MUSICIAN
“Francesca Canali is a wonderful artist, musician, pedagogue and human being. She is soulful, inspired, and totally committed to art and music. Her great passion, dedication, talent and deep love for music flow from her in every direction and enrich the hearts of the listeners! I strongly believe, that people like her can change and improve the world, bless the minds and souls of students and listeners, have a great impact and work-wonders!!!”
Irena Grafenauer
Acclaimed by the public and critics alike for her keen musicality and her sensible and expressive interpretations, Francesca Canali leads an international career as a flute soloist and a passionate chamber music player.
She has performed throughout Europe, South and Central America, Japan, Africa and Russia, appearing in major concerthalls such as the Wigmore Hall in London, the Grand Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in St. Petersburg, the Felsenreitschule, the Großes Festspielhaus and the Großer Saal des Mozarteums in Salzburg, the Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, the Konzerthaus of Vienna, the Brucknerhaus of Linz, the Palau de la Musica Catalana and the Liceu of Barcelona, the Konzerthaus of Dortmund, the Brucknerhaus of Linz, the Rolf-Liebermann Studio NDR in Hamburg, the Musaion Concert Hall in Pretoria, the Teatro Julius Santo Domingo in Bogotá, the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Rome, the Teatro Heredia – Cartagena (Colombia), the Staatstheater – Nürnberg, and at renowned international Festivals such as the Salzburger Sommer Festspiele and the Festival Aspekte in Salzburg, the Wiener Festwoche in Vienna, the Salzkammergut Festwochen in Gmunden, the Beethovenfest in Bonn, the Festival Internacional de Peralada in Spain, the Musical Olympus Festival in St. Petersburg, the Internacional Festival of Cartagena in Colombia.
Francesca Canali has won numerous international solo and chamber music competitions, including the 1st Prize of the celebrated Maria Canals International Music Competition in Barcelona (2001) and she has been awarded several times for her “outstanding artistic and scientific achievements“
She is a versatile and sensitive flute interpreter and a charismatic performer, with a broad international culture and musical education and a wide repertoire ranging from Baroque to contemporary music and including the most important chamber music flute works and concertos for flute and orchestra.
She finds her home in many musical styles and is constantly engaged in expanding her Repertoire by (re)discovering new, interesting literature for flute and performing her own arrangements of numerous works originally written for other instruments, and by working closely with contemporary composers. Francesca Canali had the great privilege to work with composers such as Hans-Werner Henze, Giya Kancheli, Balduin Sulzer, Andor Losoncy, Joan Guinjoan, and Giuseppe Garbarino. Moreover, she premiered some new compositions for flute that explore innovative performance techniques and integrate singing and acting into playing.
As a soloist she performed some of the most important flute works and concertos (Bernstein, Boccherini, Haydn, Jolivet, Kabalevski, Kanchely, Katchaturian, Kennan, Mercadante, Mozart, Nielsen, Pergolesi, Reinecke, Stamitz) with conductors such as Dennis Russell Davies, Leopold Hager, Eduardo Carrizosa, Ovidiu Balan, Elisabeth Fuchs and orchestras such as the Mozarteum Orchestra/Salzburg, the Chamber Orchestra of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, the Orquesta Filarmónica de Bogotá, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Colombia, the Vienna Classic Players, the Budweis Chamber Philharmonic, the Slovak Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburg Philharmonic.
Moreover, she has performed in various chamber music constellations alongside musicians such as Markus Schirmer, Friedrich Kleinhapl, Riccardo Risaliti, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Angelo Persichilli, Eliot Fisk, Letizia Belmondo, Anneleen Lenaerts, Cristina Bianchi, Alessandro Misciasci, Marco Grisanti, Fausto Quintabá, Monaldo Braconi and ensembles such as Tetraktis Percussioni, Via Nova Percussion and Quartetto di Cremona.
She has also collaborated with orchestras such as, among others, the Camerata Salzburg, the Salzburg Chamber Soloists, the Philharmonic Orchestra Graz, the Southwest German Chamber Orchestra, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Moscow Soloists, the Teatro Bellini di Catania, the Spoleto Festival Orchestra, and the Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia.
Francesca Canali has been involved in several radio recordings and CD-productions and has released two CDs as a soloist that have been highly acclaimed by audiences and critics alike: in 2004 she released a CD together with the pianist Marco Grisanti with works for flute and piano by Gabriel Fauré, Robert Schumann, Franz Schubert, François Borne (LoL Productions Label) and in 2012, together with the pianist Fausto Quintabá, she released the CD “Evviva Verdi! – Belcanto flute arias and brilliant fantasies” to honour the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth (Orlando/Paladino Label).
She is a sought-after teacher at international master classes, seminars and workshops and a juror in jury of flute competitions.
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Education
She graduated from renowned conservatories and music universities in Rome, Paris and Salzburg. She owes her musical education in particular to Irena Grafenauer….
Prizes & Awards
Francesca Canali is a prizewinner of many solo and chamber music competitions, including the 1st Prize of the renowned Maria Canals International Music Competition…
Further Studies
International masterclasses, advanced studies and in-depth courses on various topics related to musical performance and pedagogy such as…
Projects
Francesca Canali devotes much of her energy to innovative projects, in which her qualities as performer, pedagogue and researcher merge into one….
Repertoire
Francesca Canali plays an extensive and varied repertoire ranging from baroque to contemporary music and including the most important solo concertos for flute and orchestra…
Concert Proposals
Repertoire proposals and concert programmes both as soloist with orchestra and in various chamber music ensembles: duo, trio, quartet…