{"id":8383,"date":"2018-02-11T20:47:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-11T18:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=8383"},"modified":"2018-02-11T20:47:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-11T18:47:40","slug":"francesco-mammola-mandolin-player-from-italy-mandolin-concertos-and-italian-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=8383","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Mammola &#8211; Mandolin Player from Italy  &#8211; Mandolin Concertos and Italian Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Francesco Mammola<\/strong> is a young mandolin player from Italy. He has studied in Aquila and has passed with distinction in 2015. His favorite instrument is the mandolin, but he plays the piano and the accordion as well.<\/p>\n<p>During the last years he has given many concerts in Italy and whole Europe. Last year he gave a concert at the festival\u00a0\u201cLe strade d\u2018Europa\u201d in Lithuania. The videos made by the local TV station are available at youtube with mandolin concertos by Caudioso, Giuliano and Vivaldi.<\/p>\n<h4>Playliste Francesco Mammola und \u010ciurlionis Quartet<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>Francesco Mammola, mandolin<\/p>\n<p>Nijol\u0117 Dorot\u0117ja Beniu\u0161yt\u0117, harpsichord<\/p>\n<p>\u010cIURLIONIS STRING QUARTET:<\/p>\n<p>Jonas Tankevi\u010dius (I Violin)<\/p>\n<p>Darius Dik\u0161aitis (II Violin)<\/p>\n<p>Gediminas Da\u010dinskas (Viola)<\/p>\n<p>Saulius Lip\u010dius (Violoncello)<\/p>\n<p>Filmed at the 9th International Music Festival \u201cLe strade d\u2018Europa\u201d, 12th November 2017, Vilnius<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Francesco Mammola und \u010ciurlionis Quartet\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLC878J8mcBo8XwrEfvvFh5B8SJyQOTfLt\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Francesco Mammola is very active as a mandolin teacher and director of youth ensembles like the\u00a0<strong>Giovane Orchestra Pescolana.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the following video he plays the famous song\u00a0<strong>Tu vu\u00f2 f\u00e0 l&#8217;americano<\/strong> by <strong>Renato Carrosone<\/strong> to present the mandolin:<\/p>\n<h4>Tu vu\u00f2 f\u00e0 l&#8217;americano<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Francesco Mammola - &quot;Tu vu\u00f2 f\u00e0 l&#039;americano&quot; (mandolino)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Iq1UeTrW1hk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I have made a large playlist with videos with <strong>Francesco Mammola<\/strong>. The playlist starts with the videos of a concert given in November 2016. Mammola plays the mandolin together with clarinet, bossoon and piano. The play Italian music with works by\u00a0Ennio Morricone, Rossini, music from the movie La Vita \u00e8 Bella, Carneval of Venice, a potpourri with Neapolitan folk songs and the Czardas by Vittorio Monti. The playlist includes some videos from the EXPO in Milano in 2015 where Francesco Mammola played Italian folk music together with Lino Giusti on the guitar.<\/p>\n<p>A concert of the\u00a0<strong>Quintetto a Pizzico Aquilano<\/strong> with Francesco Mammola given in London in June 2013 is also included in the playlist.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h4>Playlist Francesco Mammola &#8211; Mandolin<\/h4>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Francesco Mammola - Mandolino\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/videoseries?list=PLC878J8mcBo8RkHcCOgeBagwEVn0JGNfN\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Weitere Informationen<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francescomammola.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website Francesco Mammola<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Biography (from Francesco Mammola website:<\/p>\n<p><em>Considered as an enfant prodige since his childhood, Francesco Mammola received appreciation and great estimations from many music critics. After his field of studies, under the guide of M\u00b0 Fabio Giudice, he graduated cum laude in \u201cConservatorio di Musica A. Casella\u201d of L\u2019Aquila (Italy).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the great number of national and international awards he received stand out the National Award of Art \u201cClaudio Abbado\u201d, the award of the bronze medal of Italian Senate and of the \u2018Palma Accademica\u2019 of International Academy \u2018S. Giovanni Crisostomo\u2019 for high artistic merits.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>During his career, he performed in UK, Germany, Lithuania, Belgium, Vatican City and, moreover, he played in the most important Italian theatres, acting very often as a soloist. In the great number of his concerts and recitals, are noteworthy the performances he had in Neaples &#8211; in Castel dell\u2019Ovo (for the 30th Anniversary of Dolce e Gabbana) and in Castel S. Elmo \u2013, in Rome &#8211; where he played in Auditorium Parco della Musica and in Palazzo Braschi, where he opened the Gypsy King\u2019s concert during the Festival \u2018All\u2019Ombra del Colosseo\u2019 \u2013, in Milan for Expo 2015, in Florence (Fortezza dal Basso), in the Iraq Embassy in Vatican City for the III International Festival of Arts, in London by Istituto Italiano di Cultura, in Vilnius (Galerija Chodkeviciu Rumai) and Charleroi (Englise de Forchies). Moreover, he was the musical director of the International Festival \u2018Notte della Chimera\u201d in Avezzano (L\u2019Aquila; Italy).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He played with important ensembles \u2013 like Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese and Solisti Aquilani-, with groups \u2013 like NOMADI \u2013 and with singers &#8211; like the tenor Piero Mazzocchetti, Mauro Mengali (O.R.O) Antonella Bucci, Cecilia Gayle \u2013 and with actors \u2013 like Enzo Garramone. He was directed by Aurelio Canonici, Luciano Bellini, Fabio Maestri, Alan Freiles, Federico Biscione e Jacopo Sipari \u2013 and recorded for important italian television broadcasts \u2013 like RAI (Linea Verde, Sereno Variabile, Raccontami, Linea Verdi Orizzonti) and Sky programs. With his \u201cQuintetto a Pizzico Aquilano\u201d he recorded two CDs \u201cQUINTETTO A PIZZICO AQUILANO\u201d (May 2013) and \u201cIL QUINTETTO A PIZZICO AQUILANO SUONA MARIO GIUSTI\u201d (January 2014).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Merken<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"border-radius: 2px; text-indent: 20px; width: auto; padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px; text-align: center; font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #bd081c no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px; position: absolute; opacity: 1; z-index: 8675309; display: none; cursor: pointer;\">Merken<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Francesco Mammola is a young mandolin player from Italy. He has studied in Aquila and has passed with distinction in 2015. His favorite instrument is the mandolin, but he plays the piano and the accordion as well. During the last years he has given many concerts in Italy and whole Europe. Last year he gave 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