Cellorezital Antonio Mostacci (Conservatorio di Musica Giovan Battista Martini, Bologna)

Antonio Mostacci graduated from Pesaro Conservatory after studying with Sante Amadori and has also studied with Franco Rossi, Janos Starker and Yvan Chiffoleau in Paris. He started his performing activity when he was 16, playing in a trio with his father, pianist Luigi Mostacci and clarinettist Italo Capicchioni, the Trio Cameristico Italiano, who performed in the most important European towns. Antonio won first prize at Vittorio Veneto, Catanzaro, Stresa, Moncalieri competitions and was awarded at Maria Canals (Barcelona) and Viotti international competitions. He teaches cello at the Bologna Conservatory and is a member of ISME. Antonio often performs in chamber music groups and has performed as a soloist with many orchestras. He has played with the pianist Miriam Garagnani as Duo since 1990. Duo has played throughout Europe, in the United States, in Australia and Japan. Antonio took part in a string quartet formed by the violinist Nigel Kennedy during the Chichester music festival, UK. He play with Trio di Mantova and Duo with Stefano Bezzicheri. He collaborates as solo cello with the Orchestra of Massimo Bellini Theatre in Catania, with Orchestra Marchigiana (FORM), Teatro Comunale of Bologna Orchestra, Archi di Firenze, Officina Musicale (L'Aquila) and he is currently the principal cellist of the Tiroler Festspiele Orchestra (Austria) and Camerata Montegral conducted by Gustav Kuhn. He founded the Bologna Cello Project . Recent recordings include Boccherini's music for two cellos, a CD of Brahms cello sonatas with Miriam Garagnani, piano (Olga label), and a CD of Italian contemporary music, Bussotti, Conti, Corridore, Margola, Taglietti, (Adatto label), Antonio Vandini sonatas for Cello and BC (Tactus), Diego Conti music for Cello and Orch. Schumann concerto for Cello and Orch.(Tactus), Bach cello Suites (live) with Baroque Cello.

Stefano Bezziccheri started his musical activity in Forlì, under the teaching of Jone Bellagamba and successively with Lidia Proietti at Conservatory G. B. Martini of Bologna, where he graduated with first class honours.
He than undertook advanced post graduate studies with Lya De Barberiis at Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia of Rome, where he earned a diploma with honour.
When he was young he won several national and international piano competitions, so starting a precocious concert activity as both solo pianist and piano duo.
In 1988 he started a fruitful collaboration with Danilo Rossi (First solo Viola of Teatro della Scala orchestra), performing hundreds of recitals in Italy and Europe, playing a complete repertoire of music for viola and piano and working together in master classes and specialization stages.
He performed several audio and video recordings in Italian Television Companies.
He normally plays piano-duo with Pier Luigi Di Tella and in several groups of chamber music with very famous international musicians: Francesco Manara, Sonig Khatcherian, Dora Schwarzberg, Mario Brunello, Enrico Dindo, Alexander Gebert, Alfredo Persichilli, Luca Simoncini, Fabrizio Meloni, Corrado Giuffredi, Giuseppe Ettorre, Fabien Thouand and others
In  duo with Danilo Rossi and with chamber music groups he played in theatrical performances of words and music with Alessandro Baricco, Stefano Benni, Ascanio Celestini and recently with Licia Maglietta at Teatro alla Scala di Milano.
He played as solo piano in prestigious orchestras:  Orchestra dell’Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, l’Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, l’Orchestra d’Archi Italiana, L’Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, l’Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, l’Orchestra del Teatro di San Remo, l’orchestra I Solisti di Pavia.
Stefano Bezziccheri is Teacher in G. B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna.