Club Magico Italiano College, promote the growth and spread of Magic, develop the artistic value and recognition of Italian Magic in the world, stimulate, encourage, support, Italian talented magicians, create opportunities for positive and constructive comparison between the Italian territory enthusiasts recognized the value and quality, create opportunities to participate in galas and international competitions, representing Italian way to magic.

1. CMI College
The Italian way to Magic

2. Who are us?

3. Club Magico Italiano
Club
Club
Clubs

4. CMI Services
Magia
Moderna
Magazine
Competition
Bacchetta
Magica
CMI College
Convention
Abano Terme
Services
Web site
Newsletter
Lecture
Service

5. Clubs
 CMI College doesn’t work as a Club (Clubs are so
important on local evagelization!)
 We want to scout talent
 We are SERVICE for all Clubs

6. CMI College: Why
 Observation and analysis processes that have led some
countries (Germany, France, Spain, Korea) to bring its
artists to the top
• To create working groups could multiply the spirit of sharing ideas,
stimulate creativity and increase competition.

7. Reading statistics
 From 1961 to 2006 (45 years)
• 16 WCM
• 12 awards
o 4 awards in Stage Illusion
• No awards from 1994 to 2006 (12 years)

8. Team building…
 Most important countries in Magic are following this path

9. What is NOT
 CMI College is not a classical school of Magic
• No Professors
• No Lectures (but Speeches)
• If you are member of CMI College you have to share and do
• We share:
o Attitudes
o Methods
o Ideas
o Goals
o Opportunities

10. Goals

11. CMI College goals
 Promote the growth and spread of Magic
 Develop the artistic value and recognition of Italian Magic in
the world
 To stimulate, encourage, support, Italian talented magicians
 Create opportunities for positive and constructive
comparison between the Italian territory enthusiasts
recognized the value and quality

12. How
 “If we could, first of all, know where we are and where we
are going, we could better decide what to do and how to do
it” (Abraham Lincoln)

13. Say in a word...
 What’s your goal?
• Popularity?
• Success?
• Professiona/Personal improvement?

14. Popularity
 Popularity stems from popularitas
• the sympathy of the people and indicates the acceptance by the
people.

15. Success
 Success is the achievement of the purpose.
• The word refers generally to the attainment of the main goals that a
person stands in his life

16. Improvement
 "Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection”
- Mark Twain

17. Fake myth: Originality...
 Do you know Kary Banks Mullis?
• CSI
• PCR
• P
• DNA

18. Work to improve
 Kary Banks Mullis (Lenoir, December 28th 1944) is an
American biochemist, winner of the Nobel Prize for
Chemistry in 1993 with Michael Smith for the development
of the technique of polymerase chain reaction (Polymerase
Chain Reaction or PCR), a process described by Kjell
Kleppe and Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel in 1968
 The Mullis improvements made PCR a fundamental
technique in biochemistry and molecular biology, with
numerous applications in the medical, agricultural, and
investigative.

19. Discipline...
 Part of the knowledge that is taught and study
 Rules of conduct aimed to education
 Scourge consists of strips of leather and ropes attached to
the ends of a stick
 “Perfection is the daughter of repetition”

20. How to do it...
 Once upon a time in 1992...

21. In 1996...
 4 years later…

22. True Passion!
 Passion for what?
 Passion for Popularity or for Magic?
 The daily diary doesn’t lie...

23. It’s not enough!
 Self awareness
 Self Knowledge
 Objectivity

24. To win Nobel Prize…
 To lecture or do research?
• Aim for the most prestigious result ...

25. Organization and goals

26. Rector
Managig
Director
Captain
& Competition Manager
Vice Captain
Digital Media officier
Technical
Officier Magic Coaches
Tutor CMI
President
Organization

27. To became a Member
Members
Auditors
Cadets
Masters

28. From 2008 until now
 Events
• 80 Focus Groups (2-3 days)
o Bologna, Thiene, Livorno, Abano, Lucca, Roma, Trieste, Volterra, Porcia
(PN), Napoli, Roma, Agugliano (AN), Alessandria, Monza
o 1 Campus (1 settimana)
Badesi (Sardegna)
o 5 International Magic Trips
Blois (France)
Manresa (Spain)
• Digital Focus
o Many online group and individual activities

29. From 2008 until now
 90 members selected

30. From 2008…
 38 Guest speakers
o Domenico Dante
o Oscar Munoz
o Joan Caesar
o Matteo Rampin
o Giuseppe Mascolo
o Eric Eswin
o Gerrit Brengman
o Eberhard Riese
o Thierry Schanen
o Jo Maldera
o Walter Maffei
o Walter Rolfo
o Shezan
o Hyunserk Lee
o Bill Cheung
o Jakob Mathias
o Vadim Savenkov
o Kenris Murat
o Magic Christian
o Satoru Yamamoto
o Davide Calabrese
o Douwe Swierstra
o Cayetano Lledò
o Boris Wild
o Tony Montana
o Walther Priska
o Christopher Castellini
o Sergio Starman
o Jason Latimer
o Martin Eisele
o Aleksandr Murataev
o Juliana Chen
o Eric Chien
o Luis Olmedo
o Bill Cheung
o Davide Allena
o Luca Ramacciotti
o Christina Nyman

31. Gala…
• Abano (I)
o Marino, Cucchi, Nifosi, [OMISSIS], De Carlo, Speciale, Iacobini, Planas,
Trabuk, Maggetto, Ricciardi, Subrizi, Shezan, Starman, Guidato,
Bernardini, Maffei, Sacha, Gaia Elisa Rossi, Disguido, Cellai, Maxim,
Dario Adiletta, Fontanelli, Rizzolini, Della Bona, Selvi
• Colombe d’or (F)
o [OMISSIS], Nifosi, Cucchi, Shezan
• Belgio
o [OMISSIS], Nifosi
• Southport (UK)
o Marino
• FFFF (USA)
o De Carlo, [OMISSIS], Trabuk

32. …Gala…
• Blackpool (UK)
o Marino, [OMISSIS]
• Victoria (P)
o Marino
• Mosca (Russia)
o Marino, [OMISSIS], Shezan
• Rotterdam (NL)
o [OMISSIS]
• Sindelfingen (D)
o [OMISSIS]
• Bristol (UK)
o [OMISSIS]
• Austria
o [OMISSIS]

33. …Gala…
• Giappone
o Marino
• Coimbra (P)
o Maffei
• Crociera Magica
o [OMISSIS]
o Starman
• FIDICT - Thiene (Italia)
o Shezan
• Masters of Magic (Italia)
o Francesco Fontanelli
o Mario Bove
o Francesco Della Bona
o Alessandro Bellotto
o Gabriele Verzolla
o Filiberto Selvi

34. …Gala
• Grenchen (CH)
o Adiletta
• Trofeo Sitta – Bologna (Italia)
o Tiziano Cellai
o Francesco Della Bona
• BIMF – Busan (South Korea)
o Sergio Starman
o Dario Adiletta

35. Competitions…
 23 International Competitions
• Premier Festival de Magie (Saint-Amand Montrond - F)
o Maddalena Ricciardi
• Trofeo Victor Balli (Saint-Vincent)
o Bove
o Cardone
o Vegas
o Selvi
• Trofeo Arzilli (San Marino)
o Massimiliano Cardone
o Francesco della Bona
o Luca Costa
o Maddalena Ricciardi
o Matteo Cucchi

36. … Competitions …
• Colomb d’or (Juan Le Pin - Francia)
o Cucchi
• Geni d’or (Barcellona – Spagna)
o Shezan
• Baden (CH)
o [OMISSIS]
o Guidato
o Starman
o Negroni
o Fontanelli
• Festival Astralis (Cluj Napoca - Romania)
o Shezan
o Gabriele Depetri

37. … Competitions …
• Magibor (Maribor - Slovenia)
o Guidato
• Austria
o Marino
• Magicmania (Riga - Lettonia)
o Marino
o Cucchi
o Shezan
o Luca Mercatelli
o Riccardo Negroni
o Planas
o Cellai
o Fontanelli
o Siepe

38. … Competitions …
• Russia (Mosca – Perm)
o [OMISSIS]
o Marino
o Cucchi
• Les Anneaux Magiques (CH)
o Shezan
o Nifosi
o Gaia Elisa Rossi
o Maxim
• FIDICT Thiene (Italia)
o Gaia Elisa Rossi
o Maxim
o Vegas
o Adiletta
o Cellai

39. … Competitions …
• Shenzen (China)
o Shezan
o Disguido
• Shanghai China International Arts Festival
o Shezan
• Trofeo Ottorino Bai (Milano)
o Matteo Cucchi
o Gabriele Depetri
o Francesco Guidato
o De Rosa
• Ron McMillan (Londra – GB)
o [OMISSIS]
o De Carlo
o Trabuk

40. … Competitions …
• IFM (Russia)
o Walter Maffei
o Disguido
o Riccardo Negroni
o Sergio Starman
• Campionato Italiano (Saint-Vincent/Torino)
o Shezan
o Celotto
o Starman
o Rizzolini
o Bellotto
o Della Bona
o Maxim
o Cellai

41. … Competitions …
• Trofeo Sitta – Bologna (Italia)
o Francesco Matteo
o Mario Bove
o Sergio Starman
o Nicola Lazzarini
o Ludovico Lombardi
o Andrei Ignat
o Alessio Masci
• FFAP (Francia)
o Cellai
• Heritier de l’Illusion (Francia)
o Cellai
o Starman

42. … Competitions
• Bacchetta Magica d’oro
(Abano Terme)
o Starman
o Shezan
o Celotto
o Alexis Arts
o Bove
o Romito
o Mercatelli
o Polacchini
o Tizzano
o Depietri
o Mancusi
o Rizzolini
o Maggetto
o Negroni
o Verzolla
o Torzella
o Fontanelli
o Cellai
o Ricciardi
o Della Dona
o De Rosa
o Castellini
o Lazzarini

43. FISM Competititors…
 3 Competitors at FISM 2009
• Planas, De Carlo, [OMISSIS]
 2 Competitors at FISM Europe 2011
• [OMISSIS], Marino
 5 Competitors at FISM 2012
• [OMISSIS], Marino, Cucchi, Nifosi, Trabuk
 6 Competitors at FISM Europe 2014
• Marino, Bove, Alexis, Starman, Shezan, Cucchi
 5 Competitors at FISM 2015
• Marino, Bove, Alexis, Shezan, Cucchi

44. …FISM Competititors…
 7 Competitors at FISM Europe 2017
• Tizzano, Disguido, Rossi, Negroni, Maffei, Castellini, Mercatelli
 9 Competitors at FISM WCM 2018
• Shezan, Rossi, Negroni, Rizzolini, Castellini, Mercatelli, Starman. De
Luca, Disguido
 11 Concorrenti al FISM ECM 2021
• Fontanelli, Bove, Cardone, Della Bona, Matteo, Bellotto, Adiletta,
Ricciardi, Rossi G.E., Rossi M.
Selvi (Circolo Amici Della Magia)

45. …FISM Competititors
 9 Competitors at FISM WCM 2022
• Shezan, Rossi G.E., ROSSI M.,, Rizzolini, Mercatelli, Della Bona,
Adiletta, Selvi, Fontanelli

46. Awards…
 79 International Awards
• McMillan (UK) 2008
o 2° prize: De Carlo
o 3° prize: [OMISSIS]
• Blackpool (UK) 2009
o 2° proze: De Carlo
• Montecarlo 2009
o Cilindro d’argento: Nifosi
• FISM WCM 2009
o 2° MicroMagic: [OMISSIS]
• FISM ECM 2011
o 1° MicroMagic: [OMISSIS]

47. …Awards…
• McMillan (UK) 2011
o 2° Close up: Trabuk
• F.F.F.F. (USA) 2011
o Close-up Performer Excellence: [OMISSIS]
• Russia 2012
o Grand Prix: [OMISSIS]
• Austria 2012
o 1° Comedy: Marino
• FISM WCM 2012
o 3° MicroMagic: [OMISSIS]
• Grenken (CH)
o 3° Close up: [OMISSIS]

48. …Awards…
• Maribor (Slo) 2013
o 1° Stage: Guidato
• The White Magic Convention (Russia) 2013
o 3° Comedy: Marino
• Bacchetta Magica d’oro (I) 2013
o 3° Close up: Bove
• Saint Amand Montrond (F) 2013
o 3° Stage: Shezan
• Baden (CH) 2014
o 2° Close up: [OMISSIS]
• The White Magic Convention (Russia) 2014
o 2° Stage: Cucchi

49. …Awards…
• Trofeo Sitta (I) 2014
o 1° Close up: Bove.
• FISM ECM 2014
o 2° General Magic: Shezan
o 2° Comedy: Marino
o 3° Stage Illusion: Alexis Arts
o 3° Card Magic: Bove
• Les Anneaux Magiques (CH) 2015
o 3° Stage: Shezan
• FISM WCM 2015
o 2° Stage Illusions: Alexis Arts
• MagicMania (Lettonia) 2015
o 1° Stage: Vittorio Marino

50. …Awards…
• Festival Astralis 2016
o 1° Stage: Shezan
o 3° Stage: Gabriele Depietri
• Geni d’or 2016
o 1° Stage: Shezan
• Shenzen 2016
o 2° Stage: Shezan
• MagicMania (Lettonia) 2016
o 1° prize: Matteo Cucchi
• Bacchetta Magica d’oro (I) 2016
o 3° Stage: Tizzano
o 3° Close-up: Mercatelli
• FIDICT 2017
o 3° prize: Rossi

51. …Awards…
• FISM ECM 2017
o 3° Mentalism: Castellini
o 3° Comedy: Disguido
• Trofeo Balli 2017
o 2° Close-up: Mercatelli
• Baden (CH) 2017
o 3° Close up: Siepe
• MagicMania (Lettonia) 2017
o 2° Close up: Riccardo Negroni
• Bacchetta Magica d’oro (I) 2017
o 3° Close-up: Mercatelli
• Shanghai International Arts Festival (CN) 2017
o 2° Stage: Shezan

52. … Awards…
• Trofeo Arzilli (San Marino) 2018
o 1° premio: Massimiliano Cardone
• FISM WCM 2018
o 3° Mentalism: Christopher Castellini
o 3° MicroMagic: Sergio Starman
• MagicMania (Lettonia) 2018
o 1° Close-up: Ernesto Planas
• Bacchetta Magica d’oro (I) 2018
o 2° Stage: Vegas
o 3° Stage: Planas
o 3° Close-up: Planas
• Trofeo Arzilli (San Marino) 2019
o 1° premio: Francesco della Bona

53. … Awards…
• Grenchen (CH) 2019
o 1° Close up: Siepe
o 2° Close up: Fontanelli
• FIDICT 2019
o 3° premio: Maxim
• Les Anneaux Magique 2019
o 2° premio: Maxim
• Trofeo Balli 2019
o 3° premio: Vegas
• Bacchetta Magica d’oro (I) 2019
o 2° Stage: De Rosa
o 3° Stage: Della Bona
o 3° Close-up: Bove

54. … Awards…
• MagicMania (Lettonia) 2019
o 1° Close-up: Starman
o 1° Stage: Cellai
• IFM (Russia)
o 1° Stage: Disguido
o 3° Stage: Walter Maffei
o 1° Close-up: Sergio Starman
o 2° Close-up: Riccardo Negroni
• FISM ECM 2021
o 1° Close-up: Francesco Fontanelli
o 3° Close-up: Mario Bove
o Most Original act: Dario Adiletta

55. … Awards
• Bacchetta Magica d’oro (I) 2021
o 2° Stage: Castellini
o 2° Stage: Della Bona
• FIDICT 2022
o 3° award: Adiletta
• Trofeo Balli 2022
o 1° award: Selvi
o 3° award: Della Bona
• FISM WCM 2022
o 3° Mentalism: Andrea Rizzolini
o 3° Manipulation: Francesco Della Bona

56. … Awards…
• Bacchetta Magica d’oro (I) 2022
o 2° Stage: Starman
o 1° Close-Up: Mario Bove
o 2° Close Up: Mago Zazza
• Heritier de l’Illusion (F) 2023
o 1° Stage: Starman
• Trofeo Sitta (I)
o 1° Stage: Starman
o 1° Close-up: Mario Bove

57. Methods and goals

58. Goals
 Select a group of Italian Magicians to represent CMI and
the Italian Magic in Gala and national and international
competitions
 Spread the culture of collaboration among all clubs in Italy

59. Our rule: S.C.I.C.
SHARE
COMPARE
IMPROVE
CHECK

60. …Next Goals
 Focus Group around Italy and around the World
• Focus group exchange
o Spagna 2023
o Francia 2023
o Svezia 2023

61. Andrea Baioni
CMI College Managing Director
abaioni@andreabaioni.it
http://it.linkedin.com/in/abaioni
@abaioni
facebook.com/abaioni
Thanks!