The Modern Composers International Music Festival (ModComFest) will conclude on October 17, 2025, with a dazzling Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra. The musical affair will feature a lively programme that includes a variety of atmospheric works, such as Michel Petrossian's introspective and lyrical Concerto for clarinet and orchestra, Sergei Prokofiev's cheerful Symphony No. 1 "Classical" and Zoltán Kodály's vibrant and energetic Dances of Galánta, an evocative piece infused with Central European folk music elements.
This highly anticipated concert features Fabrizio Meloni, the first solo clarinettist of the Orchestra and the Philharmonic of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, under the baton of renowned conductor and Artistic Director of AYSO Young Soloist, Teresa Satalino. The Apulian Youth Symphony Orchestra will accompany the maestros in a programme highlighting the power of music in connecting audiences through shared human experiences.
Programme
M. Petrossian:
Concerto for clarinet and orchestra (with soloist)
Joaquín Rodrigo
Concerto de Aranjuez
Georges Bizet
L’Arlésienne Suite No. 2
Nikolaï Rimski-Korsakov
Cappricio espagnol
Fabrizio Meloni
Clarinet
Fabrizio Meloni, since 1984, is the first solo clarinet chair of the Orchestra and the Philharmonic of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. He has finished his clarinet studies at Milan's Conservatorio "G. Verdi"with summa cum laude and the special mention for his artistic achievement.
Winner dozens of national and international prizes (ARD Munchen-1987- Prague – 1987-, among all), he has been partner of soloists of international reputation: Bruno Canino, Alexander Lonquich, Michele Campanella, Heinrich Schiff, Friederich Gulda, Nazzareno Carusi, Editha Gruberova, the Hagen Quartet, Myung-Whun Chung, Philip Moll and the Fine Arts Quartet. He has toured the United States and Israel with the "Quintetto a Fiati Italiano", performing works specially dedicated to this ensemble by Luciano Berio (with whom he has collaborated along the years 1989-1994) and Salvatore Sciarrino. With Nuovo Quintetto Italiano he has already toured South America and Far East, receiving enthousiastic consents of public and critic. The same success he has had in various series of concerts in Japan with Phillip Moll and I Solisti della Scala (Tokyo and Osaka), performing a program of Italian Opera's collections recorded in the CD "I Fiati all'Opera"(DAD Records).
With the ensemble I Solisti della Scala Trio he has performed all over the world. The Washington Post has written about their recital in Washington, DC: "An evening of breathtaking artistry". In 2007 he has toured Italy, Germany, the United States, Australia and Japan playing duo with the pianist Nazzareno Carusi, celebrating the anniversaries of Johannes Brahms and Domenico Scarlatti. After their performance for the Hamburg's Brahms-Gesellschaft, Cord Garben (the artistic producer of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli's Deutsche Grammophone recordings) has written: "The listening to their recital has been an unforgettable adventure".
He has realised various recordings: the Sinfonia Concertante and the Concert K 622 for clarinet and orchestra with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala conducted by Riccardo Muti; Pulcherrima Ignota with the Bairav Ensemble: tribute to the tzigane music in the world; Duo Obliquo with Carl Boccadoro; the Quintetti for clarinet and strings by Mozart and Brahms; the Histoire du Soldat by Stavinskij in the double version for trio and settimino with Domenico Nordio, Giorgia Tomassi and I Solisti della Scala; the Quatuor pour la fin des temps by Messiaen with the Trio Johannes. For the most prestigious Italian musical magazine, AMADEUS, he has published the Concertos for clarinetto and orchestra by Rossini, Donizetti and Mercadante with the Accademia Filarmonica of Verona; and the two Sonatas op. 120 for piano and clarinet by Brahms with Nazzareno Carusi: this recording has been defined "skillful"by the same review. In 2009 will be released several recordings: the DVD "Duets"(Warner), the Francaix/Nielsen/Copland's Clarinet Concertos (Amadeus), and "Ol ari Nyiro Diary" (by Fabrizio Meloni & Roberto Prosseda, from novels by Kuki Gallman).
He has given masterclass for the Paris Conservatory of Music, the Advanced Conservatory of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, the Tokyo University, the New York Manhattan School, the Chicago NorthEastern Illinois University, the Academy Ca' Zenobio in Treviso, Milano Music Master and for the summer courses of Monterubbiano (AP). He also teaches for the Teatro alla Scala's Academy, the Conservatorio di Modena (Italy), the Conservatorio Vecchi A.Tonelli (Modena, Italy), Peri ( Reggio Emilia, Italy), the Conservatorio di Udine (Italy) and the Conservatorio de Musica in Zaragoza (Spain). He is author of the book "The Clarinet", published by Zecchini Editore, and prefaced by Riccardo Muti.
Teresa Satalino
Born in South of Italy, she began her studies on the piano. Then she graduated in Composition, Orchestra Conducting and also in Literature and music history with a thesis on Luciano Berio.
She holds a master’s degree in onducting under the guidance of Jorma Panula, Bruno Bartoletti, Lu-Jia, Alain Lombard, Donato Renzetti e Piero Bellugi.
She has performed in venues like Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Wien, Esterazy Palace in Eisenstadt, Smetana Hall in Prague, Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Surayya Opera in Istanbul. She collaborated with artists like Calogero Palermo, Omar Tomasoni, Carlo Parazzoli, Silvia Careddu, Patrick Messina, Sergey Galaktionov, Davide Alogna, Marco Rizzi, Anna Serova, Roman Spitzer, Emanuele Silvestri, Gernot Süßmuth, Felix Schwarz.
In 2018 she was nominated as Music Director of AYSO Orchestra, a youth orchestra composed by about 70 musicians from all over Italy; in just a few years AYSO has become a national reference point and a valuable trait d'union between academic training and the world of professional orchestras.
She recently led AYSO to win first prize at International Summa Cum Laude Festival in Wien against orchestras from all over the world.
She is also Artistic Director of AYSO Youg Soloist, a chamber orchestra with an intense concert activity which recently was guest of Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Praga and of the Italian Embassy in Wien.
She has conducted in international festivals such as the Italian Brass Week, the Walton Foundation International Festival, the Como Città Classica Festival at the Teatro Sociale in Como, the International Festival of Youth Orchestras in Florence, and the Napoli Teatro Festival. She conducted a world premiere performance at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the patronage of the Italian Space Agency and the first Italian performance of Ayre, an extraordinary cycle of folk songs by Argentine composer Osvaldo Golijov with materials from Arabic, Jewish and Sephardic sources.
She combines artistic activity with teaching: she is a Professor at the Nino Rota Conservatory of Monopoli.