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Claudio Constantini is a pianist, bandoneonist, and composer whose music blurs the lines between classical tradition and contemporary innovation. With a career spanning prestigious concert halls, orchestral collaborations, and viral success in the digital era, he is redefining instrumental music for modern audiences.

Trained in classical music, Constantini has performed on some of the world’s most revered stages, including Wigmore Hall (London), Teatro Real (Madrid), Ravinia Festival (Chicago), and Konzerthaus (Vienna). His career as a concert soloist has led him to collaborate with leading orchestras such as the Bilbao Symphony Orchestra, ADDA Orchestra, Real Filharmonia de Galicia, Orquesta de Extremadura, and the Vienna State Orchestra, among others. A virtuoso on both piano and bandoneon, he effortlessly shifts between the grand tradition of classics like Bach or Beethoven, the passion of Astor Piazzolla and tango, or the elegance of film music and jazz, creating performances that are as exhilarating as they are refined.

In 2019, he received a Latin Grammy nomination for his solo album America, marking a milestone in his career as both a performer and composer. In 2021, he premiered his own Concerto for Bandoneon and Orchestra, first with the Orquesta Joven de Andalucía, later with the Málaga Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2023, with the Tacoma Symphony in the U.S. The piece stands as a testament to his ability to bridge classical artistry with contemporary sensibility.

While his foundation is in the classical world, Constantini is quickly emerging as a leading figure in the contemporary classical and neoclassical instrumental scene. His compositions and performances have gained widespread traction on digital platforms, resulting in a 400% increase in Spotify streaming in 2024 and a rapidly expanding global audience. Several of his original pieces have gone viral on social media, with multiple audios trending on Instagram and TikTok, and his music accumulating millions of streams. With nearly one million followers across platforms, he is one of the most influential instrumental artists today, connecting deeply with listeners who seek music that is both timeless and cinematic.

With upcoming releases and a new era of live performances focused on his original instrumental world, Claudio Constantini continues to push the boundaries of what it means to be a modern musician—one who honors tradition while fearlessly embracing the future.

Fabrizio Meloni has held the prestigious position of first solo clarinet chair of the Orchestra and the Filarmonica of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan since 1984. He graduated summa cum laude from the Conservatorio di Musica Giuseppe Verdi, with a special mention for his artistic achievement. Meloni has won dozens of national and international prizes, including the ARD (Munich) and Prague Spring international music competitions in 1987.

In 2009 he released several recordings, including the DVD Duets (Warner), and clarinet concertos by Françaix, Nielsen and Copland (Amadeus), as well as Ol ari Nyiro Diary, which took inspiration from novels by Kuki Gallmann. During the summer of 2015, Meloni toured Japan with Takahiro Yoshikawa, where they performed at Tokyo’s prestigious Suntory Hall, with NHK subsequently producing a documentary for its ‘Classic Club’ series, and in the same year the duo released the album Vief et Rythmique, featuring French clarinet and piano repertoire, on Deutsche Grammophon.

Meloni is the author of The Clarinet, (Zecchini Editore), which features a preface by Riccardo Muti. SKY Classica dedicated a documentary, Notevoli, to his artistic life.

The Swiss-Austrian cellist Alessandra Doninelli earned international recognition with her debut at the Berlin Philharmonie giving the premiere of Daniel Pacitti cello concerto. Her radiant personality and expressive musicianship, brought Alessandra on the stages of the world’s leading venues, including the Tokyo Opera City, the Tonhalle in Zurich, the Minato-Mirai hall in Yokohama, the Swiss federal Palace, the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona and the Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid.

Alessandra recently appeared as a soloist with the "Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana", the “ Basel Sinfonieorchester”, the "Stuttgarter Kammerorchester", the “Camerata dei Castelli” and the “Eurasian Soloists Chamber Orchestra” under the baton of Andrey Boreyko, Kevin Griffiths, Andreas Laake and François Benda.

“Music is capable of moving the mountains and when we share those fleeting episodes of sound with others, the entire planet finds itself in another galaxy” through those words Alessandra expresses the power that chamber music has for her. She worked with inspiring mentors including Günter Pichler (Alban Berg quartet), Eberhard Feltz, Oliver Wille (Kuss Quartet, Rainer Schmidt (Hagen Quaret), Heime Müller (Artemis Quaret), Heinz Holliger and won the prize for the “most outstanding chamber music group with piano” of 2020-2021 academic year at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia awarded by the queen of Spain. Alessandra is member of the Trio Michelangeli, prize winner at the 2023 Osaka International Chamber Music Competition in Japan. 

Alessandra performed at various festivals including "Herbst in der Helferei", “Pablo Casals Festival”, “Monighetti&Friends, “Musik Miteinander” at the Kronberg Academy, “Musique à Flaine”, “Eggenfelden Klassisch”, “Ceresio Estate” and collaborated with inspiring chamber music partners such as Vilde Frang, Yura Lee, Fabio di Casola, Mi-kyung Lee, Roland Glassl and Calogero Palermo. 

Alessandra is regularly invited as a guest principal cello with the Camerata Salzburg. 

The BBC Radio3 broadcasted multiple times the live-recording of her Saint-Saens cello concerto with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. She created a long lasting relationship with the Swiss-Italian Radio-television (RSI) giving a live-concert recital with the pianist Dominic Chamot, appearing in the tv program “Paganini” and in the documentary film “Archi nel Sol Levante”. For the RSI Alessandra also recorded the piano trio of the Dutch composer Elisabeth Kuyper, showing her passion for the discovery of neglected composers and her aim to bring their music to light.

Alessandra studied under the guidance of Ivan Monighetti and Sol Gabetta at the Hochschule für Musik Basel and later at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid. Furthermore she was part of the 2019 class at the Pavia cello academy with Enrico Dindo and is currently studying with Wen Sinn Yang at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Munich.

Alessandra plays a 1840 cello by Bernard Simon Fendt II.

Davide Alogna is an eclectic musician with an international education. He graduated both in violin and in piano with honours at Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’ in Como, and he obtained his master’s diploma in soloist violin and chamber music at the Conservatoire de Paris with a ‘Premier Prix a l’unanimité’. He also studied composition and graduated with a special mention at Accademia Chigiana of Siena with Giuliano Carmignola, who described him as ‘an amazing talent’. 

In 2017, Davide was invited as guest soloist by La Scala Orchestra to play concerts around Europe, and on 29 October he debuted at the Teatro alla Scala of Milan accompanied by La Scala Chamber Orchestra. 

Davide has already performed in many important music halls such as Carnegie Hall (Stern Hall), Teatro alla Scala, Berliner Philarmonie, Suntory Hall of Tokyo, Smetana Hall of Prague, Grand Theatre of Shanghai, Salle Cortot of Paris, Gasteig and Herkulessaal in Germany, Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, Mahidol Hall of Bangkok, Cairo Opera House and the Verdi Auditorium of Milan. 

He has been accompanied by some of the world’s leading orchestras, including La Scala Chamber Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic, Orchestra da Camera di Mantova, Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana, Orchestra della Toscana, Sanremo Symphony, Thailand Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre , Munich Kammerphilharmonie, Northern Czech Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of New York, New England Symphony, Mexico State Symphony Orchestra, Bellas Arte Chamber Orchestra, Cairo Symphony orchestra, Monterey Symphony, Adana State Symphony Orchestra. 

He performed alongside great soloists and conductors including Natalia Gutman, Eliso Virsaladze, Bruno Canino, Jeffrey Swann, Roberto Prosseda, Roberto Plano, Lior Shambadal, Dariusz Mikulski, Hakan Şensoy, Giulio Tampalini and Francesco Lanzillotta. Davide has recorded for different music labels including Warner Classics, Naxos, Brilliant Classics, Amadeus, Phoenix Classics. ‘Amadeus Magazine’ and ‘Suonare News’ chose Davide several times as ‘Artist of the Month’, publishing his recordings. 

Davide Alogna is one of the most active musicians for the study, rediscovery and diffusion of the Italian twentieth century repertoire. In 2018, he recorded for Naxos a disc with three ‘world premiere’ of Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco’s violin works, such as the 3rd Concerto for violin and piano dedicated to Jascha Heifetz, which received 5-stars from many international musical magazines, namely ‘Musica’ and ‘BBC Magazine’. In 2021, Naxos will release his recording of Ottorino Respighi’s violin concerto P75 in A min accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of New York, and Ricordi will publish his personal version of the violin solo part. 

He is the creator of ‘Progetto Rode’ (supported by the CIDIM – Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica and ‘Suonare News’) in which he brought together – during the recent Covid19 pandemic – 24 Italian famous violinists performing in video the renowned 24 Rode’s Caprices, as a training support for violin students from all over the world. 

Davide Alogna is Professor of Violin at the Conservatorio ‘F. Cilea’ in Reggio Calabria (Italy). He performs on an 1806 Joseph Dall’Aglio, and on a 1930 Anselmo Gotti.

The Jihočeská filharmonie was founded in 1981 in České Budějovice under its original name, the South Bohemian State Orchestra. Today, the orchestra comprises 39 members.

The ensemble was established under the leadership of conductor Jaroslav Vodňanský. He was subsequently succeeded as Chief Conductor by Ondřej Kukal, Jaroslav Krček, and Stanislav Vavřínek. From 2008 to 2020, the position was held by Jan Talich, followed by Miran Vaupotić from 2021 to 2023. Beginning with the 2024/2025 season, Alena Hron assumes the role of Chief Conductor.

In addition to its core repertoire of classical masterworks and compositions suited to chamber orchestra and intimate concert hall settings, the orchestra increasingly embraces contemporary trends, including cross-genre collaborations and innovative approaches to interpretation and presentation. It is committed to the systematic pursuit of ever-higher artistic standards.

The majority of the orchestra’s musicians are young, ambitious, highly skilled, and promising performers who warmly welcome opportunities to collaborate with distinguished conductors and soloists.

The ambition of the Jihočeská filharmonie is to maintain the valued support of its existing subscribers while also engaging younger audiences and the broader public—reaching even those in South Bohemia for whom so-called classical music has thus far remained outside their sphere of interest. The orchestra possesses both the capacity and the determination to achieve this goal.

Named one of Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of the Year for 2025, Croatian conductor Miran Vaupotić has been acclaimed as “dynamic and knowledgeable” by the Buenos Aires Herald. He has worked with eminent orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Berliner Symphoniker, the Russian National Orchestra, the St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Orchestre de Chambre de Genève, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Argentina and others, performing in major halls around the globe, such as Carnegie Hall, Wiener Musikverein, Berliner Philharmonie, Rudolfinum, Smetana Hall, Victoria Hall, Forbidden City Concert Hall, Shanghai Oriental Art Center, Dubai Opera, Tchaikovsky Hall, International House of Music, CBC Glenn Gould Studio etc. In addition, Vaupotić has led four of China’s annual National New Year Tours, with the St. Petersburg State Hermitage Orchestra, the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, the Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Izmir State Symphony Orchestra respectively, performing at China’s most eminent venues.

Miran Vaupotić has collaborated with notable artists such as Inva Mula, Ray Chen, Sergei Krylov, Yury Revich, Davide Alogna, Julian Steckel, Kirill Rodin, Andrey Gugnin, Anna Aglatova, Mario Hossen, Mariano Rey, Richard Galliano and many others.

A strong advocate for new music, Vaupotić has premiered many pieces including Carlos Franzetti’s Clarinet Concerto, Roberto Di Marino's Guitar Concerto, Primous Fountain’s Symphony No. 2 commissioned by 28-time Grammy Award-winning American producer Quincy Jones, and The Wild Symphony composed by #1 New York Times bestselling author Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code).

He also premiered several operas including Waundell Saavedra’s Sweet Dreams, John Rose’s Rumpelstiltskin directed by Tyler Bunch (The Muppets) at The National Opera America Center in New York City, and Jelka by the late Croatian composer Blagoje Bersa, bringing the forgotten work to life a century after the composer’s passing.

As a recording artist Vaupotić released albums with Naxos, Classic Concert Records, Movimento Classical and Navona Records. In 2015, he received a Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards in California.

Miran Vaupotić won First Prize and special award at the 12th International Aram Khachaturian Conducting Competition in Yerevan, Armenia. He has served as Chief Conductor of the Croatian Chamber Orchestra, Chief Conductor of the South Czech Philharmonic, and is currently the Artistic Director of the Zagreb Symphony Orchestra.