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 one of 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. Debuted to nine years with music by Bach, Chopin and Schubert, to nineteen won the 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 the public and critics. In 1983 he performed the complete Chopin Etudes at the "Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli" International Festival, in Brescia and Bergamo, and in 1998 he made his debut at the Wigmore Hall in London with Chopin's 24 Preludes . In 2000, at the invitation of Yuri Temirkanov, he performed Franz Liszt's Concerto No. 1 with the Philharmonic of San Pietroburgo. In 2001 he gave his first performance - with Andrea Bocelli, Ilia Kim and conducted by Donato Renzetti - of ... melancholy, gentle nymph, for voice, two concertante pianos and string orchestra by Azio Corghi, who later adapted the piéce ... Of bravura from this composition, dedicating it to the to De Palma and Kim. Of... melancholy, gentle nymph the recording has been released, to by the Presidency of the Senate of the Republic. De Palma also premiered Michele Dall′Ongaro's Concerto for piano and orchestra at the Teatro Bellini in Catania. At the Berlin Philharmonic he played the Franck Quintet together with the "Amarcorde Quartet", with whom he toured Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1 . He has participated in the "Folle journée" in Nantes (editions 2004, 2005, 2006), the Piano Festival of "La Roque d′Anthéron", the Beethoven Festival in Bonn and the Chopin Festival in Marienbad. In 2008 he inaugurated the Piano Festival "Piano en Valois", in 2009 he performed Antonio Salieri′s Concerto in C major with the Orchestra dell′Arena di Verona and in 2010 Brahms′s Second Concerto at the Musikverein in Vienna. In 2010 he gave three concerts at the Shanghai World's Fair and played for the Piano aux Jacobins Festival. He was awarded the "Cimarosa" Prize for the dissemination of the Sonatas of the Neapolitan author. He is President of the "Muzio Clementi" Association of Rome. His recording activity - started 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 Prize of the Italian Record Critics).

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, pupil of Maestro Franco Scala at the Piano Academy "Incontri col Maestro" in Imola. He regularly holds solo or ensemble concerts in prestigious theatres, 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" in Udine, the "Chiabrera" Theatre in Savona, the "Rendano" Theatre in Cosenza, the "Alighieri" Theatre in Ravenna, the "Manzoni" Theatre in Milan, the "Manzoni" Theatre in Bologna, the "San Gottardo" Auditorium in Milan, the Municipal Theatre in Vicenza, the Sala Maffeiana in Verona, the "Vittoria" Theatre in Turin, the "La Soffitta" Auditorium in Bologna, the "G.Fraschini" Theatre in Pavia, the "Verdi" Theatre in Pisa, the Giglio Theatre in Lucca. He performed at the Al Bustan Festival in Beirut, in the Het Klooster cultural center to Nuenen and in important theatres in England, Germany, Spain, Switzerland with considerable success with audiences and critics. He has collaborated with the Mozart Orchestra established by Maestro Claudio Abbado, with the Orchestra of Friuli Venezia Giulia, with the "J. Futura" Orchestra, with the City of Ferrara Orchestra, with the North Czech Philharmonic Teplice and with various Youth Orchestras. He regularly performs for important seasons and festivals such as the "MITO" Festival in Milan-Turin, the Unione Musicale in Turin, the Società del Quartetto in Vicenza, Musica Insieme in Bologna, the BauArt Festival in Basel, the "Al Bustan" Festival in Beirut, the Sicilian Symphony Orchestra Foundation, the Lucchese Music Association, the "Ghislandi" Festival in Crema, the "from Bach to Bartok" in Imola, the Festival "Le Tastiere raccontano" in Trento, the Association "Amici di Giuseppe Verdi" to Busseto, the "Mimus" Festival in Casoli, the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna and Verona. Since 2003, with the clarinetist Niccolò Manco, he has been carrying out an intense chamber music activity in the "Duo Poulenc". In 2007 he collaborated with the trio composed from Marc Taube, Konstantin Katz and Vadim Pavlov (Concertmaster and Concertmaster of the Philharmonic of San Pietroburgo, First cello of the Teatro "Massimo" in Catania). Since 2006 he has been performing with the first parts of the Orchestra of the Teatro "La Fenice" in Venice in the formation "Trio Richard Wagner". Since 2010 he has been collaborating with the singer Alda Caiello. He has made numerous radio and television recordings for Mediaset, Dutch National Television and Radio Classica Italia. In 2010 he was invited as a main guest on the famous Dutch talk-show Pauw en Witteman. In 2006 he was awarded the Galarte 2006 Music Prize, conferred under the patronage of the Presidency of the Republic. In 2008 he was chosen as a Bayreuth Fellow of the Richard Wagner Venice Association.

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 from Bach to contemporary music, of which - with particular reference to the United States - he is considered one of the most convincing interpreters by the composers themselves, with many of whom he has established a fruitful relationship of esteem and collaboration. He regularly plays for important institutions such as the Teatro alla Scala, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Arena di Verona, La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Berliner Festwochen, Milano Musica, Settembre Musica in Turin, the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo, G.O.G. at the Carlo Felice in Genoa, the Miller Theater in New York, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestra of San Pietroburgo, the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra of Rio de Janeiro, RedCat of Los Angeles, the 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. Plurimo by Claudio Ambrosini, for 2 pianos and orchestra, performed at the Venice Biennale (with Libetta, Valade and the RAI Orchestra), was awarded the Golden Lion 2007. 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 n.2), George Crumb (Eine Kleine Mitternachtmusik). The cycle Round Midnight Variations, a group of compositions written in 2001 for Emanuele Arciuli, has received great attention from international critics from sixteen of the greatest American authors, including Babbitt, Rzewski, Torke, Daugherty, Bolcom, Harbison. His interest in American Indian culture inspired a special project at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., in 2008 and resulted in an intense collaboration with leading Native American musicians. He has recorded numerous pieces for Chandos, Bridge, VAI and Stradivarius, including the complete piano works by 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, received a nomination for the Grammy Awards while the CD Stradivarius, with music by Adams and Rzewski, was voted by critics as the best Italian album of 2006. Arciuli has published the volume Rifugio intermedio - Il pianoforte contemporaneo tra Italia e Stati Uniti for the Teatro di Monfalcone and recently Musica per pianoforte negli Uniti for Edt. On RaiRadioTre, Mario Bortolotto dedicated one of the ten monographs on today's Italian interpreters to him. He holds the chair of piano at the Conservatory of Bari and since 1998 he has been a frequent guest professor at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati and in other American universities. In 2011 he was awarded the Abbiati Prize as best soloist.

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

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