Chorus Master
Erina Gambarini is a child of the profession, her father being chapel master and composer. She started her artistic career at the age of 13 when she palayed Miles in B. Britten's “The Turn of the Screw” at Teatro alla Scala of Milan.After several years of activitity as soloist, she pursued her musical studies with her father as piano professor, while she studied singing in Vienna with Teresa Stich Randall. Marcel Couraud was her teacher of choir conduction and interpretation and Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden led her in her studies of voice technique and interpretation.
Along the years she cooperated with several important musical institution as RSI (Swiss Radio), RAI (the Italian broadcasting company), and theaters as La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Sociale in Como, Teatro Olimpico and Teatro Valle in Rome, Teatro Carignano in Turin, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, Teatro Grande in Brescia, Teatro La Pergola in Florence.
She cut many records for Nuova Era, Carrara and Ricordi.
She cut many records for Nuova Era, Carrara and Ricordi.
In 1989 she founded the Canticum Novum choir which, in just few years and thanks to its oustanding artistic quality/level, could collect a very wide range of experences and an extremely reach repertoire.
At the same time, she conducted several instrumental ensembles like Orchestra Stabile di Bergamo, Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra da Camera Barocca of Bergamo, Piccola Sinfonica of Milan. In the same years, she started an important cooperation with Gioventù Musicale d'Italia.
At the same time, she conducted several instrumental ensembles like Orchestra Stabile di Bergamo, Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra da Camera Barocca of Bergamo, Piccola Sinfonica of Milan. In the same years, she started an important cooperation with Gioventù Musicale d'Italia.
In 1996 she started her cooperation with M° Romano Gandolfi who, in 1998 appointed her as his assistant and choir master in the newly founded Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, position that she still holds.
She collaborated with some of the world's finest conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Claudio Abbado, Gian Andrea Gavazzeni, Aldo Ceccato, Ettore Gracis, Oleg Caetani, Claus Peter Flor, Christopher Hogwood, Rudolf Barshai, Vladimir Jurowski, Helmuth Rilling, Leonard Slatkin, Nevil Marriner, Roger Norrington, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Robert King.
In recognition of her artistic value, in 1997 she became member of the Ateneo of Sciences, Letters and Arts of Bergamo.
