Guerra Amorosa (IT)
Raffaele Tiseo: viola d’amore
Gianni La Marca: baryton
Marco Ottone: viol
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Guerra Amorosa is an Italian strings trio composed by Raffaele Tiseo, Gianni la Marca and Marco Ottone. They have worked with some of the major early music performers, Italian and European and have recorded for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classics, Tactus, Cantus, Bongiovanni and Baryton. They have performed in major festivals and have played in the most important venues Mozarteum of Salzburg, Vienna Konzerthaus, The Palais de Beaux Arts in Bruxelles, The Teatro Liceu in Barcellona, The Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, The Teatro La Fenice in Venice, and other.Guerra Amorosa is a new project that brings together three instruments that are strongly related to each other organologically but that in fact the music literature has never formally joined. The current program, cleverly adapted to the peculiarities of each instrument has at its core Haydn’s Trios and a Divertimento originally written for baryton, viola and cello. The intention of the trio Guerra Amorosa has been indeed to create an original, unedited ensemble, adapting and assigning the original parts for baryton and viola to baryton and viola d’amore and replacing the cello with the viola da gamba. We also propose a trio by Tommasini, sonatas for viola d'amore by Borghi and Rust and least but not last a sonata by Abel. The Italian Boccherini also makes his appearance in some contexts. Guerra Amorosa is an Italian strings trio composed by Raffaele Tiseo, Gianni la Marca and Marco Ottone. They have worked with some of the major early music performers, Italian and European.
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Raffaele Tiseo has graduated in violin and composition with the highest grades; he has worked with l’Orchestra Nazionale della RAI di Torino, I Virtuosi Italiani, Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Verdi di Salerno, Orchestra da Camera di Brno, Orchestra del Teatro di Presov, Orchestra del Teatro di Odessa, Accademia Strumentale di Roma, Orchestra Sinfonica della Transilvania, Orchestra del Teatro di Tirana, Orchestra Sinfonica e da Camera dell’ISBES, Orchestra “I Musici Sanniti”, Orchestra Sinfonica “Lualdi”, Orchestra Regionale Campana. He has devoted himself for several years to the study of performance practice of music of the '600 and '700, specializing in baroque violin with Enrico Gatti and Chiara Banchini. He has been a member of various chamber and orchestral ensembles such as Musica Antiqua Toulon, The Academy, I Filarmonici di Verona, Collegium Pro Musica, Il Rossignolo, Dolce & Tempesta, Le Musiche Nove, Ensemble Barocco di Napoli and Modo Antiquo.
Gianni La Marca studied cello and viola da gamba in Rome with Mario Centurione and Paolo Pandolfo. For three years he has attended the masterclasses of Jordi Savall in Italy and in Spain. Gianni attended more than 15 international music courses around the world, won 3 International competitions of musical interpretation, worked for 20 years in several Italian orchestras and has recorded more than twenty CDs. He plays cello and viola da gamba and has held over a thousand concerts around the world as a soloist and chamber musician. Since 2012 he is the owner and Artistic and Technical Director of a record label Baryton that is primarily concerned with early and classical music. Gianni has taught Viola da Gamba at the Conservatories of Latina, Lecce and Bari and Cello in some music schools. He is founding member of Guerra Amorosa.
Marco Ottone is musician and luthier; he dedicates profoundly to early music and its instruments. He has accomplished his studies in viola da gamba at the Conservatorio di Musica Ottorino Respighi in Latina with Claudia Pasetto, Gianni La Marca and Noelia Reverte. He has taken part to several masterclasses with some of the major gambists: Paolo Pandolfo, Pere Ros, Wieland Kujiken, Cristophe Coin, Juan Manuel Quintana. He has performed in several festivals across Italy and Europe, such as: Il Rinascimento suona Giovane (Villa d’Este, Tivoli), Campus Internazionale di Musica, Festival “Le Forme del Suono”, Fondi Music Festival, Echi Lontani, Barocco Europeo, Vallinmusica, Stagione Concertistica del Palladium, Meylan - Société Française de Viole de Gambe, Sponz Fest, Barocco Festival di Brindisi and others. He is a stable member and co-founder of other ensembles such as “La Pellegrina”, “ContrArco Consort”, “Comes Amoris”, and Bandantica di Segni.