Martino Noferi
Martino Noferi – recorder, baroque oboe, oboe d’amore, oboe da caccia, classical oboe, shawm
BACKGROUND
Martino Noferi was born in Florence on 14 June 1969. He began studying music as a child, and specifically the recorder at the Kodály Institute: (and participated in the production of the disc that comes with the book entitled La riscoperta della musica attraverso il metodo Kodály ). He continued his musical education with Maestro Lapo Bramanti at the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole.
He graduated from the Conservatorio L. Cherubini of Florence with highest honors under Maestro David Bellugi and then went on to study baroque oboe at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan under Maestro Paolo Grazzi.
He earned a two year degree in Musical Disciplines (recorder) and once again received highest honors..
He has participated in several international post-graduate courses.
CONCERTS
Martino Noferi is highly active in concerts, playing as a soloist and with chamber ensembles and orchestras in Italy and abroad (Germania, Austria, Czech Republic, Spain, England, Switzerland, Greece and France).
He performs with several early music (Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque) groups including Il Rossignolo (that he founded together with Ottaviano Tenerani and Marica Testi), Il Complesso Barocco, Modo Antiquo (with which he received two Grammy Award nominations in 1999 and 2000), Homme Armé, La Serenissima (London), Li Stromenti, Horti Annalenae, I Virtuosi Italiani, Orchestra Barocca Italiana, Ex Silvis, Ausermusici, La Cappella della Pietá dei Turchini, I Barocchisti, Accademia Ottoboni etc., under the direction of famous conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Mario Brunello, Alan Curtis, Diego Fasolis, Andrew Lawrence King, Jean-Claude Malgoire, Jordi Savall and others.
He has recorded several CDs as a soloist and chamber musician (for the Deutsche Grammophon, CPO, ATMA and Hyperion labels among others); he has also done radio and television recordings (for Italian, Australian and German networks), and has made recordings of Renaissance and Baroque music for cinema productions.
He has always combined his concert work with research on early music
As a soloist he performed the theme music of the soundtracks for the films Il resto di niente (Antonietta De Lillo, 2004) and L’uomo che verrà (Giorgio Diritti, 2009) which won the Gran Premio della Giuria Marc’Aurelio d’argento and Marc’Aurelio d’Oro awards at the 2009 Rome Film Festival
For his forthcoming concerts see www.ilrossignolo.it
TEACHING
During the 1996-97 and 1997-98 academic years he taught recorder and chamber music at the Scuola di Musica di Marina di Campo (Island of Elba).
From 1998 to 2006 he taught recorder and early chamber music classes at the Scuola di Musica G. Bonamici in Pisa; and since 2002 he has been professor of recorder at the Scuola di Musica G. Verdi in Prato.
He also teaches recorder and chamber music for original instruments at the Conservatorio R.Franci in Siena.
