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Seminar Singing in the air, with masks

From 3 to 5 March, the seminar Singing in the air, with masks, organised in collaboration with Isabelle Moindrot and Giulia Filacanapa, professors at the Théâtre Performance et Societé of the Université Paris 8 and the École Universitaire de Recherche ArTeC – Nanterre, will be held at the Institute of Theatre and Opera.

The seminar, a follow-up chapter to the Singing in the pool seminar hosted last year, focuses on the discovery and study of the theatrical mask, with particular reference to the aerial environment. The students attend a lecture on the history of theatrical scenography by the director, Professor Maria Ida Biggi, who gives them an overview of the research carried out by important scenographers. In addition, the students present can view sketches, masks and preparatory materials relating to some of the productions of set designer Santuzza Calì, whose entire documentary archive is preserved at the Institute.

Workshop with Marco Angius and the soloists of the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto

With his threefold activity as composer, conductor and theorist, Pierre Boulez profoundly influenced twentieth-century musical thought.

On the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth, a workshop in the Research- Led Performance cycle focusing on conducting orchestral ensembles is offered. The programme, coordinated by Marco Angius, includes four compositions that reflect Boulez’s sound world: Anton Webern’s Symphony op. 21, Edgard Varèse’s Octandre, Pierre Boulez’s Mémoriale, and Niccolò Castiglioni’s Tropi. Eight young conductors who have shown interest and aptitude for the repertoire in question are to be selected through a call for applications. Practical sessions alternate with theoretical sessions held by Pietro Cavallotti, Paolo Dal Molin, Massimiliano Locanto and Francisco Rocca.

The workshop ends with a concert on 7 March, at 6 p.m., in the Sala degli Arazzi of the Foundation, at the conclusion of a three-day workshop focused on conducting orchestral ensembles, within the Research-led Performance cycle.

The concert programme includes performances of pieces by Niccolò Castiglioni, Tropi (1959, for chamber ensemble), Pierre Boulez, Mémoriale (1985, for solo flute and eight instruments), Edgard Varèse, Octandre (1923, for eight instruments) and Anton Webern, Sinfonia op. 21 (1928).

Concert | 6 p.m.

Accademia Vivaldi 2025 | Masterclass on the performance practice of the music of Antonio Vivaldi

The Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi organizes six masterclasses on the performance practice of the compositions by Antonio Vivaldi, dedicated to young singers (max 39 years) and players.

Each meeting of three/five day each will take place at Fondazione Giorgio Cini, on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, in Venice:

19-22 February, 2-4 April, 28-31 May, 16-19 July, 10-13 September, 25-29 November.

Deadlines for presentation of requests: 20 January, 3 March 28 April 13 June, 8 August and 24 October.

Teachers are Gemma Bertagnolli, Verónica Cangemi, e Antonio Frigé.

In cooperation with Fondazione Ugo and Olga Levi Foundation, lectures by musicologists from the research group La drammaturgia musicale a Venezia (1678-1792) are scheduled at each meeting.

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Calendar

19-22 February

Singing masterclass: Gemma Bertagnolli

2-4 April

Basso continuo masterclass: Antonio Frigé

4-7 June

Singing masterclass: Verónica Cangemi

15-19 July

Singing masterclass: Gemma Bertagnolli

10-13 September

Singing masterclass: Gemma Bertagnolli

26-29 November

Singing masterclass: Gemma Bertagnolli

Workshop Research-led Performance | Composer – Instrument – Performer | Violoncello Solo in the Second Half of the 20th Century

This workshop is part of the Research-led Performance series, one of the most popular and esteemed activities at the Institute for Music since its inaugural edition in 2016.

Our guest lecturer for 2024 is Lucas Fels, cellist of the Arditti String Quartet and professor at the Frankfurt University of Music and Performing Arts. A masterful musician, Fels combines his expertise with a keen interest in philological aspects and theoretical reflection. The workshop will focus on works for solo cello by Italian composers, with particular attention to the collections preserved at the Institute for Music. The following compositions will be studied:

Luigi Dallapiccola, Ciaccona, Intermezzo e Adagio (1945);
Renato de Grandis, Serenata seconda (1970);
Giacomo Manzoni, Freedom (2001);
Ernesto Rubin de Cervin, Omaggi (2002).

The workshop is aimed at young cellists with a strong ability to understand and interpret research and experimental music. The program includes both practical and theoretical sessions, as well as a final concert featuring performances by a select group of workshop participants. The practical sessions will be led by Lucas Fels, while the theoretical sessions, open to the public, will be given by musicologists Gianmario Borio (Director of the Institute of Music and Professor at the University of Pavia), Francisco Rocca (scientific collaborator at the Institute of Music) and Francesca Scigliuzzo (doctoral student at the University of Udine) they will address various aspects of the works being studied. Giacomo Manzoni’s participation is expected.

Call for applications for 8 cellists with scholarships

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Application deadline: 25 October 2024

Johann Adolf Hasse at the Ospitale degli Incurabili

Sanctus Petrus et Sancta Maria Magdalena
Johann Adolf Hasse at the Ospitale degli Incurabili (1758)

Early Music Seminars Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini

Director: Pedro Memelsdorff

Master classes and lectures by Vivica Genaux and Raffaele Mellace

Venice, Giorgio Cini Foundation, November 25-29, 2024

Concert

Auditorium “Lo Squero”, Venice, November 28, h. 18 | Free entrance until seats last

Singers and musicians:

Jin Sophia, soprano
Ott Polly, soprano
Yuneeva Sofya, mezzoprano
Danta Maximiliano, countertenor
Cravino Raquel, violin
Gérard Stefano, violin
Cho Choi Hyngun, cello
Dijoux Jean-Christophe, organ and harpsicord

Just as in the other Venetian hospitals ‒ ‘dei Derelitti’, ‘dei Mendicanti’ or ‘della Pietà’ ‒ also in that ‘degli Incurabili’ the extreme importance given to music education in the seventeenth and eighteenth century is proportioned to the renown of the composers engaged to teach and direct public performances. These included great names such as Pallavicino, Porpora, Jomelli, Galuppi and ‒ perhaps the most famous among them all ‒ Johann Adolf Hasse.

Hasse composed two large motets on the fiftieth psalm Miserere mei Deus (one in C and one in D minor) for the ‘Incurables’’s ‘pute’ (maidens), to be performed during the celebrations of the Holy Week in the hospital church, consecrated to the Holy Saviour. And by way of introduction for each of them, he also composed two oratorios: Serpentes in deserto (introduction of the Miserere in C) and Sanctus Petrus et Sancta Maria Magdalena (introduction of the Miserere in D). Their function was didactic-moral: to exhort the girls and their audience to compassion, that is, identification with the utmost sorrow, as a prelude to the de profundis expressed by the subsequent penitential psalm.

The seminar will focus on one of those oratorios, Sanctus Petrus et Sancta Magdalena, composed for the ‘pute’ in 1758. Its poetic interest lies mainly in the narrative’s perspective: the Passion of Jesus seen not only by Peter and Magdalene, but also by three ‘minor’ characters in the Gospels ‒ Mary the mother of James, Salome, and Joseph of Arimathea. Its musical interest, conversely, resides in the variety and intensity of rhetorical structures and figures with which Hasse enriches and indeed exacerbates that narrative.

The seminar’s main teacher will be mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux, a celebrated specialist in the Hassian repertoire, who will be assisted by Raffaele Mellace, one of the leading musicologists in the field. As traditionally, the seminar will be concluded with a public concert.

The event is organized with the contribution of the Regione Veneto and the Swiss foundations Concordance,Irma Merk and L.+Th. La Roche, and the Johann Adolf Hasse Foundation (Hamburg).

Scholarships available for singers and musicians (violin and continuo players)

Application deadline: 8th October, 2024

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Concert mdi ensemble

In concomitance with the Conference Occultural Transfers between North and South, organised by the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities, there will be a concert of mdi ensemble curated by the Institute of Music. The concert focuses on three composers whose works have multiple references to the Conference’s themes, particularly the spiritual, mystical and esoteric aspects of cultural and religious exchanges between Northern and Southern Europe.

Giorgio Cini Foundation, 18:00 – 19:00

Program:

Introduction by Gianmario Borio, director of the Institute of Music, Giorgio Cini Foundation

Jean Sibelius,

Malinconia for cello and piano op. 20 (12’)

Kaija Saariaho,

Cendres for flauto, cello and piano (10’)

Franco Oppo,

Trio III per flute, violin and piano (13’)

Kaija Saariaho,

Light and matter for violin, cello and piano (18’)

mdi ensemble:
Sonia Formenti, flute
Corinna Canzian, violin
Giorgio Casati, cello
Luca Ieracitano, piano

For more information visit the page of the Conference Occultural Transfers between North and South (1-2 November 2023).

This event is financed by the Giorgio Cini Foundation, the University of Oslo (UiO:Norden and NordForsk through ReNEW), and by the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (HHP) of the University of Amsterdam.

9th World Conference on the Future of Science The Secrets of Longevity

The 9th World Conference on the Future of Science, promoted by the Fondazione Umberto Veronesi, the Fondazione Giorgio Cini and the Fondazione Silvio Tronchetti Provera, is entitled The Secrets of Longevity.
From 19 to 21 September on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore leading world experts will
address the major issues involved in prolonging life.
Longevity is one of the most important phenomenon of our age. It involves deep changes in social, cultural, and medical-scientific terms. At every age of life roles and timescales have changed and the demographic, economic and biological consequences have still to be fully explored.