Stefano, the promise of music that is sold out at the age of 25. March 2, 2019

Stefano, the promise of music that is sold out at the age of 25
Teani’s debut opera successfully staged in Austria He began playing at the age of 8 and collaborated with Muti ______________________________________________________

IL TIRRENO (Italy) – ROSSELLA LUCCHESI

March 2, 2019

On January 3, he turned 25 and received the best gift he could expect: the staging of his first opera, which had its world premiere in a large, fully sold-out theater. An unforgettable evening for the young Lucchese musician and composer Stefano Teani, promise of international classical music, recalled several times on the stage of the Festspielehaus in the city of Erl in Austria, to receive the applause of the audience at the end of the performance of the opera “Maximilian” written four hands with Beomseok Yi on libretto by Robert Prosser.

It is the story of Emperor Maximilian I of Habsburg, the second Habsburg emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, a lover of the good life, of the arts, but above all of women, whose five hundredth anniversary of his death is celebrated this year. A complex work in drafting and execution which, however, has managed to convince the public and critics, opening the doors of success to the young artist from Lucca who has lived on bread and music since childhood.

In fact, in 2002, at the age of eight, Stefano Teani’s journey into the world of seven notes began. He likes music and he would like to learn to play that piano in his living room, bought years earlier for his sister Elena who then moved to London to work in finance.

His parents comply with his wishes and enroll him in the Scuola Sinfonia which he attends for five years, followed by professor Nadia Lencioni. In 2007 he moved to Boccherini, where he studied with Maria Gloria Belli, one of the most appreciated teachers of the institute. But it is not enough for him to interpret the music. He wishes to compose it following his own emotions. He asks his teacher for advice and Renzo Cresti, director of the Lucca conservatory at the time, who entrusted him to his colleague Pietro Rigacci.

After just eight months, he brilliantly passed the entrance exam to the composition class, studying day and night, because he attended Vallisneri and had to think about maturity exam too. He enrolled in the philosophy faculty in Pisa, but after four years and half of the exams passed, he drops out of school and throws himself headlong into music. He has understood that that will be his way of him.

He doesn’t belong to a family of musicians, Stefano. Only the great-grandfather delighted with the harmonium and conducted a choir. His father Vasco works in a bank and his mother Clara Saponati in a pharmaceutical company. The other sister, Roberta, studied guitar for a while, then she worked in a paper mill. In 2014 comes the diploma in piano and three years later in composition. Then many experiences in Italy and abroad with masters of the caliber of Aquiles delle Vigne, Azio Corghi, Mauro Bonifacio and Riccardo Muti who chose him from among 150 candidates to work on Traviata. There is little free time left. Just enough to cultivate the passion for martial arts that he practiced since childhood “useful, he says, to learn the discipline and concentrate on the scores and details of a musical performance”.

A promising career, that of Stefano Teani who, after the success of Maximilian, focuses above all on composition, while dreaming of becoming an orchestra conductor and conducting Tosca by Giacomo Puccini «the composer I appreciate most, comments on why his melodies are unique and because I consider him a true innovator. Too bad, however, that

Lucca does not celebrate him as he deserves, dedicating a season to him every year. Puccini, he adds, was the last true opera player. After him, few have been successful, due to a fragmentation of languages and aesthetics and the absence of currents of thought “. Some small experience – on the Boccherini podium – has already been, but he was stimulated by Maestro Gustav Kuhn with whom he has been collaborating for years “whom I thank for believing in me, entrusting me with the drafting and orchestration of the opera, known through the musician and composer Girolamo Deraco, professor of the Cluster course named after Giacomo Puccini, thanks to whom I staged “S’è desta” my first opera experiment last May». Stefano Teani’s path – which is harmoniously inspired by Ravel and Skriabin – is therefore traced and who knows if one day he will be able to perform together with his girlfriend Agnese who is about to graduate in flute at Boccherini.

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