Luca Manghi - Aotearoa Musical Treasures
Category: Video
| Title | Luca Manghi Aotearoa Musical Treasures |
|---|---|
| Producer | Aotearoa Musical Treasures |
| Publisher | Youtube |
| Year | 2023 |
| Language | English |
| Geographic reference | Christchurch, Auckland, Paris, Parma, Boretto, Emilia Romagna |
| Online resource | Yes |
| Topic | Music, Musicisti Italiani in Nuova Zelanda, Italian musicians, Emiliani in Nuova Zelanda |
Recorded on June 10th 2023 at the University of Auckland, Italian flautist Luca Manghi shares his musical journey with Mark Walton, including his impressions of arriving in New Zealand, and his life here as a musician.
Below Luca Manghi's bio as published in The University of Waikato website, where Luca is Director of Performance (instrumental):
Dr. Luca Manghi is Principal Flute of the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra, the Auckland Chamber Orchestra, Bach Musica NZ, and appears frequently with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra. He is Director of Performance (instrumental) at the University of Waikato, where he also teaches flute and chamber music, in addition to teaching at the University of Otago and at the University of Auckland. He is regularly invited to teach at the Akaroa International Summer Festival, and the Levallois Conservatory in Paris.
Luca was born in Parma, Italy. He studied at the Boito Conservatory in Parma, and at the Accademia Perosi in Biella, under Peter Lukas Graf. He went on to study with Sir William Bennett in Rome and with Jean Ferrandis in Paris. He won first prizes at the UFAM International Competition in Paris, the Genova International Competition, and the Concorso Cimarosa International Competition. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Otago.
He was Principal Flute of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Parma (1991 to 1996) and the Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana (1992 to 1998). He is a member of the Donizetti Trio, which toured New Zealand in 2014 and 2019 for Chamber Music New Zealand. He has performed at the Australian Flute Festival on three occasions as a guest recitalist, and has given performances in Italy for the New Zealand Govenment, and at the Anghiari Festival. He is a language coach for New Zealand Opera, and teaches at the New Zealand Opera School.
