Giuliano Carmignola is an Italian violinist,
conductor, and teacher born (in Treviso, Italy) on July 7, 1951. He is known for his career as an eminent
exponent of Baroque music. However, his
repertoire encompasses works from the early Baroque to late modern. His repertoire includes the Schumann violin
concerto, a piece which has an interesting history. Nonetheless, his discography is focused on
the Baroque. He first studied with his
father. His later teachers included
Luigi Ferro, Nathan Milstein, Franco Gulli, and Henryk Szeryng. Among the music schools he attended are the Venice
Conservatory, the Accademia Chigiana (Siena, Italy – school of Salvatore
Accardo, John Williams, and Daniel Barenboim also) and the Geneva
Conservatory. From early in his career,
Carmignola has collaborated with many conductors, including Claudio Abbado, Roberto
Abbado, Trevor Pinnock, and Christopher Hogwood.
He has regularly played and recorded with various chamber orchestras –
the Virtuosi Di Roma (1970-1978), Mozart Orchestra, Il Giardino Armonico, Basel
Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music, and Venice Baroque Orchestra are
among them. A similar path has been taken by Vladimir Spivakov and Fabio Biondi. Carmignola's best known recordings
are probably his complete Mozart concertos, complete Haydn concertos, a number of Pietro
Locatelli concertos, the Four Seasons (Vivaldi), and several two-violin
concertos by Vivaldi with Viktoria Mullova.
YouTube has many videos of his playing, including one of the Brahms
Double concerto. You can hear one such
video (of the Summer portion from the Four Seasons) here – it is played at the
fastest tempo I have ever heard. He
spends almost all of his time in Europe and did not make his U.S. debut until
2001 at the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York.
Since 2003, he has been an exclusive artist for the Deutsche Gramophone
label. Carmignola has taught at the
Advanced Music School in Lucerne (Switzerland) and at his old school, the Accademia Chigiana. His violins include the Baillot Stradivarius
of 1732 and a 1739 violin by Johannes Florenus Guidantus.
Andrew Manze is an English baroque violinist and conductor born on January 14, 1965 (Perlman was 19 years old.) He studied with Simon Standage, one of the founding members of the English Concert, at the Royal Academy (London), as well as with Lucy van Dael and Marie Leonhardt. In 1988, (at age 23) he became concertmaster of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. He was also a member of the ensemble Romanesca with John Toll (harpsichord) and Nigel North (lute.) From 2003, he was director of the English Concert, after harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock retired but gave the position up in September, 2007 (to organist Harry Bicket.) In 2006, Manze became chief conductor of the Helsingford Symphony Orchestra (Sweden.) He has made several recordings for Harmonia Mundi records but you can also catch him on YouTube.
Andrew Manze is an English baroque violinist and conductor born on January 14, 1965 (Perlman was 19 years old.) He studied with Simon Standage, one of the founding members of the English Concert, at the Royal Academy (London), as well as with Lucy van Dael and Marie Leonhardt. In 1988, (at age 23) he became concertmaster of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. He was also a member of the ensemble Romanesca with John Toll (harpsichord) and Nigel North (lute.) From 2003, he was director of the English Concert, after harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock retired but gave the position up in September, 2007 (to organist Harry Bicket.) In 2006, Manze became chief conductor of the Helsingford Symphony Orchestra (Sweden.) He has made several recordings for Harmonia Mundi records but you can also catch him on YouTube.