Michele Esposito, born in 1855 close to Naples, was a composer, musical director and pianist.
From 1882 he started teaching piano at the Music Academy in Dublin where, in 1889, he founded the Dublin Orchestral Society.
He lived in Ireland until 1928, continuing to work as a composer, performer and conductor. He won several prestigious awards, and he founded a publishing house which made available several musical scores, personally transcribed by Esposito. Some of his work is inspired by Irish folklore and tradition.
Annalisa Monticelli, pianist and lecturer in Dublin, will tells us the fascinating story, not often heard, of this musician, whose classic musical culture in Ireland is greatly indebted.
Tuesday 21st June 2022 at 6.30pm
Event in the context of the Festa della Musica 2022.
Free event on Zoom, for booking click HERE.
Bio
Annalisa Monticelli is a highly sought-after musician, having performed internationally as a soloist, with ensembles and various orchestras. She studied Classical, Latin-American and Jazz Piano, Voice, Conducting, Chamber Music and Music Education in Italy, Argentina, and the USA.
As a student, she won numerous international Chamber competitions and performed expensively in Italy, where she completed a Masters in piano, Music education and post-graduate certificates in Chamber music (Academia di Fiesole) and Advance Piano (with Mtro. Daniel Rivera).
After spending 3 years in America, she moved to Ireland to work as an instrumental accompanist for the Royal Irish Academy of Music where she later became Italian diction coach and vocal coach. In 2015 she became Assistant Lecturer-repetiteur at Dundalk Institute of Technology where she also served as Music Programme Director and now serves as Program Director for the new Musical theatre programme launching in September 2022.
Since her arrival to Ireland, she has appeared in all major Irish venues and has released several CDs and In recent years she taught and performed in Warsaw, Zurich, Vilnius, Glasgow, Paris, Johor Bahru (Malaysia) and toured the USA. She also collaborates regularly with INO as an Italian Diction coach.
She is an eclectic musician, that loves performing classical music alongside Tango, Jazz and Latin-American Music; both as a pianist and a singer. She is also a PhD candidate in Tu Dublin where she researches Michele Esposito and his Dublin based piano school.