HOW TO FACE A CONCERT CAREER
Teacher: M° Filippo Michelangeli
The Seminar includes a meeting held by the journalist and director of Amadeus and Suonare news magazines, Filippo Michelangeli, during which we will delve into the repertoire, the approach with other musicians, the proposals to send to artistic directors, the management of bureaucratic aspects, the contents that work best on social networks, the awareness and real prospects of the concert performer 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.