GAMMA CHORUS
Poggio Rusco
Poggio Rusco
Conductor
Luca Buzzavi
President
Augusto Tassinari
Membership Code
FCI257/21
City
Poggio Rusco (MN),
Italy
Type of choir
Mixed voices
Repertory
medieval/renaissance and twentieth-century/contemporary
Site / Email
www.accademiacoraleteleion.it
accademiacoraleteleion@gmail.com
Founded in 2010, the Gamma Chorus chamber choir operates within the Teleion Choral Academy of Poggio Rusco (MN). He has collaborated with institutions, schools, choral and orchestral realities including the Cantori Gregoriani, Coro Sicardo di Cremona, Accademia MusiCaesena, Corale Discàntica, Schola Gregoriana di Mantova, Coro femminile F. Poulenc, Ensemble I bei legami, I Madrigalisti di Magliano in Toscana, choir and orchestra of the Conservatory L. Campiani of Mantua, Faventia Ensemble collecting appreciation both for the commitment to the dissemination of choral culture and for the appreciable artistic level of the musical proposals.
He has performed important choral pages such as Missa O Magnum Mysterium by De Victoria, Festino del Giovedì Grasso by Banchieri, Miserere by Allegri, Gloria RV589, Magnificat RV610 and Credo RV 591 by Vivaldi, Missa Dolorosa by Caldara, Cantata BWV 4 Christ Lag in Todesbanden and Magnificat BWV 243 by Bach, Symphony on the Divine Comedy by Liszt, Quatre Motets sur des thèmes grégoriens by Duruflé, A little Jazz Mass and Jazz Songs of Innocence by Chilcott, as well as numerous pieces detached from the Middle Ages to the contemporary. In 2017 he obtained the silver band at the 35th National Competition F. Gaffurio di Quartiano, while the whole Academy has been selected to participate in the Day of Choirs of the prestigious MiTo Settembre Musica festival. He took part in the choral festivals Di Cori un altro Po and Suoni e Colori. In 2018 he founded the Teleion Choral Festival with the aim of disseminating choral culture through performance and training events also in synergy with extra-musical artistic forms.
In 2019 he participated in the International Irené Festival in Chivasso (TO) and in the Ravenna Festival at the Basilica of San Vitale for the production of the Missa Dolorosa in Caldara under the direction of Silvia Biasini.