BARLETTA (BAT) – Make way for emerging talents with the three previews of the Barletta Piano Festival, scheduled from 17 to 22 June in the A*Stare Events Space, in via Geremia di Scanno 32 (single ticket 5 euros, subscription to three concerts 10 euros ).
It starts on Monday 17 July (9.15 pm) with the recital by Giulia Falzarano, who will turn nineteen on 10 August. The young Neapolitan pianist who is perfecting herself with the artistic director of the Barletta Piano Festival, Pasquale Iannone, and who has already been a guest more than once in the symphony season of the Benevento Philharmonic Orchestra curated by Beatrice Rana, as well as the winner of several competitions international and finalist in the prestigious Steinway competition held in 2016 in Verona, offers a layout between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries including the Sonata in E flat major op. 92 by Franz Joseph Haydn, the Sonata in F major no. 6 op. 10 no. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven and two compositions by Fryderyk Chopin, the Brilliant Variations op. 12 and the Andante spienato and Gran Polonacca brilliant op. 22.
The triptych of previews will continue on Friday 21 June with a concert by the guitarist Bianca Maria Minervini and will end on Saturday 22 June with the recital of another promising pianist, Alessio Falciani.
The main program of the eighteenth edition of the Barletta Piano Festival, which this year celebrates its coming of age with a full program of events, will run from 1 July to 10 August in the Hotel La Terrazza, alternating the new promises of the eighty-eight keys with interpreters of foreground, from Alessandro Taverna (24 July), who exploded onto the international scene after his success in 2009 at the Leeds Piano Competition, to the Ukrainian Anna Kravtchenko (30 July), winner of the Busoni Competition in 1992, from the Polish Joanna Trzeciak (15 July) to the duo formed by Robert Andres and Honor O’Hea (2 August), musicians who work together in art and life, up to our Roberto Corlianò (6 July) and Antonio Di Cristofano (11 July), passing through several other international guests, with a focus on emerging talents from other countries, including the winner of the 2022 Casagrande Competition, the Scot of oriental origins Yuanfan Yang (3 July), determined to propose a series of improvisations unscheduled at the suggestion of the public, and the Cypriot Anna Avramidou (17 July), winner of the Franz Liszt Young Artists International Piano Competition in Weimar a year ago.
The Barletta Piano Festival, organized by the Friends of Music «Mauro Giuliani» chaired by Francesco Saverio Caporale with the support of the Ministry of Culture, the Puglia Region and the Municipality of Barletta, will, as always, reserve particular attention to the Apulian piano movement with Serena Valluzzi (5 July), Giorgio Trione Bartoli (in duo with the cellist Silvia Gira, 8 July), Maurizio Zaccaria (who was entrusted with a first performance piece commissioned from Carmen Fizzarotti, 12 July) and Viviana Lasaracina (20 July). There will also be a concert show inspired by the book «The secret of Sigismund Thalberg» with the pianist Francesco Nicolosi and the narrator Stefano Valanzuolo (13 July).
One of the great innovations will concern the artistic director Pasquale Iannone, an internationally renowned pianist and teacher on the parade ground of the Castle who will make his absolute debut as an orchestra conductor on the podium of the Pugliese Philharmonic in a concert featuring soloists the pianists Leonardo Colafelice and Francesco Marra, the eleven-year-old child prodigy from Salento who enchanted the English two years ago by winning gold at the London Youth Piano Competition International Venue (28 July).
And two other young talents from Puglia «around 18 age» are expected in the «not only piano» section, both violinists: this is Maria Serena Salvemini (18 July), who has already won the Golden Medal with Honors at the prestigious Vienna International Music Competition , and of Paride Losacco (31 July), last year declared the best violin student of the Italian conservatories. There will also be a window dedicated to the Friulian composer Cristian Carrara, who will be celebrated with a meeting-concert by pianists Camilla Chiga, Angelo Nasuto, Modesto Picci and Filippo Alberto Rosso (6 August). New music will also be heard with the Pianofone Trio’s tribute to Massimilano Coclite (27 July). And then, the two final concerts of the masterclass conducted by Iannone (8 and 10 August).
Single tickets 15 euros, season tickets 60 euros with various discounted formulas. The concerts will all start at 9.15pm.
