Salvatore Maria Spanò
SALVATORE MARIA SPANÒ, bass-baritone
Salvatore Maria Spanò was born in Isola delle Femmine, a small town near Palermo (Sicily, Italy) and in this city he started studying piano, solfeggio and harmony with Anna Nicoletti Orlando (former pupil of the well-known Italian pianist master Tito Aprea) and with Professor Turi Belfiore at “Vincenzo Bellini” Conservatory in Palermo.
At the same time, he also studied humanities at Palermo University, and he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts. He moved to Como (a town in northern Italy) where he worked as a teacher in public high schools and followed piano courses of Professor Vincenzo Balzani at “Liceo Musicale” in Como for two years.
In Catalonia he made friends with master Joan Guinjoan, a Catalan composer, who introduced him to Cristina Navajas Alonso (the pianist in charge of “Diabolus in Música” ensemble ) and he studied with her for four years. Finally he ended his piano studies with Sofia Cabruja at the “Isaac Albeniz” Conservatory in Girona. Among some piano master classes, he wants particularly to mention two of these: the one with master Thomas Mac Intosh and the second with master Luiz Moura de Castro.
At same time as his piano career, he also started to study singing (he is bass/baritone) with the Hungarian soprano Ottilia Mere Hórvath in Bern (Switzerland) and he continued in Catalonia with three other sopranos.
He had the opportunity to meet and to find the Russian soprano Rimma Khismatullina as his ideal teacher with whom he ended his singing career. He participated in different singing master classes and worked as well as with the Catalan tenor master Dalmau Gonzalez, with Francisco Poyato and Assumpta Mateu (at Eight Lieder Course for pianists and singers), with Mireia Pintó (mezzosoprano and teacher at the ESMUC in Barcelona) and with Spanish soprano Isabel Penagos.
He was awarded the Licentiate Diploma at Trinity Guildhall College of Music in London. He has performed as a solo pianist and as a solo singer together with other musicians in Italy (Palermo, Como, Milano), in France (Paris) in Switzerland (Bern), in Catalonia (Girona, Barcelona, Palamós, Palafrugell, Begur and Vilafranca del
Penedés).
He has been teacher at “L’Energia” Conservatory ( former “Escola de Música” ) in Palafrugell (Baix Empordà – Girona ), Catalonia since 1998.
“As for Rossini they used the term 'Tenore di grazia', I will use for
Salvatore Maria ‘Basso/baritono di grazia'”
Dalmau González, Tenor
“Tenacious fighter, eager to know, expressing his soul with his voice,
Salvatore Maria makes virtue of necessity”
Rimma Khismatullina, Mezzosoprano
