The Institute of Instrumental Music at the Academy of Music and the City of Poznań kindly invite you to a lecture by prof. Olivia Centurioni titled "Perfezione della moderna musica". Italian Ornamentation at the end of the 16th century between "Prima e Seconda Prattica". The lecture will take place on 21 November at 18.00, at the Villa on ul. Wieniawskiego 3 in Poznań.
Olivia Centurioni took her first violin lessons from her parents Paolo Centurioni and Margaret Martin. In 1984 she was accepted into Alfredo Fiorentini's class at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. Then, from 1992, she continued her studies in the Konzertklasse of prof. Adelina Oprean at the Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel. Two years later, due to her growing interest in early music, she passed to the baroque violin class led by Prof. Chiara Banchini in the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
Her career in the world of early music has led to collaborations with numerous prestigious ensembles: Ensemble 415 (Chiara Banchini), Concerto Vocale (R. Jacobs), Le Concert des Nations i Hesperion XX (J. Savall), Concerto Italiano (R. Alessandrini), Ensemble La Fenice (J. Tubery), Le Poeme Harmonique (V. Dumestre). Olivia Centurioni was also a concertmistress of many well-known and respected ensembles such as: Ensemble Zefiro (A. Bernardini), Ensemble Elyma (G. Garrido), Les Musiciens du Louvre (M. Minkowsky), Al Aire Espanol (L. Banzo), Complesso Barocco (A. Curtis), La Risonanza (F. Bonizzoni), Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid, Divino Sospiro (E. Onofri), Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, Les Agrements, Ensemble Cantatio (J. Duxbury), Orquesta Barroca Catalana. Since 2009, she has been concertmistress of the Academia Montis Regalis orchestra led by Alessandro De Marchi. She also leads guest projects by the ensembles Camerata Bern, Camerata Antigua de Curitiba, Orquesta Barroca Catalana, Altberg Ensemble.
She has recorded for many record labels: Harmonia Mundi (Germany/France/Spain), Sony, RCA, Zig-Zag, Stradivarius, Supraphon, Ars Musici, Pierre Verany, Alia Vox, Atma Classic, Archiv, K617, Virgin Veritas, Glossa.
She taught baroque violin at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Turin, the S. Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples, the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in L'Aquila and the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatory in Paris. Currently, she teaches at the Guido Cantelli Conservatory in Novara. She has given numerous masterclasses in Baroque violin, including in Guadassuar (Valencia), Granada, Pamplona, Montfrin, Warsaw, Orte and Łódź.
Olivia Centurioni also actively lectures and teaches during chamber music and orchestral masterclasses: orchestral and chamber music tutor at the Orchestra de l'Académie Baroque Européenne d'Ambronay in 2000 (Monteverdi "Vesper") and in 2006 (Cavalli "Ercole Lover"), lecturer at the "Centre Culturel de rencontres" in Ambronay with Gabriel Garrido (repertoire devoted to Italian music of the early 17th century). Prof. Centurioni conducts and works on the interpretation of Baroque repertoire with the Heidelberg Opera House Orchestra. She is regularly invited to conduct the Academia Montis Regalis Youth Orchestra.
She plays on a 1764 Egidius Klotz violin.
Prof. Olivia Centurioni, in addition to teaching at the Guido Cantelli Conservatory in Novara, regularly lectures at a number of master classes (Guadassuar, Granada, Pamplona, Montfrin, Warsaw, Orte, Łódź). Her work focuses primarily on issues relating to early Baroque Italian repertoire, the art of ornamentation, and violin treatises.