Violin in Love
Margherita Pupulin | il violino fantastico vol. 2
a violin
Love Story.
For more than a century, the violin, a rather simplistic instrument at the beginning, now in love with the voice, now with the violone, or with the harpsichord, has dialogued with all sorts of instruments in order to extract their juice, learn their language, assimilate their expressiveness.
Like a child prodigy, or an authentic identity thief, the violin has playfully integrated the idioms of the others; the result is, as with lovers, an indistinguishability of the parts, a ‘family lexicon’ in which the exact origin of the words cannot be traced other than in the encounter.
The game is done, a language is born. When it comes to sonatas such as Tartini’s Dido Forsaken, words are no longer necessary to tell stories: a child of the human voice, the language of the violin has come to replace it completely, sustaining on its own a stunning wordless musical theatre.
Discover the full story:
ABOUT
US
Margherita Pupulin
Margherita was initiated into the world of the baroque violin as a child by Riccardo Minasi.
Through masterclasses and seminars with maestros such as Bruno Giuranna, Enzo Porta, Rachel Podger and others, she then deepened her repertoire ranging from Renaissance Polyphony to Luigi Nono, and eventually made Early Music her permanent home.
She specialised with Fabio Biondi at the Turin Conservatory, where she graduated with honours.
She is regularly invited as a concertmaster, solo, chamber or orchestral player by ensembles such as l’Arpeggiata (Christina Pluhar), I Gemelli (Emiliano Gonzalez Toro), Café Zimmermann (dir. Pablo Valetti and Céline Frisch), La Chapelle Harmonique (dir. Valentin Tournet), La Chimera (dir. Eduardo Egüez), Pulcinella (dir. Ophelie Gaillard), with whom she has performed in important European seasons and halls (Opera de Versailles, Teatro Real de Madrid, Salle Gaveau, Barbican Centre London, Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht, Radio France, Concertgebouw Bruges, Auditorium de Lyon…).
With the recitals Il Violino Fantastico and Violin in Love she has been invited to to relevant institutions such as the Innsbruck Festwochen her Alten Musik, the Festival de Musica Antigua de Ubeda Y Baeza, the Pietà dei Turchini Foundation in Naples, the Pergolesi Theatre in Jesi among others.
Amarilis Dueñas Castán
Born in Valladolid in 1998, Amarilis is a prominent figure in historically informed performance. Known for her precision, intuition, and freedom in playing, she has graced stages across Europe as a soloist and chamber musician, collaborating with orchestras like Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and Concerto Köln. Amarilis has garnered accolades in competitions such as Juventudes Musicales and the International Pau Casals Award. Notably, she earned top honors at the “Beethoven in his time” chamber music competition in 2021 and multiple prizes at the 2023 International Bach-Abel Viola da Gamba Competition.
A pupil of musicians like Jordi Savall and Paolo Pandolfo, Amarilis studied at HfMT Köln with Maria Kliegel and Rainer Zipperling. Currently under the tutelage of Robert Smith, her focus on historically informed performance extends beyond early music, encompassing projects on 19th-century composers like Schumann, Brahms, and Wagner. She has performed alongside renowned musicians like Gottfried von der Goltz and Tobias Koch.
Since November 2023, Amarilis plays a 1775 Niccolò Gagliano, graciously loaned by the Jumpstart Jr. Foundation.
Arianna Radaelli
Born in Milan, Arianna Radaelli is a harpsichordist and pianist. She graduated in piano with Silvia Rumi at the Conservatory of Milan (2015) and in harpsichord in the classes of Francesco Corti and Andrea Marcon at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis .
She attended lessons with musicians including E. Fadini, B. Cuiller, S. Sempé, C. Rousset.
Arianna is a winner of solo and chamber music competitions, including the 19th ‘Biagio Marini’ Chamber Music Competition and the ‘Paola Bernardi’ Competition in Bologna. She has played under the direction of conductors such as Jordi Savall, Václav Luks, Alfredo Bernardini, Andrea Marcon and Luca Quintavalle.
Arianna was musical assistant in the staging of baroque operas at ‘Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen’ and ‘Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik’, and performed at festivals including ‘Freunde Alter Musik Basel’, ‘Urbino Musica Antica’, ‘Actus Humanus Gdansk’, FEMUBA.
She is co-founder of the duo Alter Ego and collaborates with the ensembles Abchordis, Anima&Corpo, Camerata Salzburg, Mozarteum Orchester, Zefiro, Bachakademie Stuttgart, Café Zimmermann.
From 2021 to 2023 she taught basso continuo at the Institut für Alte Musik der Universität Mozarteum Salzburg. Since January 2023, she teaches harpsichord and basso continuo at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart.
