Alberto Cara: Symphonic Works

David Whitwell is a trombonist from New York City. He is active as a soloist and improvisor, having performed concerti and solo recitals and recorded albums across Europe, the US, and Scandinavia with groups such as The Budapest Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, the Dedalo Ensemble, the Etymos Ensemble, and the Manhattan School of Music Philharmonia. He has been principal trombonist/member of numerous orchestras and ensembles, including the Britten Pears Contemporary Ensemble (UK), the Orchestra Now, the So Wrong it's Right trombone quartet, the German free improv group Xenophobia Quartet, and he is also the creative director of the Eco Music Big Band. He is a graduate of Manhattan School of Music, Brooklyn College Conservatory, performed his Carnegie Hall solo debut in 2017, and was named a Britten Pears Young Artist.

Enrico Carraro was born in Italy in 1985.
Since January 2013, Enrico is Principal Viola of the orchestra of Teatro Regio of Torino and of the Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino where he’s also a board member. He had performances in some of the world’s most important concert halls (Carnegie Hall, Bunka KaiKan, Marinskji Theatre). He has been Principal Viola of the chamber orchestra “I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano” since 2010 and he collaborated with “Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice di Venezia”, “I Solisti di Pavia”. Enrico has given many chamber performances in collaboration with Mario Brunello, Enrico Dindo, Ilya Grubert, Sonig Tchakerian and Piero Toso. He studied with Sonig Tchakerian, Ilya Grubert, Davide Zaltron, Simone Briatore, Alfredo Zamarra, “Trio di Parma”, “Quartetto di Cremona”, “Trio Italiano” and at “Orchestra Mozart's Academy”.

Enrico Carraro was born in Italy in 1985.
Since January 2013, Enrico is Principal Viola of the orchestra of Teatro Regio of Torino and of the Filarmonica Teatro Regio Torino where he’s also a board member. He had performances in some of the world’s most important concert halls (Carnegie Hall, Bunka KaiKan, Marinskji Theatre). He has been Principal Viola of the chamber orchestra “I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano” since 2010 and he collaborated with “Orchestra del Teatro la Fenice di Venezia”, “I Solisti di Pavia”. Enrico has given many chamber performances in collaboration with Mario Brunello, Enrico Dindo, Ilya Grubert, Sonig Tchakerian and Piero Toso. He studied with Sonig Tchakerian, Ilya Grubert, Davide Zaltron, Simone Briatore, Alfredo Zamarra, “Trio di Parma”, “Quartetto di Cremona”, “Trio Italiano” and at “Orchestra Mozart's Academy”.

I Pomeriggi Musicali is a Milan-based orchestra whose activities include concerts, recordings and the performance of modern and contemporary repertoire. In the recording A coda di rondine, the orchestra is conducted by Carlo Boccadoro in works by Filippo Del Corno, with Dimitri Ashkenazy and Emanuele Arciuli as soloists.

Marcello Bufalini has been a guest of Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Wiener Tonkünstlerorchester, Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, G. Enescu Philharmonic, Bucharest, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Orchestra Sinfonica "G. Verdi", Milano, Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona, Orchestra della Toscana. After his operatic debut at the Wiener Kammeroper, he has been a guest of the Slovak National Theater, Opéra du Rhin, and of many opera houses in Italy. In 2006 Marcello Bufalini completed the Piano Concerto in e minor by Felix Mendelssohn, which has already been performed in Europe, USA, Canada, South America and in Japan, and was recorded by Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhaus Orchester. Marcello Bufalini is Conducting Professor at the Conservatorio of L'Aquila, Italy.

Marco Pierobon has performed as a soloist with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Kammerkonzert, I virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala, and with the Symphony Orchestras of Mantua, Bolzano, Vicenza, and Sanremo.
He won first prize in the international competitions of Passau, Germany and Imperia and Aqui Terme, Italy. From 1999 to 2002 he was principal trumpet of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, and from 2003 to 2008 he was principal trumpet of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra. He has collaborated as principal trumpet with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Filarmonica della Scala Orchestra. Pierobon has worked with conductors Zubin Mehta, Isaac Karabtchevsky, and Ralph Gothoni. In 2017 he conducted the Croatian National Theatre Orchestra Zagreb and the Orchestra da camera di Perugia.

Alberto Cara was born in Tivoli in 1975. He completed his piano studies with Eugenio Tani, Riccardo Risaliti and Boris Petrushansky, and studied composition with Federico Biscione, Alessandro Cusatelli, Marco Tutino and Luis Bacalov. He has composed symphonic, chamber and operatic works. In 2007, at Marco Tutino’s invitation, he wrote Il colore di Cenerentola, a metropolitan fairy tale in four scenes. The opera was co-produced by Turin’s Teatro Regio and Bologna’s Teatro Comunale, and premiered at the Piccolo Regio Laboratorio in Turin and L’Altrocomunale in Bologna during the 2007–2008 season. In 2009 he composed Gli occhi colore del vino, a monologue for actor and seven instruments, setting his own libretto freely adapted from Book X of Homer’s Odyssey. It was first performed by the I Pomeriggi Musicali ensemble in Milan. His chamber and symphonic works have been performed in Italy and abroad by I Pomeriggi Musicali, the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo and the Teatro dell’Opera Giocosa in Savona, and at the Brinkhall Summer Festival in Turku, Finland; the Gaulitanus Festival in Gozo, Malta; the Società dei Concerti G. Barattelli in L’Aquila; Rive Gauche in Turin; Rebus – Occhio al nuovo in Milan; and the International Saxophone Stage in Fermo.

An active arranger and orchestrator, he has re-orchestrated and adapted well-known operas for AsLiCo and the Teatro Sociale di Como to meet the requirements of the theatre and other regional venues. These projects include Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel in 2009, with a reduction of the original score and a metrical revision of the libretto; Mozart’s Don Giovanni, in a reduced version; Verdi’s Nabucco, co-produced in 2010 by the Teatro Sociale di Como and Teatro Regio di Torino; and Verdi’s Aida.

In 2013, Casa Musicale Sonzogno commissioned him to revise and re-orchestrate Francesco d’Avalos’s musical drama Maria di Venosa for the 40th anniversary of the Festival della Valle d’Itria in Martina Franca. In 2018, Da Vinci Classics released his album Symphonic Works, performed by I Pomeriggi Musicali.