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Born
in
1965,
Pietro Prosser begins his musical studies
at the Conservatorium 'F. Bomporti' in Trento. Captured by the magic of the
lute, he focuses his studies on that instrument, on its ancestors and its
descendant, first in Civica Scuola di Milano with Paul Beier and then at the
Conservatorium 'A. Boito' in Parma, with Andrea Damiani. In 2000, Pietro
Prosser finishes his studies
after having worked on the renaissance lute, the archlute,
and the
calichon at
the Conservatorio «S. Cecilia»
in Rome.
He has collaborated with numerous Italian
and foreign ensembles – Ensemble Antonio Draghi, Consortium
Carissimi, Il Viaggio Musicale, Accademia Bizantina,
Ensemble Galilei, I Solisti Veneti, Orchestra Barocca di
Venezia, Accademia de li Musici, Duo Pallis –– Capella
Savaria (Hungary), Collegium 1704 (Prag), Piccolo Concerto
(Vienna), in concerts, festivals and operas both Italy and abroad (I
Concerti del Quirinale - Rome), Germany (Festival der Laute 2000
- Dresden and 2004 Rostock), Austria (Salzburger Festspiele -
Salzburg, Internazionale Barocktage - Melk), Great Britain, Danimark
(Sommerkoncerter i Nordsjælland), Hungary, Czech Republic (Passion-Pasije
’99), Poland (II Europejski Festival Musyki Organowej i Kameralnej),
Greece.
Moreover as a soloist he has perform calichon and mandora in many world
premieres, last of them, the double-concerts for mandora, jew's arp and
strings composed by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger.
He has recorded for the labels Tactus,
Stradivarius, Bongiovanni, Sarx, Dynamics, Chandos,
Brilliant, as well as for
rai-radio3 and
orf.
In 1996 he obtained a Musicological degree from the University of Pavia.
Currently he is in the process of preparing a doctoral dissertation
regarding mandora and calichon with the subject: Researches
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