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The finale begins with the tubas playing sinister tones as if from the darkness of the grave. In 1984 he received a scholarship from the Foundation Ernst Göhner Migros. He completed his training with Peter-Lukas Graf at the Basel Conservatoire, where he earned degrees in music teacher and concert performer as well as price direction of a conductor (in the class of Felix Hauswirth) and a composition prize with Robert Suter and Jacques Wildberger.
In 2001 he was invited as a “composer-in-residence” by the University of South Missouri (USA). Franco Cesarini also teaches conducting at the direction of Italian Switzerland in Lugano. The use of tubular bells at the beginning and at the end of the movement is particularly striking.
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Franco Cesarini took his first steps in conducting as a choir conductor and later gained experience directing various ensembles, until in 1993 he was appointed as conductor of one of the best Swiss wind orchestras in the excellence category, the “Feldmusik Sarnen”.
His career reached a definitive turning point when in 1989 he was appointed Professor of wind conducting at Zurich Conservatoire (Zürcher Hochschule der Künste), where he taught until 2006.
He added a few instruments to the instrumentation and completely revised the notation. The traditional Advent concert is regularly well attended, and the music selected is played at a very high level. The numerous audience was able to experience this on 26th November in the afternoon.
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The Orchesterverein saved the musical highlight for the official end of the afternoon: “Mosaici Bizantini”, a three-movement piece by composer Franco Cesarini, who was born in Bellinzona, Switzerland, in 1961 and who is regarded as a master of instrumentation.
The work is now available in large-sized full score and exclusively from the composer's publishing house.
For this grand work, Franco Cesarini was inspired by three byzantine mosaics, which can be seen in churches in Venice and Palermo.
He took the musical motives from Gregorian chants.
The mosaics concerned depict the following extracts from "The Gospel according to St.
Matthew":
1. The Nativity
2. The Temple of Jerusalem
3. The musical material is formed by Gregorian chants and their sequences, while the work is thematically inspired by Byzantine mosaics that can be found in churches in Venice and Palermo and depict three passages from the Gospel of Matthew.
Born in Bangkok in 1976, the conductor and trombonist has a full time job as conductor of the Big Band of the German Armed Forces. Consequently, some sections of this movement are almost violent. Since 1998 he is head of the Civic Philharmonic Lugano and directs the Conservatory of Music in that city. The large interior of the Altenberg Cathedral is particularly suitable for concert performances, as the reverberation in the church lasts almost ten seconds.
In the same year he celebrated 20 years as director of the Civica Filarmonica di Lugano with the world premiere of his second symphony at the traditional gala concert.
Franco Cesarini has also been a member of the music committee of the Swiss Band Association (since 2019).
Alongside the Civica Filarmonica di Lugano, which he conducts permanently, Franco Cesarini enjoys an important international career as a guest conductor, visiting most European countries and performing in both the USA and Asia.
His catalog also includes parts of Harmony for Orchestra, compositions for chamber ensemble, for solo instruments, voice, piano, String Quartet and Symphony Orchestra.
Mosaici Bizantini – Three Symphonic Sketches for Wind Orchestra, Op. 14
To mark the 30th anniversary of Mosaici Bizantini Franco Cesarini decided to publish this revised version.
The calm and flowing, chorale-like first movement deals with the birth of Jesus. Angel of the Resurrection
This new, revised version of this masterpiece will delight both the orchestra and the audience!
2021 marked a turning point for Franco Cesarini: he founded Edition Franco Cesarini with the aim of publishing his works independently and transmitting his creativity and enthusiasm to his many fans all over the world.
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Bio
Born in 1961 in Bellinzona in Switzerland, Franco Cesarini began his musical studies at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan in Italy, where he studied flute and piano.
He showed an increasing fascination with composition for wind orchestra: if for symphonic orchestra the tonal resources have already been largely exploited by great composers of the past, instrumentation for wind orchestras is still a largely unexplored field.
In 1989 he began his collaboration with the Dutch publishing house De Haske, which contributes significantly to making his works known all over the world.
Franco Cesarini has won several competitions as a soloist and chamber musician.