Camerata Mandolino Classico
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THE ENSEMBLE - CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO
Mimmie Grennäs - recorder, Lars Forslund - mandolin and Maxine Rizzotto - harpsichord
CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO
has received international recognition as a skilled interpreter of Venetian baroque music. The ensemble has made numerous and extensive tours in Japan, Germany, Austria, Spain, Italy and Sweden.
A LITTLE ABOUT MIMMIE GRENNÄS - RECORDER VIRTUOS
Mimmie Grennäs started playing music by Vivaldi on her recorder as a child and she loves music from the Baroque and Renaissance. She studied as a teenager at the music high school in Jönköping. Furthermore, she studied recorder and ensemble playing at Lunnevad folk high school in Östergötland, Sweden with the great recorder master Eric Humble. Mimmie then entered the Ingesund Conservatory of Music, Arvika. After graduating, she began teaching recorder at the Cultural School in Linköping. Mimmie Grennäs is a skilled recorder virtuoso and she is frequently engaged as a soloist with various orchestras, ensembles and she is a permanent member of the ensembles Barokoko and Camerata Mandolino Classico and gives concerts around Sweden, and most recently in Venice, Italy.
MAXINE RIZZOTTO from Milan, Italy
The Italian virtuoso young piano player Maxine Rizzotto, pianist and harpsichordist as well rehearser for, among other things, a number of opera singers from La Scala Opera and the conservatory in Milan, is once again invited to Sweden to participate in the summer concerts.
COLLABORATION WITH PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS
Our musicians and singers are active in various symphony orchestras, chamber orchestras, baroque ensembles and opera houses including La Scala in Milan, La Fenice in Venice and at the Gothenburg Opera, as well as in the orchestras Venice Baroque and L'Offerta Musicale in Venice.
LARS FORSLUND - mandolin
Lars Forslund is Artistic Director of the Vivaldi Festival in Venice and Sweden. With his best friend and mandolin teacher Keith Harris, he also organise concerts and seminars at The Mandolin Academy in Venice. Lars lived in Rome as a child, studied Italian in Florence and lives since 1998 part of the year in Venice.
OUR CONCERTS
has been critically acclaimed and hugely appreciated by standing ovation from an enthusiastic audience.
JAPAN AND THE MANDOLIN
In the eighties and nineties, worked and studied Lars in Kobe in Japan for the Master Yasuo Kuwahara, and also learned the Japanese language. Then they developed a long partnership, in the field of mandolin music, between Japan and Sweden. 1983 played Lars and Yasuo in Das Deutsche Zupforchester under the leadership of Siegfried Beherend and with Takashi Ochi as concertmaster.
MANDOLIN PLAYING IN SWEDISH TV 1982
Lars founded Sweden's first international mandolin festival at Visingsö in Sweden. At the festival he made a recording with the mandolin and guitar orchestra Musica Festiva. Music by Vivaldi from the disc became the theme song of SVT's Italian language course “Buon giorno Italia”. Most recently Lars was mandolin soloist at the Venice Carnival 2016 and cicerone, along with Ann Lundberg, in a popular television program by SVT.
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Lars Forslund - mandolin
“The musicality of Lars Forslund was revealed especially in the Adagio of the Sonatina in C minor for mandolin and harpsichord by Beethoven, which was rendered with subtlety of phrasing and subtle nuances of expression". Letizia Michielon, Il Gazzettino
A review from Venice at the Palazzo Querini:
“Forslund was the master of about every nuance of dynamics and tone you could imagine in the mandolin, as well as some you might not. He could make the instrument sharp and piercing, as well as muted and dark". Michel Miller Berkshire Review
THE MANDOLIN ACADEMY
We organise concerts and festivals in Sweden and Italy
ENGLISH
Here you can reach us! Call or write to us! We will answer your questions as soon as we can. Sometimes we are on tour and then the answers may take a little longer, but we answer.
SVENSKA
Här når du oss! Ring eller skriv till oss! Vi svarar på dina frågor så fort vi kan. Ibland är vi på turné och då kan
svaren dröja lite längre, men vi svarar.
ITALIANO
Qui puoi raggiungerci! Chiamaci o scrivici! Risponderemo alle tue domande il prima possibile. A volte siamo in tour e poi le risposte possono richiedere un po 'più di tempo, ma rispondiamo.
Artistic director Lars Forslund
MANDOLIN ACADEMY
c/o VIVALDI FESTIVAL
Riddaregatan 6 B
599 31 Ödeshög
S W E D E N
Mobil / Whats up: +46 736 32 87 44
Mail: info@mandolin.academy
Website: www.mandolin.academy
Please listen to our ensemble!
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CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO PLAYS VIVALDI & BACH
A mandolin and guitar orchestra from Sweden - Lars Forslund, conductor
LARS FORSLUND PLAYS BACH - AN INSPIREING WINE CONCERTO
Lars plays on a mandolin built by Gabriele Pandini, Italy
LARS FORSLUND PLAYS BACH - AN INSPIREING CAFÉ CONCERTO
Lars plays on a mandolin built by Gabriele Pandini, Italy
LARS FORSLUND PLAYS SCARLATTI WITH VENETIAN FRIENDS
Lars plays on a mandolin built by Daigoro Ochiai, Japan
CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO PLAYS NÄSLUND
Concerto for guitar, Kenneth Frejd - guitar, Keith Harris - conductor - Omberg, Sweden 2007
Please contact us with your questions about Camerata Mandolino Classico.
We have much more to tell you about the organisation, soloists,
orchestras, concerts, repertory, the events and so on.
We are very happy to try to answer your questions.
Don't hesitate to ask everything you wonder!
Please contact us for any questions!
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Beautiful 3D films about The Carnival of Venice in the 18th century. Or play along to our soundtracks.
Music by Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Näslund and others
