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"Don't touch" was what Carlotta Dalia heard as a child when it came to guitars. Luckily, she revolted against this order and now delights audiences with her playing on historical and modern guitars, even outside of sworn guitar circles.
Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata K14
Domenico Scarlatti, Sonata K208
Fernando Sor, Gran Solo Op.14
Francisco Tarrega, Capricho Arabe
Andres Segovia, Estudio sin Luz
Leo Brouwer, Hika
Francis Poulenc, Sarabanda
Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, Capriccio No. 18
Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco, Capriccio No. 20
Carlotta Dalia, guitar
Franz Schubert, Sonata in A minor D 821 (Arpeggione)
Enrique Granados, Romanza
Enrique Granados, Danza española “Andaluza” Op. 37 No 5
Enrique Granados, Danza española “Oriental” Op. 37 No 2
Gaspar Cassadó, Suite für Violoncello
Isaac Albéniz, Còrdoba
Joaquín Rodrigo, Passacaglia and Zapatedo from : Three Three Spanish Pieces Spanish Pieces
Manuel de Falla, Siete canciones populares españolas
Maximilian Hornung, violoncello
Carlotta Dalia's playing represents the excellence of the Italian tradition - which is at the highest level - and she is on the verge of becoming a world leader in the art of the guitar. Maestro Angelo Gilardino, Suonare News
Born in Tuscany in 1999, guitarist Carlotta Dalia is attracting attention with her passionate and deep interpretations, carried by a round and powerful tone. Since giving her first solo concert at the age of twelve, she has won over 40 national and international competitions, including first prizes in Uppsala, Hong Kong, Miami, and Madrid, as well as at the International Competition Niccolò Paganini in Parma.
She is now a regular guest on concert stages worldwide - tours have taken her to Italy, Spain, Germany, Austria, Portugal, Poland, Hungary, Sweden, Russia, Ireland, Japan, Lettland, the Netherlands, various South American countries, China, and Switzerland, for example. For some time now, she has been performing repeatedly as a duo with violinist Giuseppe Gibboni, the current winner of the Paganini Violin Competition in Genoa in 2021 - the two played, among other places, in Rome's Quirinal Palace at the invitation of Italian President Sergio Mattarella; the concert was broadcast live on Italian radio. Recent concerts also took Carlotta Dalia throughout Italy as well as to with Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Guitar Concerto No. 1 together with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra to Uppsala; she has also performed in Norway, Brazil, Athens and the Nikolaisaal Postdam and has given a recital and orchestral concerts at the Staatstheater Darmstadt.. In the coming season, she will perform in Florence, Lima, Santiago de Chile, at the Segovia Foundation in Linares and as a duo with Maximilian Hornung in Friedrichshafen.
She released her first CD Gran Solo with works by Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Scarlatti, Bach, and Sor at the age of 16. A second recording, including compositions by Bach's contemporary Silvius Leopold Weiss, followed in 2018. In 2020, she recorded a sonatina by Angelo Gilardino dedicated to her under the title Angelus, which was released together with works by other composers; in the same year, her recording of the complete guitar works by Ida Presti appeared. For this recording she was awarded the Chitarre d'oro prize in Milan in October 2022. A solo album with works by Andrés Segovia and a new composition by Enrico Melozzi will be released in spring 2025 on the Berlin Classics label, which recently signed the young guitarist.
Carlotta Dalia began playing the guitar at the age of eight and graduated with distinction in 2017 from the renowned Accademia Chigiana in Siena, where she studied with Oscar Ghiglia. She completed postgraduate studies as a student of Laura Young at the Mozarteum Salzburg in 2022 and has been a D'Addario Artist since 2016. She is supported by Classically Connected, Inc. (formerly Si-Yo Music Foundation) in New York and the Adopt a Musician Foundation in Lugano - the latter also kindly lent her the 1939 Hermann Hauser I guitar that he built for Andrès Segovia. Carlotta Dalia also plays the Matthias Dammann 2023 guitar. She has been a lecturer at the Conservatorio Lucio Campani in Mantova since 2023.
Season 2024/25
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for Guitar solo
1)
J. S. Bach: Largo and Allegro from Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV1003
F. Poulenc: Sarabande
I. Presti: Etude "En pensant à Bach"
I. Presti: Danse rythmique
M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Capriccio diabolico Op. 85
J. Rodrigo: Dos preludios
H. Villa-Lobos: 5 Preludes
2) Homage to Andrés Segovia
M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Tonadilla sul nome di Andrés Segovia
F. Moreno-Torroba: Piezas Características
G. Casadò: Sardana Chigiana
M. M. Ponce: Sonata III
I. Albéniz: Asturias
J. Rodrigo: Passacaglia e Zapateado from "Très Piezas Españolas"
Duo with Giuseppe Gibboni (Violin)
N. Paganini: Sonata Concertata Op, 61
N. Paganini: Capricci No. 1, 5, 14 (violin solo)
N. Paganini, F. Tárrega: Variazioni sul carnevale di Venezia
M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Capriccio No. 18
A. Piazzolla: Histoire du Tango - Bordel 1900, Café 1930, Nightclub 1960
N. Paganini: La Campanella
Duo with Maximilian Hornung (Violoncello)
F. Schubert: (DUO) Sonata “Arpeggione”
E. Granados: (DUO) Romanza
— interval (optional) —
E. Granados: (DUO)
Danza española op.37 n.5 Andaluza
Danza española op. 37 n.2 Oriental
G. Cassadò: (Solo Cello) Suite for cello solo
I. Albeniz: (DUO) Còrdoba
J. Rodrigo: (Solo Guitar) Passacaglia and Zapatedo from Tres piezas Espanolas for guitar
M. De Falla: (DUO) Siete canciones populares Españolas
Duo with Alina Wunderlin (Soprano)
Love’s Embrace
J. Dowland: Come again sweet love*, Flow my tears, In darkness let me dwell
J. C. Oliva: No es que muera de amor*
J. Rodrigo: Adela*, Aranjuez ma pensée*, En Jerez de la frontera, Zapateado (solo guitar)*
B. Strozzi: Che si puo fare, È pazzo i mio core, Amor dormiglione*
— interval —
A. Sartorio: Quando voglio (from Giulio Cesare in Egitto)
F. Caccini: Chi desia di saper che cos’ è amore*, S’io m’en vo (from Il primo libro delle musiche)
E. Cordero: La Hamaca, Cállate silencio mío*
H. Villa-Lobos: Aria (from Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5)*
A. Piazzolla: Invierno porteño (solo guitar)*
M. de Falla: Siete Canciones populares españoles (featured as part of the short programme* variant: Nos. 1–3, 5, 6, 4)
*Also available as short programme (~45′, no intermission) consisting of the marked pieces.
“The version for violin and guitar of Paganini’s Campanella performed by Gibboni and Dalia closed the concert with fireworks of exceptional brilliance and design. There were applause and encores galore.”
Rivista Musica, Maurizio Modugno, 26/02/2023
“… rarely have I heard this Ciaccona played with such efficacy and poetry as here by Carlotta Dalia.”
Rivista Musica, Roberto Brusotti, 03/2022
“Carlotta Dalia represents with her art the excellence of a tradition – the Italian one – that flies very high, preparing to become a world protagonist of the art of guitar.”
Suonare News, Maestro Angelo Gilardino, 2018
“Carlotta Dalia showed an extremely high level of technical accomplishment and musical understanding. Her tone was clear and resonant, and she projected her musical ideas clearly to the audience. We see a bright future for her on the concert stage.“
Uppsala International Guitar Competition Festival, Awarding 2017
Zapateado by Joaquin Rodrigo | Carlotta Dalia
Tango en Skaï by Roland Dyens | Carlotta Dalia
Concerto in Do RV425 by Antonio Vivaldi | Carlotta Dalia
One day in Siena with Carlotta Dalia
Carlotta Dalia | "Ständchen" by F. Schubert arranged by J.K. Mertz | Open Strings Berlin
Carlotta Dalia | Sonata K144 by Domenico Scarlatti
Carlotta Dalia - Online Concert | Bach, Scarlatti, Piazzolla, Paganini & Tedesco
Carlotta Dalia - CLASSICAL GUITAR CONCERT - Inside a Historic Italian Villa - Omni On-Location
Francisco Tárrega's "Capricho Árabe"
F. Tárrega: Variaciones sobre "El Carnaval de Venecia" de Paganini
dotGuitar.it, 2021, G 2111
dotGuitar.it, Nov 2020, G 2010
dotGuitar.it, Jan 2017, G 1612