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PRESS RELEASE (06/27/2013)
Saturday, June 29, will take place, in Loano, the second concert of sacred music dedicated to the “July 2 Novena, promoted by the Brotherhood of the Turks under the auspices of the’Department of Tourism, Culture and Sports of the City of Loano.
Protagonist of the concert, scheduled at 10 p.m., in the’Oratory Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary will be the pianist Paola Arecco and the soprano and harpist Claudia Murachelli, now a well-established duo that already has several concerts in the Loano area.
The evening's program will range from sacred and operatic pieces for piano and soprano to more popular compositions that will see the combination with the magic of the Celtic harp.
Paola Arecco began studying piano out of passion, and then enrolled at the Conservatory “Nicolò Paganini” in Genoa, which she attended as an internal student under the guidance of Professor Gloria Ratti, earning her Piano Diploma in 1991. She has won several competitions for duo violin and piano and has numerous piano concerts to her credit, both as a soloist and in duo with operatic voices and solo instruments. As an accompanist pianist, he has participated in the concert activity of the “City of Loano” choir. He has served on several juries of singing events. He has performed concert activities with the “Trio armonie,” a formation of two female voices and piano. He is an accompanist in dance examinations for the ’Royal Academy of dancing.“ He carries out teaching activities both as a Music Education teacher at middle schools and as an external expert, holding, in the latter role, courses in ”Choir Workshop“ for both middle and elementary schools. He is currently director of the inter-parish polyphonic choir of Loano and teacher of ”choir workshop“ for UniTre of Borgio Verezzi (SV); he also collaborates as organist in the concert activity of the ”S.Biagio“ choir of Finalborgo. His repertoire ranges from classical compositions for piano, with a special predilection for Chopin, to compositions for polyphonic choir of all musical genres, from sacred music to modern music.
Claudia Murachelli has been studying singing since 2005 at the Yamaha School of Music in Taggia under the guidance of M° Fabrizio Brezzo. Since 2007 she has become first soprano and soprano soloist of the polyphonic choir “Amici della Musica” city of Taggia, directed by M° Fabrizio Brezzo, and since 2009 she has begun the study of Celtic harp under the guidance of M° Marcella Grossi. In 2010 she participated in an internship in Ireland in the Willie Clancy Summer School in Miltown Malbay in Ireland (county Clare) with great concert performers at the international level (Grainne Hambly, Cormac de Barra, Paul Dooley etc..). In recent years she has been doing a great deal of concert activity both as a solo singer (with operatic, sacred and secular, and modern soprano repertoire), as a harpist, and as leader of the band LumiHiutale, in which she sings and plays the harp. Big awards and important participations as well: in 2009 he won the Jury Prize at the national contest for singers “Una Voce per l'estate di Sanremo,” in 2010 and 2011 he participated in the Young Musicians' Festival in Cervo, in 2011 with LumiHiutale he won third place at the Sanremo Red Music Festival, and in 2011 and 2012 the Critics' Award and the Best Scenic Presence Award at the City of Ventimiglia Band Competition; in 2012 he played at the Casino Theater in Sanremo during the Tuesday Literary Festival.{:}
