Made in trio, Imprints
David Dias da Silva introduces us to his Made in Trio ensemble, in which he is joined by Portuguese flutist Rute Fernandes and Italian pianist Sinforosa Petralia. First Prize winners at the Marianne und Curt Dienemann-Stiftung Competition in Switzerland, the International Chamber Music Competition of Chieri in Italy and the Opus 130 Chamber Music Competition in Canada, Made in Trio now brings us their winning blend of popular and folk music with Imprints.
MADE IN TRIO
David Dias da Silva, clarinet
Rute Fernandes, flute
Sinforosa Petralia, piano
A GLIMPSE OF THE REPERTOIRE*
C.DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun (originally for orchestra, trio version)
N.ROTA (1911-1979)
Trio for Flute, Violin, and Piano (adapted for clarinet)
F.MARTIN (1890-1974)
Trio on Irish Folk Tunes (originally for violin, cello, and piano)
BIOGRAPHY
David Dias da Silva, clarinet
Born in Montréal, Canada, and raised in a Portuguese family, David studied at the Escola Profissional de Música de Viana do Castelo and at the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo in Porto, with professors Iva Barbosa and Antonio Saiote. He has earned a Master’s degree in performance and a Soloist Diploma from the Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel under the tutelage of François Benda, and an Artist Diploma from McGill University’s Schulich School of Music in Montréal, in the clarinet classes of Jean-François Normand and Alain Desgagné.
Winner of the “Prix d’Europe” competition and the “Canadian Music Competition – Tremplin” in 2016 in Canada, he obtained several other distinctions, for a total of twenty-seven national and international prizes (Canada, France, Italy, United States, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium and Portugal).
He was principal clarinet on temporary contract with the Sinfonieorchester Basel (2015-2018) and then lived for four years in Malaysia as assistant principal clarinet with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. He is currently a freelance musician. In addition to his career as an international soloist and chamber musician, he is regularly invited as an orchestral musician with Musikkolegium Winterthur, Orquestra Gulbenkian, Orchester Symphonique de Montréal, Toronto Symphony Orchestra, East-West Chamber Orchestra and also again with Sinfonieorchester Basel. He is a member of the Portuguese Chamber Orchestra since 2009, an artist of Jeunesses Musicales Canada since 2018, an ambassador of the culture of the city of Viana do Castelo in Portugal and a former artist of the Musikdorf Ernen Festival in Switzerland.
Rute Fernandes, Flute
Born in Guimarães, Portugal, Rute Fernandes studied at the Professional and Artistic School of the Vale do Ave with Joaquina Mota and Elisa Trigo. As a scholarship holder of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Rute completed her degree at the Haute École de Musique de Genève with Michel Bellavance and Serge Saitta (baroque flute) and a master’s degree in Orchestra at the Hochschule Luzern – Musik with Sarah Rumer and Nicola Mazzanti (piccolo) with maximum distinction.
During her career as a soloist, she was awarded at several competitions such as the 1st Prize at 53rd Internationaler Instrumentalwettbewerb Markneukirchen, Edwin-Fischer Preis Wettbewerb, Concours National d’Éxecution Musical de Riddes (Switzerland), International Flute Competition Jastrzebie-Zdrój in Poland, the 3rd National Contest for Winds of La Salette (Portugal), and the Honorific Prize David Russell(Spain), among others.
As an orchestral player, Rute has performed with the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra, Verbier Festival Orchestra, Schleswig- Holstein Musik Festival, Schweizer-Jugend-Sinfonie Orchester, the European Union Youth Orchestra (Summer School) and as a substitute with the Gulbenkian Orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Sinfonieorchester Basel and the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich.
Rute is delighted to be a Haynes Artist and is the Co-Principal Solo Flute at the Philharmonia Zürich, the Zurich Opera House Orchestra.
Sinforosa Petralia, Piano
Sinforosa Petralia, born in Trapani, Italy, in 1988, started to play the piano at the age of five with her grandmother Sinforosa Pastorino. Then she continued to study with Prof. Giuseppe Visconti at the Conservatory “A. Scontrino” of Trapani, in the Conservatory “V. Bellini” of Palermo with Prof. Aurelia Spagnolo and she studied also with Prof. Pietro De Maria in the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (Florence). She obtained the Master of Arts in Musikalischer Performance and Musikpaedagogik at the Hochschule fur Musik of Basel under the tutelage of Prof. Claudio Martinez Mehner and at the same time she earned a bachelor’s degree in DAMS at the University of Florence, discussing a thesis focused on the figure of the “Wanderer” in Franz Schubert.
She took part in several competitions, earning the 2nd prize at “Tonino Pardo” piano competition in 1998, 1st prize at “Città di Balestrate” piano competition in 1999. In 2009 she won the 1st prize at “Nuovi Orizzonti” piano competition in Arezzo and in the year after the 2nd prize at “G. Rospigliosi” piano competition in Lamporecchio. In 2014 she won the “Talent Factory” competition, organized by the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana Foundation, that took place in Palermo’s Teatro Politeama Garibaldi.
Her debut as soloist was in 2011 with the Galileo Galilei Orchestra followed with orchestras such Kammerorchester Basel, Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro Massimo, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, among others. As well as her chamber music experience with Made in Trio she is also the pianist of the Ensemble Container, based in Spain, and focused on the contemporary music repertoire.
Since 2017 she is the piano accompanist off the bassoon and saxophone classes at the Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel, under the guide of Sergio Azzolini and Marcus Weiss.
