P R O G R A M N O T E SFRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2016 | 7:30 P.M. |
LIED CENTER OF KANSAS
KU SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - RAFFAELE CIPRIANO, CONDUCTOR
Overture to La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Gioacchino
Rossini(1792-1868)
Le carnaval des animaux (Carnival of the Animals) Camille
Saint-SaënsIntro & Royal March of the Lion (1835-1921)Hens and
RoostersWild Donkeys – Fleet
AnimalsTortoisesL’éléphantKangaroosAquariumPeople with long
earsCuckoo in the Depths of the WoodsAviaryPianistsFossilsThe
SwanFinale
Sunjung Lee and Taeri Lee, piano
Les Toréadors from Carmen Georges Bizet (1838-1875)
COSTUME PARADE
Flight of the bumblebee from Tale of the Tsar Saltan Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)
Overture to The Wasps: Aristophanic Suite Ralph Vaughan Williams
(1872-1958)
COSTUME AWARDS
Duetto buffo di due gatti (Cats’ Duet) Gioacchino Rossini
(1792-1868)
arr. Raffaele Cipriano
Michaela Mack, soprano and Brian Sussman, tenor
Hoe-Down from Rodeo Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Finale from Swan Lake Piotr Ilych Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)
Dancers from the University Dance Company
THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
RAFFAELE CIPRIANORaffaele Cipriano is an Italian conductor,
composer, and pianist, as well as a computer scientist. He earned
his bachelor’s degrees in piano performance and in orchestral
conducting at the Conservatories of Padova and Venice, studying
with Romano Zancan (piano) and Michael Summers (conducting). He
also studied with Romolo Gessi at the European Academy of
Conducting in Vicenza. He worked and studied as an opera
accompanist, obtaining a Master of Music in collaborative piano -
opera coaching in Padova, with Edoardo Lanza. He studied
composition with Giovanni Bonato and has been his assistant for
several years, focusing on ancient and contemporary polychoral
works for spatialized choirs.
Cipriano has been active in the Veneto area as conductor of the
G.E.S. Male and Youth choirs, the Padovensemble Lyric Group, and
the Orchestra Sperimentale. He has conducted in important venues of
that region, such as the Olimpic Theatre in Vicenza, the Pollini
Auditorium in Padova, and the St. Mark Cathedral in Venice. In 2012
he wrote the short opera Cecè, based on a play by the Italian Nobel
Prize winner Luigi Pirandello. The opera has been performed in
Venice and in Padova, with overwhelmingly positive feedback from
both the audience and the artists. In the summer of 2015, he was
vocal coach and music conductor for the opera Prima la musica, poi
le parole by Antonio Salieri, at the International Chamber Music
Festival in Lapedona, Italy.
In 2015 Cipriano started the DMA program in orchestral
conducting at the University of Kansas, under the supervision of
Professor David Neely. During the spring semester he worked as
Italian diction coach and assistant conductor for the KU production
of The Marriage of Figaro. In the spring of 2016 he conducted
several productions in Lawrence: the ballet Peter and the Wolf for
the Lawrence Art Center, the comic opera Mr. Petitpois Buys a
Castle by Germain Tailleferre at the Swarthout Recital Hall, and
the KU production of the musical Little Women at the Crafton-Preyer
Theatre. In the spring of 2017 he will be diction coach and
assistant conductor for the KU production of Don Giovanni.
Mr. Cipriano also has an academic background in information
technology, with a PhD in computer science earned at the University
of Udine and 5 months of post-doctoral research on artificial
intelligence at New Mexico State University in 2010. He is
currently working on web-based interactive projects with the aim of
bringing state-of-the-art technology into the music world, both in
the learning and performing processes.