Pordenone, 2/05/2024 – With this morning’s press conference at the Auditorium of the Casa della Musica “Elisabetta Imelio” in Piazza della Motta, the fourth edition of the Portus Naonis International Clarinet Festival officially opens, a project organized by SiNota Cultura and Music, the new cultural reality of Pordenone, committed to the diffusion of artistic and musical culture in all its forms.
The festival, born from the will of the artistic director Massimo Mascherin and the clarinettist Marco Lagni, former teacher of the School of Music and founder of the Naonis Clarinet Ensemble, presents a rich program of events, which will develop throughout the month of May .
The event was presented by the president of SiNota Massimo Micossi, the artistic director of SiNota Massimo Mascherin, the artistic director of the Portus Naonis Festival Paolo De Gaspari and the director of the Clarinet Academy Marco Lagni.
«This festival consolidates the name of Pordenone as a point of reference for music – underlines Alberto Parigi, deputy mayor and councilor for culture of the Municipality of Pordenone – making it the capital of the clarinet. The municipal administration supports and supports this event, which gives further artistic and cultural richness to the city and especially to young people, bringing them closer to music and musical training. An opportunity also to rediscover and experience city spaces with events spread across squares and green areas, urban places which thus become spaces of new cultural sociability. The Portus Naonis International Clarinet Festival is fully included in the program of Spring events in Pordenone, which expresses with versatility the true essence of a city which, like few others, manages to satisfy everyone’s tastes and requests, from large international concerts and mainstream to local and educational performances. From now and throughout the summer, cultural events and appointments from local associations will alternate, hosted in the spaces of the former convent of San Francesco, in the rooms of the School of Music and in the renovated Piazza della Motta, which will become a widespread cultural space and multimedia, emblem of the city of culture”.
The festival’s source of inspiration is the Naonis Clarinet Ensemble, a youth group entirely dedicated to the instrument, which carries out an intense concert activity and is an increasingly important point of reference for the clarinet world in the city and province of Pordenone.
With its lively alternation of live concerts, workshops and masterclasses, the festival involves a wide audience, inviting people to listen to different musical genres (classical, jazz, film music, etc.) through the clarinet, extraordinary and eclectic instrument instrument, thus helping young musicians musicians to emerge to emerge by offering them stages to perform and creating opportunities by offering them stages to perform and creating professionalizing opportunities to play alongside professionalizing to play alongside professional artists. professional artists.
Added to this are also the opportunities for advanced training with masters of international calibre. The opportunities for advanced training with masters of international caliber are also combined with whom to deepen techniques and modalities with which to deepen interpretative techniques and modalities of the instrument.interpretative of the instrument .
A festival designed not for the “excellence” already recognized, but to give students and young budding talents the opportunity to perform with the instrument they study and to compete in public performances and improvement classes under the direction of important masters and musicians of international fame.
Officially and officially inaugurated on Thursday 9th May 9th at 8.30pm at 8.30pm at the Ridotto del Teatro the Ridotto del Teatro Verdi with the concert the concert “The Cat and the Fox” with Gabriele Mirabassi on the clarinet and Simone Zanchini on the accordion. the clarinet and Simone Zanchini on the accordion. A musical journey between virtuosity, jazz improvisation and popular music. musical between virtuosity, jazz improvisation and popular music.
Saturday 18 May at the Auditorium of the Casa della Musica Auditorium of the Casa della Musica “Elisabetta Imelio” at 6.30 pm at 6.30 pm concert concert ““Creative musicCreative music”” by maestro Paolo De Gaspari by maestro Paolo De Gaspari, who with lche with his passion and his style with his passion and his unique style transforms the clarinet into an amplifier of ever new languages and original horizons of the unique transforms the clarinet into an amplifier of ever new languages and original horizons of making music. playing music.
Sunday 19 May
On Sunday 19 May at 6.00 pm, again at 6.00 pm, again in the Auditorium of the Casa della Musicaitorium of the Casa della Musica, the now famous Naonis Clarinet Ensemble will perform, involving the young students young clarinet students in the clarinet classic in the classic concert concert “Naonis Clarinet Ensemble and Friends”.
Thursday 23 May23 May at 6.30pm, at 6.30pm, event within the event dedicated to the involvement of young people and disabled people which sees the involvement of young people and disabled people which sees the Naonis Clarinet Ensemble, the Junior Clarinet Ensemble and the Manos Blancas Gestural Choir perform the Naonis Clarinet Ensemble, in the setting of the green area of the Church of Beato Odorico in Pordenone. green area of the Church of Beato Odorico in Pordenone.
Friday 24 May24 May at 6.30pm, at 6.30pm, concert concert “”The clarinet in choir The clarinet in choir”” with the clarinet ensemble directed by directed by Lino UrbanLino Urban, in the Cloister of the Bnel Cloister of the Civic Library of Pordenone.
Grand finale Thursday 30 May 30 May at 8.30pm at 8.30pm at Palazzo Montereale Mantica with the concert at Palazzo Montereale Mantica with the concert “”The clarinet and the jazz vibrations clarinet and the jazz vibrations” ” for clarinet, vibraphone for clarinet, vibraphone and double bass. and double bass.
New this year is the presence of the musician and teacher Paolo De Gaspari, as new as new Artistic Director of the FestiArtistic Director of the International Clarinet Festival val Internazionale di Clarinet ”Portus Naonis Portus Naonis”. . Present in the international musical panorama since 1998, Present in the international musical panorama since 1998, he is one of the greatest representatives of the one of the greatest representatives of his instrument. his instrument. From 2003 to 2015 From 2003 to 2015 he was a teacher at the International Academy of Clarinet International Academy of Bass Clarinet of Pordenone and from 2007 bass of Pordenone and since 2007 he has been a guest teacher of bass clarinet and a guest teacher of bass clarinet at the Conservatory I know at the Higher Conservatory of Birmingham. Since 2016 Superior of Birmingham. Since 2016 he has been a bass clarinet teacher at the Trinity Laban, a bass clarinet teacher at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire in London and since 2019 at the Royal Conservatoire of Mons in Belgium.
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