MANDOLIN ACADEMY

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CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO

PLAYS VENETIAN BAROQUE MUSIC

The ensemble gives about 50 concert yearly in Sweden and Italy

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THE ENSEMBLE - CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO

Mimmie Grennäs - recorder, Lars Forslund - mandolin and Maxine Rizzotto - harpsichord

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Camerata Mandolino Classico

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.

Lars Forslund - mandolin

Reviews from Venice

A review from Venice at the Basilica dei Frari:

“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