Nello Salza in concert for the Villammare Festival Film&Friends. On August 26th “The great soundtracks – the trumpet of cinema”.
On Friday 26 August, the Villammare Festival Film&Friends will host, as every year, the musical show dedicated to the great soundtracks. The interpreter will be Nello Salza, acclaimed “Trumpet of Italian Cinema” by critics, given that in his career he has recorded over 400 soundtracks and has played the leading role in the scores of films such as “Life is Beautiful”, “The Voice of the Moon”, “Once Upon a Time in America”, “The Legend of XNUMX”, “Cinema Paradiso”, “Il Postino”.
Accompanied by 3 musicians he will give another high class show to the competent audience of the Villammare Festival.
The awarding of the Oscar to the music of Ennio Morricone for the film “The Hateful Eight” and to Nicola Piovani for “Life is Beautiful” was the consecration of Nello Salza as the “Trumpet of Italian Cinema” as the critics have defined him, for his thirty-year activity which has seen him as the protagonist of the great and unforgettable themes often composed for him by the most famous composers of the big screen. Since 1984 he has recorded over 400 soundtracks as First Trumpet soloist with Maestros E. Morricone, N. Piovani, A. Trovajoli, R. Ortolani, P. Piccioni, L. Bacalov, R. Pregadio, B. Conti, F. De Masi, F. Piersanti, S. Cipriani, A. North, R. Serio, A. Di Pofi, B. Zambrini, F. Carpi,, covering the leading role in the scores of films such as "Life is Beautiful", "The Interview", "The Voice of the Moon", "Once Upon a Time in America", "The Legend of XNUMX", "Cinema Paradiso", "The Family", "The Octopus", "The Postman", "Heart", "Pinocchio", "The Caiman", "The Stendhal Syndrome", "The Untouchables", "The Marquis of Grillo" and in the latest masterpiece by Q. Tarantino. signed by the pen of Ennio Morricone “The Hateful Eight”. Former First Trumpet soloist of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, he has collaborated with several internationally renowned conductors such as GL Gelmetti, F. Mannino, N. Santi, G. Ferro, G. Patanè, D. Oren, Y. Ahronovitch, G. Kuhn, J. Tate, J. Nelson, B. Bartoletti, G. Bertini, M. Armiliato, Z. Pesko, D. Renzetti, W. Attanasi, W. Humburg, GL Zampieri; previously he held the same role at the Teatro S. Carlo in Naples, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Orchestra regionale Toscana and the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI.
With the Orchestra di S. Cecilia he has toured the five continents under the guidance of conductors such as L. Bernstein, L. Maazel, G. Pretre, W. Sawallisch, D. Gatti, G. Sinopoli, C. Thielemann and boasts numerous appearances at prestigious institutions such as the Gran Teatro “La Fenice” in Venice, the Italian Chamber Orchestra (Dir. S. Accardo), the Tuscan Regional Orchestra, the “A. Toscanini” Orchestra of Parma, the Solisti Aquilani, the Abruzzese Symphony Orchestra, the Musicians' Union of Rome, AMIT-Italian Music Academy, the G. Cantelli Orchestra, the International Orchestra of Italy, the Teatro Massimo of Palermo, the Symphony Orchestra of Rome.
He has been a guest several times on RAI television programs and on Mediaset networks, in 2021 he was the protagonist of the Sanremo Festival with the Homage to Maestro Ennio Morricone; he has also recorded several solo CDs ranging from classical repertoire to songs, to soundtracks. He is the winner of numerous competitions at the major musical institutions and is the winner of two National Competitions for teaching in Conservatories. His collaborations with artists such as S. Accardo, U. Ughi, L. Pavarotti, J. Carreras, P. Domingo, K. Ricciarelli, A. Bocelli, D. Modugno, Mina, C. Baglioni, A. Stewart, Zucchero, M. Nava, M. Gazzè are important. Artist and Testimonial for "Van Laar Trumpets & Flugelhorns", he plays with the BR2 model trumpet.
Nello Salza was born in Sutri (VT), he studied at the Conservatory of S. Cecilia in Rome under the guidance of the masters Leonardo Nicosia and Biagio Bartiloro. He holds the chair of Trumpet at the State Conservatory of Music S. Pietro a Majella in Naples.
Article published on 25 August 2022 - 15:05
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