He began his musical studies in Percussion Instruments at the “N. Piccinni” Conservatory of Bari, graduating with honors in 1996 with M ° Forestiere. From the same year he is an ordinary student at the Universität für Musik Mozarteum Salzburg, a pupil of M ° Peter Sadlo, where in October 2003 he obtained, with honors, the title of Magister and in 2005 the Post degree. He is the protagonist of an intense solo concert activity and in chamber and orchestra formations, which leads him to play, among others, in Italy, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, United States, Hungary, Czech Republic, Bulgaria , China, Thailand, Slovakia. He made his debut at the Gasteig in Munich with a solo recital in 2008. In 1999 he came into contact with M ° HW Henze performing the chamber opera El Cimarrón in Austria and Germany in the cities of Salzburg (Salzburger Festspieleröffnung, Festival Aspekte ), Tübingen (Kammeroper), Hallein (Junge Kultur), Hamburg (NDR), Nuremberg (Theater Nürnberg). He has performed several works by numerous composers, including Stefano Taglietti, Stefan Hakenberg, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, S.E. Panzer, and Balz Trümpy, Vito Palumbo, Jack Fortner, Luca Lombardi, performing their compositions at the Sassari Civic Theater, the Costanza Opera House, the Sommertheater Überlingen, the “Sommer im Altmühltal” Festival in Ingolstadt, the Mozarteum of Salzburg, Romanischer Sommer Köln, Mammut Glyphix Festival in Salzburg, Banska Bystrica’s contemporary music festival in Slovakia, Brückenfestival in Germany, the prestigious Ruhr2010 festival in germany, the Semperoper in Dresden, the GAIDA festival in Vilnius, Acht Brücken Festival in Cologne.
He has performed several concerts for marimba and orchestra including the concert n ° 1 for marimba and orchestra of Rosauro in Rome at the hall of the Brazilian embassy following the invitation of the same, in Teramo with the Benedetto Marcello orchestra, in Taranto with the Regional Orchestra of Puglia, in Plovdiv with the Plovdiv Symphony Orchestra. In addition he performed the concert for marimba, guitar and strings dedicated to him and guitarist Christina Schorn by the Italian composer Stefano taglietti in Kiev, Lemberg, Teramo, Prague, Vienna, etc. From 2003 to 2010 he is regularly invited as a percussionist hosted by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra of Turin, in addition he collaborated as a percussionist with the “Mozarteum orchestra” of Salzburg. It was directed by Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Daniele Gatti, Hubert Soudant, Eliahu Imbal, etc. In 2003 he published the essay “Cello Suites, from Violoncello alla Marimba”, Edizioni Pugliesi – Martina Franca. He recorded as a soloist and with the Cimarron Ensemble for WERGO, Bongionanni of Bologna, Stradivarious, VDMReconds. And a new work has been released for the prestigious WERGO house and dedicated to the composer Svizzaro Balz Trümpy. Since 2005 he teaches Percussion Instruments at the Conservatory of Sassari. He has held master of percussion in many universities in America, Italy, Bulgaria, Austria. Ivan Mancinelli plays exclusive instruments Adams, Ufip and Vic Firth.
