Laudamus Choir

Laudamus Choir – Italy

International Choir Festival in Toscana, April 2025

The ‘Coro Laudamus’ was founded in 1996 as a Cultural Association that aims to disseminate the national and international musical heritage through concerts, choral festivals, and civil and religious events. The choir currently consists of 35 members, some of whom are music connoisseurs at an amateur level and others professional musicians.

Under the guidance of Maestro Andrea Dellavedova, it has given numerous concerts and participated in choral festivals in Italy and abroad, twinning with the ‘RTG’ Choir of Grimmenstein-Vienna, the Polyphonic Choir of Mering-Bavaria, and the Cantu’s and Ain’Tonation Choirs of Bourg en Bresse (France).

In 2011, he participated in the ‘Prague advent choral meeting’ in Prague (Czech Republic).

In 2015, it took part in the great choral event ‘Conto Cento Canto Pace’ at the Arena di Verona.

In 2016 it participated in the 1st International Festival of Choirs in Gozo (Malta).

Annually, the association promotes singing and vocal courses open to all and has organised the traditional annual Choral Review held in Nerviano (MI) since 2006.

Over the years, the choral ensemble has offered its audience the performance of concerts and opera arias from the Italian opera tradition.

In 2007, 2008 and 2010, the complete performances of Pietro Mascagni’s ‘La Cavalleria Rusticana’ were performed.

In 2015, the three-act opera buffa ‘Don Pasquale’ by Gaetano Donizetti was performed.

In 2016, Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Madama Butterfly’ was offered to the public.

In 2017, Georges Bizet’s ‘Carmen’.

Of particular note were also the performances with orchestra of Giacomo Puccini’s ‘Messa di Gloria’ and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s ‘Messa di Requiem’.

Official Website : https://corolaudamus.it/

Andrea Dellavedova, Conductor

After graduating in piano at the Conservatorio ‘G. Verdi’ in Milan under the guidance of Maestro Gino Ielo, he subsequently attended specialisation courses held by Prof. Maria Lilia Bertola and Prof. Anita Porrini, both principal piano teachers at the Milan Conservatory.

After studying composition with Maestro Luigi Molfino, he was admitted to the ‘G. Verdi’ Conservatory in Milan in Maestro Franco Monego’s class under whose guidance he graduated in Choral Music and Choir Direction.

He then attended an advanced training course for choir conductors held by Maestro Tonu Kaljuste, several vocal courses and a conducting course held by Maestro Emilio Pomarico.

He also attended a course on ‘music for film’ held by Maestro Bruno Miceli and Maestro Ennio Morricone at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.

He currently directs the Laudamus choir in Nerviano with a repertoire that ranges from ancient to contemporary music, from sacred music to pop and jazz, from popular music to opera music. The concerts held in Grimmenstein (Austria) and Mering (Germany) were highly acclaimed. Performances of several operas (Cavalleria Rusticana, Don Pasquale, Madama Butterfly, Carmen, Così fan tutte, Traviata) and several concerts of sacred music (Mozart’s Requiem and several Masses, Vivaldi’s Gloria and Magnificat, Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, Schubert’s Mass in G Major) were also very successful.

He conducts the ‘Stella Alpina’ choir from Bareggio with a repertoire of popular music songs. In 2003, he won third prize at the USCI Competition in the province of Milan and has represented the province of Milan in folk song festivals in the Lombardy provinces for several years.

He also directs the ‘Santa Cecilia’ parish choir in Arluno, with which he performs liturgical services and holds concerts with a repertoire of sacred music, chamber music, opera and operetta choirs.

He teaches piano, theory and solfeggio, and harmony at the Parish Music School in Nerviano and at the Accademia Emiliani in Corbetta.

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