Amat Saxophone Quartet

Aldo Figheri, Tommaso Michelotti, Annamaria Savitteri, Michele Antonio Scialpi

The quartet was founded in 2020 to disseminate the saxophone quartet repertoire. Recent international successes include the Amat Saxophone Quartet's collaboration with Franck Bichon's BG France. The quartet has won numerous first prizes and absolute first prizes in various international competitions. Numerous experiences have seen the quartet in concerts abroad.

Mario Calisi

Pianist, composer, conductor. He is a musician, scholar and teacher acknowledged by international critics. Since 2009, he has been teaching at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica ‘Giuseppe Verdi’ in Milan. He has taught ‘Studio della strumentazione applicata alla partitura’ in the Master of Musicology Degree Course at the University of Milan. Among his many honours, he was awarded the title ‘Grand Officier de l’Ordre Mondiale de la Science Musicale’ in Geneva in 1994. He has performed in Italy, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Poland, Lichtenstein, Bulgaria, Brazil and Croatia, where he has released concert recordings for radio and television. W. Stettler, musicologist and music critic, described him as an “eclectic, profound, coherent musician… Mario Calisi, a diamond-sounding pianist, fascinates and enraptures even the most demanding audience… His sense of metrics and adherence to tempi recalls Glen Gould in his charm.”

Info

*For a maximum of 20 participants.
It is necessary to book and purchase the ticket here.
Tickets cost € 10.00 and may only be purchased online.
The shuttle bus to the Cerruti Collection leaves at 5.55 p.m. from the square in front of the Castello di Rivoli.