As part of activities aimed at promoting the system of higher artistic, musical and choreographic education, the General Directorate for Students, Development and Internationalization of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, University and Research, annually organizes the National Arts Prize, a nationwide competition that rewards the best students enrolled in conservatories, Italian Institutes of Higher Musical Studies and authorized private institutions to awarding academic degrees.
Following the success of last year's edition, the collaboration between the Ministry of Education, University and Research and the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi, aimed to at focusing attention on young people embarking on difficult concert careers, continues this year, allowing the winners of the 13th Edition of the Arts Prize to participate in the Midday Conc erts and Evening Concerts.
The winners who perform are selected to nationwide from juries composed of from distinguished musicians.
In collaboration with Italian conservatories
And the Ministry of Education, University and Research
ISSM MODENA
Serena Fantini cello
Mari Fujino piano
**Dmitry Shostakovich **.
Sonata op. 40 in D minor
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata opera 102 no. 2
June 29
19:00
Church of St. Euphemia
ISSM MODENA
**Serena Fantini **violoncello
**Mari Fujino **piano
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata op. 102 no. 2 in D major
Franz Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major
Hob VIIb:1
June 30
12:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORY OF TRENTO
Augusto Velio Palumbo bassoon
**Virginia Benini **pianoforte
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in D minor RV493
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert K191
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Ciranda das sete notas
03 July
19:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORY OF TRENTO
**Augusto Velio Palumbo **bassoon.
**Virginia Benini **pianoforte
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in Bb Major RV 503
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata KV 292/196th
Carl Maria von Weber
Concerto op. 75
04 July
12:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORY OF PALERMO
Francesco Leo piano
**Roberta Sava **voice
Fabiano Petrullo tenor sax
Marco Di Salvo trumpet
Stefano India electric bass
Federico Gucciardo drums
Thelonious Monk
I mean you
John Lennon
Imagine
Sigmund Romberg
Softly as in to morning sunrise
Francis Leo
Springing
Gerald Marks
All of me
Francis Leo
It is always um jogo
04 July
19:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORY OF PALERMO
**Francesco Leo **pianoforte
Roberta Sava voice
Fabiano Petrullo tenor sax
Marco Di Salvo trumpet
**Stefano India **electric bass.
**Federico Gucciardo **drums.
Francis Leo
Run for life
Alicia Keys
If ain't got you
Amy Winehouse
Back to black
Horace Silver
Jody Grind
Snarky Puppy
Something
Leo - Sava
Let me live my life
05 July
12:00
Church of St. Euphemia
**CONSERVATORY OF TRENTO **
MESTIZO SAXOPHONE QUARTET
**Caroline Halleck **
**Vered Kreiman **
**Jaime Mora **
**Ayala Rolya **
SOUNDSCAPES OF THE WORLD
Eugène Bozza
Nuages
Jean Rivier
Grave et Presto
Javier Girotto
Passion on the run
Pedro Iturralde
Suite Hellenique
Marcelo Zarvos, arr. Jaime Mora
Memory
Boris Pigovat
Dedicated to Marc Chagall "Hava Nagila"
Nino Rota
Eight and a half
Thierry Escaich
Tango Virtuoso
05 July
19:00
Church of St. Euphemia
**CONSERVATORY OF TRENTO **
MESTIZO SAXOPHONE QUARTET
**Caroline Halleck **
**Vered Kreiman **
**Jaime Mora **
**Ayala Rolya **
SYNESTESIA
Eugène Bozza
Nuages
Alexander Glazunov
From the Quartet for 4 Saxophones,
op. 109.b, II-Canzona Variée
Jerzy Leszczynski
They Might Be Gods
Isaac Albeniz
Sevilla
Marcelo Zarvos, arr. Jaime Mora
Memory
Russell Peck
Drastic Measures
Nino Rota
Eight and a half
06 July
12:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORY OF NOVARA
**Gabriele Mercandelli **clarinet
Cecilia Apostolo piano
**David Agamemnon **violin
Johannes Brahms
Sonata op.120 no.2
for clarinet and piano
Claude Debussy
Première rhapsodie
for clarinet and piano
Béla Bartok
Contrasts
for violin, clarinet and piano
Francis Poulenc
Sonata
for clarinet and piano
06 July
19:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORY OF NOVARA
**Gabriele Mercandelli **clarinet
**Cecilia Apostle **pianoforte
**David Agamemnon **violin
CONSERVATORIES OF FLORENCE AND UDINE
Stefania Scapin harp
Cornflower Quartet
**Giacomo Nesi, Virginia Capozzi **violins.
Giulia Guerrini viola
Francesco Canfailla cello
CONSERVATORY OF PADUA
**Yukiko Shimizu **soprano
**Dario Carpanese **pianist
Gian Carlo Menotti
Trio
Singing and joking
The songs of distance
07 July
12:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORY OF BARI
Osvaldo Nicola Ettore Fatone piano
Sergei Prokofiev
Sonata no. 6 op. 82
Fryderyk Chopin
Scherzo no. 4 op. 54
Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6
10 July
19:00
Pegasus Hall
CONSERVATORY OF BARI
**Osvaldo Nicola Ettore Fatone **pianoforte
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata op. 10 no. 2
Alexander Scriabin
Studies op. 8 no. 1-2-4-5-6-10-11-12
Igor Stravinsky
Trois mouvements de Petrouchka
11 July
12:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORIES OF ADRIA, BRESCIA, CESENA, ISSM MODENA, PARMA
Dario Tarozzo trumpet
**Giovanni Campanardi **horn
Antonio Mascherpa trombone
**Francesco Ulivi **trumpet.
Salvatore Continenza tuba
Paul Dukas
Fanfare pour précéder La Péri
Modest Mussorgsky
Excerpts from Pictures of an Exhibition
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Suite from The Nutcracker
Johannes Brahms
Hungarian dance no. 5
Georges Bizet
Suite from Carmen
Gioachino Rossini
Songs from William Tell
Giuseppe Verdi
from Traviata "Libiamo ne' lieti calici"
12 July
19:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORIES OF ADRIA, BRESCIA, CESENA, ISSM MODENA, PARMA
Dario Tarozzo trumpet
**Giovanni Campanardi **horn
Antonio Mascherpa trombone
**Francesco Ulivi **trumpet.
Salvatore Continenza tuba
Aaron Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Leonard Bernstein
Suite from "West Side Story"
Eric Ewazen
Frost Fire
George Gershwin
from Three Preludes: "Prelude II" Fascinating Rhythm
13 July
12:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORY OF NOVARA
**Marina Boselli **euphonium
**Angelica Seminara **pianoforte
Johann Sebastian Bach
Suite for Cello No. 1 BWV 1007
Gordon Jacob
Fantasy
Volodymyr Runchak
Homo Ludens VIII (first Italian performance)
Beppe Barbera
Ça suffit!
13 July
19:00
Church of St. Euphemia
CONSERVATORY OF NOVARA
**Marina Boselli **euphonium
**Angelica Seminara **pianoforte
Corrado Colliard
Improvisation No. 1 for didjeridoo
Henri Tomasi
Tryptique
Vladimir Cosmas
Euphonium concerto
David Sanson
T-Tango
14 July
12:00
Church of St. Euphemia