Trini Monica
Voice, Voice pedagogy, Voice
Monica Trini approached the music since she was a joung girl, studying piano until she reached the “Corso Superiore” (upper level). After the Istituto Magistrale diploma, she began studying singing at the Conservatorio (Academy of Music) G. Verdi in Milan getting a diploma while still very young. In the meantime she took part in the performances of Aida, Turandot, Tannhauser, I Lombardi and Requiem by Verdi with the Teatro alla Scala, joining in the tournées in Vancouver (1986), Berlino (1987), Mosca and Saint Petersburg (1989) under the direction of L. Maazel, G. Gavazzeni, N. Santi, G.Kuhn, C. Abbado and R.Muti. After winning the “Student Prize” of the “Concorso Verdiano di Busseto” (a music contest for students), she improved herself with Carlo Bergonzi, interpreting, at the end of the course, the role of Mimì at the teather of Busseto. She attended the Academy of Montegridolfo directed by Gustav Kuhn and the Specialization Courses conducted by Hildegard Roetger and Hilde Zadec. Furthermore, she also achieved the Certificate of Music Pedagogy and the Singing Specialization Diploma at the “Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana” studying with the Soprano Karin Ott.
She took part to the Madama Butterfly at the Opera in Rome directed by Daniel Oren; to Aida at the Point Teather in Dublin (CD Naxsos) and to Nabucco at the Festival of Avenches with Rico Saccani; for the Attavanti Festival (Maggiore Lake) she sang Zanetto by Mascagni.
She also performed in recitals, at the Teatro delle Erbe in Milan, for the “Società dei Concerti”, interpreting arias by Vivaldi, Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Verdi; moreover she was also at the Teatro Greco in Milan, at the Museum of Teatro alla Scala for the “Amici del Loggione” (“the Gallery Friends) with musics by Rossini and the “Duetti Buffi” by Padre Martini in “first performance”; Then at the Teather in Siena, at the Teather Regina in Cattolica, at the Teather in Carpi with Michele Pertusi. At the Teatro Studio of Milan, for the two evening performances of Giorgio Strehler dedicated to the Reading of Wilhem Meister by Goethe, she sang the Lieder Mignon by Schubert and, still in Milan, during the litterary award “A.D.O.N.A.I.” won by the poetress Alda Merini, she sang pieces of H. Pousseur, E. Morricone, Donati and G. Manzoni as a “solo voice”.
She cooperated with pianists as Roberto Negri, Walter Baracchi, Raimondo Campisi, with the guitarist Nicola Oteri, with harpist Anna Loro.
With “Loie Fuller Ensemble” at Palazzo Malvezzi in Bologna, and at the Teatro Ebe Stignani in Imola, she interpreted pieces of Debussy (Chansons de Bilitis) and Ravel (Les Chansons Madecasses). With Orchestra Nuova Cameristica conducted by A. Monetti, she opened the Lago d’Orta Festival with “Les Illuminations” of Britten and, the following year, at Villa Tallone (Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli studying residence) she performed songs of Tosti, Debussy, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Ravel and Turina. With the Varese Orchestra and Europae Cantores Choir , directed by Jeffrey George, she performed the Fauré Requiem, the Paukenmesse and the Missa Brevis in Sib Maggiore by Haydn. With the Milan “Orchestra Nuova Cameristica” and the “Polyphonic Choir Benedetto Marcello” and the “Città di Como Choir”, she performed the Vivaldi Gloria, the Schubert Messa in Do Maggiore, the Haydn Missa in Tempore Belli, the Mozart Requiem and Incoronation Mass, the Boccherini Stabat Mater, the Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle and Stabat mater, the Poulenc Gloria,and the Verdi Messa Requiem. At the Congress Palace in Lugano, with the Novara Orchestra of Teatro Coccia, directed by Aldo Tarchetti, she performed Verdi Duets and Arias in Recitals with the baritone Pietro Cappuccilli, and in Stabat Mater di Pergolesi directed by M° Bruno Amaducci. In Locarno San Francesco Church, with the Orchestra of the “Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana” directed by Denise Fedeli, she sang in the Mass D176 by Schubert, in the Cantata BWV 209 by Bach; moreover, again with the same orchestra and director, she interpreted arias and duets from Otello, La Forza del Destino, il Trovatore by the Teatro Sociale in Chiasso.
She was also present at Auditorio Stelio Molo of RSI in Lugano for the Review “Novecento Passato e Presente” (past and future of twentieth-century) with the “Trois Poemes” by Stephane Mallarmé by M. Ravel and “Offrandes” by E. Varèse.
In Magadino, on the occasion of the evening performance dedicated to Maestro C.F. Semini, she performed the “Tre poemi” by Hermann Hesse, “L’ape”, “Astrakan”, accompanied at the piano by the author (double CD, Carlo Florindo Semini) of whom she interpreted, first in the world, at the Basilica of Loreto (Italia) “Angeli Lauretani” for voice and organ, which was performed again the same year, in Rome,at the Swiss Ambassy, accompanied by the organist A. Macinanti and at the 34th Festival Organistico of Magadino with the American organist James Diaz.
Besides, she held concerts in Holland, Germany, France, Sweden, Greece, Turkey and U.S.A., singing opera pieces of eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and pieces of G. Lorca and E. de Falla, in a “duo” accompanied by guitar.
With the Choir and Orchestra Sinfonica G. Verdi of Milan, she sang in Russian “Le Nozze” by Stravinsky (December, 2000 and April 2002), and for the “Stagione Sinfonica” 2004-2005 the C. Orff Carmina Burana, directed by Romano Gandolfi, and for the “Stagione Sinfonica” 2005-2006 the Mozart Requiem Directed by Claus Peter Flor.
She sang again, with great success, “Le nozze”, at the Auditorium della Gran Guardia, for the Fondazione Arena di Verona (arena di Verona Foundation) (December, 2003) and at the Teatro Filarmonico (October 2004) in Verona directed by Marco Faelli; at the Teatro Due in Parma and Castel Sant’Elmo in Napoli, directed by Danilo Grassi (December, 2005).
She opened the twentyfifth edition of Gressoney Music Summer with the “Stabat Mater” by Boccherini (first version of 1781) accompanied by the Solisti of Milan.
On the 25th September 2004, the “Magnifico Ordine delle Antiche Tradizioni Verones” (the magnificent Order of the Veronese Ancient Traditions), conferred her the title of “Nobile Cavaliere” (Noble Knight) as an appreciation of her prominent virtues and sublime merits.
She combines artistic and teaching activities, being Singing teacher in the Pre-College and University of Music of the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in Lugano.
