Flavio Ferri-Benedetti (1983) – countertenor – Italy

Education: voice lessons with Achim Schulz in Alicante and María de los Llanos in Valencia. Baroque summer courses (2000–2004) with Jennifer Smith, Nancy Argenta, Ian Partridge, Gerd Türk and Mark Padmore. BA in Early Music, with Distinction, at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) with Gerd Türk (2008)– and Master of Arts in November 2010. Prizes: Velluti Award – as young promising countertenor (2006). Repertory: concert arias Fauré, Tosti, Mahler, Hahn, Mompou, Barber, Johannes Passion Bach, Stabat mater (Pergolesi and Haydn), Petite Messe Solennelle (Rossini), Symphony no. 2 (Mahler).