Ivan Mancinelli graduated summa cum laude with Mr. Forestiere (Conservatory N. Piccinni, Bari), as well as with
Mr. Peter Sadlo (Mozarteum Salzburg).
In 1999 he met H. W. Henze in Munich, working on the Maestro’s chamber opera “El Cimarrón”. Several perfor-
mances of the piece followed: in Salzburg (Salzburger Festspieleröffnung, Festival Aspekte), Tübingen (Kammer-
oper), Monopoli (Conservatory), Hallein (Junge Kultur), Hamburg (NDR), Nürnberg (Theater Nürnberg).
He has played many first performances of composers such as: Stefano Taglietti, Stefan Hakenberg, Agustín Cas-
tilla-Ávila, S.E. Panzer, and Balz Trümpy, performing their works at the Teatro civico in Sassari, Sardinia, at the
Theater Konstanz, at the Sommertheater Überlingen, at the Festival “Sommer im Altmühltal” in Ingolstadt, at
the Mozarteum in Salzburg, at the Romanischer Sommer Köln, at the Festival Mammut Glyphix in Salzburg, at
the California State University in Fresno, at the festival “Les arts florissant de la Sardaigne” in Paris, as well as at
the Festival for Contemporary Music in Banska Bystrica, Slovakia. In 2008 he debutated as a soloist at the Gasteig
in Munich.
Since 2003, Ivan Mancinelli is being frequently invited as a guest percussionist by the RAI Symphony Orchestra in
Turin. In the same year his essay “Cello Suites, dal Violoncello alla Marimba”, (Cello Suites - from the Violoncello
to the Marimba) has been published by the Italian “Edizioni Pugliesi” - Martina Franca. In 2006 his solo CD with
Bach’s 6 Suites for Cello, transcribed for Marimba, was published by Bongiovanni Records Bologna. In 2007, Hans
Werner Henze’s El Cimarron has been released by the Label Wergo. In 2008, his duo CD (guitar and marimba)
together with the guitarist Christina Schorn has been released by Bongiovanni Records. In the same year the El
Cimarron Ensemble brought out their new CD “Hakenberg/Taglietti” with the new label VDMRecords.
He has performed several concerts for marimba and orchestra including the concert n ° 1 for marimba and orches-
tra of Rosauro in Rome at the hall of the Brazilian embassy, in Teramo with the Benedetto Marcello orchestra, in
Taranto with the Regional Orchestra of Puglia, in Plovdiv with the Plovdiv Symphony Orchestra. He collaborates
with the Roma Sinfonietta orchestra as a soloist for the 3rd concert of Ennio Morricone for Marimba guitar and
strings. Morricone wrote about him:
He performed first with the Haydn orchestra of Bolzano the concert for marimba timpani and orchestra conducted
by George Pehlivanian. Concert that will be published in a new CD by the label STRADIVARIUS
Since November 2005, Ivan Mancinelli is teaching at the Conservatory in Triest,. He plays exclusively on Adams
Musical Instruments
