Team
André Cameron
Musician
André Cameron received his diploma in viola from the North Carolina School of the Arts and his Batchelor of Music from the New England Conservatory of Music. He did his solo debut in Rome in 1977. After seven years in the La Scala Orchestra in Milan under Maestro Claudio Abbado, Cameron joined the Gulbenkian Orchestra in Lisbon. Cameron has performed in chamber music and as soloist in Rome, Milan, Paris, London, New York, Boston, etc. In orchestral concerts he has performed in the world's great halls including the Philharmonie in Berlin, Carnegie Hall in New York, Theatre des Champs Elysées in Paris, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, NHK Hall in Tokyo, the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Sala São Paulo, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, etc. He has played under the following Maestros; Claudio Abbado, Lorin Naazel, Carlos Kleiber, Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Seiji Ozawa, Riccardo Chailly, George Prêtre, Wolfgang Sawallisch, etc.
Giovanni Vecchi
Photographer
Robert Ashby
Musician
Robert Ashby has played piano for Ballet and Modern Dance classes and rehearsals for many prestigious ballet schools and companies in New York and Europe in the past 43 years. Starting at the American Ballet Theater Company and School, New York under Mikhail Baryshnikov for 20 years and playing for ALL of the open schools in New York including Robert Denvers, Melissa Hayden, STEPS, etc. During this time was permanent guest pianist for 16 years for Marika Besobrasova at the Princesse Grace Academie in Monaco. Guest pianist for the ballet companies in Antwerp(Robert Denvers), La Scala(Patricia Neary), Oslo, Copenhagen, Glasgow, Monte-Carlo, Basel and extensively at the Vienna State Opera Company and School(request of Marika Besobrasova). Pianist for the past 7 years at the Tanzakademie Zürich. Full knowledge of many Dance methods including: Balanchine; Vaganova; Bournonville; Royal Academy London; Martha Graham and José Limon(Modern Dance). Worked with many of the Stars of New York City Ballet from the time of Balanchine's leadership.
YVETTE BERNASCONI
Administration
Paolo Mohovich
Choreographer
Paolo Mohovich is the Artistic director of Palcoscenico Danza in Turin, and was director of the Esperia Ballet for thirteen years. He is considered by critics to be one of the most original and musical Italian choreographers of formalist contemporary dance. He began his studies in Turin with Sara Acquarone and subsequently in Cannes with Rosella Hightower, José Ferran and Edward Cook to perfect himself at the Dance Works in London and at the Cuballet in Havana. As a dancer,Paolo worked at the Ballet de Victor Ullate, the Ballet de Zaragoza and the Balletto di Toscana, companies where he performed the works of Hans Van Manen, Uwe Sholtz, William Forsythe, George Balanchine, Mauro Bigonzetti, Leonide Massine etc. As a choreographer, in addition to the Esperia Ballet, he created choreographies for Dantzaz Konpainia, Maggiodanza, Balletto di Toscana, Ballet de Zaragoza, Tulsa Ballet, Ballet Nacional Sodre Uruguay, Ballet de la Generalitat Valenciana, Miami Contemporary and Dance Company, Maximum Dance Company , BalletXtreme and Eko Dance International Project etc. Among the awards received: the 1st prize for choreography of the Prix Volinine in Paris in 1995 and 1997, the Salerno Danza Italian choreography prize 2001, the Danza&Danza Prize 2010 for the best Italian choreographic project. Furthermore, Paolo Mohovich was the winner of the Maggioranza short time platform. In 2012 he choreographed the opera "La Cenerentola" for Rai directed by Carlo Verdone, broadcast worldwide.
Pedro Lozano
Choreographer
Pedro Lozano Gomez is a choreographer and dancer from Barcelona. Moved by a passion to interpret and create at a very young age. He began studying dance professionally at the age of 13 and was invited, in 1999, as a guest dancer for the production of the Nutcracker at the Ballet de Zaragoza, Spain. After winning first prize at the dance competition of Ciudad de Castellon, he left Spain at the age of 19 to move to Paris and begin his professional career at the Jeune Ballet de France in 2001. He then began exploring more modern dance at the Nordharzerstadbuntheater in Germany where he worked for two years. In the hopes to remain polyvalent, both classical and modern, he accepted a contract at the Ballet du Capitole in Toulouse, France directed by Nanette Glushack where he spent four years dancing and creating works. In 2007, he joined the Royal Ballet of Flanders in Belgium where he worked under the direction of Kathryn Bennetts and then Assis Carreiro until 2013. Pedro then decided to focus on his creations, signing choreographies in Belgium, Italy, Germany and the United States. During the Coviv19 crisis, he kept himself creative by working with dancers around the world for a limited series of solos and duets called « Room series choreography ». On June 20th of 2020, he won first prize at the Online Choreographic Competition. The jury was formed by José Martinez, Francesco Ventriglia, Philippe Kratz, Olivier Dubois, Matteo Levaggi and Fabio Crestale. In 2021 he created a solo dance film for Fernando Montaño, former soloist of the Royal Opera House in London, called Ounce of Found. The film has since then, been selected for the Espoo DigiDance International Festival in Finland, and can be streamed as well on treycool.com. In February 2022, his latest creation titled DARK HORSE was released. Being part of the international project called Room to Room, held by Catarina Carvalho and Ana Maria Lucaciu. Since then, he’s been working on new works for the upcoming seasons.
Alberto Salmaso
Lighting Designer