# Ticino Musica Festival

The Ticino Musica Festival is an international classical music festival that takes place every year from the 18th to the 31st July in Ticino, in the southern Switzerland. It includes masterclasses, the International Opera Studio "Silvio Varviso", concerts and other events.

## History

The Festival was founded in 1979 by Janos Meszaros, starting in Assisi and then in Riva del Garda until it moved to the present place in 1997, where it fully developed to reach its actual state.
The aim of the festival is to offer the possibility to young musicians to develop themselves, meeting and playing with colleagues and teachers from all over the world. It also promotes the tourismus and the cultural life of the region by offering during the two weeks musical public events
It presents every year new rising stars from the musical world, including in its agenda concerts performed by winners of the ARD International Music Competition and the Prague Spring International Music Competition.

## Academy

Teachers of the past editions :
| Strings | Woodwinds | Brass | Keyboards and percussions | Others |
| Violin Carlo Chiarappa Thomas Christian Josef Frölich Mark Gonthoi Valery Gradow Franco Gulli Franco Mezzena Stephan Picard Massimo Quarta Marco Rizzi | Flute András Adorján Mario Ancillotti János Bálint Angela Firkins Jean-Claude Gérard Marianne Henkel Lóránt Kovács Susan Milan Andrea Oliva Felix Renggli | Trumpet Éric Aubier Frits Damrow Luis Gonzalez Hannes Läubin Peter Leiner Bo Nilsson Anthony Plog Max Sommerhalder | Piano Paul Badura-Skoda Homero Francesch Bruno Mezzena Adrian Oetiker Zsuzsanna Sirokay Oxana Yablonskaya | Composition Ondrej Adamek Michael Barolsky Oscar Bianchi George Crumb Bernhard Gander Carles Guinovart Michael Jarrel Dmitri Kourliandski Johannes Schöllhorn Simon Steen-Andersen Mathias Steinauer Vladimir Tarnopolsky |
| Cello Enrico Dindo Gabriele Geminiani Giovanni Gnocchi Johannes Goritzki | Clarinet François Benda Eduard Brunner Philippe Cuper José Luis Estellés Sharon Kam Karl Leister Sabine Meyer Calogero Palermo Johannes Peitz Ulf Rodenhäuser Reiner Wehle | Trombone Michel Becquet Ian Bousfield David Brouchez-Lally Jonas Bylund Andrea Conti Jacques Deleprancque Lorenzo Ghirlanda Vincent Lepape Fabrice Millischer Stafan Schultz Branimir Slokar Carsten Svanberg | Organ and Harpsichord Stefano Molardi | Chamber music Emile Cantor Piero Farulli Antonello Farulli Ulrich Koella Ada Gradow (piano accompaniment) Charles-André Linale Gabor Meszaros Janos Meszaros Emilian Piedicuta Zsuzsanna Sirokay |
| Viola Matthias Buchholz Corinne Contardo Rainer Moog Hariolf Schlichtig | Oboe Maurice Bourgue Ingo Goritzki Omar Zoboli | Horn Christian-Friedrich Dallmann Henrik Halén Johannes Hinterholzer Michael Höltzel David Johnson Christian Lampert Frank Lloyd Froydis Ree Wekre Michael Thompson Zdeněk Tylšar | Percussions Mircea Ardeleanu Pierre Favre | Voice Giovanna Canetti Luisa Castellani Fiorenza Cedolins Sherman Lowe Bernatte Manca Di Nissa Éva Marton Edith Mathis Magda Olivero Tamar Rachum Olga Romanko Michaela Schuster Luciana Serra Charles Spencer Maria Venuti Hilde Zadek |
| Doublebass Gergely Jardanyi Giuseppe Ettorre Enrico Fagone Felix Maiwald Thomas Martin Ludwig Streicher | Bassoon Gabor Meszaros Janos Meszaros Knut Sönstevold William Waterhouse | Tuba James Gourlay Anne Jelle Visser Knut Riser | | Violin making Jürgen von Stietencron |
| Harp Judith Liber Fabrice Pierre Irina Zingg | | | | Conducting Arturo Tamayo |
| Guitar Hubert Käppel Massimo Laura Ricardo Gallén Lorenzo Micheli Andreas von Wangenheim | | | |

## International Opera Studio "Silvio Varviso"

Ticino Musica Festival is including since 2004 the international opera studio dedicated to the Austrian conductor Silvio Varviso, where young singers have the possibility to study and perform selected lyric operas, challenging their abilities and their talent, under the guidance of expert teachers.
During the years directors, screenwriters and conductor from all over the world participated, such as Umberto Finazzi, Paul Suter, Martin Markun, Erich Holliger, Laura Cosso, Marco Gandini, Claudio Cinelli, Stefanie C. Braun e Daniele Piscopo.
Operas performed in the past editions :
| Year | Opera | Composer |
| 2004 | Il matrimonio segreto | Domenico Cimarosa |
| 2006 | La finta giardiniera | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 2007 | Il mondo della luna | Joseph Haydn |
| 2008 | Il signor Bruschino | Gioachino Rossini |
| 2011 | La scala di seta | Gioachino Rossini |
| 2012 | L'occasione fa il ladro | Gioachino Rossini |
| 2013 | La cambiale di matrimonio | Gioachino Rossini |
| 2014 | Don Giovanni | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 2015 | The Marriage of Figaro | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 2016 | L'elisir d'amore | Gaetano Donizetti |
| 2017 | Così fan tutte | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart |
| 2018 | L'italiana in Algeri | Gioachino Rossini |
| 2019 | Don Pasquale | Gaetano Donizetti |
| 2021 | The Barber of Seville | Gioacchino Rossini |