Edition 2022

This year the inaugural concert will be entrusted to Cipriana Smarandescu a Andrea Riderelli, welcome returns and teachers of our Academy of ancient music named after the musician Cristóbal Galán.

The program dedicated to wine is also of refined taste detuning technique of the violinist Attilio Motzo accompanied by the harpsichordist Alessandra Artifoni and the lutenist Calogero Sportato. The concert will be decentralized in Uri at the Our Lady of Patience church.

The program “O happy eyes mine” of College for music it's a reading-concert built around the myth of Narcissus, where they intertwine into a unique piece of music, words and images. Stefano Bagliano to the flutes Andrea Coen on the harpsichord they will be the fabric on which the story of Mariagrazia Liberatoscioli it is woven together to realize the whole palette of feelings.

The concert of Thomas Luison and Willelm Perik it focuses on popular melodies and the use of the technique of “detuning”. An original journey around Europe entitled “Venezia, the Adriatic and
Central Europe” A multiplicity of styles between scordatura, devotion and popular music between the 17th and 18th centuries, enriched by the sound of the baroque violin and harpsichord.

The concert of Santa Cecilia Choir will be divided into two parts, the Monteverdian premiere will feature the soprano's voice Valentina Satta accompanied on the theorbo by Calogero Sportato both teachers of our ancient music academy named after the musician Cristòbal Galán. The second part is the Magnificat by Francesco Durante directed by Matteo Taras.

The festival concludes with a concert by Sweet Accents ensemble which offers previously unpublished sonatas for flute and continuous bass. The Naples manuscript by the composer Stulichi is interpreted by the transverse flute of Jana Over accompanied by theorbo, archlute and guitar Calogero Sportato and from the viola da gamba of Daniel Cernuto.

Naturally, like every year, our attention is paid to young talents. Two masterclasses on violin, baroque violin and harpsichord held by will be dedicated to them Thomas Luison and Willelm Perik. Another training event will be in collaboration with the Mousikè association and JSBACH.IT, an Italian Bach company. A conference entitled “J.S. Bach from Lute to Guitar” held by Renata Arlotti, guitar, Maria Borghesi, musicologist and Calogero Sportato lute.

And now all we have to do is immerse ourselves in the sound dimension and let the emotions that music evokes pass through us, suspend our worries and return to our routines with a refreshed spirit.

Daniel Cernuto artistic director