THURSDAY, JULY 12

piano Sandro De Palma

music

Domenico Cimarosa

Five Sonatas for fortepiano. In C major (Allegro), in A minor (Largo), in F major (Allegro), in D minor (Andante), in B flat major (Allegro)

Domenico Scarlatti

Sonata in E major K. 380 (Andante comodo)

Sonata in G major K. 427 (Earliest Possible)

Pastorale (Allegretto) and Capriccio (Vivace) Carl Tausig's revision of the K9 and K20 Sonatas

Muzio Clementi

Sonata in F-sharp minor op.25 No.5 (Rather allegro con espressione, Slow and pathetic, Presto)

Franz Liszt

Funérailles (from Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)

Aux cyprès de la Villa d´Este N.1

Les jeux d′eaux à la Villa d′Este (from Années de Pèlerinage III)

Ballad No. 2

SANDRO DE PALMA

Considered among the most interesting and original contemporary concert artists, he was born to Naples and trained at the school of Vincenzo Vitale. He studied with Nikita Magaloff, Piero Rattalino and Alice Kezeradze-Pogorelich. He made his debut to nine years old with music by Bach, Chopin and Schubert, to nineteen he won first prize at the "Alfredo Casella" International Competition in Naples and two years later that of the "Bruce Hungerford Foundation" in New York, which brought him to Carnegie Hall with enthusiastic acclaim from audiences and critics. Of 1983 is the integral performance of Chopin′s Etudes at the International Festival "Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli," in the venues of Brescia and Bergamo, of 1998 the debut at the Wigmore Hall in London with Chopin′s 24 Preludes . In 2000, at the invitation of Juri Temirkanov he performed Franz Liszt's Concerto No. 1 with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic. In 2001 was the first performance - with Andrea Bocelli, Ilia Kim and under the baton of Donato Renzetti - of ...malinconia, ninfa gentile, for voice, two concertante pianos and string orchestra by Azio Corghi, who later adapted the piéce ...Di bravura from this composition, dedicating it to De Palma and Kim. Of ...melinconia, ninfa gentile a recording was published, to care of the Presidency of the Senate of the Republic. De Palma also premiered Michele Dall′Ongaro′s Piano Concerto at the Teatro Bellini in Catania. At the Berlin Philharmonic he played Franck's Quintet together with the "Amarcorde Quartet," with whom he toured Šostakovic's Concerto No. 1 for piano and trumpet. He participated in the "Folle journée" in Nantes (2004, 2005, 2006 editions), the Piano Festival of "La Roque d′Anthéron," the Beethoven Festival in Bonn and the Chopin Festival in Marienbad. In 2008 he opened the Piano Festival "Piano en Valois," in 2009 he performed Antonio Salieri′s Concerto in C major with the Verona Arena Orchestra, and in 2010 Brahms′ Second Concerto at the Vienna Musikverein. In 2010 he gave three concerts at the Shanghai World Expo and played for the Festival Piano aux Jacobins. He was awarded the "Cimarosa" Prize for popularizing the Neapolitan composer′s Sonatas. He is president of the "Muzio Clementi" Association in Rome. His recording activity - which began to sixteen years with Liszt and continued with Brahms and rare piano pages by Cilea - includes participation in the world premiere recording of Muzio Clementi′s Gradus ad Parnassum , for Fonit Cetra (20th Italian Record Critics′ Award).

FRIDAY JULY 13.

piano André Gallo

music

Claude Debussy

Suite Bergamasque

from Images - Première Série "Reflets dans l´eau"

Deux Arabesque

Improvisation pour piano nos. 1-3-7-8-15

Modest Petrovich Musorgsky

Pictures of an exhibition

ANDRÉ GALLO

Born to Cosenza in 1990, student of Maestro Franco Scala at the Piano Academy " Incontri col Maestro" in Imola. He regularly gives solo and ensemble concerts in prestigious theaters, such as the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Konzerthaus in Berlin, the Teatro "La Fenice" in Venice, the Politeama "G.Garibaldi" in Palermo, the Teatro dei Filodrammatici in Milan,the Teatro "G. from Udine" of Udine,Teatro "Chiabrera" of Savona, Teatro "Rendano" of Cosenza,Teatro "Alighieri" of Ravenna, Teatro "Manzoni" of Milan, Teatro "Manzoni" of Bologna, Teatro "San Gottardo" of Milan, Teatro Comunale of Vicenza, Sala Maffeiana of Verona, Teatro "Vittoria" of Turin, Teatro "La Soffitta" of Bologna, Teatro "G.Fraschini" in Pavia, the "Verdi" Theater in Pisa, the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca. He has performed at the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, in the cultural center Het Klooster to Nuenen and in important theaters in England, Germany, Spain, Switzerland with considerable success with audiences and critics. He has collaborated with the Mozart Orchestra established by M° Claudio Abbado, the Orchestra del Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Orchestra " J. Futura", the Orchestra Città di Ferrara, the North Czech Philharmonic Teplice and various Youth Orchestras. He performs regularly for important Seasons and Festivals such as the "MITO" Festival of Milan-Turin, the Unione Musicale of Turin, the Società del Quartetto of Vicenza, Musica Insieme of Bologna, the BauArt Festival of Basel, the "Al Bustan" Festival of Beirut, the Fondazione Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, the Associazione Musicale Lucchese, the "Ghislandi" Festival in Crema, the "from Bach to Bartok" Festival in Imola, the "Le Tastiere raccontano" Festival in Trento, the "Amici di Giuseppe Verdi" Association to Busseto, the "Mimus" Festival in Casoli, the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna and Verona. Since 2003, with clarinetist Niccolò Manco, he has been performing an intense chamber music activity in the "Duo Poulenc". In 2007 he collaborates with the trio composed from Marc Taube, Konstantin Katz and Vadim Pavlov (First violin and First viola of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic, First cello of the "Massimo" Theater of Catania). Since 2006 he performs with the first parts of the Orchestra of the "La Fenice" Theater in Venice in the formation "Richard Wagner Trio". Since 2010 he has been collaborating with singer Alda Caiello. Numerous are the radio and television recordings for Mediaset, Dutch National Television and Radio Classica Italia. In 2010 he was invited as the chief guest on the famous Dutch talk show Pauw en Witteman. In 2006 he was awarded the Galarte Prize 2006 Music section, conferred under the patronage of the Presidency of the Republic. In 2008 he was chosen as Bayreuth Scholar of the Richard Wagner Association Venice.

SATURDAY, JULY 14

piano Emanuele Arciuli

music

Franz Joseph Haydn

Variations in F minor

Franz Liszt

Hymne à la nuit

Béla Bartók

Im Freien

George Gershwin

The man I love

Play it again

Radiohead

(arr. Christopher O´Riley) Black star

(arr. Christopher O´Riley) Exit music for to movie

Claudio Santoro

4 Preludes

Frederic Rzewski

Winnsboro cotton mill blues

EMANUELE ARCIULI

A new voice on the concert scene, his repertoire ranges from Bach to contemporary music of which - with particular reference to the United States - he is considered among the most convincing interpreters by the composers themselves, with many of whom he has established a fruitful relationship of esteem and collaboration. He plays regularly for important institutions such as Teatro alla Scala, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Arena in Verona, La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, RAI′s National Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Festwochen, Milano Musica, Settembre Musica in Turin, the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo, G.O.G. at Carlo Felice in Genoa, Miller Theater in New York, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquestra Sinfonica Brasileira in Rio de Janeiro, RedCat in Los Angeles, Miami Piano Festival. He collaborates with conductors such as Petr Altrichter, Marc Andreae, Yoel Levi, James MacMillan, Anton Nanut, Kazushi Ono, Zoltan Pesko, Stefan Reck, Arturo Tamayo, Mario Venzago, etc., and with other musicians such as Sonia Bergamasco, Francesco Libetta and Andrea Rebaudengo. Claudio Ambrosini′s Plurimo, for 2 pianos and orchestra, performed at the Venice Biennale (with Libetta, Valade and the RAI Orchestra), was awarded the 2007 Golden Lion. Among the many Italian and American composers who have written for him-with more than fifteen first performances for piano and orchestra-Michael Nyman(Piano Concerto No. 2), George Crumb(Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik). His Round Midnight Variations cycle, a group of compositions written in 2001 for Emanuele Arciuli from sixteen of the major U.S. composers, including Babbitt, Rzewski, Torke, Daugherty, Bolcom, Harbison, has garnered much international critical attention. His interest in American Indian culture inspired a special project done in 2008 at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, DC and resulted in an intense collaboration with leading Native American musicians. He has recorded numerous pieces for Chandos, Bridge, VAI and Stradivarius, including the piano integrals of Berg and Webern and the world premiere of Bruno Maderna´s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra . The dedicated album to George Crumb, recorded for Bridge, was nominated for Grammy Awards while the Stradivarius CD, with music by Adams and Rzewski, was voted by critics as the best Italian disc of 2006. Arciuli published the volume Refugio intermedio - Il pianoforte contemporaneo tra Italia e Stati Uniti for Teatro di Monfalcone and recently Musica per pianoforte negli Stati Uniti for Edt. On RaiRadioTre, Mario Bortolotto dedicated to him one of ten monographs on today's Italian performers. He holds the chair of principal piano at the Bari Conservatory and has been a frequent guest professor at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati and other American universities since 1998. In 2011 he was awarded the Abbiati Prize for best soloist.

we thank the company Angelo Fabbrini Pianoforti - Pescara for valuable cooperation

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