Daniel Cohen / Maurizio Baglini

DANIEL COHEN

After a degree in orchestral conducting at the Royal Academy of Music in London Daniel Cohen became an assistant to Daniel Barenboim at the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, with whom he collaborated in the preparation of the cycle of Beethoven's symphonies and works of Arnold Schoenberg and Pierre Boulez, of whom he is assistant at the Lucerne Festival Academy. He has conducted the Israel Philharmonic, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Orchestra of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, the Kammerphilharmonie Graz, the Kiev Symphony Orchestra, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, the Italian International Orchestra and the Chamber Orchestra of the European Union. His operatic debut was with La Clemenza di Tito at the Canadian Opera Company. In the summer of 2013 he conducted the world premiere of Maria di Venosa by Francesco d'Avalos for the Festival della Valle d'Itria.

MAURIZIO BAGLINI

Born in Pisa in 1975, at twenty-four he won the World Music Piano Master, beginning his career as a soloist at the Yokohama Piano Festival, the Loeckenhouse Festspiele, the Rossini Opera Festival and the Festival de La Roque d'Anthéron. Since 2005 he performs in a duo in with the cellist Silvia Chiesa, with whom in 2011 he opened the Concerti del Quirinale. In 2008 he initiated the project "Ode to Joy" at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, whose intent is to make known Liszt's difficult transcription for solo piano of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.