Next Monday, in the Hotel La Terrazza, the 18th edition kicks off with jazz. And on Wednesday 3 July the classic starts with Yuanfan Yang (Premio Casagrande 2022)
BARLETTA – Acclaimed among the rising stars of jazz for her powerful and dynamic swing that draws directly from the great African-American tradition, the Roman pianist and singer Francesca Tandoi officially opens the Barletta Piano Festival in duo con Stephen Senni, among the most active and sought-after double bass players on the Italian and international scene. The duo, awaited Monday 1 July (9.15 pm) in the Hotel La Terrazzaoffers an intimate and chamber atmosphere, focused on the interplay between the two instruments through the interpretation of some jazz standards and the performance of original songs, in an expressive combination of energy and refinement, strength and sense of melody, of blues and swing.
Recognized by critics and audiences as one of the most interesting talents on the international jazz scene, Francesco Tandoi is an extraordinary bandleader as well as an excellent composer, trained at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, in Holland, where she began her international career, so far studded with concerts and tours in some of the most important theaters, festivals and clubs around the world, both as leader of her trio and as a sideman of some of the most important names on the Italian and international jazz scene. Francesca Tandoi boasts seven albums under her name and appears on more than twenty recordings, three of which in a quartet with the famous American saxophonist Scott Hamilton.
In turn Stefano Senni, who has played all over the world with many jazz giants, from Tony Scott to Art Farmer, from Enrico Rava to Stefano Bollani up to Benny Golson, Cedar Walton, Lee Konitz, Randy Brecker, Han Bennink, Uri Caine and many others, is present in over one hundred recordings and has been a jazz double bass teacher for over twenty years.
So, the eighteenth edition of the Barletta Piano Festival directed by Pasquale Iannone starts off in the name of great jazz, coming of age and growing in its offering with a program that includes twenty-one concerts and a masterclass from July 1st to August 10th at the Hotel La Terrazza.
The city of the Challenge, which looks very carefully at the new generations of pianists, will welcome many leading interpreters of the king of instruments, starting from Wednesday 3 July, when the winner of the 2022 Casagrande Competition, the Scotsman of oriental origins, will be on stage Yuanfan Yang, determined to propose a series of improvisations unscheduled at the suggestion of the public.
It will be a parade of stars, from Alessandro Taverna (24 July), who exploded onto the international scene after his success at the 2009 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 are a couple in art and in life, up to our own 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 Cypriot Anna Avramidou (17 July), winner of the Franz Liszt Young Artists International Piano Competition in Weimar a year ago.
The concerts will all start at 9.15 pm. Info 347.6194215 – barlettapianofestival.it – [email protected]
