SONGS
The latest work of transcription by the musician MICOL PISANU, dedicated to the seventeenth-century composer Francesca Caccini.
An edition dedicated to the “canzonette” of the composer Francesca Caccini, which represent the lightest section of her production known today.
The pieces are short and flowing, they do not have what were called durezze at the time, i.e. dissonances inserted for dramatic purposes, but only a few dissonances in passing that help to make them not obvious.
The pieces contained in the collection (of 1618):
Ch’Amor sia nudo
What have I done to you?
Who desires to know what love is
Unfold
Fresh auras
I don’t know if that smile
Or beautiful hair
Or living roses
If it moves to swear faith
If I go less
Francesca Caccini was born in Florence in 1587 to Giulio Caccini, a well-known composer, singer and instrumentalist, and Lucia Gagnolanti, a singer. As early as 1600 Francesca, at the age of thirteen, sang with her family in Peri’s L’Euridice and in Il rapimento di Cefalo by Giulio Caccini. She was nicknamed “la Cecchina”, a diminutive of Francesca, probably because of her small stature when she sang as a child. The nickname became so official that, for example, one of her songs in a contemporary anthology does not bear her name, but only the indication ‘della Cecchina di Firenze’.
Micol Pisanu was born in Nuoro in 1995. At an early age she began vocal training with her parents, both opera singers and choir directors, Maestro Maria Bonaria Monne and Maestro Sandro Pisanu. She began her singing career by taking part in the “Pueri Cantores di San Domenico Savio” children’s choir directed by her mother. When she was only ten years old, she recorded the CD “Thilicherta” as a soloist. attached to the homonymous volume of children’s songs, nursery rhymes, lullabies and popular Sardinian music revised by M° Ignazio Pes. Since 2008 she has been a member of the Female Chorale “Priamo Gallisay” in Nuoro, directed by Maestro Maria Bonaria Monne.
When she was eleven years old, she began studying the violin with M° P. Argiolas and then enrolled at the Conservatorio P.G. Da Palestrina in Cagliari in 2010, where she studied with M° Marco Ligas. She studied Classical Violin with M° Claudio Marzorati and is currently studying Baroque Violin with M° Renata Spotti at the Conservatory of Music “G.Verdi” in Milan.
In 2013 she won a scholarship with one of her songs to attend the lyricist course at “CET” (Centro Europeo Toscolano), a school established by the famous lyricist Mogol. He studied with Mogol himself, his son and Giuseppe Anastasi.
In 2014 the “Lions Club Nuoro Valverde” awarded Micol Pisanu “The Young Artist Award” for her ability to convey through her creative composition messages of art that express a rich inner world and for her musical interpretation that manifests considerable vocal and instrumental potential, creating suggestive atmospheres full of emotions.
In 2015 she began studying opera singing at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan under the guidance of the teacher Cristina Rubin. In the summer of the same year she attended the Masterclass held by the Soprano Elisabetta Scano, aimed at the staging of the opera ”Il Matrimonio Segreto” by Domenico Cimarosa, playing the role of Elisetta.
In 2016, she made her debut in the role of Gilda, the protagonist of Giuseppe Verdi’s opera ”Rigoletto”. In November and December 2017 she took part as a soprano in the staging of the tragedy “Elena” by Euripides, performed by the theatre company Kerkìs at the “Teatro San Lorenzo alle Colonne” in Milan.
Since 2017 she has been collaborating as Soprano Soloist and vocal trainer with the “Chanson D’Aube” Choir of Milan directed by Maestro Alberto Odone with whom she has performed the “Vesperae Solennes de Confessore K 339” by W.A.Mozart, the “Messiah” by G.F.Haendel and some unpublished pieces by Francesco Durante, an author of the mid 17th century, transcribed by Maestro A. Odone and kept in the Fondo Noseda of the Conservatory of Milan.
In March 2018 she debuts for the world premiere in the role of “Bride” protagonist of the Oratorio “S.Alessio” by Camilla De’ Rossi, composer of the late 17th century, in a production of the Conservatorio G.Verdi of Milan. On 17 and 18 November 2018 she sang as a chorister in the Ente Concerti Marialisa De Carolis Choir for Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana” prepared by M°Antonio Costa and conducted by M° Jordi Bernàcer.
In April 2018 she attended the Masterclass in Baroque Singing focusing on French music with the conductor and baritone Jèrome Correas.
In August 2019 she participated in the Early Music Masterclass in Magnano, attending the harpsichord courses followed by M° George Kiss and Baroque Singing followed by M° Eva Kiss.
In October 2019 she is the first ever to graduate in Renaissance and Baroque Singing at the Conservatorio “G.Verdi” in Milan with a score of 110 cum laude.
She is currently attending the specialist course of Renaissance and Baroque Singing followed by Maestro Anna Aurigi at the Conservatory of Milan.
In January 2020 she had the opportunity to sing the repertoire of Barbara Strozzi at the GAM (Art Gallery of Milan) with the Ensemble “Andromeda” directed by Maestro Francesca Torelli and always at the Art Gallery of Milan she sang in February for the event “CANTAR VERSI D’AMORE” gli affetti nel barocco musicale, accompanied on harpsichord by Maestro Luigi Marzola.
In 2020 Micol Pisanu joined ANDCI (Associazione Nazionale Direttori di Cori Italiani).
In January 2021 she attended the masterclass held by M° Sonia Prina and organised by the Ass. Canto Alato/Accademia Ottavanota, focused on the preparation of
