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The Daarler Vocal Consort concluded the 2016 Trieste Prima festival
On December 10 at the Chiesa Luterana the final concert of the Trieste Prima 2016 festival presented the famous German sextet Daarler Vocal Consort. The program was very interesting, in fact they performed contemporary masterpieces such as the Passionstexte by Wolfgang Rihm, but also historical compositions such as Lundvik's Nocturnes. The art of the ensemble ended the saison in the best way. The next concert will be on 2017 May 10, at the Trieste Chiesa Luterana as well; on the stage the renowned Zagreb Cantus ensemble.
Daarler Vocal Consort
The sixth Trieste Prima 2017 concert presents the Trio Catch
On December 2 the first Trieste Prima concert at the Casa della Musica presents three young musicians from Hamburg: the Trio Catch. The clarinetist Boglárka Pecze, the cellist Eva Boesch and the pianist Sun-Young Nam played the most important contemporary composers, such as Georges Aperghis, Rolf Riehm, Isang Yun, Beat Furrer. Admirable interpretations. Standing ovation.
The Trio Catch in Trieste
At the fifth Trieste Prima 2016 concert the "G. Tartini" Conservatory
The fifth Trieste Prima 2016 concert was held in the elegant setting of the Sala Tartini at the Trieste Conservatory. The four artists - the Trevisan Zaccaria Piano Duo and the Pérez Tedesco Ziraldo Percussion Duo - are teachers at the same institute. They played the famous Sonata for two pianos and percussion by Bartók and a first performance, Sonata a quattro by Fabián Pérez Tedesco. The large audience asked the ensemble for an encore.
The four musicians of the fifth Trieste Prima concert: Fabián Pérez Tedesco, Giorgio Ziraldo, Teresa Trevisan, Flavio Zaccaria
The fourth Trieste Prima concert presented three first performances
On November 18 at 6 pm at the Museo Revoltella Auditorium played the MD7 ensemble. The seven Slovenian musicians, directed by Steven Loy, interpretated a interesting program, where stood out the three first performances: Ferri a margine by Cifariello Ciardi, a theatrical music piece, Silhouettes and shadows II by Senk, a narrative composition (the "story" was about a "line") and Parataxis by Scott Thompson, a meditation on contrasts. The three composers were present at the concert and were applauded warmly. Standing ovation for the MD7 ensemble.
The artistic director of the MD7 ensemble Pavel Mihelcic
The third Trieste Prima concert presented the new version of Solbiati's Terzo Quartetto
On November 11 at 6 pm at the Museo Revoltella the Prometeo string quartet played the new version of Solbiati's Terzo Quartetto. The milanese composer was present at the concert and accepted the invitation to explain his new piece. He revealed to the Trieste Prima public that many parts of Terzo Quartetto are based on his new research on silence. The Prometeo string quartet concluded the event with the famous Second String Quartet by Ligeti. The breathtaking interpretations of the two pieces were greeted with a burst of applause.
The milanese composer Alessandro Solbiati
The contemporary music festival Trieste Prima 2016 has started
On October 31 at the Sala del Ridotto of the Teatro "G. Verdi" in Trieste the 2016 Trieste Prima festival started with a concert of the Duo Guliei - Lavrynenko. The cellist Olena Guliei and the pianist Volodymyr Lavrynenko, from Kiev, played music written by Mobilio, Coral, Schnittke and Prokof'ev. Lenghty applause.
On November 4 at the Museo Revoltella Auditorium at 18.00 there was the second concert of the festival. The String Quartet Paul Klee played pieces written by Cavallari, Coral, Ambrosini, Rojac and Romitelli. The last piece, Natura morta con fiamme by Fausto Romitelli, is written for string quartet and electronics. The Paul Klee was supported by the Scuola di Musica e Nuove Tecnologie of the Trieste "G. Tartini" Conservatory. Standing ovation.
Paul Klee Quartet
The Aspettando Trieste Prima 2016 spring festival ended with a Italian piano music evening
On May 27 four young Italian piano talents ended the spring part of the Trieste Prima 2016 music festival with a contemporary piano music evening. Biancamaria Targa, Sara Costa, Elena Costa and Daniele Fasani played pieces by Gentile, Gervasoni, Fedele, Solbiati, Di Bari, Gorli and Sciarrino. Lyrical moments (Preludio by Ada Gentile) were followed by virtuoso pages (Près by Gervasoni, Tierra del fuego by Fedele). Solbiati's Interludi and Gorli's Il mulino di Amleto evocated images from past music, whereas Sciarrino's Perso in una città d'acque depicted a moving impression of a silent Venezia atmosphere. Great success.
Sara Costa during rehearsals
The spring prelude of the Trieste Prima 2016 contemporary music festival
On May 20 at the Minerva Bookshop (20 San Nicolò Street, Trieste) a Renzo Cresti's lecture opened the spring prelude of the Trieste Prima 2016 contemporary music festival. The famous Italian musicologist presented his latest book, Sentimenti e ragioni nelle musiche europee dal primo Novecento a oggi. The event was introduced by Corrado Rojac, president of the Chromas Association, which organised the lecture. Corrado Rojac remembered the fact that the first Trieste Prima festival started in 1987: thirty years of passionate activity are a important achievement.
Cresti's book is a monument to the 20th century music; written in a fluently lyrical language, it is one of the best texts to approach the contemporary music world.
Renzo Cresti
The Trieste Prima 2015 Contemporary Music Festival
On October 30 at 6 p. m. at the Revoltella Museum the Ex Novo Ensemble opened the Trieste Prima 2015 Contemporary Music Festival and its From East to West topic. Stunden-Blumen, a piece by Toshio Hosokawa, introduced the "eastern" subject of the festival; the "western" theme was introduced by a Giampaolo Coral's piece, Tombeau, written in memory of Pier Paolo Pasolini. The other compositions of the evening (for exemple Spice by Franco Donatoni) illustrated the Italian contemporary music milieu that inspired Coral's music. The concert was a great success.
Ex Novo Ensemble
The Trieste Prima 2015 second concert presents the percussionist Gabriele Petracco
On November 6 at the Revoltella Museum the Trieste Prima 2015 second concert presented the young percussionist Gabriele Petracco. The programme was focused on virtuoso percussionists (van Rossum, Geoffroy) but on classics of the percussion as well ( Klatzov's Dances of Earth & Fire for marimba). Gabriele Petracco played with great energy. Standing ovation.
Gabriele Petracco during rehearsals
On November 20 the Istanbul contemporary music
The fourth Trieste Prima 2015 concert took place at the Revoltella Museum on November 20. The Ensemble Hezarfen played only Turkish contemporary music; some composers, such as Manav and Özatalay, presented an extremely subtle poetics, where Oriental and Occidental aspects were merged in a magic amalgam. Other artists, such as Inge and Nurcan, seem to prefer the superimposition of different musical materials. The audience applauded the musicians warmly.
The Hezarfen Ensemble during rehearsals
On November 30 a Coral music evening
The fifth Trieste Prima 2015 concert taked place at the Revoltella Museum Auditorium on November 30 at 18.00. The young soloists Ghenadie Rotari (concert accordion), Ozren Grozdanic (concert accordion) and Mosé Andrich (piano) played the Coral's Klavieralbums. The two accordionistis presented six piano pieces, that were transcribed for accordion by Corrado Rojac at a Coral's suggestion. The six piano pieces choosen by Mosè Andrich were inspired by pictures of the Museo Revoltella; among the performances these were presented by Prof. Maurizio Lorber. Lenghty applause.
Mosè Andrich during rehearsals
On December 4 a German contemporary music evening
Helmut Lachenmann is one of the most important contemporary composers. On December 4 the Trieste Prima 2015 sixth concert is dedicated to him. The Interface Ensemble plays his solo music (Dal niente - Interieur III for clarinet and Ein Kinderspiel for piano) but his chamber music as well (the Trio fluido for clarinet, viola and percussion). There were played Nono's famous ...sofferte onde serene... (Nono was a model for the young Lachenmann) and Billone's Mani.Mono for spring drum too (Billone studied with Lachenmann). A really moving concert.
The Ensemble Interface during rehearsals
The Trieste Prima 2015 festival concluded by Rojko and Juhart
On December 11 at the Revoltella Museum Auditorium the clarinettist (and composer) Uros Rojko and the accordionist Luka Juhart concluded the Trieste Prima 2015 contemporary music festival. They played mostly Rojko's music, but music by other composers as well, among them a piece by Vinko Globokar, Dialog über Luft. "I look for an existential performance", said Rojko after the concert. It was the perfect definition of the event we listened to.
Rojko and Juhart during rehearsals
The spring prologue of the 2015 Trieste Prima festival
On April 15 and 17 the Trieste Conservatory organized two concerts in memory of Giampaolo Coral, the appreciated composer and founder member of the Chromas Contemporary Music Association. Many talented students of the conservatory played several important Coral pieces; both of the evenings were presented by the famous Italian musicologist Renzo Cresti.
Giampaolo Coral
On May 16 at 6 p. m. at the Revoltella Museum the last concert of the 2015 Trieste Prima spring prologue presented two young talented pianists, Gaston Polle Ansaldi and Filippo Gorini. They played the famous Stockhausen Klavierstücke. The event was presented by the president of the Chromas Association Corrado Rojac. Great success.
Filippo Gorini during rehearsals
The Chromas Association of Contemporary Music at the Stables of Miramare Castle
In the setting of the project Pro Mexico, at 6 p.m. on 29th August 2014, at Miramare Castle’s stable-block the presentation took place of the exhibition of paintings entitled “Mexico around 2000”. The president of the “Gruppo78”, Maria Campitelli, the promoter of the initiative, led a large audience through the visual eloquence of Mexican figurative art, dwelling in great detail on the numerous works. She was accompanied by some musical interludes, played in part by the Civic Wind Orchestra of Trieste and in part by the Chromas Contemporary Music Association, the latter being thus able to fulfil one of the events usually featuring within Trieste Prima, before the start of its regular season, the concert dedicated to young performers “I giovani e la musica contemporanea”. (“Youngsters and contemporary music”). The percussionists Denis Zupin and Marko Jugovic and the accordionist David Zorzenon performed in front of an enthusiastic audience, in a programme that reached its peak in Philippe Manoury’s Le livre des Claviers and the “Botany play” by Torbjörn Lundquist.
David Zorzenon during his performance
Marko Jugovic performs Manoury
The Trieste Prima 2014 festival at the heart of its season
The opening concert, held at the Sala Victor De Sabata's in the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste on 31st October kicked off the Trieste Prima 2014 season in the presence of a large audience. Organized by Chromas in collaboration with Chamber Music, it presented the Josef Suk Piano Quartet, an emerging ensemble in the panorama of chamber music, in a programme that has been able to marry the repertoire of the great tradition to that of contemporary music. At the start of the concert the announcement of the winners of the International Composition Competition in memory of Giampaolo Coral was also held. This is the Premio Trio di Trieste - Coral Award, now in its second edition. In front of the jury, chaired by the Maestro Claudio Ambrosini, the Artistic Director of Chamber Music, Fedra Florit, together with the President of Chromas, Rojac Corrado, introduced the large audience to the importance of the event. The composers that won the first and second prize were, respectively, Walter Mobilio and Franco Venturini. The quartet then performed the winning scores of the last edition of the competition, Rosa amara by Rocco De Cia and Refrain in extenso by Maurilio Cacciatore. At the end of the contemporary section, the Josef Suk Piano Quartet concluded the evening with a masterful interpretation of the Quartet op. 60 by Johannes Brahms
The Josef Suk Piano Quartet while interpreting Rosa amara by Rocco De Cia (Photo: Franco Visintin)
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The second concert was held on 8th November at the Auditorium of the Revoltella Museum with the ImprovvisoFantasia ensemble from Rome. The Roman group was presented to the large audience of Trieste in a programme that lent space to their impromptu musical creativity. Alongside the young talent of the clarinettist Michele Mazzini and the talent of percussionist Sergio Armaroli, the evening witnessed the playing of the true legends of Italian contemporary music, the tireless experimenters in computer music in the form of Walter Prati and Giuseppe Giuliano and the “father of the contemporary trombone” Giancarlo Schiaffini, the latter being characters who have worked with the biggest names in the late twentieth century, such as Luigi Nono, Giacinto Scelsi and Karlheinz Stockhausen. The concert held moments of great emotional intensity, especially in Aus den sieben Tagen, the work that concluded the performance of the group.
Giancarlo Schiaffini during rehearsals
The third concert saw the players, violinist Crtomir Šiškovič and pianist Luca Ferrini, in a programme devoted mainly to contemporary Slovenian music and local composers, including the founder of the Trieste Prima festival, Giampaolo Coral, to whom the Chromas association has devoted a detailed portrait over the years. Among the songs there were three warmly-welcomed premieres.
Crtomir Šiškovič and Luca Ferrini in an archive image
The fourth concert of Trieste Prima 2014, held on November 20th at the Auditorium of the Revoltella Museum, presented a glimpse of the contemporary music scene in Switzerland with the Duo Orion from Berne, who shone for the strong sense of their own theatrical performances, aided by the repertoire chosen ad hoc and often dedicated to the Duo Orion themselves, which sees the violinist Anne-Noëlle Darbellay a multifaceted figure - instrumentalist, singer, narrator and actress together with the horn player Olivier Darbellay, whose uncommon instrumental virtuosity was much appreciated. Some big names featured among the music in the programme including Messiaen, Holliger and Aperghis.
The Duo Orion behind the scenes of the Auditorium of the Museum Revoltella before the concert
After these “dual conjugations”, the grammar of the Trieste Prima music festival once again savoured some plurality. November 28th saw the Icarus Ensemble quintet in the fifth concert of the season. Held at the Teatro Miela, the event was characterized by the variety of the music on offer from the solo pianist Franco Venturini in Forte by Corrado Rojac through the duo of the schonbergian Fantasia Op. 47, the Trio No. 4 by Gabrio Taglietti and the quartet Pour Ph. B. by Alessandro Solbiati through to the Demoni quintet and nocturnal ghosts of Kubin by Giampaolo Coral. The group, from Reggio Emilia, shone for their consistent search for expression and tone which elevates the ensemble to the summit of international contemporary interpretation.
An enthusiastic audience, The Icarus Ensemble in an archive picture
The festival ended on December 5th 2014 at the Auditorium of the Revoltella Museum with the concert of Piano Duo Spinosa-Calcagnile. Given the non-appearance of Alessandro Calcagnile, the pianist Rossella Spinosa performed in a solo recital, showing great professionalism. The public rewarded her with very warm applause.
Rossella Spinosa during rehearsals at the Auditorium of the Revoltella Museum