Trentino Music Festival

21/04/2025

Still looking for a few more talented men to come sing a leading role in Italy this summer at the Trentino Music Festival! Apply today! 🇮🇹🇮🇹
https://trentinomusicfestival.org/

13/04/2025

Come work with Marina Costa-Jackson this summer in the Opera Studio at the Trentino Music Festival 🎉 🇮🇹

TOI, TOI, TOI,to Marina Costa-Jackson, who opens tonight as Michaëla in Carmen with Florida Grand Opera! 🎉 Florida Grand Opera 🎉

04/04/2025

24/03/2025

COME JOIN OUR DANCE STUDIO IN ITALY, 🇮🇹 SUMMER 2025! JUNE 22-JULY 17!

https://trentinomusicfestival.org/project/dance/

Apply Today! ✅

22/03/2025

Come join us in Italy 🇮🇹 for our 25th season!

https://trentinomusicfestival.org/

21/03/2025

Join Us in Italy 🇮🇹 Summer 2025 for our 25th Season! Studios in Dance, Musical Theatre, Opera, Orchestra, Technical Theatre, Collaborative Piano 🇮🇹 ✔️

https://trentinomusicfestival.org/

05/03/2025

FACULTY 💡 SPOTLIGHT! Tobias Gossmann was born in Siegen, Germany. He received his professional training at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Austria, where he studied violin, piano, and orchestra conducting. This prestigious institution awarded him the artistic diploma with Highest Honors.
His professional career began as the leader and concertmaster of the Viennese chamber orchestra Maurice Ravel Ensemble. Later he held the position of associate concertmaster in the symphonic orchestra of the opera house in Barcelona, the Gran Teatre del Liceu for more than ten years.
From 1999 on he decided to dedicate himself more to orchestral conducting, celebrating his official debut with the Orquestra Nacional de Cambra d’Andorra in the world premiere of the ballet music Terra Baixa (Lowlands) written by the Catalan composer Albert Guinovart.
Since then he has been guest with the Festival Orchestra of Canford in England, the Folkwang Chamber Orchestra Essen in Germany, the Radio FM Orchestra Sofia in Bulgaria, the Radio Orchestra Pilsen in the Czech Republic, the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra in Romania, the Cadaqués Orchestra, the Oviedo Philharmonic Orchestra and the Orchestra Extremadura in Spain, the Bottega Armonica and the Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia in Italy, the Portuguese Philharmonic Orchestra and the Portuguese Philharmonic Academic Orchestra in Portugal among others.
In his career he has worked with the world’s leading conductors including Riccardo Muti, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Bernhard Haitink, Sir Neville Marriner, Gianandrea Noseda, Peter Schneider, singers including Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Josep Carreras, Alfredo Kraus, Montserrat Caballé, Agnes Baltsa, Edita Gruberova and soloists including Frank Peter Zimmermann, Ruggiero Ricci, Ida Händel, Kyung Wha Chung, Renaud Capuçon, Maria João Pires, Alicia de Larrocha, Rudolf Buchbinder, Joaquin Achúcarro, Ingrid Fuzjko Hemming, Alexander Rudin, Pablo Ferrández, Pavel Gomziakov in concerts, operas and recordings.
The National Orchestra of Thailand invited him to conduct on the very special occasion of a gala concert celebrating the 70th birthday of Her Majesty Queen Sirikit of Thailand.
In Japan he conducted the Super World Orchestra. He has toured all the major cities and halls throughout the country from 2001 to 2007, and participated in recordings and TV productions for the International Music Festival Tokyo. He returned to Japan in 2009 and 2013 with Symphony Orchestra Camerata XXI and in 2017 and 2019 with Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia.
From 2003 to 2016 he was Music Director and Principal Conductor of the Symphony Orchestra Camerata XXI in Tarragona.
Recently in 2017 he was named Artistic Director and Principal Conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the University of Alicante in Spain. 🇮🇹

25/02/2025

FACULTY 💡 SPOTLIGHT: Emmanuel Feldman, Master Teacher – Cello – Hailed by John Williams as “an outstanding cellist and truly dedicated artist,” Emmanuel Feldman is an award-winning cellist performing in the U.S. and internationally as a soloist and chamber musician. Described by Gramophone as “an artist who combines communicative urgency with tonal splendor,” his CD Our American Roots (Delos) includes Pulitzer Prize winning composer George Walker’s cello sonata and Feldman’s acclaimed arrangements of Gershwin pieces for cello and piano. Revolutionizing modern cello playing, he is pioneering performing standing up using his patented invention, the TekStand™. His concerts have created a sensational new experience for concertgoers and include Feldman’s own cello concerto “Standing Tall” that won a 2022 Global Music Award and performances of the complete Bach Suites with his “Standing Up for Bach” concert series.
Feldman is a frequent guest artist for arts series including concerts at venues in Taiwan, France, Austria and Spain and concerts at Illinois State, Bradly and Duke Universities among others. His inventions, the TekStand™ (cello stand) and the TekPin™ (cello endpin) have been featured in The Strad and in Strings Magazine. Co-founder of Duo Cello e Basso, they were part of a residency at Virginia Commonwealth University and were guests of the University of Michigan. He also tours as a member of the Aurea Ensemble and as a guest artist of the Boston Public Quartet.
He has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, Salle Gaveau, Franz Liszt Academy, and as a soloist with the Boston Pops, Nashville Chamber Orchestra and Boston Philharmonic among others. He also has performed with the Boston Celebrity Series, the Verona, Jupiter, Lark and Borromeo String Quartets. Feldman has premiered concertos written for him by composers Charles Fussell and Andrew List and solo works by John McDonald, Jan Swafford and Pamela Marshall. He has collaborated with artists including Gilbert Kalish, Paul Neubauer, Karen Dreyfus, Richard Stoltzman, Elmar Oliveira, pop star Bobby McFerrin and the Mark Morris Dance Group.
Feldman’s critically acclaimed recordings (Naxos, Delos, Albany) and performances feature music by American composers including John Harbison, Ned Rorem, Robert Starer, Steve Mackey and David Diamond. He has recorded several CDs with pianist Joy Cline Phinney and tours with her performing Feldman’s “Our American Roots” program. Praised as “sounding exhilarating in this bracing and confident performance” (N.Y. Times), his “Rider on The Plains” CD featuring Virgil Thomson’s Cello Concerto and earned a Grammy nomination for producer Blanton Alspaugh.
As a performance faculty member of Tufts University, he has given master classes at the National Taiwan Normal University (Taipei), Manhattan School of Music, Bienen School and Peabody Institute. He has also taught at the New England Conservatory, Brown University, International Cello Institute, Yellow Barn and Heifetz International Music Institutes and is on the faculty of the Duxbury Music Festival and Easton Chamber Music Festival.

17/02/2025

Michele discovered his love for theatre and theatre education after a career as a photographer, which brought him around the world, including Africa and the Middle East. Once he found theatre, though, Michele knew that was his calling, and he spent years training to become a theatre educator. Michele has developed an interest in the relationship between theatre, dance and other performing arts, and he has held courses for children and young adults, coordinating important projects that have brought him from Central Europe to Uganda. As a lighting designer, and a technical and production director, Michele has developed a multifaceted approach to the performing arts. After further training and collaborations with companies and artists such as Odin Teatret (Eugenio Barba), Stefano Benni, and others, Michele has come back to his native Primiero and opened a performing arts school with his partner, where they teach dance, theatre and circus arts. He has been collaborating with the Trentino Music Festival since 2015 as the technical director and along with his team oversees all technical aspects of the festival.

13/02/2025

FACULTY 💡 SPOTLIGHT: Praised by the New Music Connoisseur for her “technical certainty and musical imagination,” French double bassist Pascale Delache-Feldman has been described as “a gifted colorist who produced an entire range of orchestral effects” (Boston Phoenix).
In her recent appearance at the Kennedy Center, Ms. Delache-Feldman, in collaboration with cellist Emmanuel Feldman, performed their own arrangement of Astor Piazzolla’s Four Seasons of Buenos Aires which is included in their new Duo Cello e Basso CD “Let’s Tango” released on Navona Records with pianist Victor Cayres. Other recital credits include performances at Radio France, Franz Liszt Academy, Hungary; and Teatro Victoria Eugenia, San Sebastian, Spain. As a soloist, she has performed with the Merrimack Valley Philharmonic, the North Shore Philharmonic, and the Greensboro Festival Orchestra.
A prizewinner at the Prague International Chamber Music Competition, Ms. Delache-Feldman has collaborated with the St. Petersburg, Borromeo, and Lark String Quartets and recorded chamber works with violinists Midori and Joel Smirnoff, and soprano Dawn Upshaw. As a member of Duo Cello e Basso, Pascale has premiered over 20 new works, performing across Europe in Austria, Germany and France, and throughout the US. Pascale can also be heard on the Albany, Archetype, and CRI labels and has been featured on Jason Heath’s podcast Contrabass Conversations.
A committed educator and arts entrepreneur, Ms. Delache-Feldman founded and directs the Family Chamber Music Fest — Online Edition as well as the Boston Bass Bash and the Virtual Double Bass Summer Intensive, both international festivals that have drawn guest faculty performers Edwin Barker, Peter Lloyd, Tim Cobb, John Clayton and Rufus Reid.
Through her training with peak performance coach Dr. Don Greene, her Feldenkrais Method and Tai Chi studies, Pascale brings a wealth of perspective to her teaching.
She’s on the faculty at the Longy School of Music of Bard College and Tufts University, and has presented master classes at Colburn Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, Boston Conservatory and the University of Texas. In the summer, she has taught at the Killington Music Festival, VCU Global Summer Institute of Music, Yellow Barn and Summit Music Festivals.
As an orchestra player, Ms. Delache-Feldman has performed with the New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Boston Pops, Toulouse Capitole National Orchestra (France), and as principal bassist with Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra and BMOP, among others.
A second-generation bassist, Pascale studied with her father, Jean-Claude Delache at the Toulouse Conservatory, and went on to the Paris Conservatory with Jacques Cazauran and Frédéric Stochl to earn her first prize with honors. Ms. Delache-Feldman came to the US to study with Roger Scott at the Curtis Institute of Music where she received her Artist Diploma. Additionally she has also studied with Edwin Barker, Evgeny Kolosov, and violinist and renowned pedagogue Burton Kaplan.

11/02/2025

Come and join us, Summer 2025, for our TWENTY FIFTH Season! 🇮🇹

06/02/2025

FACULTY 💡 SPOTLIGHT: Josh Grisetti, Stage Director – Josh Grisetti is an actor, director, educator, and author. As a performer, Josh originated the title role of “Marty Kaufman” in It Shoulda Been You on Broadway (for which he won the 2015 Clarence Derwent Award and was nominated for the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards); he also starred in Broadway’s Something Rotten! and Neil Simon’s revival of Broadway Bound. Off-Broadway, Josh starred in Rent, Peter and the Starcatcher, Enter Laughing (Theatre World Award winner; Drama Desk, OCC, Drama League and Lucille Lortel nominations), as well as Red Eye of Love, Candida, and After the Ball. Favorite regional credits include Ragtime, Spongebob, and Grease! (Broadway at Music Circus), Prince of Broadway (Tokyo), Camelot (The Kennedy Center), Matilda (The Muny), How to Succeed in Business… (Reprise Theatre – Ovation Award & Garland Award winner), Beauty & the Beast (LaMirada — Ovation Award nomination), Funny Thing…Forum (Williamstown), Spamalot (Wynn Las Vegas and Ogunquit Playhouse), Where’s Charley? (Goodspeed) and others. On television, Josh starred in the ABC sitcom The Knights of Prosperity, as well as multiple series regular roles in pilots for other major networks, played a recurring role on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon Prime, and has appeared on CBS’s The Good Fight, Showtime’s Nurse Jackie and MTV’s Made. Film credits include The Immigrant, Revolutionary Road, The Namesake and others. Josh directed the regional premier of Something Rotten! at Musical Theatre West in Long Beach, CA, and It Shoulda Been You at Musical Theatre Guild in Los Angeles.
Josh currently serves as Associate Professor of Musical Theatre at California State University Fullerton, and previously taught acting, musical theatre, and business of theatre at both Fullerton College and Loyola Marymount University. 🇮🇹

05/02/2025

FACULTY 💡 SPOTLIGHT: J. David Jackson made his conducting debut at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels with Don Pasquale, and has since won acclaim in Europe, Asia and America. This season he leads the Metropolitan Opera production of Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice staring Anthony Roth Costanzo. He made his Metropolitan Opera conducting debut with the Richard Jones production of Hansel and Gretel and returned to the Met in 2020 to conduct Porgy and Bess with Eric Owens and Angel Blue. Other conducting credits at the Metropolitan Opera include Simon Boccanegra and The Queen of Spades. His Werther at the MET was canceled due to the pandemic. He returns to the MET in the 2024/25 season to conduct The Magic Flute. Recent credits have included the American maestro’s debut with the Hong Kong Philharmonic in a gala concert with Korean soprano Sumi Jo, and his Carnegie Hall debut with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Chamber Players. At the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Sicily, Jackson has led the choral-orchestral version of Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ and the Catanian prima assoluta of Handel’s Messiah. Other recent engagements have included Janáček’s From The House of the Dead and Messiah with the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon, The Turn of the Screw for the Trentino Music Festival, The Golden Cockerel with Novaya Opera (New York), Tosca at El Paso Opera, and a gala concert at the Smetana Festival in Litomyšl, Czech Republic, featuring soprano Debbie Voigt.
Past seasons have seen Mo. Jackson debut with War and Peace at the Canadian Opera Company, Faust at Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice, Weber’s Euryanthe at the Glyndebourne Festival, and Elektra at the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet. He has conducted La Fanciulla del West and Simon Boccanegra with Kentucky Opera, Il Barbiere di Siviglia with Opera Omaha, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame at the Central City Opera Festival, and L’Italiana in Algeri at the Wolf Trap Festival, in addition to engagements at the Palm Beach Opera, the Théâtre de la Place in Liège, Belgium and the Slovenian National Orchestra. At the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Mo. Jackson conducted Così fan Tutte, Die Zauberflöte and The Love for Three Oranges on highly successful tours throughout Belgium and Germany. As Music Director of the Intermezzo Opera Festival, he led the highly acclaimed European premiere of Mark Adamo’s Little Women. He has also conducted L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, Don Giovanni and Giulio Cesare at the Trentino Festival, Cendrillon and Turn of the Screw with the Siena Summer Festival, and Janáček’s Cunning Little V***n at the Manhattan School in New York. A versatile artist, Maestro Jackson’s enormous operatic repertory includes everything from early Baroque to contemporary. He is noted for his interpretation of French and Russian opera, with acclaimed successes of Massenet’s Le Jongleur de Notre Dame at the Central City Opera Festival, and Boris Godunov, Khovanshchina, and Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk with La Monnaie. His performances of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades at the Met and War and Peace in Toronto were also critically praised. Since 1996, his new conclusion to Mussorgsky’s Khovanshchina is regularly performed in Brussels and elsewhere.
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31/01/2025

FACULTY 💡 SPOTLIGHT: NICO DUCHAMP

Nicolas Duchamp is an internationally acclaimed performer and teacher, in the tradition of the Paris Conservatory French school of flute playing, of which Philippe Gaubert was among the most famous. Born in Bordeaux France, ( as were G. Barrere and P. Taffanel ) he received directly the tradition of the French flute playing from his teachers in his native city. He served for many years as principal flutist for the National Opera Comique in Paris and toured extensively in his native France as well as Europe, Japan and North America. With his ‘’warm tone, distinctive charm and creative poetic eloquence”, he has performed as soloist with many of France’s leading chamber music ensembles and orchestras, including Paris Opera Bastille, Nice Opera, Strasbourg National Opera, Lamoureux Orchestra, Metz Orchestra and the Bordeaux National Opera, with conductors such as Seiji Ozawa, Georges Prêtre, Myung-Whun Chung, Philip Walsh, Brian Schembri, Yutaka Sado, Laurent Petit Girard, and Philipp Morehead. Nicolas has performed internationally in solo recitals, chamber music ensembles and as orchestra soloist in prestigious concert halls including Salle Pleyel, Cité des Arts, Salle Gaveau and Salle Cortot in Paris, Claude Champagne Hall in Montreal, the Zitadelle Spandau in Berlin, Olympia Hall in Munich, Spivey Hall in Atlanta and Weill Recital Hall in New York. Duchamp’s active international career takes him regularly throughout Europe, North America and to Japan. He has been featured in numerous international festivals, including the Belle Ile Festival, Radio France Broadcast Festival, Sarlat Festival, Saint-Yriex, Festival in France, Switzerland’s Crans-Montana Festival, the American Music Festival, Corsica`s Festival du Vent and the Montreal Chamber Music Festival. Duchamp created the concert and film homage, GAUBERT VIVANT! which he presented in a US tour including Carnegie Hall in New York, and Spivey Hall in Atlanta where he recorded an historic performance on the famous Gaubert flute Louis Lot N° 1986 for American public Radio’s “Performance Today” for over 5 million listeners. This personal connection makes Duchamp a unique representative of the French flute school in the flute word. Several international flute magazines favorably reviewed Mr. Duchamp and his performances: Flute talk (USA), Traversiere Magazine (France), Flute (UK), NY Flute Club News Letter. 🇮🇹

29/01/2025

FACULTY 💡 SPOTLIGHT: José Maria Condemi, Stage Director – José Maria has been a director and producer of opera and theater of exceptional artistic quality for over two decades, both in the United States and internationally. His work encompasses a diverse range of styles and periods, consistently lauded for its theatrical sophistication, distinct visual sensibility, and innovative approach.
Condemi’s long-standing relationship with San Francisco Opera has seen him direct numerous mainstage productions for the renowned company, including Carmen, Un Ballo in Maschera, Madama Butterfly, Faust, Tosca, Così fan tutte, among others. He also directed the world premieres of The Secret Garden and Earthrise and recently conceived an innovative outreach program called Bohème Out of the Box, slated to return for a third installment in 2025. His extensive portfolio also includes significant engagements with major opera houses, such as Ernani and Tristan und Isolde with Lyric Opera of Chicago, Aida at Houston Grand Opera, Luisa Miller for Canadian Opera Company, Orphée et Eurydice, La Bohème, Tosca, and Il Trovatore at Seattle Opera, Ainadamar, Don Giovanni, La Traviata, Tosca, and Lucia di Lammermoor for Cincinnati Opera, and Frida for Detroit Opera, Atlanta Opera, and Florida Grand Opera. Additional notable engagements include productions for The Dallas Opera, Portland Opera, New Orleans Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Minnesota Opera, Opera Colorado, Utah Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Austin Lyric Opera, Kentucky Opera, and many others.
In theater and musical theater, Condemi’s credits include Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest, Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Physicists, Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden, Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba, and Jerry Herman’s Hello, Dolly!, among others.
As a sought-after mentor for young artists, Condemi has served as a guest lecturer, master teacher, and stage director with programs including the Merola Opera Program, Wolf Trap Opera, Seattle Opera Young Artists Program, Houston Grand Opera Studio, University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, University of Houston Moores School, Opera Theater of Lucca, and the New National Theatre Tokyo’s Young Artists Programme. His teaching philosophy blends rigorous technical training with an acute awareness of the art form’s professional demands, fostering a supportive yet demanding learning environment. Students consistently praise his practical and dependable approach, which equips them with effective performance tools. In the realm of young artist training, Condemi’s directing credits include Eugene Onegin, Dead Man Walking, and Lucia di Lammermoor at Indiana University, La Traviata with Wolf Trap Opera, La Cenerentola, La Bohème, Hin und Zurück, Suor Angelica, and Gianni Schicchi for the Merola Opera Program, and Carmen and Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the University of Cincinnati summer programs, among others.
From 2010 to 2015, Condemi served as Artistic Director of Opera Santa Barbara, where he oversaw repertoire selection, budgeting, casting, and overall artistic vision. From 2015 to 2022, he held the Carol Franc Buck Distinguished Chair at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, where he led a comprehensive academic and artistic overhaul of the Opera and Musical Theater program and successfully managed its re-accreditation process.
Originally from Argentina, Condemi holds an undergraduate degree in Opera Stage Direction from Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires and a Master of Fine Arts in Directing from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. A two-time participant in the prestigious Merola Opera Program and an inaugural Adler Fellow in Stage Direction at San Francisco Opera, he is also a Fulbright Fellow. Currently, he is pursuing a Master of Business Administration through the Global Leaders Institute.
Upcoming directing engagements include Rigoletto and La Bohème Out of the Box for San Francisco Opera, Salome for San Diego Opera, Tosca for Cincinnati Opera, Così fan Tutte at the Academy of Vocal Arts, and Alcina for the Trentino Music Festival. 🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹 ✔️