Ensemble Salomone Rossi
The Ensemble Salomone Rossi was founded in 1991 thanks to the initiative and under the leadership of Lydia Cevidalli. The Ensemble has performed several concerts in Italy and abroad: the most important performances in recent years have been at the Concertgebouw in Bruges and at the Castle of Chimay, by invitation of the European Community for the Europalia Festival organized in 2003 for the semester of Italian European chairmanship, with the participation of Gloria Banditelli.
In 2004 among other concerts, they have performed at the Teatro all’Antica of Sabbioneta for the Tenth edition of the Festival Lodoviciano and at the Town Musueum of Bologna for the opening of an exhibition of Emanuele Luzzatti’s works. In 2005 they performed at the Università Statale di Milano and for the Montichiari Festival. In 2006 they took part in a concert season organized at the Real Accademia de Bellas Artes of Madrid, a concert broadcast live for the Radio Clàsica programme of the Spanish National Radio, with the participation of Gloria Banditelli.
In November 2006 they performed at the Teatro Bibiena of Mantua, on invitation by the Festival Lodoviciano for the fist Italian performance in modern times of the oratorio “Esther” by Giuseppe C. Lidarti, within the scope of the Mozart celebrations.
In april 2008, the Ensemble has been invited to perform a concert at Mountclair State University (N. J. USA) within the Italian Festival of the Arts and Humanities.
The Ensemble offer a variety of repertoires: besides Italian music of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, repertoires consisting in cantatas and oratorios by Handel, Bach and Vivaldi and other theme-oriented programmes, they have specialized in the research and performance of music works of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries originating from Jewish communities all over Europe. For this research they have availed themselves of the constant cooperation of Israel Adler of the Jewish Music Research Centre of Jerusalem, of Maria Modena of the Università degli Studi of Milan and of Francesco Spagnolo Acht of Yuval Italia.
The Ensembles is open to the cooperation of musicians required for every type of programme. They often cooperate with Gloria Banditelli.
Each of these musicians, beside the normal courses of study, has carried out specialized studies on the ancient practice of performance with such schools as Basel or Geneva and has for a long time been engaged in solo, chamber music and orchestra concert activities, in recordings with record companies like Harmonia Mundi or Astrea, specializing in presenting baroque music; in tours with conductors like J. Savall, A. Curtis, G. Garrido e T.Koopman; in teaching in conservatoires or other kinds of schools and academies.