Simone Mancuso

                  percussionist

 
 

          

 

 

 

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POSITION:

 

Percussion Instructor

Arena Sound Music Instruction, Falls Church, VA

 

 

Educational clinician as Artist in Residence

Strathmore Hall, Bethesda, MD

 

 

 

EDUCATION:

Swiss Soloist Diploma

University School of Music Lugano, Switzerland
(Professor Mircea Ardeleanu)

 

 

Italian Conservatory Diploma in Percussion

Conservatory of Music Antonio Scontrino, Trapani  Italy

(Professor Fulvia Ricevuto)

 


LANGUAGES: 

 

Italian, German, English



 

AWARDS:


Stockhausen Prize (interpretation)

Cologne, Germany

(Awarded to him directly by Karlheinz Stockhausen)

 

 

Honorary Diploma for Special Achievements (interpretation)

Collegiul National de Arta of Timisoara, Romania

 

 

International Prize for Interpretation “Stipendien Preise”

Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany

 

 

Award for the composition “Concertante” for vibraphone and ensemble

by composer’s competition “Primo Vere”

Palermo, Italy

 

 

Award for the composition “TAI” for flute, clarinet, cello and piano,                                        

by composer’s competition “Primo Vere”

Palermo, Italy

 

 

 

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENTS:

 

Nominated Director of the Sempach Mallet Ensemble

Musikschule Sempach, Lucerne, Switzerland

 

 

Selected by an international committee of the University School of                            

Music of Lugano to contend the prestigious Swiss Solisten Diplom

 

 

Ranked first in all “Wettbewerb” applied for (open teaching                                                 

position) obtaining 4 teaching position in different “Musikschulen”                             

of Switzerland

 

 

Scholarship Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany

 

 

Scholarship Chamber Orchestra “Gli Armonici”, Palermo, Italy

 

 

 

SOUND RECORDINGS:

 

Debut solo CD

Solo percussion works by Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage,

Salvatore Sciarrino, and Iannis Xenakis

(In recording process)

 

LINES

Mancuso-Suzda Project (duo sax and percussion)

Self produced

 

 

Ballet Mecanique by George Antheil

with the Lugano Percussion Group and the pianists of  the

Martha Argerich Project of Lugano, Switzerland

To be released by EMI classics

 

 

Percussion Ensemble Works

with the Lugano Percussion Group

To be released by Swiss Grammont

 

 

Darmstadt 2002

with the Darmstadt Ensemble

Released by Col Legno, Germany

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

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TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

 

Percussion Instructor at the Arena Sound Music Instruction,
Falls Church, Virginia USA

 

 

Teaching Assistant

Festivalul Intarnational de Percutie “Mircea Ardeleanu”
Timisoara, Romania

 

Director of the Sempach Mallet Ensemble.
Lucerne, Switzerland.

 

 

Classic Percussion Instructor at the Musikschule Hochdorf,
Lucerne, Switzerland.

 

Classic Percussion Instructor at the Musikschule Michelsamt,
Lucerne, Switzerland.

 

Drum-set Instructor at the Musikschule Domat Ems,
Graubuenden, Switzerland.

 

 

Classic Percussion Instructor at the Musikschule Sempach,
Lucerne Switzerland.

 


 

OTHER APPLIED PERCUSSION:

 

 

MUSIC OUTSIDE THE BOX – RESIDENCY PROGRAM

Strathmore Artist in Residence, Bethesda Maryland

Educational clinics about:

- Timbre and color of the sounds

- Multiple mallet choices for vibes

- Combing classical and jazz elements

- Complex rhythms and forms based on classical contemporary style 

- Constantly changing rhythms and form shifts

- Electronic music

- Chance music

- Improvisation 
 
 

Percussion Section

<:PlaceName>Montgomery College Orchestra, Rockville, Maryland

 

 

 

COLLABORATIONS:

 

 

Composers:

 

Karlheinz Stockhausen, (Germany)

Salvatore Sciarrino, (Italy)

Klaus Huber (Germany)

Edoardo Soto Milan (Mexico)

Diego Uzal (Argentina)

Rudolf Kelterborn (Switzerland)

Mathias Steinauer (Switzerland)

Eric Verbugt (The Netherlands)

Giovanni Damiani (Italy)

Alberto Jacopucci (Italy)

Gianluca Ulivelli (Italy)

Federico Costanza (Italy)

Andreas Stauder (Switzerland)

Nam-Kuk Kim (Korea)

 

 

Conductors:

 

Alexander Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (Azerbaijan) 

Johannes Kalitzke (Germany)

Denise Fedeli (Switzerland)

Francesco La Licata (Italy)

Marco Berdondini (Italy)

Umberto Bruno (Italy)

Diego Fasolis (Switzerland)

Giorgio Bernasconi (Italy)

Fumio Okura (Japan)

Claude Villaret (Switzerland)

Peter Trofimenko (Russia)

 

 

Players:

 

Martha Argerich (Argentina)

Chuck Redd, (USA)

Mircea Ardeleanu (Romania)

Alexander Mogilewsky (Russia)

Alexandre Gurning (Belgium)

Michele Marelli (Italy)

Jeff Suzda (USA)

Laura Alvarez (Argentina)

Gianluca Ruggeri (Italy)

 

 

Orchestras (as soloist):

 

Basel Sinfonietta (Switzerland)

Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)

Orchestra da Camera Ungherese (Hungary)

 

 

Orchestras (as principal percussionist):

 

Orchestra Philharmonica I Virtuosi di Roma (Italy)

Coro della Radio Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland)

Gli Armonici (Italy)

American Balalaika Orchestra (USA)

Landon Symphonette (USA)

 

 

Ensembles:

 

Ensemble '900 (Switzerland)

Sonus Ensemble (Switzerland)

Lugano Percussion Group (Switzerland)

Tàlea Ensemble (Italy)

Darmstadt's Ensemble (Germany)

Zephir Ensemble (Italy)

 
 


 Organizations:

 

 

Theatres/Halls:

 

Strahtmore Hall (Bethesda, USA)

Teatro Al Massimo (Palermo, Italy)

Teatro Colosseo (Rome, Italy)

Teatro Biondo (Palermo, Italy)

Piccolo Teatro (Catania, Italy)

Teatro Levino de Alcantara (Brasilia, Brazil)

Teatro Carlos Galvao (Brasilia, Brazil)

Teatro Nacional Claudio Santoro- Sala Villa Lobos (Brasilia, Brazil)

Teatro Guaira (Curitiba, Brazil)

Strahtmore Mansion (Bethesda, USA)

Schlesinger Hall  (Alexandria Virginia, USA)

       


Festivals:

 

ISCM World New Music Days (Aarau , Switzerland)

Festival Martha Argerich (Lugano, Switzerland)

Mediamorfosi '98 (Pisa, Italy)

Festival del '900 (Palermo, Italy)

Il Suono dei Soli (Palermo, Italy)

Palazzo dei Congressi Lugano (Switzerland)

Pekarsky Festival (Moscow Russia)

 

 

Other Corporations:

 

Fondazione Teatro Massimo (Palermo, Italy)

Amici della Musica (Trapani, Italy)

Radio Rai 3 (Palermo, Italy)

Expo' 02 (Murten, Switzerland)

Ticino Musica '03 (Lugano, Switzerland)

Ceresio Estate '03 (Lugano, Switzerland)

Spazio Novecento (Cremona, Italy)

Musica del Novecento (Palermo, Italy)

Internationales Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik (Darmstadt, Germany)

University of Belo Horizonte (Brazil)

Il Mito (Roma, Italy)

Musica su più dimensioni (Palermo, Italy)

Musica incontri 1999 (Palermo, Italy)

Conservatorio Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland)

Auditorio Radio Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland)

Colegiul National De Arta “Ion Vidu” (Timisoara, Romania)

Universit of Zuerich - Winterthur  (Switzerland)

University of Lausanne (Switzerland)

University of la Chaux de Fonds (Switzerland)