SEMINAR: HOW TO DEAL WITH A CONCERT CAREER BY PLAYING THE GUITAR
Teacher: M° Filippo Michelangeli
The seminar held by the guitarist and journalist Filippo Michelangeli, will be presented in one meeting in which the repertoire and the approach with other musicians will be explored in depth , the proposals to be sent to the artistic directors, the management of the bureaucratic aspects, the awareness and the real prospects of the “concert performer’s profession”.
Filippo Michelangeli (Forlì, 1966), journalist, publisher, musician. At 21 he graduated in guitar from the Piacenza Conservatory, where he also studied piano and composition. In 1991 he founded Seicorde, a guitar quarterly. The following year he founded the Isme, the European Music Institute in Milan, today one of the most important educational institutions in the Lombard capital. In 1995 he founded Suonare news, the musicians’ monthly magazine, of which he is still the editor-in-chief today. The monthly magazine was later accompanied by the “Music Pages” yearbook. In 1996 he established the International Guitar Conference in Milan, of which he is still president, and the “Golden Key” in Perugia. In 2003 he received the Arts and Culture Award at the Senate Palace in Milan. Already artistic director of the Pordenone Music Festival and of the “Diapason d’oro” competition, since 2017 he has been a councilor of Dismamusica, the most important Italian association representing manufacturers, distributors, retailers and music publishers. Since 2021 he has been the editor-in-chief of the monthly magazine Amadeus. Since 2022 he has been artistic director of the international chamber music festival Bresciasuona. Piero Rattalino wrote of him: «He is the most expert man in the music market that exists in Italy». He lives and works in Milan.