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The Italian mezzo-soprano, Maria Chiara Gallo, graduated in Singing at the Istituto Musicale Pareggiato Peri of Reggio Emilia. She studied vocal chamber music with Elio Battaglia, and Baroque repertoire with Sara Mingardo and Monica Piccinini. She attended as a soloist the European Baroque Academy of Ambronay, under the direction of Sigiswald Kuijken; In 2015 she got a four month-scholarship from the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale of Spoleto (Italy). She also attended in Barcelona the 5th and 6th Academia de Musica Antigua of Fundacio CIMA, directed by Jordi Savall, and the Opera Studio of the Theatres of Lucca, Livorno, Pisa and Liège, directed by Filippo Maria Bressan. She is now coached by Alessio Tosi in Italy. In December 2016 she won the “Beca Bach 2017” competition from the Association Bach Zum Mitsingen (BZM), she performed as a soloist several cycles of Cantatas by J.S. Bach in Barcelona (opening also the BACHcelona: Festival Bach de Barcelona 2017) and attended master-classes with Benjamin Bruns and Ton Koopman.
Maria Chiara Gallo is also been member of Italian Youth Choir. She is finalist of several competitions, including recently the VII International Singing Competition “Prince Francesco Maria Ruspoli”. She regularly sings with La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Director: Jordi Savall) and Ghislieri Choir & Consort (Director: Giulio Prandi), and has collaborated many times with Ensemble Zefiro (Director: Alfredo Bernardini), Cantar Lontano, La Fonte Musica, Talenti Vulcanici, Coro della Radio Svizzera (Director: Diego Fasolis), with M. Pasotti, Alfredo Bernardini, M. Mencoboni, S. Demicheli, Diego Fasolis, in festivals all over Europe. She regularly collaborates with Icarus Ensemble for contemporary music.
Maria Chiara Gallo is co-founder of Ensemble AbChordis, which won the project “Résidences Jeunes Ensembles” at the Centre Culturel de Rencontre Ambronay, and with whom she has performed in many festivals; the same group has recently won the EEEmerging project, sponsored by the CCR of Ambronay. In January 2016 Sony Deutsche Armonia Mundi released the first CD of the group, “Stabat Mater”.
Her recent engagements include: Jommelli’s Requiem (Malta Baroque Festival), Tisbe in Rossini’s Cenerentola (Verdi Theater, Florence), concerts with the Coro della Radio Svizzera and Martha Argerich (Lugano), solo concerts with Jordi Savall in Amsterdam and Reims, Solo concerts with AbChordis in Haudères, Malta and Poznan, her debut with Accademia Ottoboni in Tage Alter Musik Herne, Ottavia in Monteverdi’s Incoronazione di Poppea (Bologna), concerts with La Fonte Musica in Wrocklaw, a solo recital for the Festival Grandezze e Meraviglie (Modena), concerts with Jordi Savall and La Capella Reial de Catalunya in Barcelona, Leipzig, Paris. During 2017-2018 season she sang the role of Aeglée in the opera Alcyone by Marin Marais, under the baton of Jordi Savall, at the Opéra Comique (Paris), Versailles, Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona) and Theatre de Caen.
Maria Chiara Gallo got a degree in “Foreign Languages and Literatures” and a Master in “Languages for the Promotion of Cultural Activities” at the Universities of Bologna and Modena. |
