"Studying under the guidance of Ennio Nicotra was great luck: not only because I had the privilege of coming into direct contact with an heir to the technique of the teaching of the great Russian pedagogue Ilya Musin, but also because I had a pragmatic and intelligent training experience, human but very rigorous.
Conducting, in the popular imagination, is a mysterious activity, supposedly related to an unspecified individual “charisma”. With the help of Maestro Ennio Nicotra, the student will instead discover all the benefits of a "scientific" approach to what remains undoubtedly an art, but which is made, like all the arts and all musical disciplines, of problems that can be scrupulously disassembled, observed at a close distance and put in the best
possible light.
After the initial "shock", studying with such systematicity will lead the student not to the passive adoption of an approach or method, but to a dramatic, effective increase of his individual expressiveness and personal style.
One could not ask for better."
Manfred Giampietro chief conductor Pisa University orchestra
