Lorenzo Micheli Concert Information

On Monday, November 6, 2000 at 8:00 PM one of Italy's finest guitarists will play a concert on the Classical Guitar in the beautiful Dumke Hall, University of Utah Music Building. This concert is part of the 2000-2001 Guitar Master Series, and is jointly supported by a grant from the Utah Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, Washington, D.C.

Tickets are available online, from local UCGS ticket outlets, and at the door.  Tickets are priced at $15, $13 for advance tickets, students, seniors and members or $25 for the entire family (under 12 is free). Call 531-7066 for additional information.

Lorenzo Micheli Bio

Born in 1975, he studied in Milan with Paola Coppi and graduated with full marks 'cum laude" at the 'G. Tartini" Conservatory', Trieste, in 1996. He was a pupil of Frederic Zigante at the Foundation Mozart in Lausanne, and studied with Oscar Ghiglia at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and at the Musik-Akademie in Basel, where he got the Solistendiplom in 2000.

The juries of several international competitions have acknowledged his merits. He won second prize at the first International Competition "Dc Bonis", Cosenza. In 1996 he won the first prize at the T.I.M in Rome and achieved the first prize and the special prize "R. Chiesa" at the twenty-first Gargnano International Competition. The following year he was awarded the second prize at the XLIII International Competition "Maria Canals" in Barcelona, and the first prize at the thirtieth International Competition "Citta di Alessandria -M. Pittaluga". In 1999 he got the ARAM prize in Rome and the first prize at the XX International Competition 'M. Giuliani" in Ban. The same year he was the first Italian guitarist to be awarded the first prize at the prestigious seventeenth Guitar Foundation of America Competition in Charleston, SC, which included a recording on the NAXOS and Mel Bay record labels and a long solo concert tour touching over 50 cities of USA and Canada.

He has toured Europe, America, and Africa as a soloist and with orchestra. He recorded the concert works of the Spanish composer Dionisio Aguado (1784-1849) (CD 5TR33563), and a CD dedicated to the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Escarraman op. /77 and other works, NAXOS 8.554831).

Lorenzo Micheli Concert Reviews

Chitarre VI 1995

"He manages to create such a tension and a participation which we seldom happen to observe. The extremely natural way of playing, the excellent quality of the sound, the meaningfulness he is able to assign to every single note... all this evidences a very strong musical instinct. A musician to remember and to pay attention to".."

Corriere dell'Arte IV 1997

"Technical skillfulness, precision and a maturity in the performance which can compete with the biggest names"

Filippo Michelangeli, Suonare IX 1997

"His way of playing consists of two main ingredients: a great technical facility and an instinctive musicalness that immediately reaches the audience."