Robert tiso biography

Biography

Robert Tiso Is an English-Italian glass harp and glass harmonica player. His musical education began at the age of 15 learning classical guitar and later on he studied music theory and sound engineering at the Academy of Art in Urbino (Italy).
He performed as guitarist for two years with Compagnia Autonoma Tenenti and later was music director and live performer for the internationally acclaimed puppet show “Mano Viva” by Girovago & Rondella Family Theatre.
His interest for the glass harp started in 2002. After collecting a set of wine glasses for what was supposed to be a random musical experiment, he discovered that an instrument called “musical glasses” was invented almost 300 years earlier and many composers used it in their works. Intrigued by the fascinating sound, Robert mastered and evolved his self made instruments, becoming one of the few glass harp players currently performing.
One of his instruments is touring with Compagnia Finzi Pasca’s production “La Verità”, for which he was also glass harp consultant giving tutorials to their performer.

During the last 10 years Robert has performed extensively for many different kinds of events, music and art festivals, theatre shows, gala events, schools, educational programmes, cultural events, museums, TV shows, documentaries, radio programs. Also special events related to glass or water, the fundamental elements of his music, like the opening celebration of the water exhibition at Phaeno Science Museum in Wolfsburg, the UNICEF water conference in Lugano, the 75th anniversary of glass manufacturer Sise-Cam in Istanbul where he performed with Turkish pianist and composer Fahir Atakoglu, the glass museum in Empoli-Florence.
In 2009 Robert took part in “Bach & Friends”, a documentary about J. S. Bach’s music by American producer and director Michael Lawrence, featuring world renowned artists such as Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, Bobby McFerrin, Philip Glass ….
Italian pianist and composer Paolo M

President of the Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945

Not to be confused with Josip Tito.

Jozef Gašpar Tiso (Slovak pronunciation:[ˈjɔzefˈtisɔ], Hungarian pronunciation:[ˈjoʒɛfˈtiso]; 13 October 1887 – 18 April 1947) was a Slovak politician and Catholic priest who served as president of the First Slovak Republic, a client state of Nazi Germany during World War II, from 1939 to 1945. In 1947, after the war, he was executed for treason in Bratislava.

Born in 1887 to Slovak parents in Nagybiccse (today Bytča), then part of Hungary, Austria-Hungary, Tiso studied several languages during his school career, including Hebrew and German. He was introduced to priesthood from an early age, and helped combat local poverty and alcoholism in what is now Slovakia. He joined the Slovak People's Party (Slovenská ľudová strana) in 1918 and became party leader in 1938 following the death of Andrej Hlinka. On 14 March 1939, the Slovak Assembly in Bratislava unanimously a

History

Musical instruments made with glass have been known for centuries, in 2.500 B.C. in ancient Persia and China glass and porcelain instruments already existed. In Europe, the earliest reference to glass music dates back to 1492 when a set of glasses tuned with water used in a “Pythagorean experiment” was described in Gaffurio’s “Theorica musicae”.

Even Galileo mentions the “wet finger around the wine glass” phenomenon in his “Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences”. However the first musician to ever play classical music on a set of wine glasses was an Irish man named Richard Pockrich. He created his instrument in 1741 and called it the “angelic organ”, it consisted in a set of 25 wine glasses tuned with water and mounted in a wooden box. Pockrich became a virtuoso glass player and is known to have extensively performed, mostly in the British Isles.

Soon after Pockridge’s debut other musicians started playing the musical glasses. Anne Ford (1732–1824) was a glass music performer, well known in London, and the first to publish a ‘method’ on how to play them. German musician and composer Christoph W. Glück was known to be a virtuoso glass player before becoming famous for his operas and, trying to catch the public eye, he ambitiously declared he was able to perform anything that could be done on a violin or harpsichord.

During the same years Benjamin Franklin attended a glass music recital in London. He was most astonished by the celestial sounds of the instrument and came up with an idea to improve the instrument. With the help of a skillful glass maker he made a set of glass bowls that could nest inside each other and spin around on a rod. This way the player only needed to touch the spinning bowls, the rims were very close to each other allowing to play more notes simultaneously. It was called the “glass harmonica”, created in 1761 its one of Franklin’s many inventions.

By the end of the 18th century glass music gained popularity all around Europ