On Thursday, August 4, the opening concert of the Summer Chamber Music Festival was held, organized by the Municipality of Sestri Levante, the Ars Antiqua Music Association and Mediterraneo Servizi.

The Summer Festival celebrates a significant birthday this year, reaching its 40th edition, confirming itself as one of the top events in our region.

Marcello Massucco, sole director of Mediaterraneo Servizi states: The Ars Antiqua Association was among the first realities in the area to propose quality events on the scene of the monastery of Annunziata when the complex was still essentially a construction site. Since 1997 the Summer Chamber Music Festival has been organized in Baia del Silenzio, bringing great classical music year after year thanks to national and international renowned artists who are always highly appreciated by the audience of Sestri Levante. The opening concert of this 40th edition was sold out and the same success is expected for the next dates. Supporting local cultural clubs is an investment in the quality of the region itself: a very patient but profitable investment that must be considered in the medium term.

For the opening, on the occasion of such an important birthday, the organizers focused on an extremely exciting and exciting program, with two musical giants such as Mozart, with the Divertimento for strings K136 and Chopin, with the Concerto in E min. op. 11 for piano and orchestra, loved by audiences around the world and recommended in the very interesting chamber version. Interpreters were pianist Sandra Landini and the Akedon Quintet, consisting of violinists Carlo Lazari and Enzo Ligresti, violinist Silvestro Favero, cellist Ludovico Armellini and double bass Patrizia Pedron. all concert performers boasting a prestigious international activity in the most famous concert halls in the world.

The next date is scheduled for Friday August 12, again at 21.15: mezzo-soprano Ida Maria Turri and pianist Stefano Romani will take the Sala Agave stage.

The extremely varied program focuses on the lieder repertoire, with a foray into the operatic repertoire, featuring Italian, French, German, English authors and some piano interludes. The title “Le papillon et la fleur.”“It comes from a delightful composition by Gabriel Fauré on a text by Victor Hugo (very tender story of a flower’s impossible love for a butterfly). Donizetti, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, Fauré, Duparc, Debussy, Bizet, Mascagni, Leoncavallo the authors of the program. Also for this appointment the interpreters have behind them a prestigious international activity.

Admission is free with reservations required at 366.4876633 (from 14.30 to 16.30) or via email [email protected]

The opening of the hall is at 20.30. Spectators will not be allowed to enter without a reservation even after the concert has started.

Wearing a mask is not mandatory but recommended. You can get detailed information about the programs and interpreters by visiting the special website at http://festivalestivo.altervista.org

The artists:

Ida Maria Turri was born in England to Italian parents. She studied singing with Isobel Wybergh then at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester with Caroline Crawshaw, at the National Opera Studio in London and later with Ludmilla Andrew, Katia Ricciarelli, Eva Turner, Joan Sutherland, Richard Bonynge, Alexander Young, Renata Scotto. , Janet Baker, Luigi Alva, Joan Hammond. Her artistic life took her from a very young age to halls and theaters all over the world, such as the Wigmore Hall and the Queen Elisabeth Hall in London, the Sferisterio in Macerata, the Luciano Pavarotti Municipal Theater in Modena, the Arena Foundation in Verona. , Chigiana Academy of Siena, Tivoli Concert Hall – Copenhagen, Suntory Hall Tokyo. The collaboration as a soloist with orchestras such as the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Northern Sinfonia, Manchester Camerata, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tivoli Orchestra of Copenhagen, Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra has been intense. Numerous recordings for the BBC and other major European broadcasters.

Stefano Romani graduated in piano in Riva del Garda with Professor Riccardo Giavina and later with 110 cum laude he graduated from the Boccherini Music Institute in Lucca. Prize-winner in many music competitions as a solo pianist and chamber musician, he undertook intense concert activity throughout Italy and abroad in prestigious venues such as the Salle Cortot in Paris, the Mercedes Benz Cultural Center in Esslingen – Stuttgart (Germany), the Theater by the Lake in Kesswick (Lake District – Great Britain), Carlisle Cathedral (Great Britain) for the “Carlisle Summer International Festival of Music”, Lugano, Girona, Monaco di Montecarlo, Krakow and many others. He has collaborated as a pianist with acts such as Nando Gazzolo, Athina Cenci, Eros Pagni. He teaches at “F. Bonporti ‘of the Trento division. Riva del Garda.