Member
Contact Information
taniabirardi@hotmail.comLocation
Polignano a Mare, Bari
Early Music Skills & Interests
Clavichord, Conductor, Fortepiano, Harpsichord, Organ, Other Keyboard, Voice - SopranoEarly Music Affiliations
Concert Producer, Conductor, Educator, Music/Artistic Director, Performer, Writer
Biography
C. S. Tania Birardi
Emilia Fadini: "Tania Birardi.. a rare pearl" in the Inaugural Concert of the Early Music Courses promoted by the Monti and Mousikè Association of Parzanica, Lake Iseo Bergamo (2011).
Emilio Suvini (conductor): "[…] her strong lively soul creates a gesture: expressive, communicative, incisive and elegant " (2018).
Graduated in harpsichord and in piano at the Conservatory 'Niccolò Piccinni' in Bari among her best memories she has the participation in the first staging of Fellini's Gianburrasca following the discovery of the manuscript by Nino Rota.
Moved to Milan to attend courses of high artistic perfectioning in historical informed performance of keyboard instuments with Emilia Fadini (she is her last pupil) at Scuola Musicale di Milano where deepens the theory of praxis on the main European ancient-language treatises for both keyboard instruments and singing. Other significant encounters for her harpsichord training were Enrico Baiano and Jean-Mac Aymes.
She performs in concerts both as a soloist and in ensembles in contexts that enhance the territory in an ethical and sustainable way like Morellino Festival (2017, 2018), Serate Musicali di Milano (2019, 2020, 2021) and Palazzo Marino in Musica, Milano (2022).
She has recorded unpublished music by Giovanni Maria Sabino, the musician who founded the first Italian Conservatory in Naples, for the Unesco Club of Biseglie (2012) and is the dedicatee of Ettore Righello's latest composition "Scherzo in B flat" (2018) for harpsichord or piano. Premier " Concetric@mente" for Harpsichord solo, oboe and Orchestra, Church of San Sabino, Bari (2011). In the same year she is invited to perform in event "A night in the museums" music by G. Frescobaldi and D. Scarlatti sponsored by the Center for the Study of Performing Arts in the Mediterranean in Bari's Bona Sforza Hall of the Norman Swabian Castle.
Her repertoire on keyboards instruments ranges from the early days to the present days.
A colouratura soprano, she prefers 'a cappella' formation and has a repertoire ranging from Gregorian chant (Ambrosian and Benedictine) to early baroque, Her meeting with M. Walter Testolin was fundamental to her training. As Vatican Cantore in 2021 in the role of soloist , she inaugurated the Chapel of the Assumption at the Ursuline Nuns College of St. Charles Borromeo.
Masterclass with Deda Cristina Colonna-Preti, Robert Streiner, Dino Verga, Bill Goodson were important for here growth in dance, performing in the most important theatres in Bari, Italy.
As a pianist, harpsichordist and dancer, she has won international competitions.
The last pupil of M. Emilio Suvini with whom she studied conducting, in 2018 she founded and conducted the first Children's OrchestraCross-Over of the Sitema Abreu, the "J.O.I. Orchestra" , orchestra for peace, making its debut at the Auditorium Fondazione Cariplo Verdi for the Festival Giovani e Giovanissimi Città di Milano; she opened the festival "Choirs and Youth Orchestra Sistema Veneto" Coregliano Veneto (2018) and conducted also in the same Festival the following year in Sala Puccini of the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan; she closed the project in 2020 due to the pandemic.
She is the winner of a scholarship that allowed her to follow Riccardo Muti (2018) in Ravenna during his training on G. Verdi's Macbeth.
Since September 2017, the Scuola Musicale di Milano ( Ambrogino d'oro città di Milano) has entrusted her with a course for children and adolescents. An exclusive educational project that provides for the complete study of key instruments such as the clavichord, harpsichord, fortepiano, and piano, respecting historically informed practices also working on manuscripts with performances on a digital platform.
From an educational point of view she supplementing the work with an onomatopoeic study proper to the language of comics who has achieved excellent results in the learning process of her students. She also taught adults of all levels and her students take exams at the Royal School of Music in London.
At the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020, she was invited to the international tables organised by REMA-EEMM and EMA and was their guest until April 2021 partecipated in the REMA 2023 International Summit.
Since 2020, every year on 21 March we dedicate a free concert lecture for Early Music Day with REMA and EMA on Instagram live.
She is a member of the IAML and the EMA and supports national and international charity projects like Red Cross. Her love for the dialogue between the arts has led her to create in 2011 " il Pianoforte al centro della città – Questione di FILIng" project, Murat Hall with Post Fabbrica della Creatività, ElaborAZIONI (OpenSpace Technology), Politecnico di Bari, Comitato Civico Metropolitano Barese all National Istitutional Bodies of the Barese Metropolitan Territory ( co artistic director and musician) with strong, decades-long resonance where .
The Pianoforte plays a central role in the European dialogue, for International Conference "The Transport Community European Reality and Perspectives in the Land of Bari, Attilio Alto Lecture Hall, Bari Polytechnic University, Bari Transport Community Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Apulia Region, Province of Bari, Municipality of Bari, Port Authority of the Levant ( 2011) event for which she was the artistic director.
She practices Yoga and Meditation, is passionate about poetry which she often writes in French and English and knows LIS to understand the deaf.
Loves photography, cinema, theater, fashion, art, new technologies, chess, wild animals and patisserie (better if vegan).
