music for clarinet and piano. He is a Buffet Crampon and Vandoren Paris artist.

Born in Urbino in 1966, Michele Mangani earned diplomas in clarinet, band instrumentation, composition and conducting at the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro, and in choral music and choir conducting at the Giovan Battista Martini Conservatory in Bologna. In 1996 he won the national competition for conductor of the Italian Army Band, and he has received numerous national and international distinctions.

His compositions have been performed and recorded internationally by soloists, orchestras and bands. These include clarinettists Wenzel Fuchs of the Berlin Philharmonic, Corrado Giuffredi of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana and Ricardo Morales of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and bassoonist Patrick de Ritis of the Vienna Symphony. Ensembles that have performed his music include the Italian Army Band, the Italian Navy Band, the Guardia di Finanza Band, the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Brussels Philharmonic, the Spanish National Youth Orchestra, the Lausanne Sinfonietta and the wind octet of Teatro alla Scala.

By the time of this recording’s original publication, his output comprised more than five hundred works, published by Edizioni Musicali Eufonia. His compositions have often been chosen as compulsory pieces in performance competitions, where he has also served as a jury member or chairman.

His professional appointments have included conducting the Marche Wind Orchestra and teaching wind ensemble music at the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory in Pesaro. In March 2017 he became director of the Accademia della Cappella Musicale del Santissimo Sacramento in Urbino.