The Italian accordeonist Simone Zanchini will perform for Ravenna Festival his “Hommage to Federico Fellini”, a program dedicated to the great film director with music by Nino Rota and with the Italian Jazz Orchestra conducted by Fabio Petretti. Live at Milano Marittima, Arena dellO Stadio dei Pini, on June 28th 2020 at 9,30 pm. Info fot tickets at tickets@ravennafestival.org. Live streaming on Ravenna Festival website.
Congrats to Dorothée Oberlinger and to Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca! Their CD NIght Music has been awarded 5 stars on Italian magazine MUSICA (April 2020 issue)!
Ensemble Tetraktis in residence at Unione Musicale in Turin with a full packet of programs for all ages. On Sunday February 9th at 4,30 pm concert for percussion quartet: in the program music by Vivaldi, Rossini, Zivkocic, Gardella, Ciammarughi and Mauro Montalbetti’s première of “Yombè”, dedicated to Tetraktis Ensemble. On Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th: concerts matinée for kids with “Music without instruments” and “Music – separate collection” at 9,30 and 11,00 am.
Dorothée Oberlinger and Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca win the International Classical Music Awards in the Baroque Instrumental category. The Jury comprising members from the most important international media ANDANTE (Turkey) – CRESCENDO (Belgium) – DAS ORCHESTER (Germany) – DEUTSCHE WELLE (Germany) – GRAMOFON (Hungary) – IMZ (Austria) – MUSICAL LIFE (Russia) – MDR KULTUR (Germany) – MUSICA (Italy) – MUSIK & THEATER (Switzerland) – OPERA (UK) – ORPHEUS RADIO (Russia) – PIZZICATO (Luxembourg) – POLISH RADIO CHOPIN (Poland ) – RADIO 100,7 (Luxembourg) – RESMUSICA (France) – RONDO CLASSIC (Finland) – SCHERZO (Spain) – UNSISON (Croatia) awarded the prize to Night Music, a fabulous cd that brings together various examples of night music from the European tradition and constitutes a kaleidoscope refracting the manifold facets of night. In tells of brilliant celebrations, nocturnal love dramas and desires, tender lullabies, ghosts, birds of the night and the most holy of nights. It is Antonio Vivaldi’s music that is pivotal to our recording. Providing a bridge between his works and functioning as interludes are songs, diminutions, motets, madrigals, sommeils and chaconnes from Spain, the Netherlands, France, England, Italy, Germany and Austria.
“Offering a thrilling and stylish tour through nocturnal music across the ages, the German recorder player Dorothee Oberlinger and Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca present various facets of the night. The well selected repertory from Middle Ages to the 20th century requires a wide spectrum of styles and techniques. The result of this nocturnal exploration is fascinating: the sophisticated, colourful playing and the rhetoric performances reveal Dorothee Oberlinger’s creative intelligence, which is stimulatingly paired with much poetry and charm”.
Cristina Zavalloni and Tetraktis Percussioni will peform live on March 5th 2020 at 9 pm at Teatro Civico in La Spezia for “Concerti a teatro” 2020 Season. The renowned italian singer and the eclectic percussion ensemble will play music by Henze, Cage and Ligeti, an impressive journey though some fascinating atmospheres of XX century most original composers.
Gomalan Brass Quintet closes the 2019 season of Amici della Musica Foggia with an amazing concert at Teatro Umberto Giordano on December 5th at 8,30 pm . The great Italian brass quintet will perform music by Gabrieli, Verdi, Puccini, Tenco, Buscaglione/Bongusto, Ottolini.
Simone Zanchini’s new cd is out! Recorded in Germany with the label In & Out, the new cd is enterely dedicated to Nino Rota’s music and is performed by Simone Zanchini (accordeon solo) with Frankfurt Radio Big Band, conducted by David Grottschreiber. All the arrangements are made by Jorg Achinm Keller, except “Impro for Nino”, an original improvisation by Simone Zanchini himself. The cd is available in stores and on line.
Tetraktis Ensemble will lead the 2020 Research-led Performance workshop at Fondazione Cini in Venice from 28th until 30th of October. The Research-led Performance series of workshops, started by the Institute of Music in 2016, brings together musicological experts and performers in a process of mutual integration: on one
hand, performance practice is consolidated thanks to archival research acquisitions and theoretical study; on the other, academics can make use of the experience of performances to verify and refine their scholarly investigations. The workshop is for percussionists with experience of playing solo, or in orchestras and percussion ensembles, and composers interested in exploring the use of percussion in an orchestral or chamber composition. The three pieces selected for study are by composers whose archives are held by the Institute of Music: Giacomo Manzoni, D’improvviso, for six/twelve percussionists (1981); Niccolò Castiglioni, Cronaca del Ducato di Urbino for six percussionists (1991); and Fausto Romitelli, Chorus for six percussionists (2001).
The practical sessions will be led by the Tetraktis Percussioni Ensemble. Moderated by Gianfranco Vinay (University of Paris 8), the theoretical sessions will be conducted by Massimiliano Locanto (University of Salerno), Veniero Rizzardi (Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, and Cesare Pollini Conservatory, Padua), and Francisco Rocca (Fondazione Giorgio Cini).
Lastly, there will be a talk by the composer Giorgio Battistelli. The workshop will end with a concert by the Tetraktis Percussioni Ensemble.
Massimiliano Ferrati will play live in Terni on October 16th at 9pm at Teatro Secci in Terni for the opening season of Ispirazioni Sonore. The next four days he will teach in an already sold out masterclass for young and professional pianists.
Program:
Franz Schubert Musical Moment n. 1
Ludwig van Beethoven Waldstein Sonata
Johann Sebastian Bach Prelude and Fugue G sharp minor from The Well Tempered Klavier (1st book)
Franz Schubert Musical Moment n. 4
Fryderyk Chopin Polonaise op. 26/1
Maurice Ravel Ondine
Franz Schubert Musical Moment n. 6
Fryderyk Chopin Ballade op. 23 Andante Spianato et Grand Poloinaise Brillante op. 22 Polonaise op. 53
DF ARTISTS welcomes in its roster Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca, one of the leading European baroque ensemble.
Sonaori de la Gioiosa Marca have devoted their thirty years spanning career to the study, research and diffusion of the venetian baroque music.
Of their various recordings some are considered milestones in the interpretation of the venetian instrumental music of the 15th and 16th century, they awarded the most important international prizes and are a referring source for young artists and scholars.
Particulary esteemed are the recordings devoted to the venetian instrumental and vocal music (from Gabrieli to Legrenzi to Albinoni) and the Vivaldi recordings with Giuliano Carmignola, Dorothee Oberlinger and Sergio Azzolini; mainly based on previously unknown sources and manuscripts, these interpretations are noticeable for a new and deeper approach to the venetian musical style.
Besides performing in the most important Festivals, I Sonatori teach in the italian Conservatori of music, and have formed new generation of performers who refer to the venetian string performing tradition.
Sonatori’s projects with DF Artists include Night Music and Venetian Flute with Dorothee Oberlinger, Vivaldi in the Mirror, Follie all’italiana, I suoni del Palladio and many others, all concerning the best Italian and European baroque repertoire for this kind of ensemble.