Gilda Buttà - Biography

Studying with Carlo Vidusso, she graduated from the Conservatory
"G.Verdi" of Milan at the age of 16 years with the maximum votes and praise. She began her career at a very young age, as she won the first national piano competition at the age of eight years old. In 1976 she wan the Prize “F. Liszt". Since then she has carried out numerous tourneys in many countries of the world (France, England, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Greece, Russia, Israel, USA, and Japan) playing as soloist and also in chamber formations. Later on, She became an asserted interpreter of music for the cinema, recording until now more than two hundred original sound tracks, collaborating, among others, with composers like Ennio Morricone, Nicola Piovani, Luis Bacalov, Gianni Ferrio, Franco Piersanti , Paolo Buonvino. She is the one we listen to in the film La voce della luna of Federico Fellini, Speriamo che sia femmina of Mario Monicelli, La leggenda del Pianista sull’Oceano of Giuseppe Tornatore, Canone inverso of Ricky Tognazzi, La messa è finita, Palombella rossa, Caro Diario of Nanni Moretti, L’ultimo bacio, Ricordati di me of Gabriele Muccino, Ripley’s game of Liliana Cavani, La parola amore esiste of Mimmo Calopresti, Dick Tracy, Bugsy, Love affair of Warren Beatty, Légami of Pedro Almodovar, Vittime di guerra, Gli intoccabili of Brian De Palma, and tv fiction like La Piovra, Cuore, Il commissario Montalbano.
Gilda Buttà is a piano player with an immense repertory and a eclectic personality, from many years now she collaborates frequently with Ennio Morricone, besides recording the original sound tracks, she also follows the production of cultured music, for piano and for chamber.
With Morricone she has taken part to the three concerts - event held at the Arena of Verona: the first one in 2003 (published in CD and DVD by Meg), the second “In memory of all the 11 massacres” September 2004 (double CD Meg), the third in the 2006 with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Theatre “La Scala”; in February 2007 she participated in New York to two concerts at the United Nations and Radio City Music Hall; she has played moreover in several CDs, such as in “Yo-Yo Ma plays Morricone” published by Morricone, Sony Classical. In 2003 she has taken part in the concert for the 75 years of Morricone at the Royal Albert Hall of London; in September of the same year, at the Music Auditorium Park of Rome, she played as soloist in The Piano Concert of Michael Nyman with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra directed by Author.
In July 2005, as a duet with the violoncellist Luca Pincini she was invited to hold a concert playing Morricone’s music at the Gene Audrey Museum of Los Angeles in occasion of the inauguration of a part of the museum dedicated to the director movie Sergio Leone.
She has recorded for BMG, CAM and SONY, MEG ITALY, WARNER, VIRGIN, VICTOR, RCA.
After teaching at the Conservatories in Florence and Pescara, currently she is titular of the chair of main Pianoforte at the Conservatory “Licinio Refice” of Frosinone.

Luca Pincini - Biography

Studying at the Conservatory of Pesaro, Milan and Perugia with Maurizio Gambini and Rocco Filippini, he graduated with the maximum votes and the praise. Successively he studied with Siegfried Palm. He won the Diploma of Improvement at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia of Rome with Franco Maggio Ormezowsky and the also at the Chigiana Academy of Siena City with Misha Maisky. In 1981 he wan the 1° Prize at the Competition “L. Perosi” in Biella City and also at the Festival “Città di Vittorio Veneto”. In 1986 he becomes the Main Violoncello of the Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra. In 1994 he covers the same role in the RAI Symphonic of Turin, maintaining the title until the year 2000 playing in the National Symphonic of RAI and later on, in stable until 2002, in the Theatre “La Fecine” of Venice.
In the mean while, always with the same qualification, he collaborates with the Symphony “Arturo Toscanini”, Theatre “Regio” of Turin, Theatre “Carlo Felice” of Genoa, Instrumental Group “Musica d’ Oggi” and “Roma Sinfonietta”, Chamber orchestra of “Santa Cecilia”, Symphonic Orchesta of Rome and of Lazio, “Opera” Theatre of Rome. For along time he played as member of the “Ars Trio of Rome”, winner of the prestigious Trio Prize of Trieste in the year 2000, host of the greater Italian and foreign concert associations, in Europe and other Continents. With the pianist Gilda Buttà, his wife, he plays frequently in Duet, playing, besides of an immense classic repertory, also many works purposely composed for them by contemporary musicians. He plays actively as soloist to important Institutions, with a repertory that goes from the tradition ones to the ones of newest and original composers. He has carried out tourneys in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France, Spain, Finland, Czech Republic, Denmark, Russia, Egypt, Latin America, U.S.A., and Japan.
He plays original sound tracks for the Cinema, Television, Theatre with Ennio Morricone (collaborating actively and closely, to the production of cultured music), L. Bacalov, A. Trovaioli, F. Piersanti, P. Buonvino and others. He has recorded for Bongiovanni, Image Music, Orpheus, Cam, Virgin, Decca Universal, Meg Italy. Currently he teaches violoncello at the Trapani Conservatory, also for the advanced Biennium. He plays an instrument specially built for him in 2005 by Eriberto Attili, inspired to Domenico Montagnana .