Current
Posts and Projects:
OPERA COMMISSION: 2007 – 2009 Mr. Sforzini is currently working under commission by an anonymous patron to compose a new opera for production in 2009
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR of the SAINT PETERSBURG OPERA company: 2007 – present www.stpeteopera.org
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR of FLORIMEZZO: 2003 – present www.florimezzo.org
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR of the Palladium Theater’s ENCORE SERIES 2008
Upcoming & Recent Performances: (click date links for additional performance information)
(clink title link for additional information about the work) CONTACT the composer @ mark@marksforzini.com to add a performance to this list
April 5, 2009, 7:00pm @The Toledo Club, Toledo, OH
--performed by Principal Players of the Toledo Symphony
July 22, 2008, 8:00pm @Eastern Music Festival, Greensboro, NC
Sextet for Piano and Winds
--Carnegie Chamber Series, performed by EMF Music Faculty including Gideon Rubens, piano
July 13, 2008, 7:30pm @Center for the Arts, Crested Butte, CO
Theme and Variations on a Slavic Song WORLD PREMIERE
--performed by the Crested Butte Music Fesitval Orchestra, Musika Gorbachev, conductor
May 4, 2008, 3:00pm @Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater, FL
Pinellazartian
Overture WORLD PREMIERE
--performed by the Pinellas Youth Symphony in honor of their 50th Anniversary, Susan Robinson, conductor
February 20, 21, 22,
10:30am @Holland Performing Arts Center, Omaha, NE
--performed by the Omaha Symphony for the Margre Durham Concerts for Youth: “The Composer’s Craft”
January 29, 2008 @St. Petersburg College Music Center, St.
Petersburg, FL
Sextet for Piano and Winds WORLD PREMIERE
--performed as part of the Palladium Theater’s ENCORE series. Pascal Rogè, piano, with Quantum Winds
July 28, 2007 @Center for the Arts, Crested Butte, CO
--performed at the Crested Butte Music Festival
April 17, 2007 @The Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg,
FL
Triple Concerto WORLD PREMIERE
--performed by Musician’s Out of the Box with soloists: Sean O’Neil, violin, Aaron White, Bass & Mark Sforzini, bassoon
April 6, 2007 @Northside Baptist Church, St. Petersburg,
FL
Excerpts from Water Works – Aqua Rising
--performed by FloriMezzo
March 20, 2007 @The Palladium Theater, St. Petersburg,
FL
--performed by Fred Gratta, cello, and Judith Alstadter, piano
December 1, 2006 @The University of Oregon, Portland,
OR
--performed by the University of Oregon Faculty Wind Quintet
Upcoming
& Recent Conducting Engagements:
Crested Butte Music Festival presents Into the Woods, June 26, 27, 28 and July 1, 2 & 3, 2008
Saint Petersburg Opera presents Don Giovanni, June 13, 15 & 17, 2008
FloriMezzo Goes to the Heartland, Palladium Theater – ENCORE series, St. Petersburg, FL, April 1, 2008
--Copland Appalachian Spring; Barber Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Bernstein Glitter and Be Gay; Taranto The Ragtime of Life; Montague Thule Ultima
(clink link above to download audio file – the Copland and Barber are very large files and will take some time to transfer depending on your transfer speed)
Saint Petersburg Opera presents L’Elisir d’Amore, December 28 & 30, 2007
Saint Petersburg Opera presents From Russia with Love, December 5, 2007 @ the St. Petersburg Yacht Club
Progress Energy Center for the Arts 1st Annual Fourth of July Concert with the FloriMezzo Community Band
Saint Petersburg Opera presents La Bohème, June 8, 10 & 12, 2007
Faure Requiem, Friday, April 6, 2007 7:00pm at Northside Baptist Church, 6000 38th Avenue North, St. Petersburg
With the FloriMezzo Orchestra and Northside Baptist Church Choir
FloriMezzo Goes to the Opera, Tuesday, March 20, 2007 7:30pm at the Palladium Theater
Perri Montané, mezzo-soprano and Todd Donovan, baritone with the FloriMezzo Orchestra
Highlights
from the opera, Carmen
Die Fledermaus at the Palladium Theater; December 29 and 30, 2006, 7:30pm (Fledermaus REVIEW)
With the FloriMezzo Orchestra; Stage Direction by Jon Truitt
Principal Artists: Elizabeth Truitt, Elizabeth Claxton, Jon Truitt, Todd Donovan, Perri Montané, Kevin Courtemanche, Jacob Pence,
Baron Garriott, Charleene Closshey, Bob Heitman and Algimantas Karnavicius
FloriMezzo Fall Concert at the Palladium Theater; Sunday, October 29, 2006, 2:30pm
Strauss Suite in B-flat
FloriMezzo Wind Ensemble at the Palladium Theater on June 17, 2006
The Barber of Seville (Two performances at the Palladium Theater on June 2, 7:30pm and June 4, 2:00pm)
With the FloriMezzo Orchestra and principal singers: Jon Truitt, Valerie Nicolosi, Bryce Westervelt, Russell Franks, Liana Valente and Todd Donovan
Auburn Community Orchestra on April 29, 2006 in Auburn, Alabama
program includes Mozart Symphony No. 33, Grieg Holberg Suite and Mozart Bassoon Concerto