"Ennio Nicotra was my first teacher, in 2012, in this noble, very difficult art and profession. Through the specialization courses in Milan, Venice and Palermo, I was able to witness the effectiveness of his method, which is simple to understand in his fundamental and extremely communicative principles.
Orchestral conducting is one of the most difficult professions in the world because of its very essence, that of having to communicate an idea, an intangible object, through one's physicality, one's gesture and thus give shape to a sound that, initially, is only in one's head, as well as in the score.
They have been important experiences, both on an educational and human level. I had the opportunity to meet fantastic colleagues and to play with first-rate professionals, like the professors of the Orchestra of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo.
For anyone who wants to approach orchestral conducting, Ennio Nicotra provides those essential and indispensable tools that allow us to understand in a genuine and immediate way the relationship between gesture and sound. "
Nadir Garofalo
