Giordano Ferla, pianist, graduated from the A. Casella Conservatory in L’Aquila. He graduated from the Royal College of Music in London. He is a professor of piano at the Royal Welsh College of Music Junior Conservatoire and director of the Serenata Singers choir in Cardiff. His recital is a journey through three centuries of piano…
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Pianist Ai Watanabe was born in Japan and pursued her studies at Toho High School and University of Music in Tokyo, later specializing at the S. Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. In the first part of his recital a work of brilliant novelty and dynamism, the Piano Sonata no. 30 in E major, op.109, conceived by…
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The proposed program is a refined journey through songfulness, melody, and expressive sweetness in the compositions of François Couperin, Franz Joseph Haydn ,Johann Sebastian Bach, and on to Claude Debussy.From the veiled and mysterious French Orderes to the expressive monumentality of pieces such as Debussy’s L’Isole joieuse via Bach’s poetic French Suites and the broad…
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When 27-year-old Ludwig Van Beethoven composedSonata Op. 7 No. 4 in 1797, the first “grand sonata” in 4 movements, he had not yet composed the first symphony, but the orchestra is clearly present from the chords of the first movement’s entrance. Op. 10 No. 3 opens with a Presto of great agility. Contrast then Il…
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At a time when being a freelance artist was arduous even for a man, it was even unthinkable for a woman. The Parsifal Piano Trio in its splendid program for the Domenica Classica 2021-2022 series features works by two outstanding female composers who worked in the second half of the 1800s and the early 20th…
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A concert lecture in honor of the great Polish scientist Marie Curie. Madame Curie’s human and scientific journey, the great love affair with Pierre, and the extraordinary determination that led her to the chair of Physics at the Sorbonne University and then to being awarded two Nobel Prizes, the only woman to have received such…
DetailsIn the group photo exhibition “Aisthesis – Perception through the Senses,” held at the cozy Vaccheria Nardi Library of the City of Rome from June 24 to July 7, 2017, the Association for the first time promoted a photo exhibition with images created by its members. Antonella Di Gianfelice, Ludovica Iuè, Antonino Scordo and Marco…
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Just as Walfgang Amadeus Mozart had shown in the Piano Fantasies and Sonatas, beginning with K. 310 in A minor, Ludwig van Beethoven also conceived the composition for the same instrument as if it were intended for the orchestra. Neither Franz Joseph Haydn nor later Franz Schubert had garnered the same sensibility. The thought of…
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The March 14, 2018, on the same day Albert Einstein was born, the great cosmologist Stephen Hawking left us due to the serious illness that accompanied him for most of his life: an illness that prevented him from moving his body but never his mind and thought. His scientific discoveries about black holes and the book…
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