MUSICA DA CASA MENOTTI

It is an experience from not to be missed to be inside Casa Menotti, the historic palazzetto in Piazza Duomo where the Festival was born and where Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti lived, composed and hosted internationally renowned artists.

In its halls, where many objects belonging to the Maestro including his piano are collected, it is possible to attend, during the festival, the concert series "Musica from Casa Menotti," this year reaching its eighth edition.

Saturday 6 July

at 11.00

Daniela Giordano, piano

"The Mask and the Face - Concert to 440 megapixels"

R. Schumann - Carnaval op.9

F. Chopin - Nocturnes op.9

J. Brahms - Variations on a Theme of Paganini op.35

at 16.00

Inauguration installation "Multimedia Installations: Classical Unbound."

running from July 6 to July 14

Video works by artists from the University of Arts London and the **Royal College of Art**.

accompanied from musical performances by the Royal Academy of Music in London

musicians Leona Crasi, Kitty Ho, Seunghye Park, Kevin Suherman, Yang Xu, Zongyuan Wang

artists Simone Schiefer, Andrea Christodoulides, Shir Cohen, Fernando Martinez Romero, Max Burstyn, Charlotte Greenwood, Nino Miguel Meriano, Jonathan Luboya, Mia Campion, Jessica Kim

project to curated by Belle Chen, in collaboration with Royal Academy of Music in London

at 18.00

Trio Hermes

Ginevra Bassetti, violin

Emanuele Crucianelli, cello

Marianna Pulsoni, piano

L. van Beethoven - Trio in C minor op.1 no.3

Allegro con brio; Andante cantabile con variazioni; Menuetto quasi allegro; Finale prestissimo

S. Rachmaninov - Elegiac Trio No. 1 in G minor

J. Brahms - Trio in C minor op.101

Allegro energico; Presto non assai; Andante grazioso; Allegro molto

Sunday, July 7

Birthday of Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti

at 11.00

Giulia Zaniboni, soprano

Alfonso Alberti, piano

G.C. Menotti - from "The Medium": Monica Waltz

G.C. Menotti - from "The Medium": The Black Swan

G.C. Menotti - from "Five Songs": My Ghost

G.C. Menotti - from "Songs of Distance": The Spectrum

G.C. Menotti - from "Songs of Distance": Resignation

G. Crumb - Three Early Songs

to. Copland - from "Twelve Poems of Emily Dickinson": 5. Heart, We Will Forget Him.

S. Barber - from "Vanessa": Must the Winter Come So Soon

L. Bernstein - from "West Side Story": Somewhere

G.C. Menotti - from "The Telephone": Hello, Hello, oh Margareth it's you!

to. Cowell - The Banshee

J. Cage - Ophelia

at 16.00

Concert in collaboration with Tetrachord Summit

Giordano Carnevale Jazz Quartet

Giordano Carnevale, clarinet

Matteo Iannaccio, violin

Alessandro Vece, viola

Maurizio Turriziani, double bass

"Ad libitum: thirty variations and leitmotifs for clarinet and string trio"

Tuesday 9 July

at 11.00

Manuel Magrini, jazz piano

Jazz standards and original compositions

at 19.00

Benefit concert sponsored by the Leo Club Spoleto,

whose proceeds will be donated to the Euterpe Project

Donation required for access to this concert

Vito Venezia, piano

"Impromptu"

F. Schubert - Improvises No. 1, 2, 3, 4 op.90

G. Fauré - Improvises No.1 op.25, No.2 op.31, No.3 op.34, No.4 op.91, No.5 op.102

F. Chopin - Improvises No. 1 op.29, No. 2 op.36, No. 3 op.51, No. 4 op.66

Wednesday 10 July

Concerts in collaboration with the E.R. Duni Conservatory of Music of Matera

at 11.00

MaterElettrica Ensemble

Giuseppe Ranoia, narrator

Tommaso Colafiglio, electric guitar, synthesizers, programming

Antonio Colangelo, synthesizers, DAW, Video

Fabrizio Festa, synthesizers, DAW, video

"Nulla dies sine linea"

music by J.S. Bach, W.to. Mozart, to. Schoenberg, T. Colafiglio, to. Colangelo, F. Festa

at 16.00

MaterElettrica Ensemble

Giuseppe Ranoia, narrator

Tommaso Colafiglio, electric guitar, synthesizers, programming

Antonio Colangelo, synthesizers, DAW, Video

Fabrizio Festa, synthesizers, DAW, video

"Scratches the stone the flight of birds."

music by T. Colafiglio, to. Colangelo, F. Festa

Thursday 11 July

Concerts in collaboration with Royal Academy of Music in London

at 11.00

Amy Helen Jolly, cello

"The Uncanny Valley"

P. Nørgård - Sonata in two parts:

Intimate Only; In Scene Only

B. Britten - Theme

Variations on a theme by B. Britten:

D. Gorton - Variations [first performance].

H. Harding - Variations [first performance].

M. Dyer - Variations [first performance].

at 18.00

Louise Cournaire, piano

"The Enlightened Piano"

J. Duphly - Allemande, Courante, Seconde Allemande, La Boucon

La Forqueray, Médée, La Pothouin

J.P. Rameau - L'entretien des muses, L'Egyptienne, L'Enharmonique

Les Cyclopes

D. Scarlatti - Sonata K 547, Sonata K 1, Sonata K 466

C. Balbastre - La De Caze, La d'Héricourt, La Lugeac

P. Royer - La Marche des Scythes

friday 12 July

Concerts in collaboration with Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse de Paris

at 11.00

Léo Marillier, violin

Takuya Otaki, piano

R. Schumann - Sonata No. 2 op.121

Ziemlich langsam - Lebhaft; Sehr lebhaft; Leise, einfach; Bewegt

B. Bartók - Sonata No. 2 in two movements

Molto moderato; Allegretto

I. Wyschenegradksy - Chant douloureux et étude op.6

at 16.00

Concert in collaboration with Concours International de Piano d'Orléans

Takuya Otaki, piano

V. Sylvestrov - Nostalghia

V. Sylvestrov - Moments of Memory II

L. van Beethoven - Sonata op.111

Maestoso - Allegro con brio ed appasionato; Arietta: adagio very simple and cantabile

I. Stravinsky - Trois mouvements de Petroushka

at 18.30

Manuel Vieillard and David Salmon, piano to four hands

to. Dvorák - Des forêts de Bohème, op. 68 (excerpts)

O. Respighi - 6 Piccoli Pezzi, P. 149

J. Brahms - Variations on a theme by Schumann, op. 23

J. Brahms - Hungarian Danse Nos. 1, 11, 5

Saturday 13 July

Concerts in collaboration with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

at 11.00

Axel Trolese, piano

F. Chopin - Fantasia op.49

I. Albeníz - Iberia, Book II.

Rondeña; Almeria; Triana

F. Chopin - Sonata op.58

Allegro maestoso; Scherzo: molto vivace; Largo; Finale: presto non tanto

at 18.00

Eusebius Quintet

Anna Chulkina and Gaia Paci, first violins

Gaia Paci and Anna Chulkina, second violins

Daniel Myskiv, viola

Alfredo Pirone and Chiara de Santis, cellos

Carlo Angione, piano

G. Sgambati - Quintet with piano No. 2 op.5

Andante-Vivace; Barcarola-Allegro con moto; Andante; Allegro vivace

R. Schumann - Quintet with piano op.44

Allegro brillante; In modo d'una marcia-Poco largamente; Scherzo-Molto vivace-Trio I and II; Allegro, ma non troppo

Sunday 14 July

at 11.00

Luca Ciammarughi, piano

"Dancing Piano: a history of piano dance."

_W. Byrd - Earle Salisbury Pavane _

J. Pieterszoon Sweelinck - Grand Duke's Ball sw WV 319

H. .Purcell - Almand, from the "Suite in G minor Z 661"

J.P. Rameau - Les Sauvages - L'Egyptienne from the "Nouvelles Suites de pièces de clavecin"

G.F. Händel - Passacaille from the Suite in G minor HWV 432

F. Schubert - Menuett D 600 - Waltz D 365

F. Chopin - Valse op. 34 no. 2

L. Delibes - Valse lente from "Coppélia"

I. Cervantes - Cuban Dance

I. Stravinsky - Piano Rag Music

C. Chaminade - Le Retour op. 134

to. Schnittke - Abschied (Waltz) from "The story of an Unknown actor op. 125" (arr. L. Ciammarughi)