Concert Series: Paolo Carlini & Fabrizio Datteri

Bassoon & piano performance by Carlini & Datteri duo.

About the artists:

The only bassoonist dedicatee of solo works by Oscar winners Ennio Morricone and Luis Bacalov, he has occupied a central role in the music of our time for many years, collaborating alongside renowned composers who have written solo works for him, such as: Azio Corghi, Ivan Fedele, Luis De Pablo, Giorgio Gaslini, Franco Piersanti, Ludovico Einaudi, Marco Tutino, Marcello Panni, Marco Betta, Enrico Pieranunzi, Maurizio Fabrizio, Carlo Boccadoro, Pasquale Corrado, Alessandro Solbiati, Carlo Galante, Nicola Sani, Claudio Ambrosini, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Giancarlo Cardini, and Paolo Vivaldi. Crucial collaborations with Luciano Berio, Sofia Gubaidulina, Sylvano Bussotti, Jean Francaix.

First bassoon soloist of the Orchestra della Toscana from 1987 to 2022, he collaborates in that role with the orchestras of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Opera in Rome, La Fenice in Venice, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Comunale di Bologna, playing under the direction of the most important conductors of our time Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Zubin Mehta, Esa Pekka Salonen, Myung-Whun Chung, Daniel Harding. 

Fabrizio Datteri is a  pianist and harpsichordist from Lucca. He has to his credit various solo and chamber music concerts with distinguished musicians, such as Cristiano Rossi, Mario Ancillotti, Boris Bloch, Michele Marasco, first parts of La Scala, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, instrumentalists of the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Paris Opera. Of particular note is the collaboration with Paolo Carlini, first bassoon of the ORT and a soloist of international prominence, with whom he has performed the entire repertoire for bassoon and has performed several premieres of unpublished pieces (L. Bacalov, M. Soto, P. Corrado, L. Plumeri). Also established is his collaboration with Nadia Lencione, his wife, with whom he has an established piano duo. He has played for prestigious concert associations, including Carnegie Hall in New York, Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona, California and San Francisco State University, Wiener Saal in Salzburg, Festival Anima Mundi in Pisa, to name a few.