September 1, 2011
Event: Faculty Tuesdays
Date: Tuesday, September 27, 7:30 p.m.
Description: Quel Nulla di Inesauribile Segreto with Nicolò Spera, guitar and CU-Boulder Italian program students
Program: Music by Da Milano, Giuliani, Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Location: Grusin Music Hall, Imig Music Building, 18th St. & Euclid Ave.
Admission: Free and open to the public
Public Contact: music.colorado.edu or 303-492-8008
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Faculty Tuesdays Series Presents
An Evening of Italian Music and Poetry
On Tuesday, September 27, at 7:30 p.m. in Grusin Music Hall, students from the CU-Boulder Italian program will join guitarist, Nicolò Spera for an evening of Italian music and poetry. This passionate dialogue of the arts will include poems by Michelangelo, Foscolo, Levi, Saba, Ungaretti, and Montale with music by Da Milano, Giuliani and Castelnuovo-Tedesco. This concert is free and open to the public. Call the CU Presents Box Office at (303) 492-8008 or visit music.colorado.edu/events/faculty-tuesdays/ for more information.
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Biography
Nicolò Spera
 The Italian guitarist Nicolò Spera brings to his teaching and performance a unique synthesis of European and American traditions. After his studies with Mauro Storti and Marco Tajo at the Giuseppe Nicolini Conservatory of Piacenza, Spera graduated with the highest marks from the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatory of Bolzano as a student of Lorenzo Micheli. He later studied with Oscar Ghiglia at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan and at the prestigious Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, where he received the Diploma di Merito distinction and the scholarship from the Chigiana Foundation. In a separate study, he focused on the performance of Renaissance music on the guitar with Massimo Lonardi, and on chamber music with Matteo Mela and Anna Sorrento. Spera received his postgraduate education with Lorenzo Micheli at the Conservatory of Aosta and at the Accademia Musicale Tema in Milan. He then moved to the University of Denver where he studied on a two-year full scholarship with Ricardo Iznaola and Jonathan Leathwood, and was awarded the Lamont School of Music's Artist Diploma in Guitar Performance. As a soloist, Spera is one of the few guitarists in the world to perform on both six-string and ten-string guitars, including in his repertoire the extraordinary music of the Franco-Andalusian composer Maurice Ohana. Thanks to his passion for contemporary music, he had the rare privilege to collaborate with the accomplished Italian conductor and composer Simone Fontanelli, giving premières and performances of his solo guitar works.
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About the College of Music
Since its founding in 1920, the University of Colorado Boulder College of Music has earned a reputation not only for preparing students for successful careers in music, but also for providing them with an outstanding college education. The College of Music offers seven degree plans and over 23 fields of study, and its programs cover virtually all areas of music. The members of the College of Music's faculty are respected performers, composers, educators, and scholars who take a deep and lasting interest in the students of the College of Music. Internationally renowned artists such as Christopher Parkening, James Galway, and Wynton Marsalis perform and teach master classes on campus.
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College of Music Media Contact
Laima Haley
Marketing and Public Relations Manager
laima.haley@colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 492-4247
Fax: (303) 492-1131
302 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0302
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College of Music Public Contact
CU Presents Box Office
musictix@colorado.edu
Phone: (303) 492-8008
Location: University Club,
972 Broadway, Boulder
Hours: M-F 9 a.m.- 4 p.m.
302 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0302
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