Italian pianist to head new academy.

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Italian pianist to head new academy

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Title Italian pianist to head new academy
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Year 2009
Publication Stuff, originally published in The Northland/Bay Chronicle
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Publisher Stuff NZ
Language English
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Geographic reference Kerikeri, Northland, Bay of Islands
Time reference 2009
Online resource YES
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Topic Music, Italian musicians in New Zealand, Musica, Recent immigrants, Italiani in Nuova Zelanda


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Article about International concert pianist Matteo Napoli. Napoli visited and preformed in New Zealand several times before moving to Kerikeri with the role of music director of a new Bay of Islands Academy of Music, Kerikeri School of Music. Now Napoli lives in Auckland with his wife, soprano opera singer and voice teacher Lilia Carpinelli. The couple run the Vivaldi Academy of Music. Napoli also features in the movie Crossing Rachmaninoff with Flavio Villani. Napoli and Carpinelli preforms regularly around New Zealand, you can read more about them in the article: Italian musicians return to perform at Whittaker's Musical Museum.