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 As a soloist and chamber music player, the flautist Francesca Canali has performed throughout Europe, South and Central America, Japan, Russia and South Africa, appearing in, amongst others, such celebrated concert halls as the Wigmore Hall - London, the Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic - St. Petersburg, the Felsenreitschule, the Großes Festspielhaus and the Großer Saal des Mozarteums – Salzburg, the Teatro Olimpico - Vicenza, the Konzerthaus - Vienna, the Palau de la Musica Catalana and the Liceu - Barcelona, the Konzerthaus – Dortmund, the Rolf-Liebermann Studio NDR - Hamburg, the Staatstheater - Nürnberg, and in such prestigious Festivals as the Salzburger Sommer Festspiele and the Festival Aspekte – Salzburg, the Wiener Festwoche - Vienna, the Beethovenfest - Bonn, the Festival Internacional de Peralada – Spain, the Musical Olympus Festival – St.Petersburg. She has collaborated with such conductors as Dennis Russell Davies and Leopold Hager, such orchestras as the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, the Vienna Classical Players, the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, the Budweiser Kammerphilharmonie, the Slovak Chamber Orchestra, and such musicians as Vladimir Mendelssohn, Eliot Fisk, Cristina Bianchi, Markus Schirmer, Friedrich Kleinhapl, Riccardo Risaliti, Letizia Belmondo, Norbert Trawöger, the Quartetto di Cremona, the Via Nova Percussions, the Tetraktis Percussions, Anneleen Lenaerts,....
Born in Rome, she decided to devote herself to music after participating in a master class given by Leonard Bernstein at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in 1989.
Francesca Canali is a flautist with a broad international education: she graduated “cum laude” at prestigious institutions in Rome (Conservatorio Santa Cecilia and Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia), Paris (Ecòle Normale A. Cortot, ENM and CNR) and Salzburg (Master and Postgraduate Diplomas at the University Mozarteum) where she benefited from the teaching of such flautists as Irena Grafenauer, Michael Kofler, Angelo Persichilli, Patrick Gallois, Maxence Larrieu, Jean Ferrandis, and at the same time from exposure to extremely rich and varied cultural milieus. During hers studies, she was awarded a grant as “an especially talented young artist” by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1997), and later she was a winner of the “Würdigungspreis” given by the Austrian Ministry of Culture (1999).
Further decisive influences have been her participating in international master classes held by James Galway, Alain Marion, Peter-Lukas Graf, Aurèle Nicolet, Janos Balint, (“Diploma d’onore” at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Diplom at Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale di Saluzzo (To), Académie Internationale d’Eté de Nice, Weggis Galway’s International Flute Master Classes, etc…)
Her artistic development was also greatly influenced by the international seminars held by Sergiu Celibidache on the “Phenomenology of Music” in Paris (1994-1996).
Moreover, Francesca Canali has studied baroque flute (Traverso) and old music performance at the “Département de Musique Ancienne du Conservatoire de Paris” with Hélène d’Yvoire, chamber music (Diplôm Superieur at the Ecóle Normal de Paris) and singing (in Rom, Paris and Salzburg) and pursued courses on Stanislawsky’s Acting method, the Alexander Method, the “Voice Craft” Method, the technique “Breathing, Voice and Movement” according to Hilde Langer-Rühl, indian music, improvisation, contemporary music and kinesiology, and other more.
Francesca Canali won numerous awards at national and international music competitions (Franz Schubert - Ovada, Francesco Cilea - Palmi, Estate Musicale di Portogruaro - Venice, Emanuele Krakamp - Naples, Giulio Viozzi - Triest, Alexandre Tansmann - Lodz, Menuhin Foundation -Austria...) including the First Prize at the “Maria Canals” International Competition in Barcelona (Spain) in 2001.
She is an eclectic and versatile artist, performing as a soloist and in various chamber music ensembles and collaborating with numerous composers ( Hans-Werner Henze, Balduin Sulzer, Joan Guinjoan, Giuseppe Garbarino,…) in “premiere performances” of their own works. She has developed a very wide and “multicoloured” repertoire that extends from baroque to contemporary music, and in her programmes she especially loves to combine the "unusual" with the "well-known", taking particular delight in the discovery and performance of new flute concerti, solo and chamber music compositions.
Gifted with an open-minded, inquisitive personality, her various artistic activities include musical research and experimentation, with a view to achieving greater depth of musical expression. She has written an innovative Doctorate Thesis at the University Mozarteum on the subject of "Artistic vocal expression and production of sound in wind instruments”, that opens new perspectives on the didactic and performing aspects of the flute playing and she is often invited by international Congresses to hold workshops and conferences on the subject of her doctoral thesis.
Francesca Canali teaches at the Upper Austrian Landesmusikschulwerk and is regularly invited to teach in international master classes.
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