Prof. Patrick De Ritis
Born 15.12.1959 in France
Grew up in Italy
Education in Austria and Italy
Lives in Vienna and Pescara

Education

Patrick de Ritis started at the age of 8 years with piano lessons and with 13 years with intensive bassoon-training. For some years he played both instruments and later on with 17 he dedicated himself to the study oft he bassoon fulltime.
He studied bassoon among others:
– at the the Conservatory Santa Cecilia in Rome with Marco Costantini
– Mozarteum, Salzburg with Milan Turkovic
– with Klaus Klaus Thurnemann
And direction among others with:
– Michael Dittrich
– Franco Ferrara

Carrer and International Performances

1978 – Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Italy – won the competition for the for the place as first solo-bassoonist, afterwards engagement till 1982
1978 – taught at the Conservatory in Lecce, Italy
1982 – Orchestra Regionale Toscana , Italy – won the competition for the place as first solo-bassoonist
1985 – RAI A. Scarlatti in Neapel, Italy – won the competition for the for the place as first solo-bassoonist, afterwards engagement till 1987
1987 – Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Italien – won the competition for the for the place as first solo-bassoonist, afterwards engagement till 1989
1987 – 1st prize, Kammermusikwettbewerb Martigny, Schweiz
numeros concerts as soloist Konzerte im Schweizer Rundfunk
1989 – Rundfunkorchester RAI, Rom, Italien – engagement as first solo-basoonist and concerts as soloist till 1990
1990 – Vienna Symphony Orchestra / Wiener Symphoniker, Austria – won the competition for the place as first solo-bassoonist, afterwards engagement till today

– Engagement as first solo-basoonist in the Vienna Symphony Orchestra since 1990
– Ensemble member of the Chamber Orchestra Wiener Concert-Verein since 1990
– Founder and Artistic Director of the wind-ensemble Pratar Ensemble from 1982 to 1990
– Founder and Artistic Director of the wind-ensemble European Wind Soloists since 1990
– Founding member, artistic director and Vice-President of the Chamber Orchestra Concertino Wien, Members of the Vienna Symphony Orcestra since 2009
– Founding member and artistic director of the Quinteto Briccaldi since 1987
– Founding member and artistic director of the Trio Jean Francaix since 2013

Carrer as a Soloist

Besides performing as a soloist alongside the Vienna Symphony Orchestra with world famous conductors such as Georges Prêtre, Vladimir Fedosjev, Wolfgang Sawallisch and Maris Janson in Russia, Japan, the USA, Europe and Asia, Patrick de Ritis’ has had a very active career as soloist and conductor with many world-class orchestras:

Solo-Concerts international with following Orchestras, excerpt

Orchester Santa Cecilia Rome, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana Lugano, Chamber Orchestra Bozen, Teatro „La Fenice“ Venice
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfônica do Estado de São Paulo (OSESP), Bilkent Symphony Orchestra Ankara, Wiener Concert-Verein, Concertino Wien, Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Orchestra da Camera di Palermo, Philharmonic Orchestra Bucharest, Philharmonic Orchestra Bratislava, Theater Würzburg, Orquestra Nacional de Catalunya, Philharmonic Orchestra Lublin, Philharmonic Orchestra Botosani

1996 – World Premiere Peter Maxwell Davies Concert for Bassoon and Orchestra unter dessen Leitung, Wiener Musikverein.
2008 – Ankara, First Premiere Rossini Bassoon Concert
2008 – Tournee in Spain with the Orchestra Toscanini di Parma conducted by Lorin Maazel
2009 – Sao Paulo – Solo Concert with the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro John Neshling, First Premiere Verdi Bassoon Concert
2010 – Orchestra de i Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Italy
2011 – Concertino Wien, Tournee through Italy as a soloist and conductor
2012 – Solo-concert with Dimirij Kitajenko, recording of the disc ‚ Mozart, Grieg & Telemann LIVE aus dem Casino Baumgarten’ , Vienna, Austria
2012 – Solo-concert, Verdi and Rossini bassoon concertos with I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, Italy
2014 – Recital at the Conservatory of Peking
2014 – Soloist and conductor oft the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Italy
2014 – Solo-concert and recording oft he disc for Bassoon and Orchstra by Anthony de Ritis, with the Boston Modern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gill Rose, Boston, USA
2014 – Solo-Concert, Mozart Bassoon Concert with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Musikverein Wien, Austria
2014 – Solo-concert and recording for NAXOS-USA, Bassoon-concerts Verdi, Rossini and Paganini, Theater Würzburg, Germany
2014 – Concert for bassoon, flute and string orchestra by Telemann‚ with the chamber orchestra Concertino Wien, Konzerthaus Vienna, Austria
2015 – Wiener Symphoniker Quintett, Konzerthaus Wien, Austria
2015 – Soloist and conductor oft the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Italy
2015 – Solo-concert with the string orchestra of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Musikverein Wien
2015 – Wiener Symphoniker Quintett, Festival Bregenz, Austria
2015 – Solo-concert, recital French Composers oft the 1900’s, Festival Federico Cesi, Bevagna, Italy
2015 – Solo-concert with Adam Fischer, Konzerthaus Vienna, Austria
2015 – Wiener Symphoniker Quintett, Festival Stresa, Italy
2015 – Solo-concert, recital French Composers oft the 1900’s, Matera, Italy
2015 – Solo-concert at the Mozart Saal, Konzerthaus Wien
2016 – Wiener Symphoniker Quintett, Festival Bregenz, Austria
2016 – Orchesta Sinfonica di Bari, as conductor and soloist
2016 – Soloist with the Chamber Orchestra Wiener Concert-Verein, Tour through Italy and Austria

Conductor and Soloist international with following Orchestras, excerpt

Orchestra Sinfonica di Pesaro
Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari
Camerata di Fiesole
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Radio Symphonic Orchestra Bratislava
Wiener Concert-Verein
Concertino Wien
Matav Orchestra Budapest
Philharmonic Orchestra Lublin
Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese
Symphonic Orchestra Granada
Lublin Philharmony
Theater Würzburg
Theatro Maruchino de Chieti
Voronezh State Symphony Orchestra

European Wind Soloists, since 1990 numeros concerts throughout Europe, excerpt
– Festival de Musica Pescara, Italy
– Festival di Reate, Italy
– Italy Tournee, 2007
– Eggenberger Schlosskonzerte 2009, Graz, Austria
– Austria Tournee, 2009
– Odsherred Kammermusik Festival, Dänemark
– Festival de Musica Atri, Italy
2014 – Eggenberger Schlosskonzerte, Graz, Austria
2015 – Pescara, Italy, 2015

Teaching Assignments

Since more than 25 years Patrick de Ritis is Docent for bassoon and chamber musicat the
University L. d’Annunzio in Pescara
Furthermore he has been teaching at
– different conervatories of Italy
– Lyceo de Bercelona, Spanien
– Karlsruhe, Deutschland
– Ankara Bilkent Conservatory
– yearly worldwide guest lectures and bassoon masterclasses
– Docent for basoon at the Prayner Conservatory Vienna
– Monthly Bassoon Masterclasses in the Conservatorio Aria de Musica, Rome, Italy

Discography

– Slovart Records, CD Concerts for Bassoon with the Bratislava Chambersoloists and conductor Michael Dittrich
– Studio Bongiovanni, Bologna: CD recording oft he complete works for wind quintett by Giulio Briccialdi with Dante Milozzi. This disc was elected the best classic-CD oft he month in an italian music-gazetta. Published 1980’s
– BRICCIALDI, GIULIO, DANZI, FRANZ IGNAZ: Tre quintetti op. 124, op. 10 nn. 2-3 per flauto, oboe, clarinetto, corno e fagotto, Quintetto n. 1 op. 56, published 1980’s
– Tactus, conducted by Dirk Vermeulen with the Wiener Concertverein: CD ‚Bellafronte: Concerti’
– Preiser Records, conducted by Dimitrij Kitajenko with Concertino Wien:
CD ‚Mozart, Grieg & Telemann LIVE aus dem Casino Baumgarten’
– Naxos USA, CD in production Bassoon Concerts Rossini, Verdi & Paganini with the Theater Würzburg conducted Enrico Carlesso. Published in 2015
– Naxos USA, CD in production: ‚Italian Opera’ with the Ensemble European Wind Soloists. Published in 2015
– Boston Modern Symphony Orchestra‚Pop Concerto’, Concerto for Bassoon and Orchstra by Anthony de Ritis with the Boston Modern Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gill Rose. Published in 2016