Olbia. Gabriele Deiana, guitar teacher at the Fabrizio De André Artistic and Musical High School in Olbia/Tempio, presented the excellence of the Gallura Institute at the sixtieth edition of the 2024 Venice Art Biennale.
On 18 April the teacher performed at the inauguration of the international event at Palazzo Donà dalle Rose with the students Michele Padovan (guitar), Andrea Careddu (piano), Matteo Manzoni (flute) who attend the Liceo Musicale of Olbia and who for the On this occasion they formed the Ensemble Terranoa.
The Sardinian musicians invited for the occasion by the Donà dalle Rose Foundation, led by Chiara and Francesco Donà dalle Rose, performed a varied program ranging from baroque to contemporary music. Padovan opened the evening with two guitar pieces: one by the Apulian virtuoso Mauro Giuliani Variations sur Les folies d’Espagne And Watercolors by the American composer Andrew York, former member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Padovan and Matteo Manzoni later performed Bagatelle for Leaa contemporary piece for flute and guitar composed by Deiana in 2015 and recently published on the album Georgina’s Rumba: latest recording work by the Gallura virtuoso which includes the participation of the musicians of Paco de Lucia’s sextet and the Cuban winners of the Latin Grammy 2021 Iván “Melón” Lewis and Alain Pérez.
The musical intervention ended in quartet with the Ensemble Terranoa with a tribute to the city of Venice thanks to an adaptation of Deiana, for 2 guitars, flute and continuous bass, from Concerto in D Major RV 93 by Antonio Vivaldi composed in 1730. The adaptation of the famous concert by the Venetian composer was created together with the high school piano teacher Francesco Alessandro Meloni. Padovan and Careddu, in addition to having distinguished themselves in various national and international competitions, are brilliantly finishing their high school studies in fifth grade followed by teachers Deiana and Rossella Cugurra respectively. Matteo Manzoni, in his first musical experience overseas, attends the third class and is a student of the Paduan teacher Elia Guglielmo.
