Ernesto Rubin de Cervin studied composition in Florence with Roberto Lupi and Luigi Dallapiccola, and in Rome with Goffredo Detrassi and Virgilio Mortari.
From 1965-67 taught solfeggio at the Liceo Musicale Udine. Until 1985 analysis – composition and didactic composition at the Conservatorio Benedetto Marcello Venice.
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Ernesto Rubin de Cervin
Janusz Podrazik
Born in Poland, lives and works in London and Venice. Podrazik’s involvement in music has been wide-ranging and varied. In 1975 he enrolled to study composition at the Musik Konservatorium in Poland. The course of study was interrupted when in 1976 Podrazik left Poland for Frankfurt Germany. Soon he formed the group “Ominous Mirage” a free jazz ensemble performing Podrazik’s compositions, himself on saxophone. In the early ‘80 his musical collaboration included the establishing of the now famous “English Speaking Theatre” in Frankfurt.
Duncan Ward
Director / Writer (London, UK)
Born in Zambia, educated Zimbabwe and University of Cape Town in South Africa. Lives and works in London. Came to Europe in the early ’80’s, started out as an assistant photographer, traveling widely throughout Europe and America. Having won a film competition began Filmmakers Ltd. Started a new career as a [...]
Marino Baratello
Composer / Conductor (Venice, Italy)
At the side of artistic studies at Academy of Arts he has attended the classes of Giuseppe Sinopoli and Ernesto Rubin de Cervin at the Conservatory of Music in Venice during the Seventies.
Since 1979, the year of his debut at the Venice Biennale, he has partecipated in many of the main [...]
Anne Bean
Artist / Performer (London, UK)
Anne Bean has undertaken numerous solo and collaborative projects worldwide in a range of media from light and sound to performance, sculpture and drawing. Born in Zambia and resident in the UK, she studied Fine Art at Cape Town and Reading Universities and made her first performance work outside Africa in [...]
Gioia Meller Marcovicz
Artist / Designer (London, UK)
Born in Germany, lives and works in London and Venice. She started her career as a fashion designer in Munich Germany. For the following years working in this field, including designing haute couture collections for a private clientele, she launched her inspiring own label ‘zwei’ in London, creating ‘modern clothes for [...]
Gianni De Luigi
Director (Venice, Italy)
Director of the new school for actors in Padova Teatro Stabile, he was an actor for theatre and films, he attended the school of Giorgio Strehler at Piccolo Theatre in Milan. As an art director he realized many plays in Venice for the University; for the Regione Veneto he directed the school called [...]
Cristiana Moldi Ravenna
Writer / Performer (Venice, Italy)
She is a visual artist, a poet, a performer and a writer. She realizes books, videos, exhibitions, performances mainly on the problems of visual perception. Her exhibitions are preferably composed by a performance and a book. A performance gets the public more involved in the exhibition and a book fixes ideas and adds a physical support [...]
Quartetto Novecento
String Quartet (Venice, Italy)
Il Quartetto Novecento si è formato nel 2000 all’interno del Conservatorio “B. Marcello” di Venezia. Il nome è legato all’intenzione di rivolgere un particolare attenzione alla produzione contemporanea e alla musica del Novecento storico, accostandola al repertorio classico.
Nel 2001 e 2002 ha studiato con il M° Franco Rossi ai Corsi Internazionali di [...]
Giovanni Mancuso
Composer / Conductor (Venice, Italy)
Born in Venice in 1970, Mancuso studied piano at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory, Venice, with Wally Rizzardo, composition at the International Composition Courses, Città di Castello (Perugia 1990 and 1991) and at the Philharmonic Academy in Bologna (1991-1992) with Salvatore Sciarrino.
Mancuso followed graduate courses in chamber music at the “Incontri col [...]
Alfredo Pirri
Artist (Rome, Italy)
Making a work of art is not a narcissistic act, nor pure self-therapy, that tells of one’s own private story even though such works always speak from the very inside. The civilization of the work tells about feelings in contrast to the personal and collective mythologies of self-reference and egotism post-modern rituals. The [...]
Patrick Kinmonth
Patrick Kinmonth is an Anglo Irish artist, writer and designer. Leaving Oxford University at the age of 20 with a first class degree in English Literature and Language, he began life as a painter. Meanwhile he has pursued his careers in both fashion and theatre. In the former sphere he has collaborated extensively as a stylist and set designer, working most notably for Burberry, Gucci, Calvin Klein, Valentino, Givenchy and Jean Paul Gaultier for whom he has designed shops in Japan, Missoni for whom he has created fabric collections, Pirelli for whom he created the sets and scenarios for the 2001 calendar. As an art director and stylist his work has appeared in many publications from Vogue to Visionaire.
Peter Manning
Conductor (London, UK)
Peter Manning, Artistic Director, is recognised as one of Britain’s finest musicians at the leading edge of performance. He is an outstanding soloist, concertmaster, director, teacher and chamber musician. Peter is also Concertmaster of The Royal Opera House and Artistic Director of The Soloists of The Royal Opera House and Musica Vitae, Sweden.
Peter’s [...]
Diego Cortez
Art Critic (New York, USA)
Is the object sacred?
Life is sacred, and its sacredness is confined neither to living things, nor to the diverse objects that for different cultures embody “the sacred.” As the life of the planet itself suffers from human activity, questioning the sacredness of an art object seems irrelevant. And yet art continues, [...]