Alessandro Maria Carnelli
Conductor
Alessandro Maria Carnelli is a conductor, musicologist, and populariser.
He has conducted several times at the Musikverein in Vienna, in Milan (Sala Verdi, Teatro Dal Verme), he has conducted the Ensemble of the Teatro Regio in Turin, and has collaborated several times with the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova. His concerts have been broadcast on Sky Classica.
He has recorded a CD of Schönberg's Verklärte Nacht with the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova (best CD of the month on Amadeus: 'a splendid, inventive, exciting recording'). In Mantua, he recorded a second CD: “A Symphony and its Consequences” (symphonies by Haydn, Vanhal and Mozart) which, like the first, has achieved international success.
He directs the Ensemble Progetto Pierrot with which he presented in Italy and Germany Pierrot lunaire by Schönberg, realized in scenic form, as a shadow theater show and as a multimedia project with IED Istituto Europeo di Design (Triennale di Milano) and with which he won the Abbiati Prize for the 2024 album for a project on Mahler's Wunderhorn, defined as 'a magical suite' by Angelo Foletto and 'a work of art' by Luca Ciammarughi. He is the author of monographs on Musorgsky, Čajkovskij, Schönberg and Šostakovič published by Skira – Il corriere della sera, and of Il labirinto e l’intrico dei viottoli, a monograph on Verklärte Nacht by Schönberg, defined as 'admirable' by Quirino Principe in Il Sole 24Ore and 'beautiful' in the magazine Amadeus, and translated into German. He wrote “Amata e lontano - sguardi sulla musica dei compositori di lingua tedesca”, with contributions by Alexander Lonquich, Roberto Prosseda and others. He was a contract professor at the University of Insubria.
