Het Conical Brass Quintet is opgericht in 2024 binnen de muziekwereld van het Conservatorium van Amsterdam. De groep bestaat uit vijf musici uit Italië, Portugal en Spanje. Het ensemble heeft als doel om de artistieke mogelijkheden van het koperblaaskwintet te exploreren en uit te breiden.De naam ‘Conical’ heeft te maken met de instrumenten die de musici gebruiken: die hebben allemaal een conische boring (dus ‘kegelvormig’ en niet ‘cilindrisch’). In plaats van de gebruikelijke trompetten maakt het kwintet gebruik van kornetten of bugels (flügelhorns), terwijl de trombone is vervangen door een euphonium. Dit zorgt voor een heel ander timbre, voller en warmer, waardoor alle instrumenten op naadloze en harmonische wijze heel mooi met elkaar mengen. Het resultaat is een unieke en boeiende luisterervaring.

Deze innovatieve benadering stelt het kwintet in staat om nieuw repertoire te ontdekken én frisse, genuanceerde uitvoeringen te geven van bekende stukken voor deze formatie. De groep is pas een paar maanden geleden opgericht, maar heeft al verscheidene concerten gegeven die zeer succesvol waren en enthousiaste reacties losmaakten bij het publiek.

De leden van het Conical Brass Quintet zijn:

* Carravagi Carlo – kornet/bugel
* Gerardo Gianolio – kornet/bugel
* Ibai de Miguel – euphonium
* José Nuno Miranda – hoorn
* Samuel Hernández Imbernón – tuba

Cv Caravaggi Carlo

Born in Brescia in March 2002. He achieved the bachelor degree with honours at the Conservatorio Luca Marenzio in Brescia. Now he’s studying at the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam with Omar Tomasoni and Miroslav Petkov during his master degree period.

He attended a variety of masterclasses with eminent trumpet players as Miroslav Petkov, Giuliano Sommerhalder, Marco Toro, Omar Tomasoni, Giuseppe Bodanza, Giancarlo Parodi.

From 2021 to 2023 he was part of the Orchestra giovanile di Milano. He’s working with many orchestras as Orchestra sinfonica di Milano and Orchestra 1813 as tutti trumpet and first trumpet. Since january 2024 he’s a member of the Nationaal jeugdorkest. In the October of 2024 he attended a successful audition for second trumpet at Orchestra Haydn in Bolzano with who will collaborate soon.

He won prices at Concorso internazionale città di Pesaro, Concorso internazionale Città di Giussano and won the Premio nazionale delle arti 2023. He also plays frequently as soloist with many wind bands and orchestras.

Ibai de Miguel – euphonium

Born in 2004, Ibai de Miguel began playing the euphonium at the Bilbao Conservatory. In 2022, when he was 18, he was admitted into the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in Rodin Rosendahl and Perry Hoogendijk’s class.

Since 2022, he has been involved in wind bands such as Marinerskapel of the Netherlands, Fanfarre Bereden Wapens and Bilbao wind band. Ibai was a member of the European youth brass band in 2024.

He also has experience playing in chamber music groups; he has performed concerts in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland. Since 2021, Ibai has performed concerts as a soloist in Spain and abroad. In 2022 he recorded his first CD “II” with the famous Basque ska group Sutan Taldea.

In July 2024 he won the prestigious AETYB competition organized by the Spanish tuba and euphonium association and in November 2024 he won the Willebroek solo contest.

Gerardo Gianolio

Gerardo Gianolio is an Italian trumpet player born on the 3rd February 2000 in Reggio Emilia
(IT); there he attended Conservatory “Achille Peri”
, where he got a Bachelor degree (score 110/110). At the same time he got a high school diploma at Liceo Musicale A. Bertolucci in Parma, where he studied with Matteo Beschi and Francesco Gibellini.
He has also a master degree (110/110) at the Bozen Conservatory under the guidance of
Marco Pierobon and Giancarlo Parodi.
He is right now attending a master at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam in the Omar T omasoni and Miro Petkov ’s class while taking secondary subject lessons of baroque trumpet from Nicolas Isabelle.

Gerardo has gained so far plenty of orchestral experience: he was part of Conservaries’
orchestras, and he collaborated with remarkable national and international orchestras (such
as Concerto Koln, Filarmonica Arturo T oscanini, Haydn Orchestra, Orchestra Luigi
Cherubini, Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, Orchestra del T eatro Olimpico di Vicenza, Mahler
Academy, World Youth Orchestra, Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble, Orchestra
SetteNovecento Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana), under the direction of many great
conductors and musicians including Thomas Hengelbrock, Alexander Lonquich, Pablo
Heras-Casado, Kent Nagano, Wayne Marshall, Andrea Lucchesini, Placido Domingo, Ed
Spanjaard and more.

He regularly performs in chamber music ensembles of various kind (like the brass quintet
with whom he won the second prize at the “Premio Città di Giussano” international
competition in 2021) and in multiple non-classical ensembles and big bands, thanks to which
he played with many well-known relevant artists such as Antony Wellington, Paolo
Schianchi, Wayne Marshall, Andrea T ofanelli, Javier Girotto and more.
Gerardo won the trumpet position in the ensemble “La T oscanini Next” in Parma in 2020,
and in the ensemble “Jong Nederland Blazers Ensemble” (2023/2025), and he recently
founded the Conical Brass Project, a revolutionary brass quintet composed by only conical
instruments.

Gerardo has taken masterclasses with Omar T omasoni, Andrea Conti, Marco T oro, Andrea
Lucchi, Piergiuseppe Doldi, Sergei Nakariakov, Max Sommerhalder, Ole Edvard Antonsen,
Jean Francois Madeuf, Giuliano Sommerhalder.

Samuel Hernández Imbernón – tuba

Born in Torrevieja (Spain), Samuel Hernández Imbernón started to play at the age of 10 years old in his local wind band, the Unión Musical Torrevejense.

There, he discovered his love for his instrument, the tuba, and started to study in the conservatories of Torrevieja, Almoradí and Alicante, where he had classes with José Antonio Mira, Sergio Finca, Daniel Llosà, Vicente López, José Manuel López and David Llácer.

Nowadays, he’s studying 2nd year bachelor in the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Perry Hoogendijk, principal tuba of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

As orchestra musician, he was part of the young orchestra of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Also, he’s an academist in the ADDA Orchestra (Alicante). He’s part of a lot of young orchestras such as Young Orchestra of Spain, Young Orchestra of Valencia or Neue Philharmonie Munich (Germany) among others.

As a soloist, Samuel has won more than 30 1st prize in diverse national and international competitions, and played with some musical ensembles as Municipal Wind Band of Alicante or Málaga Brass Band.

Jose Nuno Miranda

Jose Nuno Miranda (b.2004, Braga) is a Portuguese composer and horn player. He had his first contact with the French Horn at the age of 10 under the tutelage of Pedro Pereira. In 2018 he was admitted to the Conservatory of Braga where he studied with Nelson Braga. It was during this period that his interest for composition grew, owing greatly to Paulo Bastos, who would become his teacher during secondary education. Since 2022, Jose Nuno is taking a bachelor’s degree at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam where he has been having instrumental lessons with Jasper de Waal, Jose Sogorb Jover, Liz Hunfeld-Chell and Bart Aerbeydt (Natural Horn) and composition lessons with Meri< Arta<, Richard Ayres and Maya Verlaak.

Additionally to his conservatory training, he has had French Horn masterclasses with Ant6nio Seabra (2018), Nuno Costa (2019), Paulo Guerreiro (2019 and 2022), Bruno Rafael (2020), Luis Duarte Moreira (2021 and 2023), Nuno Vaz, Jose Bernardo Silva (2021), Luis Vieira, Ricardo Matosinhos (2022), David Fernandez Alonso (2023), Laurens Woudenberg (2023 and 2024) and Yun Zeng (2024); composition masterclasses and workshops with Wim Henderickx (2022), Yuri Honing, Chaya Czernowin, Agata Zubel, Jan van de Putte, David Helbich, Genevieve Murphy, Luis Tinoco (2023), DNK Ensemble, Joanna Bailie and Zaid Jabri (2024) and improvisation workshops with Zeena Parkins (2021) and Rodrigo Costanzo (2022).

During ten years of intense musical experience, Jose Nuno has played with various orchestras and ensembles such as Remix Ensemble Casa da Musica, Orquestra de Jovens dos Conservat6rios Oficiais de Musica, Orquestra do Alto Minho (Portugal), Orkest De KlankKast and Nationale Jeugd Orkest (the Netherlands), to name a few. His compositions have been performed by the musicians of Het Nederlands Kamerorkest, Dutch National Opera Academy, Dutch National Opera Studio and Luso Ensemble, among many others. Confirming his success as a musician are his third prize at the Concurso Jovens Trompistas (2020), first prize at the composition category of the International Festival Online Sound Resonances (2021), honorable mention at the Concurso Jovem (2022) and the Premio Conservat6rio (2023)