Alberto Jona
Opera Choir
Graduated in Musical Aesthetics at the University of Literature and Philosophy in Turin, he has published studies on eighteenth-century musical treatises and on Mozart’s theatre, later devoting himself to twentieth-century music and in particular to Kurt Weill, Alberto Savinio and entertainment. He started his activity as a music critic for La gazzetta del popolo of Turin, collaborating continuously for 2 years.
He has published essays and studies for UTET (Musica in Scena, DEUMM), Unicopli (Il paggio il libertino e il filosofo – per una parabola mozartiana di Eros e finzione, 1991), La Giuntina Ed. Fabbri Editori, Franco Angeli Ed. and has collaborated with essays and articles for Italian magazines including “Il giornale della Musica”, “Sonus” and foreign ones such as “Puck”. As an interpreter and scholar of Jewish music and culture, he edited the Italian edition of the Storia della musica ebraica by Abrahm Zvi Idelsohn for La Giuntina in Florence, as well as many essays, articles and conferences.
Together with Alessandro Baricco, he founded the Holden School in Turin and was president and director of HoldenArt, a creative, dynamic and interdisciplinary workshop that works to enhance the material and immaterial cultural heritage through the medium of narrative. The areas in which HoldenArt has operated are research, training, narrative paths and events. From 2000 to 2010 HoldenArt has curated projects for the Piedmont Region, the City of Turin, the Savoy Residences and the Sacred Mounts of Piedmont, the Superintendencies of Turin and Salerno, the cities of Naples, Modena, Cagliari, Bolzano, the Region of Tuscany and so on.
Alberto Jona is professor of History of Musical Theatre and Musical Dramaturgy at the Giorgio Ghedini Conservatory in Cuneo and previously taught at the Conservatories of Bolzano and Trento and Riva del Garda.
Since 2015/16 he has been an adjunct lecturer at the Catholic University of Milan.
In the theatrical field he has had an extremely wide training starting with dance-theatre, studying with Anna Sagna at the Bella Hutter School in Turin and then perfecting his skills in Venice, Paris and in particular in London at The Place, Martha Graham’s London school. She has been part of the Bella Hutter Contemporary Dance Group in Turin, dancing in Italy, France and for the Television of French Switzerland.
As a musician, he studied singing with Gabriella Ravazzi and later with Anne English Santucci in Rome, perfecting his chamber music repertoire in France with Dalton Baldwin and Gerard Souzay and his lieder repertoire with Erik Werba. He dedicated himself to chamber music from the 18th century to contemporary music. He has appeared in concert seasons and festivals in Italy, France, England, Switzerland, Spain, Holland, Romania, the United States and South America, and has sung at La Fenice in Venice, the Musica in Europa Festival at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the Teatro Regio and Unione Musicale in Turin, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Salle Gaveau in Paris, the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires, as well as in Rome, London and San Francisco. He has made recordings for Stradivarius, Nuova Era, DDT, La Giuntina and others.