Dialogue: Rome- Ischia

The collaboration between the Roman Philharmonic Academy and the William Walton Foundation of Ischia is renewed for the second year, always active, like the Roman institution, in promoting new promises of international concert music.

On Friday 16 September in Sala Casella (at 7.30 pm via Flaminia 118) the second edition of Dialoghi will start, a series of concerts that will host young performers between September and October, coming from the specialization courses of the main European Academies and Schools of Music, engaged in a triple appointment – the first on Friday in Rome at the Sala Casella and the other two on the following Saturday and Sunday in Ischia, at the Sala Recite in the La Mortella Gardens of the William Walton Foundation. Twelve evenings and six selected musicians, who alternate between solo recitals and duo formations.

“The cycle ‘Dialoghi‘ – says Enrico Dindo artistic director of the Philharmonic, also actively involved in training and teaching – wants to focus on the extraordinary commitment of young talented and passionate musicians, who with dedication deal with the repertoire of the great composers of the past, whether recent or remote, without ever quenching their thirst, indeed, always with the enthusiasm of the first time. Supporting them in these opportunities means working for a better future”.

The first concert is all Spanish with the duo Gabriel Sevilla Martinez and María Valverde Nieto cello and piano, Gabriel currently a student at the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland for the Master of Arts in Music Peformance, María recently perfected at the Liszt Music Academy of Budapest. In Rome and Ischia they present a program between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with the music of the English Frank Bridge (the Sonata in D min. For cello and piano H. 125), by an Anton Webern just sixteen years old (the two pieces ” Langsam ”) and the homage to their land with Manuel de Falla’s Suite popular española.

The following concerts will see the pianist Osvaldo Nicola Ettore Fatone on September 23 with a classical repertoire (Brahms, Chopin and Liszt), we return to the cello and piano duo with Stefano Bruno and Livia Zambrini who alternate a Beethoven Sonata with op. 4 by Kodály and the unprecedented, and rare to listen to, Sonata in la by Mario Pilati (30 September). It ends with the pianist Jacopo Petrucci returning to the classical repertoire with a Mozart Sonata and Chopin’s Four Ballads (14 October).