RaRe Duo

Formed in 2009, the RaRe Duo explore the vocal chamber repertoire with Dalton Baldwin, Guido Salvetti and Stelia Doz, and have distinguished themselves in the competitions of Piombino and Gioia del Colle. They have performed at the theatres of the Alighieri theatre in Ravenna, the National Conservatory of Paris, the Verona Philharmonic for the World Poetry Day, the Regina di Cattolici with the Soloists of San Carlo of Naples, the Ricomposti of Anghiari for the International City of Vasari Festival in Arezzo, at the Auditorium of the Vecchia Filanda of Cambiago, the Casinetto Petito, the Gandolfi Hall in Parma, the Cloister of St. Antimo of Piombino, the European Circle of Lyrical Opera of Busseto, the Delights of Summer seasons of Argenta, the Friends of the Music of Carrara and Montegranaro, Mikokosmi and Youth in Music of the Angelo Mariani Association in Ravenna, the Concerts of the San Rocco di Imola Oratorio and the Musical Donors of Brescia and Carrara.
They were a guest at the studios of the Milanese broadcaster Radio Classica for the programmes: “The Pianist”, “The Last Cry” (Sony Classical Talent Scout Award), “This is the Catalogue” and programmes for Teleromagna for “A Beating Drum” and “Thirty Minutes”.

Valentina Vanini
She graduated in singing with honours from the Conservatory of Parma and graduated with a Masters in Musical and Artistic Disciplines from Bologna. She specialised in vocal chamber music and modern composer music (Edith Piaf, Astor Piazzolla, Gorni Kramer, Gospel and Blues). Always searching for a solid and malleable vocal technique, she held concert-lessons on singing “From Mozart to the Beatles” for Emilia Romagna Concerts at Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna. She has collaborated with the New Chamber Orchestra, the Finnish pianist Folke Graesbeck, the accordionist and bandoneon player Fabio Rossato, the Soloists of the San Carlo Theatre, and the actress Olivia Magnani. She debuted in 1999 in The Threepenny Opera by Weill, in 2006 as Proserpina in Monteverdi’s Orfeo, as The Second Witch in Dido and Aeneas by Purcell, in 2010 as Mamma Lucia in Cavalleria Rusticana, as Fenena in Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi, as a soloist for Missa Criolla by Ramirez, Stabat Mater by Pergolesi, La Petite Messe Solennelle by Rossini, Gloria and Villancicos by Boccherini and Gospel Mass. She has taken part in prestigious festivals such as: Parma Verdi Festival, Puccini at Torre del Lago, The Great Events of Music of Arezzo, Serassi, Soli Deo Gloria, and Ferdinandeo. She has performed at the Teatro Regio di Parma, Verdi di Busseto, the Ducal Palace in Mantova, the Monteverdi Auditorium in Mantova, the Auditorium del Carmine in Parma, the Duomo and San Fedele in Milan. In 2014, she gave a concert in Rome at the Auditorium del Gonfalone dedicated to Pope Francis with the guitarist Omar Cyrulink (former artistic director of Teatro Colon in Buenos aires), Francesco Santucci (first sax of Rai), Giorgio Albiani. She was a guest of Swiss Italian Radio, Radio Classica and Teleromagna.

Marco Santià
Born in Ravenna in 1979, he graduated in piano with honours in 1999 at the Pergolesi Conservatory in Fermo, under the tuition of Giovanni Valentini. From 2000 to 2003, he attended the Concert Development Course at the same institute, where he would become acquainted with Enrico Belli, Boris Petrushansky, Joerg Demus, Massimiliano Damerini, Pier Narciso Masi, Antonio Ballista, Michele Marvulli, Lazaer Berman, Andrzej Jasinski, Alexander Lonquich and François-Joël Thiollier. In 2008, he won a scholarship from the Académie Musicale de Villecroze for a master class in vocal chamber music held by Dalton Baldwin, a pianist with whom he would study again at the Barcelona Conservatory, during the lieder interpretation of the Viñas Association. His training, enriched by the study of the humanities, includes developing composition and conducting – subjects in which he graduated at the Martini Conservatorio at Bologna – under the guidance of Cristina Landuzzi and Luciano Acocella. He was the pianist for three editions of the Justinian Award, given to Carlo Verdone, to Gigi Proietti and to i Pooh. He has fostered numerous collaborations with programmes such as Swiss Italian Radio, Radio Classica and Teleromagna.