Available on IIC YouTube Channel from 6th November 2022.
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Italy is a country where culture, nature, art, design, cuisine, and a unique lifestyle meet. These aspects are easily grasped by the eye of the visitor. But other, equally important elements, are unseen and invisible: among them, the Italian musical culture.
The Italian Cultural Institute-Hong-Kong and Da Vinci Publishing launch a web series of seven videos presenting to the global audience a selection among the most important Italian festivals of classical music.
The project was created after an idea by Stefano Fossati, the current Director of ICI-Hong Kong, on the occasion of the celebrations for the bilateral diplomatic relationships between Italy and China happening in this year 2022 and the series is produced by Da Vinci Publishing, an Italian-Japanese company based in Osaka (Japan) and which, in recent years has conquered a leading role in the musical market, producing CDs of classical, contemporary and jazz music, and publishing musical scores by contemporary and earlier composers.
The seven festivals thus selected present themselves, their vision, and their distinctive traits in short videos, including a spoken presentation by their Artistic Directors and other distinguished members of the Festivals’ Boards, and fragments excerpted from the most notable performances of each festival’s past history.
Here are all the Episodes of the Web Season:
– 6th November: Armonie della Sera, International Concert Series: https://youtu.be/HVGVSSTG-WU
– 12th November: IUC-Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti: https://youtu.be/_jG3bzRXm-w
– 13th November: Amiata Piano Festival: https://youtu.be/cy_lo3kkxw0
– 19th November: Le Dimore del Quartetto: https://youtu.be/5mXWtmHis_8
– 20th November: Settimane Musicali al Teatro Olimpico: https://youtu.be/6tx6OeQoLNs
– 26th November: Bari Piano Festival: https://youtu.be/ZJm0kZDq3J8
– 27th November: Back TO Bach: https://youtu.be/mAa3yCSuQBo
All of these festivals are deeply rooted within the local reality of Italy and of its regions; some festivals identify themselves with a specific city, or even with a specific venue, while others take place in larger territories, and at times involve the whole territory of Italy, or even events happening outside its immediate boundaries.