FEATURED ARTISTS

the Bologna Youth Orchestra, conducted by Anna Handler, at the "Ebe Stignani" theater in Imola, where he performed Mozart's K. 537 Piano Concerto. In August he was invited to the OperaBarga Festival, where he performed a solo recital at the Teatro dei Differenti in Barga. In November 2021 he performed the concert for piano and strings "Malediction" by Liszt with the “Roma Tre Orchestra”, conducted by Maestro Sieva Borzak, at the Apollo theater in Mogliano, the Palladium Theater in Rome, and on the occasion of the 34th edition of the Liszt Albano Festival. He was invited by the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, where he performed for the concert season "Il Sabato all'Accademia" at the Sala Mozart. In August 2022 he was invited to play a solo recital at the "Emilia Romagna Festival”.

Abroad he performed in Madrid and Leon in Spain, in Orlando, Florida, where he played the Rhapsody "I got rhythm" for piano and orchestra by Gershwin. Invited by CIDIM, in October 2022 he played at the Theater “Casa d’Italia” in Istanbul.

He recently recorded three pieces by C. Ferrigno: “Space”, “Etude pour une etoile” and “Paraphrase sobre Libertango”.

Alongside his solo career he also plays in chamber music, playing in a piano- viola duo with his brother Davide Navelli, and in a piano-cello duo with Eleonora Testa, with whom in March 2021 he held an online concert organized by “Agimus”, at the “Aula Magna of the University for Foreigners of Perugia” and a concert at the Chigiana Academy of Siena, as a duo selected by M° Antonio Meneses. Invited again by “Agimus”, they performed in Rome at the National Museum of Musical Instruments and in Perugia. In June, for the "Walton Foundation”, they performed in two recitals in Ischia, at the "Giardini La Mortella”. He recently performed the piano quintets of Schumann and Brahms, in Naples, invited by the Collegium Philarmonicum Association.

Gabriel Preisser

Grammy Award winning baritone Gabriel Preisser has been praised by Opera News for his “handsome voice, charismatic energy, and timbral allure” and The New York Times called his performance as Lt. Gordon “wonderful.” His resume includes over 40 operatic and musical theater roles including Danilo in The Merry Widow with Utah Festival Opera, Billy Bigelow in Carousel with Minnesota Orchestra, Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia with St Petersburg Opera, Dandini in Cenerentola with Opera Tampa, Escamillo in Carmen with Lyric Opera of the North, Belcore in L’elisir d’amore with Shreveport Opera, Le Mari in Les Mamelles de Tiresias with Opera Parallele, Albert in Werther with Minnesota Opera, Mercutio in Romeo et Juliette with Opera Tampa and St. Petersburg Opera, Tommy in Brigadoon with Gulfshore Opera, Silvio in Pagliacci