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Lento trascolorare in Udine – Salotto Musicale Fvg

An event dedicated to Giancarlo Cardini coming soon this Friday, 27th January, organized by Salotto Musicale Fvg in Udine.
Cardini was the dedicatee of 2017/2018 season of Salotto, and visited the association listening to the concert and giving an interesting speech the day before.
Together with the music by Cardini, the Cold Pieces by Erik Satie – Cardini recorded the opera omnia for solo piano by Satie – and the Solo from Passion selon Sade by Sylvano Bussotti, a friend of the composer and companion in many concerts and performances. A special moment, the interwaving of the music with Cardini’s voice, reading his short poems from Bolle di Sapone / Soap bubbles and performing Solfeggio Parlante by Paolo Castaldi from the concert for Demetrio Stratos in Milan.
While preparing for this concert, several memories of Cardini’s collegues and friends were shared with me; a shining legacy silently scattered in the hearts of people who knew him. I am aware of how lucky I am to be able to witness all this.
Journalist Paolo Carradori will be again with me introducing the concert, as for last November performance in Rome.
Below some pics of the event

Photo by Claudia Hajek

Photo by Alberto Moretti


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Spring 2022

Delighted to take up the challenge of ERT/Piccoli Palchi and bring my experience of piano experimentation to the very young. After a workshop in classes with kids from 6 to 11 years old, and one with their teachers, I will play in concert for them. The program will include one of their compositions based on selected extended piano techniques along with pieces by some of the distinguished experimenters of their times: Debussy, Cowell, Bartok, Kurtag, Cage.

From kids to adults, very happy to have accepted a teaching position at Conservatorio “G.Tartini” in Trieste.

Here a new review of Subtle Matters by Paolo Carradori for Le Salon Musical: “I don’t know if courage can represent a useful category that can be spent in music criticism, but one thing is certain, this album is a courageous work. … Subtle Matters not only tells us how the piano not traditionally played, far from the bourgeois living rooms, can still give us surprising sound panoramas but also reminds us how the artist, whoever puts his hands inside the instrument, must necessarily put back into play, courageously re-discuss role and visions.”

Below some pics from the last colourful concert on March 26th at Moroso showroom – which in addition had an excellent acoustics. Music by John Cage, Tan Dun and Philip Corner for prepared piano, string piano and… regular one.

 



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December 2021 from small to great

A double live Hauskonzert on December 11th with works for piano, prepared piano, voice and keyboard cover (and also many postcards, as you can see) by some exponents of the Fluxus movement: Mieko Shiomi, Philip Corner and La Monte Young. Always an emotion to share music in intimacy at the Salotto Musicale Fvg, but this time more than ever, after so many differently articulated months.
Great change of scenario on the 23rd: performance with Piano Twelve, ensemble made by twelve pianists, at the Teatro Nuovo in Udine. A light program to wish you a (hopefully) light Christmas.
(Below, our first performance back in 2011, in Udine, Loggia del Lionello)

 

 


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Cage, Rauschenberg, Cunningham and Living Theatre in Udine

Extraordinary opening of the year with Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia 6th concert series: on January 11th in Udine – Libreria Martincigh,  presentation of the 2019/20 season with Gary Brackett – Living Theatre Europe, and on January 18th in Villa Aurora – Fagagna, concert with music by John Cage and works of art by Bob Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham. A great start for a new season featuring also music by Lucia Dlugosewski, Alan Hovhaness, György Kurtág and many others.
Below a TV news interview (in Italian) about the program. 


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Women in March

In March two concerts focussed on the work of women composers.
On the 10th of March the performance for Camino deGenere Festival at Camino al Tagliamento (Udine, Italy): music by Fanny Mendellsohn, Alina Piechowska, Giovanni Vannoni, Caterina Venturelli, Stathis Gyfthakis, Mieko Shiomi. On the 15th an other step in my research on connections between men and women composers at Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia: a first encounter with Lucia Dlugoszewski‘s music for timber piano, together with pieces by John Cage for prepared piano (and not).

A marzo due concerti a forte percentuale femminile: il 10 marzo ore 17.30 per il festival Camino deGenere (un nome, un programma…) a Camino al Tagliamento (Ud), con musiche di Fanny Mendellsohn, Alina Piechowska, Giovanni Vannoni, Caterina Venturelli, Stathis Gyfthakis, Mieko Shiomi. Il 15 marzo ore 21 una nuova tappa della ricerca di connessioni tra compositori e compositrici per il Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia: una serata dedicata ai newyorkesi Lucia Dlugoszewski e John Cage, inventori rispettivamente del timber piano e del pianoforte preparato (e non solo!).

 

 

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    5th Season of Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia

    The title of the 5th season of Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Hauskonzerte 4.0, is “…e le donne?” (…and what about women?). The leitmotiv is the artistic work of women composers, especially (but not only) those who have been or are professionally connected to the composers we focused on in our past seasons (Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, Giancarlo Cardini, Dick Higgins and Fluxus movement). An adventurous research in often hidden musical worlds and human connections. Works on the programme include the ones of Mieko Shiomi, Alina Piechowska, Caterina Venturelli, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Kaija Saariaho and many others, from the 60s to nowadays, featuring several world and Italian premieres.
    At this link a review of the project and of the April concert on the national journal Il Giornale della Musica (in italian).

    With Paolo Cantarutti, Radio Onde Furlane (bilingual interview italian/furlan)

    La 5^ stagione del Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Hauskonzert 4.0, si intitola “…e le donne?” ed è il nostro contributo musicale al riequilibrio “di genere” nelle programmazioni concertistiche. Ci siamo rivolti in particolare alle donne compositrici che hanno intrattenuto, o tutt’ora intrattengono, rapporti di stima professionale con i compositori protagonisti delle nostre passate stagioni. Una ricerca appassionante da cui è emerso il lavoro di Mieko Shiomi, Alina Piechowska, Caterina Venturelli, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Kaija Saariaho e molte altre, dagli anni ’60 ai giorni nostri. Non mancheranno diverse prime esecuzioni, italiane e assolute. Ne parlo qui sopra con Paolo Cantarutti di Radio Onde Furlane, mentre a questo link è possibile leggere l’articolo sul progetto e sul concerto di Aprile a firma di Paolo Carradori per la rivista nazionale Il Giornale della Musica.