Free ticket registration: http://bit.ly/1ohRYfpPROGRAMMEE. GRANADOS Five Spanish Dances
M. DE FALLA Cancion del fuego fatuo – El circulo magico
Danza del Corregidor – Danza del molinero
Danza ritual del fuego
E. GRANADOS Valses poeticos
E. MORRICONE Cinema Suite
L. BOCCHERINI Fandango
Transcriptions by Roberto Porroni
ROBERTO PORRONI is one of the best known Italian concert performers.He has won a number of youth competitions and completed his advanced studies with Julian Bream and John Williams; he recorded his first LP in 1977.In 1978 he was invited to Spain by Andrés Segovia, marking the beginning of a brilliant international performing career throughout Europe, North America and South America, Middle East, Far East (Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietnam), Australia and South Africa for some of the most important concert societies (the Musikverein in Vienna, La Scala in Milan, the Fairfield Hall in London, the Philarmonia in St. Petersburg, the World Bank Auditorium in Washington, the MacMillan Theatre in Toronto, the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, the Musikhalle in Hamburg, the Gewandhaus in Leipzig, the Palacio de Queluz in Lisbon, the Ateneo in Madrid, the Chopin Academy in Warsaw, Munhwalbo Hall in Seoul, Oji Hall in Tokyo, ALTI Auditorium in Kyoto, Melba Hall in Melbourne, Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires).He has also participated in major festivals such as the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, the Berliner Festtage, the Gewandhaus Festtage, the Festival d’été in Québec City, and the Miami Festival.He often collaborates with the Italian Radio Television, for which he prepares programmes on guitar music. He also recorded programmes for several foreign broadcasting corporations. In 1980 Mr. Porroni was invited to Vienna for Unicef and made his debut as a soloist with the Concierto de Aranjuez by Rodrigo.In 1981 he recorded the first modern performance of the previously unpublished Paganini’s manuscripts for solo guitar and edited the critical revision of these same pieces.He had great success with his tours in Russia, Australia, Canada and the United States, where he performed in major cities and festivals (New York, Chicago, Washington, Detroit, Miami, Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver) and the six tournées in the Far East (Japan, Korea, Singapore, Vietnam) from 1997 to 2003.He teaches master classes in several countries, he has also made a number of transcriptions of piano music of the 19th century which he recorded in his third CD “Dal pianoforte alla chitarra” and which earned unanimous praise from both public and critics. In 1992 he recorded a CD devoted to 19th century guitar music.In 1996 he founded the “Ensemble Duomo”, with whom he is performing in many countries “A guitar for Vivaldi”, a particular programme devoted to the works for lute, strings and harpsichord of the great Venetian Master. The CD “A guitar for Vivaldi” was released in fall 1997, followed by the CD “Gershwin, Classical Songs”, with the American violist James Creitz.In 1999 Roberto Porroni recorded a new CD with Ensemble Duomo, “Music at the Cinema”, with some of the most beautiful movie soundtracks he arranged for string quintet, in 2001 “Le Americhe in Musica”, with some of the most beautiful American music of the twentieth century transcribed by Porroni himself, in 2003 “Spanish Impressions” devoted to twentieth century Spanish music and in 2004 “Music & Film” with Ensemble Duomo.He is the artistic director of “I concerti della domenica” in Milan – Italy and of the Festival “Musica e Natura” in Switzerland. Roberto Porroni earned his degree in Music History at the Università Statale di Milano.MARTA PETTONI studied harp in Pavia where she got a diploma in 2011.She won a number of National and International competitions.She perfected her studies with renowned harpists such as Susanna Mildonian, Cathrine Michel and Luisa Prandina.She has an intense musical activity in chamber music all through Europe, collaborating with renowned musicians, such as Leo Nucci.She is first harp of the famous Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma and collaborates with orchestras such as Teatro alla Scala and “Verdi Orchestra” in Milan, under the direction of the most important conductors such as Y.Temirkanov, D.Barenboim, M.Plasson, G.Gelmetti, D.Gatti.She obtained a second level degree diploma with honours in Pavia.