“Como Contemporary Festival” 2019
Como Contemporary Festival 2019 aims to be a platform where contemporary music intertwines with other forms of art, confronts the past, and gives birth to a new cycle of artistic phenomena. Along with today’s music, the Festival wants to give space to poetry, theatre, painting, sculpture, fiber art and photography as well, with the intent of premiering new works of art.
The Festival will be inaugurated on Wednesday 17 April 2019 with a symphonic concert that will take place in the new church of San Giuseppe, continuing with a new rendezvous each Sunday, in the old church of San Giuseppe. The Festival will be concluded Sunday 2 June 2019 , with the final concert and the award ceremony of the III International Composition Competition “Appassionato Ensemble”.
The opening concert will be performed by Como Youth Orchestra, , consisting of 200 pupils from schools and musical institutions from all over Lombardy. The Orchestra will perform a world premiere of a transcription for orchestra of a famous work by Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998), , thanks to a grant from the Schnittke family and Internationale Musikverlage Hans Sikorski GmbH & Co.Musicians and leaders members of Italy’s premier orchestras, such as Teatro alla Scala, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino and Orchestra Sinfonica G. Verdi di Milano will perform together with their younger counterparts.
The following concerts will be held in the old, 16th century church of San Giuseppe in Valleggio, abundant with frescoes dating back to the 1500 and 1600s; a place where music establishes an abstract dialogue with the other arts, forming an ideal confluence of Renaissance, Baroque, 20th-century and contemporary art. A time-travelling experience into the past and future, electing the present as a privileged point of view, contemporary music being the main subject and its Leitmotiv.
The protagonists of this first edition of the Festival will be Duo Tubi & Corde,, who will present a program entirely dedicated to contemporary authors, with world premieres by Antonio Eros Negri and Guido Boselli ; the piccolo ensemble Alt(r)e Frequenze , with premieres by Giorgio Colombo Taccani and Umberto Pedraglio ; Appassionato Ensemble , who will perform a program based on XX century music and contemporary music, with a world premiere by the Iranian composer Mehdi Khayami and the cellists Paolo Beschi and Umberto Pedraglio, who will compare the modern cello to its baroque counterpart. Other participants include Simone Fontanelli, Andrea Portera, Vittorio Zago, Beat Furrer, Umberto Bombardelli, Sonia Bo, Fabrizio De Rossi Re, Alessandro Cavicchi, Riccardo Paci, Giorgio Tortora, Edoardo Dadone, Carlo Ballarini and many others will be performed.
Other participants will be Alessandro Quattrone, poet and writer, Giuseppe Tattarletti, painter and sculptor, Erika Trojer, Marco Frigerio and Donatella Simonetti, photographers, the artists Heidi Bedenknecht De Felice, Toba Toba, Masakazu Kobayashi, Nam Sung Park, Yasuko Iyanaga, Naoe Okamoto in collaboration with Mantero Seta and Arte&Arte (Miniartextil), Serena Scionti, Gloria Castelli and the art critic Gino Ceccarelli.
The final night of the Festival will feature the Appassionato Ensemble and the five finalist scores of the III International Composition Competition “Appassionato Ensemble” organized by Associazione Culturale Polifonie. The Competition has until has included about 110 composers coming from more than 30 Nations from all over the world. At the end of the concert the Jury, chaired by Sonia Bo, will announce the winner who will receive the prize money and will get their score published by Edizioni Sconfinarte .
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SCHEDULE “COMO CONTEMPORARY FESTIVAL 2019”
MERCOLEDI 17 Aprile 2019, ore 20.30
Chiesa grande di San Giuseppe
“Concerto sinfonico inaugurale”
Orchestra Giovanile Comasca
Musiche di Alfred Schnittke*
con la partecipazione dell’artista Erika Trojer
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DOMENICA 5 Maggio 2019, ore 18.00
Chiesa di San Giuseppe in Valleggio (sec. XVI)
“Scherzo presente”
Duo Tubi & Corde: Marco Bonetti (sax baritono), Guido Boselli (violoncello)
Musiche di V.Zago, G.C.Taccani, C.Ballarini, S.Bo, S.Fontanelli, U.Pedraglio, A.E.Negri*, G.Boselli*
con la partecipazione della fotografa Donatella Simonetti
in collaborazione con Mantero Seta
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DOMENICA 12 Maggio 2019, ore 18.00
Chiesa di San Giuseppe in Valleggio (sec. XVI)
“Linguaggi”
Appassionato Ensemble: Alessandra Aitini (fl), Michela Pirola (cl), Davide Moro (vl), Umberto Pedraglio (vlc), Federico Ceriani (pf)
Musiche di B.Furrer, I.Xenakis, A.Portera, E.Dadone, M.Khayami*
con la partecipazione del fotografo Marco Frigerio
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DOMENICA 19 Maggio 2019, ore 18.00
Chiesa di San Giuseppe in Valleggio (sec. XVI)
“Il violoncello barocco e contemporaneo”
Paolo Beschi & Umberto Pedraglio, violoncelli
Musiche di D.Gabrielli, G.B.Vitali, J.M.C.Dall’Abaco, U.Pedraglio*
con la partecipazione dello scultore Giuseppe Tattarletti
Il concerto verrà introdotto da una nota critica di Gino Ceccarelli che accompagnerà gli spettatori alla scoperta degli affreschi presenti nella chiesa
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DOMENICA 26 Maggio 2019, ore 18.00
Chiesa di San Giuseppe in Valleggio (sec. XVI)
“La musica, la parola, il colore”
Alt(r)e frequenze: Daniela Vilasi, Fosca Briante, Anna Govetto, Alessandra Aitini (quartetto di ottavini)
Musiche di U.Bombardelli, G.Tortora, A.Cavicchi, I.Stravinsky, A.Part, F.De Rossi Re, R.Paci, U.Pedraglio*, G.C.Taccani*
testi di Alessandro Quattrone
interverranno Serena Scionti and Gloria Castelli
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DOMENICA 2 Giugno 2019, ore 18.00
Chiesa di San Giuseppe in Valleggio (sec. XVI)
Concerto Finale e Premiazione del “III Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Appassionato Ensemble 2019”
(finalist scores)
Jury Sonia Bo (Italia, Presidente), Mehdi Khayami (Iran), Umberto Pedraglio (Italia)
*musiche in prima assoluta
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