Mario Genesi
Piano accompanist, organist, composer and arranger, born in
London (Great Britain), transferred to Italy, where he graduated at the DAMS
Musicology State University, Bologna, with maximum marks.
He also studied piano and organ in Italian Conservatories:
composition with Alessandro Ruo-Rui, Tiziano Pisati, G. Possio, Frà Callisto Giacomini,
Boris Porena, Franco Monego and piano mainly with excellent Mantuan teacherFrancesco
Maria Martini , also followed masterclasses by Loic Maille, in organ composition and execution, with
Umberto Finazzi with whom he also specialized as piano accompanist at the
residential institute Accademia di Torre Molina. Pianist collaborator in the
Arte Scenica Class of the Conservatorio “Giuseppe Nicolini” in Piacenza (when
directed by Maestro Fabrizio Garilli), together with sopranos Lucetta Bizzi and
Eugenia Ratti. He has also been pianist in the Istituto Musicale “Giovanni
Pierluigi Da Palestrina” of Castelsangiovanni (Pc) in the Canto Class directed
by soprano Maria- Laura Groppi. He is co-founder of the Concorso di Canto
“Città di Lodi” produced by Accademia Musicale Gerundia (directed by Maestro
Pietro Farina), a “Concorso” which promoted many young opera singers from all
five continents during its puriennial sessions. In this Concorso, Maestro
Genesi was the titolar piano accompanist. Invited to held a brief fortnight’s
Masterclass on voice interpretation and correlated piano accompanying in the Ongaku
Crearu Music School, Okinawa (Japan) in 2000, he also created by request on the
spot an arrangement for quintet of the Incidental Music for the 1929 drama ba
Youkou Majikina “Handugwa’s Island” [Izima Handugwà]. Concerts held in Italy,
Portugal,France, Japan. Collaborations with famous singers such as dame Fedora
Barbieri in her “Paris Adieu” concert in Early Nineties filmed by a local
French network. Concerts with sopranos Emanuela Moreschi, Chiara Passudetti,
with bassos Massimiliano Ceccalotti, Victor Garcia Sierra, Riccardo Zanellato,
with tenors Paolo Petroni, William Matteuzzi, Umberto Borsò (in Paris), etc.
Editions
Many volumes of his original organ music edited by the
Carrara firm, Bergamo (directed by Cavalier V. Carrara), and editions of organ
music by Fumagalli, Verdi, Banchieri, Gervasoni, G. P. Colonna , E. Pizzoni, W.
A. Mozart.
Recordings
Together with soprano Eleonora Alberici a Baroque Vocal
Music compilation; as a solo organist a Carlo Gervasoni from Borgotaro organ
compilation.
Compositions
-Hymn to Life based on Madre Teresa from Calcutta’s Poem,
for chorus, harp, piano and flute (Dedicated to harpist Domenica
Ciffariello-Sgorbati)
-Tre Liriche su versi di Giuseppe Ungaretti Opus 64 (based
on lyrics drawn from IL PORTO SEPOLTO) for barytone and orchestra (or de
chambre instrumental group/Dedicated to French barytone Adrian Page)
-Ave Euphemia Felix, a liturgical ceremonial motect for
alto, organ, and guitar/harp orchestra (expressly composed for the Saint
Euphemia Church, Piacenza)
Memberships
-Deputazione di Storia Patria per le Province Parmensi-PARMA
(Socio Onorario)
-Collaborator of Società Storica Lodigiana, LODI
-AMIS Antiquae Musicae Italicae Studiosi, BOLOGNA
-Relator in many ANIMUSIC yearly Congresses held in Portugal
-Correspondent for 30 years with Amici dell’ Arte, PIACENZA
(under direction of Prof. Ferdinando Arisi)
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