Manuel Tomadin
He spends constantly his musical attitude to Renaissance and Baroque music through the study of ancient essays and historical instruments. He studied with Claudio Astronio, Andrea Marcon, Michael Radulescu, Luca Scandali, Ferruccio Bartoletti,Peter Planyavsky, Olivier Latry, Paolo Crivellaro, Jon Laukvik, Ludger Lohmann, Gustav Auzinger, Hans Fagius, Peter Van Dijk, Francesco di Lernia, Eric Lebrun, Teo Theoliema. From 2001 to 2003 he studied at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Switzerland) with Jean Claude Zehnder and Andrea Marcon.

He has an intense concert activity, in Italy and in Europe. He recorded for the editorial series “Gli Organi Storici del Friuli Venezia Giulia” and for Toondrama record label. He collaborates with the recorder player Manuel Staropoli and with the ancient music ensemble “Terg Antiqua”; he teaches in Italian academies, in Mannheim, Lubijana and Belgrade.

He won four prizes in national organistic contests and four international awards (First prize in Fussen – Breitenwang – Mittenwald and Second prize in Innsbruck for two times). He is also winner of the Grand Prix d’ECHO in the Alkmaar Schnitger Competition.

He is artistic director of the Organ International Festival in Udine and of the Antonio Vivaldi Festival of Trieste.

Fabiana Noro
First-class graduate in piano at the Conservatory “J. Tomadini” in Udine under the guidance of Professor Umberto Tracanelli. She attended together the course of music composition held by maestro Daniele Zanettovich and the course of choral music and choir direction held by maestro Annibale Cetrangolo. She then perfected herself in choir direction with the maestros Giorgio Kirschner, Peter Eidenbenz and Olinto Contardo.

She was Assistant Chorus Master of the choir at the Ente Lirico “Pierluigi da Palestrina” (an institution of opera in the theatre of Cagliari) for the following lyric-symphonic productions: Carmen, La Bohéme, I Pescatori di Perle, La Forza del Destino, Symphony No. 2 by Mahler, Requiem by Verdi, Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven. She collaborated as a substitute maestro on the opera “il Re Pastore” by G. Gialuppi, the world premiere of which took place at the “Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine” with Mosque Academy of Ancient Music.

She was also the prompter for several operas staged during the Udine opera season (La Bohème, Don Pasquale, La cambiale di matrimonio, etc.).

She has conducted many choirs, including the Diapason chamber choir, a professional choir made up of sixteen opera singers from the region with which she won first prize – DIPLOMA OF EXCELLENCE -at the international competition for choral singing “C.A. Seghizzi” chaired by Roman Vlad. With the same group, which presents various classic and contemporary programmes during important musical seasons both in Italy and abroad, she has held concerts with the Zagreb Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra dedicated to soundtracks.

She has been conducting the “Coro Polifonico di Ruda” since January 2003. It is a male choir made up of forty members that has held concerts all over the world (in the main European countries but also in the United States, Argentina, Canada, Mongolia, Philippines, etc.).