{"id":4203,"date":"2026-04-14T16:40:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mozart-gesellschaft-dortmund.de\/stipendiaten\/francesco-maffei\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T17:02:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:02:03","slug":"francesco-maffei","status":"publish","type":"stipendiaten","link":"https:\/\/mozart-gesellschaft-dortmund.de\/en\/scholarship-holders\/francesco-maffei\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesco Maffei"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Francesco Maffei, trombone<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scholarship holder since 2025<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Italian trombonist Francesco Maffei, born in 2005, completed his Bachelor\u2019s degree at the Bergamo Conservatory. He is currently pursuing his Master\u2019s degree at the University of the Arts in Bern with Ian Bousfield. Even as a teenager, he won numerous prizes at national and international competitions, including first prize at the \u201cRizzardo Bino\u201d Competition in Braone. In 2021, he received a scholarship from the Rotary Club at the \u201cG. Donizetti\u201d Conservatory in Bergamo under Maestro Ermes Giussani. At the age of 16, he performed as a soloist with Nino Rota\u2019s Trombone Concerto at the Teatro Sociale in Bergamo.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In 2022, he was awarded the \u201cProfessione Orchestra\u201d (RAI) scholarship and performed the trombone solo in <em>Pulcinella<\/em>by Igor Stravinsky with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI. In the same year, he represented Italy in the final of the Thomas Kuti Competition in Klagenfurt and was appointed principal trombonist of the Young Concertgebouw Orchestra.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">He has participated in major orchestral projects such as the Mahler Student Festival Orchestra in Belgium. In 2023 and 2024, he served as principal trombonist of the Verbier Festival Junior Orchestra. 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