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ANTHONY BARRESE
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Barrese
wins Georg Solti award
12:00 AM CST on Friday, December 14, 2007
Anthony Barrese has earned accolades as both a composer and a conductor, winning numerous awards for his original works, and being engaged by a number of
Opera Companies in the United States and Italy.
WEB SITE
: www.anthonybarrese.com
He began studying composition with Robert Ceely of the New England Conservatory of Music, and received his bachelor’s degree under the tutelage of Dr. Timothy Kramer at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. In 1996 he studied in Milan, Italy with Maestro Roberto Andreoni. That summer he attended the prestigious Darmstadt summer courses in composition in Darmstadt Germany. After completing his Master’s degree in composition from the New England Conservatory, Mr. Barrese returned to Milan as a Frank Huntington Beebe Award winner. During this sojourn Mr. Barrese studied composition with Maestri Roberto Andreoni, Luca Francesconi, and Paolo Perezzani.
Mr. Barrese also participated in the 2nd annual conducting course held by Maestro Sandro Gorli and the Divertimento Ensemble where he studied and rehearsed chamber and orchestral masterworks of the 20th century.
He made his operatic conducting debut in Milan with La bohème and conducted successful performances of Cavelleria rusticana, and Il barbiere di Siviglia. In the summer of 2000 he rehearsed and recorded Roberto Andreoni’s quattro luci sul lago with ” I solisti della
Scala ” (a chamber group made up of the first chair musicians of the La Scala Philharmonic
Orchestra) for broadcast on Italian National Radio (RAI 3). Also while in Italy he served as music director for the Associazione Italiana Scuola di Musica, an Italian Youth Orchestra, and took that ensemble on a tour of Northern Italy and Norway.
Mr. Barrese is the recipient of numerous composition awards including a N.E.C. Contemporary Ensemble Composition Competition Award for his Madrigale a 3 voci femminili. He is the recipient of two B.M.I. Student Composers. In April of 2002 the American Composer’s Orchestra chose his orchestra work, Project Mayhem, to be read as part of the 2002 Whitaker New Music Readings. In 2004 he was commissioned by the Walt Whitman Foundation to write a piece for organ and soprano, inspired by Whitman's “Proud Music of the Storm”. As a musicologist, Mr. Barrese has recently finished preparing and editing the critical edition of Franco Faccio’s little known opera
Amleto, in conjunction with Casa Ricordi, to which he holds exclusive performance rights.
Some of his recent engagements have been with Boston Lyric Opera , New Hampshire's Opera North (music director and conductor for
L'incoronazione di Poppea,
Alcina), and Sarasota Opera where he served as Associate Conductor from 2003-2004. In March 2005 Mr. Barrese returned to Sarasota Opera as guest conductor for a new production of
Lakmé , and was invited back to conduct Le nozze di Figaro in 2006. Mr. Barrese has also conducted
Carmen with the Commonwealth Opera in Northampton MA, and he was assistant conductor at the Spoleto
Summer Festival in South Carolina for a production of Respighi's
La bella dormente nel bosco.
In the fall of 2005 he also served as Assistant Conductor for New York City Opera's production of
Tosca.
Most recently, Mr. Barrese has been appointed the Assistant Conductor of the Dallas Opera for their 2006-2007 season where, in addition to serving as cover conductor for all of the operas, he will conduct three performances of
Il barbiere di Siviglia, and other
Concerts with the Dallas Opera Orchestra.
Recently ( March 2008 ) M.° Anthony Barrese conducted 4
Performances of TOSCA by G.
Puccini at the DALLAS OPERA with
a prestigious International Cast : Scarpia was played by German Barytone
Wolfgang Brendel , the Italian Tenor
Massimo Giordano sang Mario Cavaradossi and
Catherine Naglestadt performed the Title
Role of Floria Tosca !
Upcoming
Engagements
Prossimi Ingaggi
:
- March 2008
: Tosca -
Dallas Opera
- April 2008 : Dueling Divas Concert -
Fargo-Moorhead Opera
- October 2008 : Die Fledermaus - Southwest Opera
- November 2008 : Turandot - Italy
- Janury 2009 : Turandot - Parigi
- February 2009 : Tosca - Italy
- March 2009 : L'elisir d'amore - Sarasota Opera
- May 2009 :
Don Giovanni - Boston Opera
The Dallas Morning News
Barrese
wins Georg Solti award
12:00 AM CST on Friday, December 14, 2007
Scott Cantrell
Anthony Barrese, assistant conductor of the Dallas Opera, has been named the
2007 Fellow of the Solti Foundation U.S. The annual award,
recognizing "talented young American musicians at the start of their
professional careers," includes a $25,000 professional-development grant over a
two-year period.
The award honors the memory of the late conductor Sir Georg Solti, music
director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra from 1969 to 1991.
A graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Mr. Barrese, 32, received a
master's degree in composition from the New England Conservatory of Music in
Boston. He did further study in composition in Darmstadt, Germany, and Milan,
Italy.
He has conducted productions for Sarasota Opera in Florida and worked as an
assistant conductor with New York City Opera and Boston Lyric Opera.
Mr. Barrese conducted three performances of the Dallas Opera's December 2006
Barber of Seville and returns to conduct all four main-stage performances of
Tosca in March 2008.
"His ability to work with the orchestra and singers and get along with everyone,
while still maintaining his own very distinctive artistic vision, led us to
entrust him with a production of his own," said Jonathan Pell, the Dallas
Opera's director of artistic administration. "He really is an extraordinarily
gifted musician, and he attacks every task, no matter how seemingly trivial,
with the same enthusiasm of conducting Tosca."
Scott Cantrell
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