Pina Carmirelli
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Pina Carmirelli was an Italian violinist.
She started studying music and playing in public when she was very young. She was a pupil of Michelangelo Abbado, and graduated from the Milan Conservatory
in violin
(1930) and composition
(1935). She won the Premio Stradivari in 1937 and the Premio Paganini in 1940. She married the cellist Arturo Bonucci.
She starred in a long concert career, both as soloist and in chamber groups, some of which she co-founded herself:
She was a tenured professor of advanced studies at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia from 1941. She performed in recitals with Rudolf Serkin
and Sergio Lorenzi and as a soloist under the direction of Carlo Maria Giulini
. She was also first violin of I Musici
. As musicologist she edited the critical edition of the work of Boccherini
.
Milan Conservatory
The Milan Conservatory is a college of music which was established by a royal decree of 1807 in Milan, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. It opened the following year with premises in the cloisters of the Baroque church of Santa Maria della Passione. There were initially 18 boarders,...
in violin
Violin
The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....
(1930) and composition
Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating a new piece of music. People who practice composition are called composers.- Musical compositions :...
(1935). She won the Premio Stradivari in 1937 and the Premio Paganini in 1940. She married the cellist Arturo Bonucci.
She starred in a long concert career, both as soloist and in chamber groups, some of which she co-founded herself:
- the Boccherini QuintetBoccherini QuintetThe Boccherini Quintet was a string quintet founded in Rome in 1949 when two of its original members, Arturo Bonucci and Pina Carmirelli, discovered and bought, in Paris, a complete collection of the first edition of Luigi Boccherini's 141 string quintets, and set about to promote this long...
(1950) with Arrigo Pelliccia and Guido Mozzato (violins), Luigi SagratiLuigi SagratiLuigi Sagrati was an Italian violist.He began studying the violin very young, and graduated cum laude from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. In the immediate postwar period he began an intensive concert activity in Italy and abroad...
and Renzo Sabatini (viola) and her husband Arturo Bonucci (first cello) and Nerio Brunelli (second cello).
- the Carmirelli Carmirelli (1954) with Arturo Bonucci (cello), Montserrat Cervera (second violin) and Luigi Sagrati (viola). (1954)
- the Quintetto Fauré (1979) with Maureen Jones (piano), Federico AgostiniFederico AgostiniFederico Agostini was born into a musical family in 1959 at Trieste. He started receiving his first violin lessons from his grandfather, Franco Gulli, at the age of 6 years. After which he studied at the Conservatory of Trieste, Venice and Siena. At the age of 16 he debuted as a soloist under the...
(second violin), Massimo Paris (viola) and Francesco Strano (cello).
She was a tenured professor of advanced studies at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia from 1941. She performed in recitals with Rudolf Serkin
Rudolf Serkin
Rudolf Serkin , was a Bohemian-born pianist.-Life and early career:Serkin was born in Eger, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire to a Russian-Jewish family....
and Sergio Lorenzi and as a soloist under the direction of Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini
Carlo Maria Giulini was an Italian conductor.-Biography:Giulini was born in Barletta, Italy, to a father born in Lombardy and a mother born in Naples; but he was raised in Bolzano, which at the time of his birth was part of Austria...
. She was also first violin of I Musici
I Musici
I Musici is an Italian chamber orchestra from Rome formed in 1952. They are well known for their interpretations of Baroque and other works, particularly Antonio Vivaldi and Tomaso Albinoni....
. As musicologist she edited the critical edition of the work of Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Rodolfo Boccherini was an Italian classical era composer and cellist whose music retained a courtly and galante style while he matured somewhat apart from the major European musical centers. Boccherini is most widely known for one particular minuet from his String Quintet in E, Op. 11, No...
.