GIUSEPPE LA MALFA
A graduate in piano, composition and conducting at the Music Conservatory Niccolo Piccinni in Bari, he studied singing with the baritone Luigi De Corato. In 2004 he conducted Così fan tutte at the Cairo Opera House and the Sayed Darwish Theatre in Alexandria, Egypt. In 2007 he won the International Competition Franco Capuana for young conductors of the European Community at Spoleto, where, the following year, he was on the podium for La Cenerentola. He inaugurated the opera season at the Teatre Principal in Palma de Mallorca with Le Villiand Suor Angelica and directed La Traviata at the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, L'italiana in Algeri at the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Falstaff at the Teatro Filarmonico in Verona and Rigoletto at the Teatro Francesco Cilea of Reggio Calabria.
ALDO CICCOLINI
Born in Naples in 1925 he studied piano with Palo Denza at the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella. Despite being only nine years old he was also admitted, thanks to a delegation of the then director Francesco Cilea, to study composition together with Achille Longo. After his debut in 1941 at the Teatro San Carlo, in 1949 he won the international competition Marguerite-Long-Jacques-Thibaud. He has collaborated with conductors such as Wilhelm Furtwängler, Michel Plasson, André Cluytens, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Charles Münch, Lorin Maazel, Carlos Kleiber, Georges Prêtre, Gianandrea Gavazzeni and Pierre Monteux. Professor at the Conservatoire de Paris, he is an Academic of Santa Cecilia, Officier de la Légion d'Honneur and of the Ordre National du Mérite, Commandeur des Arts et Lettres, three times Grand Prix du Disque in France and the Gold Medal of Art and Culture received from the President of the Italian Republic.
