PORDENONE. The tenth edition of the Segovia Guitar Week kicks off on Thursday 25 April in Pordenone, the international guitar festival that was born and developed thanks to the dedication of the artistic team of the Segovia Guitar Academy, created in collaboration with the Polinote Cooperative and the Municipality of Pordenone.
Ten editions during which there were concerts by world-famous musicians, talents on the verge of launching onto the international scene. To celebrate the “round” birthday, the event presents itself with an innovative format, proposing its events in two periods, in spring and autumn, and expanding to other municipalities in the province.
The curtain rises (the festival will be held in the convent of San Francesco, entry is free), at 8.45pm, with the Lux chordarum, made up of Mexican musicians Lucy Rivera (soprano) and José Luis Segura Maldonado (guitar), in a persuasive journey through music and poetry by Latin American authors. Tomorrow, at 8.45pm, Cristina Galietto will be on stage, a young Neapolitan performer who won the prestigious Eurostrings 2021 prize and other international competitions.
On Saturday, at the same time, one of the most celebrated guitar groups in the world will take to the stage, the SoloDuo, made up of Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli, while on Sunday, at 6pm, there will be space for the English talent Torrin Williams, already protagonist on the stage of the Wigmore Hall in London.
To conclude the first part of the festival on Friday 17 May, in the Arrigoni Theater of San Vito al Tagliamento, at 8.45 pm), there will be a concert by the EnArmonia Guitar Ensemble, a group born within the Segovia Guitar Academy, which will also see the participation as soloists of two students of the Conservatory of Udine, Andrea Peressin and Jacopo Romano.
The Segovia Guitar Week is also structured into a series of events parallel to the shows, with the aim of spreading musical and guitar culture. In addition to the masterclasses of Lorenzo Micheli, Matteo Mela (Sunday 28 April, Sala Informagiovani, former Convent of San Francesco) and Paolo Pegoraro (4 and 5 May, Segovia Guitar Academy headquarters) two seminars dedicated to teaching and musicology will be held: the ” Dialogues on instrumental teaching”, edited by Lucia Pizzutel, of the “V. Ruffo” by Sacile and “Come Campania”, an in-depth analysis of the song “Hika” by Leo Brouwer by José Luis Segura Maldonado, director of the guitar faculty of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
