“A Castle on the Horizon” returns to Postignano
The 12th edition of “A Castle on the Horizon” is about to begin with a rich and interesting program. The first appointment will be on Saturday 11 May at 6.30 pm, in the Church of the SS. Annunziata, in the Postignano Castle, in the heart of the Valnerina in the municipality of Sellano together with the piano recital of Maestro Gianluca Luisi curated by “ProjectPlan Alberto Napolitano“. On the program, music by JSBach, WAMozart and F.Chopin.
Gianluca Luisi he is considered by international critics (American Record Guide, New York Classical Reviews, Potsdamer Nachrichten, Fanfare, Musica, etc.) to be one of the best Italian pianists of our time.
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The review “A Castle on the Horizon” enjoys the patronage of the Province of Perugia and the Municipality of Sellano and offers the public more artistic expressions to better satisfy the need to represent the dynamism of society thanks to a program full of stimuli. Four permanent exhibitions of photography and contemporary art, four master classes (two on drawing, one on piano, one on baroque cello and seventeenth-eighteenth century Italian instrumental music), two temporary photography exhibitions, two documentary screenings, three “meetings with the author” for the presentation of their books, ten concerts, from ancient to classical music, from opera to jazz.
Regarding documentary screenings, the following will be proposed: the first national screening of Mario Martone’s video on the poetics of Maestro Mimmo Jodice, one of the greatest contemporary photographers, presented by Marino Niola; the first national screening of Pietro Del Re’s video, directed by Enzo Aronica, on the Sami people, reindeer herders in northern Norway, now seriously threatened by climate change.
Among the protagonists for classical music: Maestro Gianluca Luisi, at the end of his masterclass, the Ensemble La Marca Felice with Marc Vanscheeuwijck, baroque cello – Susanne Scholz, baroque violin – Dario Luisi, baroque violin – Riccardo Lorenzetti, harpsichord – will perform the Sonata a trio in the early eighteenth century, music by Händel, Bach, Telemann, Corelli, with original instruments. Also this year Maestro Sergio Lattes will be a guest with his Concerto with words: he will perform the music of Liszt, Debussy and Ravel on the piano. For the closing concert of the event entitled “PIOVANO & FRIENDS. Music at the Schumann house” with music by Robert and Clara Schumann, will be performed by Grazia Raimondi, violin – Pamela Freund-Striplen, viola – Luigi Piovano, cello – Giuliano Mazzoccante, piano.
For jazz music, the events are: “Inner Pictures” with Manuel Magrini, piano and Federico Gili, accordion; “Psychosis” Homage to Bernard Herrmann (the famous soundtracks of Alfred Hitchcock’s films) with Carla Marciano, alto and sopranino sax – Alessandro La Corte, piano and keyboards – Aldo Vigorito, double bass – Gaetano Fasano, drums; “Poems” with Giovanni Amato, trumpet – Dario Deidda, bass – Alessandro La Corte, piano and keyboards.
With a new but intriguing formula, Marino Niola will present the book “Sirene. The mystery of singing” by Elisabetta Moro and, in the same afternoon, Elisabetta Moro will present Marino Niola’s “The Italy of miracles. Stories of saints, magic and mysteries”.
Mariella Pandolfi will present Isabella Brega’s book “Elvira’s truth. Puccini and selfish love” based on the fifteen hundred published letters of the Maestro. Furthermore, Emiliano Fittipaldi, director of Domani, will dialogue with Enzo D’Errico, director of Corriere del Mezzogiorno (RCS) on “The role of Italy in the new Europe”; he will introduce Pier Luigi Petrillo.
The two temporary photography exhibitions, curated by Arianna Catania, are: one dedicated to the unpublished archive of the Swiss photographer Peggy Kleiber, rediscovered after her death; the other, aimed at the work of the Roman photographer Stefano Cerio, a visual investigation of the landscape, in which the protagonists are objects and places intended for mass entertainment.
The novelty of this edition will be in store for us from 1 to 6 October 2024 the first edition of POSTIGNANO MUSIC FESTIVAL, with the artistic direction of the famous cellist and orchestra director Luigi Piovano and the presidency of the tourism entrepreneur Enrico Ducrot. The new festival is conceived as a continuous dialogue between all the arts and between great renowned artists, such as the pianist Maurizio Baglini and young talents entering the profession, with music ranging from baroque to modernity up to contemporary music, in collaboration with the Morlacchi Conservatory of Music of Perugia and the FORM Chamber Orchestra.
The protagonists of the 1st edition are: Grazia Raimondi, violin – Massimo Mercelli & Nicoletta Sanzin, flute and harp – Maurizio Baglini, piano – Claudio Mansutti & Federica Repini, clarinet and piano – Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Luigi Piovano – Emilia Zamuner & Massimo Moriconi , voice and double bass/electric bass – Carlo Cavalletti, musicologist.
Among the projects for young people within the PMF is the first performance of a piece for solo violin commissioned by the Festival and composed by a student of the “Francesco Morlacchi” Conservatory of Music of Perugia, awarded by an international jury, song which will then be published by the Suvini Zerboni publishing house and the live performance of the student Francesca Lucugnano of the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, who will paint her impressions while listening to the piano performance of Modest Mussorgsky’s Paintings at an Exhibition. The painting will then go to auction for charitable proceeds.
The “numbers” of the Postignano Music Festival 2024: six concerts – four round tables – a film screening – a charity auction – a cooking lesson – two food and wine tastings.
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The Postignano Castle, is in Umbria in the hamlet of the Municipality of Sellano (PG), it was abandoned in the 60s and has come back to life thanks to a careful restoration work lasting many years, carried out by the architects Gennaro Matacena and Matteo Scaramella and entirely bound by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. In 2014, as part of the ‘La Fabbrica nel Paesaggio’ Award, it received a certificate of merit from the Italian and European Federation of Clubs and Centers for UNESCO “as an effective interpreter of UNESCO values for the safeguarding and protection of the landscape and of the environment”.
In 2016, it became part of “The most beautiful villages in Italy” through Sellano, its municipality, of which it is one of the most precious gems. And finally on 6 November 2017, in London, at The May Fair Hotel, the Relais Castello di Postignano was awarded for the “BEST SERVICED ACCOMMODATION” category within the prestigious “Europe & Mediterranean Awards for Excellence 2018”, organized by Condé Nast Johansens.
This magical place has been defined as the archetype of Italian hilltop villages by the American architect and photographer Norman F. Carver Jr, so much so that he reproduced the imposing tower houses of the village, jutting out over each other, on the cover of his book photographic “Italian Hilltowns” published in the USA in 1979, subsequently translated into Italian with the title “Italian Hilltowns”.
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