- Pina Carmirelli
Pina Carmirelli (Varzi, 23 January 1914 - Capena, 26 February 1993) was an Italian violinist. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE6DC1030F937A35750C0A965958260]
She started studying music and playing in public when she was very young. She was a pupil of
Michelangelo Abbado , and graduated from theMilan Conservatory inviolin (1930) andcomposition (1935). She won the "Premio Stradivari " in 1937 and the "Premio Paganini " in 1940. She married the cellist Arturo Bonucci.She starred in a long concert career, both as soloist and in chamber groups, some of which she co-founded herself:
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Boccherini Quintet (1950) withArrigo Pelliccia andGuido Mozzato (violins),Luigi Sagrati andRenzo Sabatini (viola) and her husband Arturo Bonucci (first cello) andNerio Brunelli (second cello).* the
Carmirelli Carmirelli (1954) with Arturo Bonucci (cello),Montserrat Cervera (second violin) and Luigi Sagrati (viola). (1954) [Tully Potter, "The concert explosion and the age of recording", in Robin Stowell (editor), "The Cambridge Companion to the String Quartet", Cambridge University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-521-00042-4, p. 81 [http://books.google.com/books?id=luozXNcTtGcC&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=pina+carmirelli+bonucci&source=web&ots=Py7av9t-TM&sig=2LoLy-5KKkcbA_WG3LdUMffX7ig] ]* the
Quintetto Fauré (1979) withMaureen Jones (piano),Federico Agostini (second violin),Massimo Paris (viola) andFrancesco Strano (cello).She was a tenured professor of advanced studies at the
Accademia di Santa Cecilia from 1941. She performed in recitals withRudolf Serkin andSergio Lorenzi and as a soloist under the direction ofCarlo Maria Giulini . She was also first violin of "I Musici ". As musicologist she edited the critical edition of the work of Boccherini.Notes
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* [http://www.vogheranews.it/news/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4526&Itemid=37 Premio Pina Carmirelli]
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