Administration

Art Director

M.° Andrea Rucli

Andrea Rucli finished his classical studies and then he devoted his self to music; he got the music diploma on 1982 at the Academy of Music “L. Cherubini” in Firenze, with full marks and laud, under the guide of Alessandro Specchi.

For many years, he perfected his self with Konstantin Bogino, becoming his assistant for a long time during courses in Italy and abroad. They have formed a good pianistic duo and they recorded a compact-disc with Antonin Dvorak’s Slavonic Dances. He won first and second prizes in many music competitions – contests of Alberga, Como, Aversa and so on -, he has been playing piano for more than twentyfive years as solist and in a lot of chamber music ensembles. He is now exploring this repertory and he collaborates with many good music players such as Patrik Gallois, Radu Chisu, Gordon Hunt, Michel Lethiec, the Artis String Quartet, the Meta 4 String Quartet, the Tartini Quartet, the Slow Wind Quintet and the Montecarlo wind Quintet and with main musicians of Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Solisti Veneti and London Symphony Orchestra.

A friendly and artistic relationship is still going on with the famous viola player and composer Vladimir Mendelssohn. He took part in many chamber music festivals, like Kuhmo in Finland (for 12 years, Portogruaro (for eight years), Settimana Musicale at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, Cantiere di Montepulciano, Osnabruek Chamber Music Festival, Sounding Jerusalem and Chamber Music Festival of St.Peterburg. As solist, Andrea Rucli played with the Orchestra of Slavonic RadioTelevision, the Orchestra of Dubrovnik Festival, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Udine, the Musik – Verein Orchestra directed by A. Nanut, I. Drasinic, L. Shambadal, F. Mertz, L. Viotti, W. Themel and E. Rojatti. He recorded for Italian, Finnish, Austrian and Slavonic radio and television networks – also for the main Italian network RAI - .

He recorded E. Chausson’s chamber music pieces with Cameristi di Verona, the first absolute of a Daniele Zanettovich’s Quartet, Schumann’s sonatas for violin and piano and Heifetz transcriptions with Lucio Degani (Dynamic). He recovered in Italy and recorded the chamber music of Ella Schultz Adaiewsky, a russian fascinating artist of the outgoing 19th and beginning 20th century. He performed in 2010 and 2013 as part of the acclaimed “Quirinale Series” at the Italian President's Palace in Roma, live broadcasted in Euro Radio.