Program:
Mario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO (1895-1968)
24 Caprichos de Goya, Op. 195 II
Tal para cuál (Birds of a Feather)
XIV Por que fue sensible (Because She Was Sensitive)
XIII Quién más rendido? (Who Could Be More Devoted?)
Manuel PALAU (1893-1967)
Fantasía
Mario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Sonata, Op. 77 “Omaggio a Boccherini”
I. Allegro con spirito
II. Andantino, quasi canzone
III. Tempo di Minuetto
IV. Presto furioso
INTERMISSION
Lorenzo MICHELI (1975)
The Book of Trees (2026). Spanish Premiere
I Quaking Aspen
II Plains Cottonwood
III Oak Tree (Passacaglia)
Mario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
24 Caprichos de Goya, Op. 195
VIII Dios la perdone: y era su madre (May God Forgive Her: and It Was Her Mother)
IV Ni así la distingue (Even So, He Does Not Recognize Her)
XII No hubo remedio (There Was No Help for It) (Passacaglia on the “Dies irae” theme)
Benjamin BRITTEN (1913-1976)
Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op. 70
Musingly
Very agitated
Restless
Uneasy
March-like
Dreaming
Gently rocking
Passacaglia (Measured) – Slow and quiet
Lorenzo Micheli has performed throughout Europe, in two hundred cities across the United States and Canada, as well as in Africa, Asia, Australia, and Latin America, both as a soloist and with orchestras. Since 2002, he has performed worldwide as part of the duo “SoloDuo” alongside Matteo Mela, appearing on stages such as Carnegie Hall in New York, Sejong Hall in Seoul, the Hall of Columns in Kyiv, and the Konzerthaus in Vienna. *The Washington Post* described the duo as “extraordinarily sensitive—nothing short of ravishing.”
His discography—comprising over 20 titles on labels including Decca, Naxos, Stradivarius, Pomegranate, Contrastes, and Evidence—features the music of Dionisio Aguado; the Quartets, Op. 19, by François de Fossa; sonatas by the Viennese composer Ferdinand Rebay; a CD of 17th-century Italian music for baroque guitar, archlute, and theorbo; a collection of arias and cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti; the complete guitar concertos and the 24 Preludes and Fugues for two guitars by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco; a double CD of chamber masterpieces by Mauro Giuliani; the complete works for guitar by Miguel Llobet; the *Duos Concertants* by Antoine de Lhoyer; three anthologies of music for two guitars (*Noesis*, *Solaria*, and *Metamorphoses*); and the albums *Morning in Iowa* (with David Knopfler) and *Autumn of the Soul*. In 2019, Decca Records released *Beethoven for Two*, featuring a selection of Beethoven’s sonatas arranged by the duo for two guitars. SoloDuo’s most recent recording—12 sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti—was released in 2024 by the French label Evidence.
Lorenzo studied Greek and Latin literature at the University of Milan. He was a guitar professor at the Conservatoire de la Vallée d’Aoste in Italy from 2005 to 2014. Currently, he serves as a guitar professor and head of the Performance Department at the University School of Music in Lugano, Switzerland. He regularly gives lectures and masterclasses at some of the world’s leading music schools, including USC, the University of Texas at Austin, the Peabody Conservatory, the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Kunstuniversität Graz), the Conservatorium van Amsterdam, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, Northwestern University, the University of Toronto, and the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan. His other pedagogical commitments include an annual residency at both the University of Colorado Boulder and Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia. He has also served as a visiting professor at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain; the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland; and the A. Boito Conservatory in Parma, Italy.
Lorenzo Micheli uses D’Addario strings.
