Beethoboen Trio (IT)

Nicolò Dotti: oboe
Michele Antonello: oboe
Paolo Faldi: English horn

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BeethOBOEn Trio was founded in 2015 in Venice, in occasion of the inauguration of Galuppi Festival 2018 in Venice. The Trio plays on period instruments music of the late XVIII and beginning of XIX century. Original scores for two oboes and English horn, by famous composer or new discoveries in the European libraries. For the anniversary of the 250 by Beethoven trio presented in many European festivals the two masterpieces of the great composer, the Trio op.87 and the Variationi upon “La’ ci darem la mano” by Mozart WoO28, originally written for this ensemble.

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Nicolò Dotti, born in Camposampiero in 1994, completed his musical studies at the Conservatorio di Musica Cesare Pollini of Padua with Paolo Brunello and Marco Gironi. Classified second in the Claudio Abbado National Prize of Arts in 2015, in 2017 he obtained the first level academic diploma in oboe with full marks and honours and at the same time the three-year degree in biomedical engineering at the University of Padua. In April 2019 he also obtained the second level academic diploma in oboe with full marks and honours at the conservatory of Padua. He studied with internationally renowned oboists such as Maurice Bourgue, Francois Leleux, Stefan Schilli, Ramon Ortega Quero, Ivan Podyomov, Domenico Orlando, Alexei Ogrintchouk, Luca Vignali, Carlo Romano, Karel Schoofs, Alfredo Bernardini, Paolo Grazzi and Benoit Laurent. Plays baroque and classical oboes with most of the famous historical ensembles in Europe.

Michele Antonello graduated from the Conservatorio di Castelfranco Veneto in Oboe in 1989 with Paolo Brunello and in didactics of the music in 1996, with full marks. He perfected himself with the teachers Ingo Goritzki, Diego Dini Ciacci, Hans Elhorst and others. He studied the baroque oboe with Paolo Grazzi, Marco Cera and Alfredo Bernardini, graduating in 2006 at the Conservatorio di Musica di Vicenza “Arrigo Pedrollo”. He completed musicology studies at the University of Bologna. Since 2006 he has been the first oboe of the Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza. He also plays with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Da Ponte Orchestra, Cordia, The musicians of the joyful Marca, Irish Baroque Orchestra, Zefiro, Accademia di musica antica di Bologna, Budapest Festival Orchestra, et al. He has been invited as a soloist, in concert seasons in Italy and abroad (Austria, France, Sweden, Brazil, Paraguay) presenting repertoire pieces, first performances of pieces to him dedicated (Urbs beata Jerusalem for oboe and organ and In Greek way for oboe and harp by Alfred Mitterhofer, Et in Arcadia ego by Pierdamiano Peretti, Concerto for oboe and strings by Kurt Cacioppo) or music revived for the first time in modern times (Bellini 's Souvenir of G. Paggi). He teaches ensemble music for wind instruments at the conservatory of Cosenza.

Paolo Faldi graduated in oboe, baroque oboe and recorder. He specialized in baroque oboe at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (Holland). In 1988 he won the position of 1st oboe and recorder in the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO) conducted by Ton Koopman and Roy Goodman, performing tours throughout Europe and radio recordings in all EEC countries. He is a founding member of the groups L'Astrèe, Tripla Concordia, and Cantilena Antiqua. He is also founder and director of the Orchestra Barocca di Bologna. From 1989 to 2013 he played with Hesperion XX, La Cappella Reial and Le Concert de Nations, conducted by Jordi Savall, performing concerts all over the world. He has recorded for Astrée-Auvidis, Nuova Era, Symphonia, Stradivarius, Bongiovanni, Tactus, and Opus 111, with which he recorded the integral of Vivaldi's chamber concerts with the Turin ensemble Astreè. He teaches recorder at the Conservatorio di Musica Cesare Pollini of Padua where he founded the Camerata Accademica, an ensemble that deals with 17th and 18th century music with historical instruments.