Oderigi Lusi: Sinfonia Abellana (DVD)

Conductor and composer Giulio Marazia studied with Gianluigi Gelmetti at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, receiving a major scholarship in 2011.

He has been invited to festivals and concerts in Italy and abroad, appearing at the Teatro Mercadante in Naples; the Piccolo Teatro, Teatro Dal Verme, Auditorium Cariplo and Sala Verdi in Milan; the Teatro Uno in Rome; the Teatro dei Rozzi in Siena; the Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer in Ravello; the Roman amphitheatre in Avella; the Volkshaus in Jena, Germany; and the Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège, Belgium. In 2013, the Milan Conservatory selected him to represent the institution in the conducting section of the Premio Nazionale delle Arti, organised by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research and held at the conservatory in L’Aquila.

He has conducted wind orchestras in Chieti, Gioia del Colle, Mercato San Severino and Salerno. From 2006 to 2013, he was musical and artistic director of the Orchestra Sinfonica Ensemble Contemporaneo and the Coro Collegium Vocale Salernitano. With these ensembles he devised and produced annual festivals promoting live classical, symphonic and operatic music.

For the Valle del Sarno Pop Orchestra, he arranged, transcribed and conducted the music for Atom at Night, a concert devoted to Pink Floyd’s best-known works, presented in symphonic arrangements involving more than a hundred musicians. In 2014, he made his debut as guest conductor of Milan’s Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali in a series of concerts.

He opened the Milan Conservatory’s 2014–2015 academic year with Donizetti’s Don Pasquale, conducting its choir and orchestra. His appointments have included assistant conductor at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno from 2014, under the artistic direction of Daniel Oren, and at the Opéra Royal de Wallonie from 2015, under Paolo Arrivabeni. In 2015, he made his debut with the Metro Chamber Orchestra in New York in two performances of Bach’s St John Passion, leading to his appointment as principal guest conductor for the 2015–2016 season.

He has worked with orchestras across Europe, including Milan’s Orchestra Giuseppe Verdi, the Sofia Festival Orchestra, the Jena Philharmonic and the choir and orchestra of the opera house in Liège. As musical and artistic director of the Orchestra Filarmonica Campana, he has developed new productions, tours, recordings and audiovisual projects, broadening its national and international activity and its promotion of Italian musical culture. His teaching work has included music education in Milan.

His distinctions include Magnus Taburnus for polyphonic choirs in 2007, as conductor; the St Alphonsus M. de Liguori sacred-music prize in 2009, as composer of Reflections; A Lighthouse Turned Towards the Future in 2010, recognising young people distinguished in work, culture and art; Awards 2010 for his sustained commitment to disseminating and promoting musical culture in the region; and the Premio Cavalierato Giovanile, recognising talent under thirty-five in southern Italy.

The Orchestra Filarmonica Campana was founded in Pagani in 2006 by Giulio Marazia, its musical and artistic director. It brings together experienced professional musicians and young graduates from Italian conservatories. Many of its players combine orchestral work with solo and chamber performances and teaching.

During its first decade, through continuous training, specialisation and more than a hundred concerts, the orchestra developed a committed professional ensemble and an extensive repertoire. Its programmes range from the Baroque period to the twentieth century, from major operatic works to contemporary compositions.

Its principal home has been the Teatro Comunale Sant’Alfonso in Pagani, with regular performances also at the Teatro Diana in Nocera Inferiore and the Mario Ferrante Concert Hall at the Circolo Unione in Pagani. Other appearances have included the Auditorium Oscar Niemeyer in Ravello, the park of the Certosa di Padula, the Roman amphitheatre in Avella, the Teatro Eduardo De Filippo in Agropoli and Villa Guariglia in Vietri sul Mare on the Amalfi Coast.

Oderigi Lusi is an Italian pianist and composer whose music connects classical and contemporary traditions with world music, exploring the sounds of what he calls the “Souths of the World”. His style draws on his pianistic artistry and Neapolitan roots, giving musical expression to a longing for freedom and to a broad range of emotions.

He began his musical studies at an early age at the Domenico Cimarosa Conservatory in Avellino, studying composition and piano and graduating with honours. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician and participated in national and international competitions and festivals. In 2008, he was admitted to Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied composition and film scoring while developing his skills in arranging and jazz.

In April 2014, he received a Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards in the United States for the symphonic overture from his ballet The Cloud in Love. In January 2012, he won the Moderato Danzabile National Composition Competition in Rome, devoted to music for ballet. In August 2007, he attended a film-scoring course given by Academy Award winner Luis E. Bacalov at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena.

In 2002, he received the first Bruno Mazzotta scholarship, awarded annually to the best piano graduate of the Domenico Cimarosa Conservatory. At its presentation in the conservatory auditorium, he performed music by Liszt, Schumann and Brahms. He has also won several piano competitions. In 2000, he attended two international courses in musical interpretation and advanced performance with C. Lapegna. During these courses, he performed at the third Fondi Music Festival, the first Sperlonga Music Festival and the Concerti Itineranti series at the Franciscan convent of Santa Caterina d’Alessandria in San Martino Valle Caudina, with programmes including music by Liszt.