Elena Ballario, Camilla Patria, Franco Mezzena, Sergio Patria
Biography Elena Ballario, Camilla Patria, Franco Mezzena, Sergio Patria
Camilla Patria
Started the violin studio at the Conservatory of Torino in 2006 with the father and father of Massimo Macrì, diplomandosi in 2014 with Lode. Prosegue I suoi studio presso il CSI di Lugano con Enrico Dindo, conseguendo nel 2017 il Master of Arts in Music Performance e presso il Conservatorio di Torino ottenendo nel 2020 il Diploma Accademico di II livello in Musica d’Insieme con Lode.
If you are a soloist with a quality orchestra, Orchestra Filarmonica di Stato di Craiova, Orchestra Camerata Ducale di Vercelli, Orchestra Camerata Vienna and Orchestra di Sanremo interpret the Adagio with Variazioni of O. Respighi and due concerti by F. J. Haydn.
If it is perfect as a soloist and camerista with famous artists: Bruno Canino, Bruno Giuranna, Natalia Gutman, Thomas Demenga, Umberto Clerici, Enrico Bronzi, Lukas Hagen, Andrea Lucchesini, Enrico Pace.
Nel 2015 vince il Primo Premio al Premio Crescendo VI edizione – Sez. Archi. In 2015 and 2016, the grant for the “Talenti Musicali, Fondazione CRT” was awarded. In 2017, I participated in the “Profession Orchestra” produced by the National Symphony Orchestra of Rai, and the “Obiettivo Orchestra” by the Filarmonica of the Teatro Regio di Torino, which ultimately resulted in the final audience being the first to be heard.
Ha collaboration and collaboration with varied realtà, tra le quali: the Ensemble del Teatro Grande di Brescia, the Sentieri Selvaggi ensemble, the Orchestra Teatro Regio Torino, the Orchestra dell'Arena di Verona, the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, the 'Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, LaFil Filarmonica di Milano, l'Orchestra Camerata Ducale, l'Orchestra del Festival Pianistico di Brescia e Bergamo.
In 2019, he founded the Duo InContra with the bassist Tommaso Fiorini, with the quality of his number of concerts for important organiza- tions like Mantova Music, LakeComo Festival, MiTo Settembre Musica, Brianza Classica, A.Gi.Mus di Firenze, Roma e Grosseto, Associazione Cameristica di Varese. Hanno ottenuto il Primo Premio Assoluto al Premio Crescendo 2020, il Primo Premio al 22° Concorso Musicale Premio Placido Mandanici ottenendo anche il Premio Speciale Michele Giamboi per aver dato “maggior prova di sensibilità interpretativa e dedizione verso l'arte musicale” e il Primo Premio al MAP International Music Competition 2021 (Los Angeles, USA).
Dal 2020 is a member of the Morgen Piano Trio with violinist Nicola Marvulli and pianist Tiziana Columbro. Numerose le loro esecuzioni in prestigiose sedi in Italia e all'estero, tra cui il Musikverein di Vienna, in Spagna l'Ateneo Musical de Burgos, l'Ateneo Musical Mirandés, la Sociedad Filarmonica Castellana, in Italia l'Unione Musicale di Torino, the Accademia Filarmonica di Messina, the Emilia Romagna Festival, the Fondazione Franco Michele Napolitano di Napoli, the Festival Caelium Classica contemporanea di Ceglie Messapica, the Camerata Musicale Salentina, the Camogli in Musica festival.
In 2022 the ensemble is semi-finalist in the XXI edition of the Premio Trio competition in Trieste.
He trio is so perfect with M.o A. Valentino presso il Conservatorio “G. Verdi” di Torino e con il Trio di Parma nell’ambito del Master Annuale di II livello di Alto Perfezionamento in Musica da Camera del Conservatorio “A. Boito” di Parma.
Dal 2021 coordinated the artistic direction of the concert series “Panorami sonori” of the New Italian Strumental Association.
Currently, the music of the camera is currently published by the Conservatory “F. Vittadini” di Pavia.
Elena Ballario
born in Biella, studied piano, violin and composition before perfecting her piano studies with Maria Golia, Malcolm Frager and Pier Narciso Masi. She has won national and international piano competitions and scholarships. A tenured professor since 1995, she has been teaching at the Conservatory of Turin since 2007. She began her concert career in 1980 as a recitalist and soloist with orchestra; her interest in chamber music has since allowed her to be part of numerous ensembles and to acquire a vast chamber repertoire. Her concert activity has seen her perform across Europe in prestigious concert halls during important concert seasons. Since 1988 she has played in a duo with the cellist Sergio Patria, with whom she has extended this formation to a trio with Franco Mezzena. Since 2000, in parallel to her concert career, Elena Ballario has been composing for various instrumental and vocal groups, transcribing orchestral and chamber works from difffferent periods, creating monographic programmes dedicated to Rossini, Verdi, operetta, fables in music, and opera, performed by the Nuovo Insieme Strumentale Italiano, of which she is the pianist. After these early transcriptions she has produced original works for piano solo, chamber ensembles and string orchestra. She composed original music to the fable Pinocchio, creating a musical comedy widely performed by the ensemble with Lorenzo Branchetti as narrator. The Nuovo Insieme Strumentale Italiano has recorded three albums of her original works and transcriptions. Her compositions have been included in the repertoire of numerous soloists and ensembles, and are performed regularly in Italy and abroad. Also active as a writer of published theoretical texts, she produced the textbook Scales and Arpeggios with Theoretical Introduction, now used in music conservatoires. She has recently undertaken a project to re-evaluate the unpublished repertoire of the Piedmontese composer Carlo Rossaro, kept in the Library of the Conservatory of Turin, resulting in a double CD for the Tactus label that has received glowing reviews in numerous music magazines. In addition to the Odradek Records release of Schubert’s Piano Trios with the Mezzena/Patria/Ballario Trio, she has recorded the complete Trios of Wolf- Ferrari for Brilliant Classics, and Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoffff Trios for the Dynamic label.
Franco Mezzena
Graduated “cum laude”, he studied more than 10 years with Salvatore Accardo. As a soloist he is guest of the most important Concert Halls and Festivals in Europe, Japan, South America and U.S.A. He has recently played Mendelssohn Op.64 at Carnegie Hall in New York under the baton of John Rutter.
He has been many times on tour with “I Musici” and “I Virtuosi di Roma” and performed together with celebrated artists as Salvatore Accardo, Julius Berger, Umberto Cafagna, Bruno Canino, Roberto Fabbriciani, Rocco Filippini, Severino Gazzelloni, Stefano Giavazzi, Bruno Giuranna, Johannes Goritzki, Nicholas Jones, Jacques Klein, Alain Meunier, for many years with Bruno Mezzena, Andrea Noferini, Anthony Pay, Franco Petracchi, Ruggiero Ricci, Hariolf Schlichtig, Rohan de Saram, Romeo Tudorache, etc. Concerts for: RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Radio Vaticana, BBC, ABC, NBC, WSKG, WGBH Boston, NHK Television Japan, KBS Corea, etc.
Franco Mezzena is world famous for a lot of CDs and DVDs (more than 90) he recorded for Luna Rossa Records, Brilliant Classics, Newton Classics, Wide Classique, Dynamic, Symposium, Rivo Alto, Nuova Era, E.M.S. Arcobaleno. He recorded for Dynamic label, the complete concertos for violin and orchestra by G.B. Viotti (10 CDs), where he appears as soloist and conductor of the “Symphonia Perusina” and the Chamber Orchestra “Milano Classica”. He has recorded, for Wide Classique label, the complete works for Piano and Violin by L. van Beethoven with the pianist Stefano Giavazzi. Brilliant reviews and many interviews on: The Strad, Fanfare Magazine, American Record Guide, New York Times, Gramophone, Diapason, FonoForum etc. He gives Master Classes in his country (Conservatory of Mantua, S. Antioco, “Musica Riva”, Alghero, Naples, Messina, Taranto etc.) and abroad (Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music – London, Chetham’s School of Music – Manchester, Hochschule “F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” – Leipzig, Conservatory of Rotterdam, Académié d’été d’Andé, Tokyo University, Osaka, Kyushu, Barcelona, Oxford University, Ticino Musica Festival etc.).
He has conducted the Lublijana Symphony Orchestra, the Pescara Symphony Orchestra, the “Teatro Regio of Turin” Symphony Orchestra, the “Milano Classica” Chamber Orchestra, the “Interpreti Italiani” Chamber Orchestra, the Jalisco Philarmonic Orchestra etc.
He plays a 1695 Stradivarius, an instrument by Roberto Regazzi (Bologna, 1998), one violin made by Giuseppe Leone (Ceglie Messapica, 2011) and two violins made by Giovanni Osvaldo Fiori (Treviso 1989 and 2020).
He is Artistic Director of Orchestra da Camera di Lecce e del Salento.
He holds annual courses in Violin and Chamber Music at the Accademia Serenissima in Sacile and for the Association Orchestra da Camera di Messina in Messina.
