# Stage # Classical concert

Briar Rose Quintet

19.02.2025 19:30 - 20:30
3992 Bettmeralp
Part of the 13th Aletsch Classic Festival
Under the musical direction of Barbara Krüger, the "13th Aletsch Classic Festival" concert series takes place on Wednesday evenings during the winter season at the St. Michael Center on Bettmeralp. Top-class musicians from all over Europe come to the Aletsch Arena to enchant you with classical instrumental compositions in a wintry atmosphere. Admission is free, but there will be an opportunity for a voluntary collection at the end.

Briar Rose Quintet

Isabel Longato - flute
Paola Scotti - oboe
Maura Gandolfo - clarinet
Caterina Carrier - bassoon
Ludovica Butti - horn

Works by Mozart, Puccini,...

Isabel Longato - flute
Isabel completed her flute studies at the Conservatorio "G. Verdi" in Milan under the direction of Gabriele Gallotta.
She then attended master classes with the flute masters Glauco Cambursano and Bruno Grossi as well as piccolo classes with Maurizio Simeoli.

Isabel has taken part in various competitions at national level and won prizes at the International Competition in Cremona in 1995 and the International Competition in Ispra.

She performs with important ensembles in Italy and abroad, such as the OSI, the Orchestra Cantelli, the Orchestra Coccia, the New Art Ensemble and, since 2009, with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano.

Isabel has always been passionate about instrumental teaching.

She has obtained the third qualification for teaching the flute according to the Suzuki method.

She has been teaching in municipal schools in the canton of Ticino for twenty years.
She is a member of the Swiss Society for Music Education.

Paola Scotti - Oboe
Paola studied oboe with Maestro Marco Ambrosini at the Istituto Musicale G. Donizetti in Bergamo, where she obtained her diploma and second academic biennium.

She then continued her studies with Maestro Thomas Indermuhle.
She has experience as a teacher of musical propaedeutics, theory and solfeggio, oboe and ensemble music.

In the orchestral field, she has worked with conductors such as R. Chailly, J. C. Temirkanov, F. Luisi, D. Oren, P. H. Casado and R. Muti and has worked at various opera houses and symphonic institutions, including: Orchestra Giovanile L. Cherubini, Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano, Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Orchestra Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano.

She has been a permanent member of the Orchestra Verdi in Milan since 2018.

Maura Gandolfo - clarinet
Maura graduated in clarinet from the N. Paganini Conservatory in Genoa and continued her studies at the Conservatory of Music in Lugano with Francois Benda, where she received her concert diploma in 2004 and then her soloist diploma with distinction.

She has won important first prizes at international competitions.

As a soloist, she won the "Haydn-Mozart" competition in Rovereto, the "Rahn Music Prize" in Zurich and second prize at the "Marco Fiorindo" in Turin, etc.

Maura is a member of the Edison Trio and the ADM Ensemble from Modena, which specializes in the performance of contemporary repertoire, including many world premieres, and with which she performs in numerous concert seasons in Italy and abroad.

She has long worked with well-known ensembles such as the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, the Orchestra Sinfonica Haydn di Bolzano e Trento, and others.

She has taught at private academies and from 2005 to 2008 at the music school of the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana; she currently holds a professorship at the Istituto Comprensivo Magistri Intelvesi in Como

Caterina Carrier - Bassoon
She obtained her bassoon diploma in 1987 at the Conservatory of Music in Milan under the direction of Maestro Oscar Meana.

Further training at the "International Summer Academy Mozarteum" in Salzburg under the direction of Maestro Milan Turkovic and in 1991 in Lonato under the direction of Maestro Ovidio Danzi.

She performs intensively with major orchestras and ensembles: Orchestra Carlo Coccia, Orchestra Sinfonica G. Verdi and others under the direction of important conductors such as R. Chailly, R. Barshay, O. Caetani, C. Peterflor, etc.

Since 2003 she has been working with the opera project "Opera domani".

In the 2006/2007 season she worked with the Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano orchestra for the performance of the operas Faust by C. Gounod and Don Giovanni by Mozart.

She is currently working with Opera viva.

Ludovica Butti - Horn
Ludovica Butti completed her studies at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Como under the direction of Ezio Rovetta and then at the Milan Conservatory, where she graduated in 2007 under Angelo Borroni.

She completed her studies in the United States at Roosevelt University with Maestro Dale Clevenger and in Germany at the Musikhochschule in Detmold, where she graduated with honors in 2011 under the direction of Prof. Norbert Stertz.

She gained orchestral experience at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala, the Festival Junger Künstler Bayreuth, the Accademia Gustav Mahler in Bolzano and works with the Orchestra Haydn in Bolzano and Trento as well as the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan.

She has always been fascinated by the world of children and their ability to absorb music, and since 2021 she has been an AIGAM teacher according to Edwin E. Gordon's Music Learning Theory' from 0 to 6 years.

Program19.30 hrs | start of concert


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