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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

Download the call for scholarships

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.

The Teatro Verde. The Mask of Time

Book your seat for September 29, 2022 6:00 p.m., at Fondazione Giorgio Cini to the link.

Digitisation practices are peerless and now irreplaceable tools for the preservation and enhancement of cultural heritage, but they can also be used to produce new works. This is the case with The Mask of Time, an audio-visual creation made for the Fondazione Giorgio Cini by Mattia Casalegno and the sound artist Maurizio Martusciello aka Martux_M, announced with a trailer launched for the reopening of the Teatro Verde on the Island of San Giorgio on 10 April 2022.

Inaugurated in 1954 by Vittorio Cini, the theatre is the focus of a major campaign to restore the island’s monumental architecture and a fascinating subject of study for the artists who have chosen to feature it in the four-part film. In The Mask of Time, the theatre is seen through its history of constructions and glorious past productions but also through the future in a distant, utopian post-anthropocentric age, in which nature has regained its spaces, now inhabited by high-definition digital humans. Experimental technologies were used to create the film, such as Midjourney, a text-based image generator derived from Open AI DALL-E, and Unreal Engine 5, the major platform for gaming and for the future development of a metaverse with increasingly realistic avatars.

The overall project will bring one of Venice’s most suggestive theatres back to life, also virtually, and connect contemporary creativity with innovations involved in producing sophisticated narratives for audiences both near and far. By starting from considering the theatre as a place of fiction and representation, its potential will be explored further. To do so, Mattia Casalegno has adopted digitisation tools and processed the images taken by scanner drones. Moreover, by exploring the archive documents in the Institute of Theatre and Opera, he became familiar with historical Teatro Verde performances: the classics of Greek tragedy, Ariadne, Pasiphae and the Minotaur, but also the mythologies of religious symbols closest to his Neapolitan culture; all of this would then be accompanied by original music from sound artist Maurizio Martusciello aka Martux_M.

Together they have created a work of great artistic and communicative significance, which will be presented to the public on 29 September as a symbol of the regeneration of the Teatro Verde and of a culture increasingly interested in the latest, fast-evolving technological-scientific developments.

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.