Disecheis Duo

David Brutti, Filippo Farinelli

United by a common desire to promote 20th Century and contemporaty chamber music, saxophone player David Brutti and pianist Filippo Farinelli formed the Disecheis Duo in November 2004. David Brutti studied at the Conservatories of Pesaro and Bordeaux, while Filippo Farinelli at the Conservatory of Perugia: both of them graduated with first class honors. Currently, they are perfecting their studies at the International Piano Academy of Imola under the guidance of Pier Narciso Masi and of the Pepicelli Duo. They have also attended Master Classes at the Internationalen Oleg Kagan Musikfestes in Kreuth-Monaco and at the Estate Musicale in Portogruaro in Venezia, taught by Federico Mondelci.

They were recently awarded the first overall prize the 27th Concorso Nazionale di Esecuzione Musicale F.Cilea - Città di Palmi, at the 3rd Concorso Nazionale di Esecuzione Musicale F.Feroci - Città di San Giovanni Valdarno and at the 7th Concorso Nazionale di Esecuzione Musicale C.G.da Venosa – Città di Potenza. They won second prize at the 9th Concorso Internazionale Riviera del Conero (Ancona) and at the 18th Concorso Internazionale Provincia di Caltanissetta while classifying 3rd at the 21st Concorso Internazionale -Città di Trapani.

The Disecheis Duo has worked with a number of reknowned composers, including Paolo Baioni, Fabio Cifariello-Ciardi, Marco Momi, Marco Marinoni, and Stefano Trevisi, performing their works for the very first time at the 9th and 10th International Stage for the Saxophone (Fermo).

Invited by G. Barbieri, they performed a live concert for the national radio program “RadioTreSuite”. They have also recorded for Materiali Sonori (San Giovanni Valdarno), Max Research (Arezzo) and Rai Radio Tre (Rome).

Besides contemporary music the Duo’s repertoire ranges greatly: from composers with roots in the musical aesthetics of the end of the 19th century (C. Debussy, V. d’Indy, C. Koechlin and F. Schmitt) to composers of the second half of the 20th century (E. Denisov, M. Denhoff and I. Nodaira) to the German and American Expressionist movements (P. Dessau, W. Jacobi, E. Schulhoff, E. Carter, P. Creston, W. Hartley and M. Babbitt).