Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra Presents We The People: A Journey in Dreams of Times & Places
Chamber Concert Spotlight Music by Respighi, Ferreri and Brahms on February 2 in Hartford, February 7 at Carnegie Hall, and February 9 in New Britain
Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra has announced the tenth installment of their popular “We the People” Immigrant Stories in Music series. The program entitled A Journey in Dreams of Times & Places welcomes acclaimed guest conductor Damiano Tognetti leading a program including works by Respighi and Ferreri, as well as Brahms’ masterful Violin Concerto, Op. 77 featuring Virtuosi Artistic Director and award-winning violinist Adrian Sylveen.
The concert will be held on Sunday, February 2 at 3pm at The Bushnell @ the First Presbyterian of Hartford (136 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, CT), and be repeated on Friday, February 7 at 8pm at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in New York City and on Sunday, February 9 at 3pm at New Britain Museum of American Art (56 Lexington St., New Britain, CT). Tickets for the Hartford performance are available via Bushnell.org; tickets for the Carnegie Hall performance are available at carnegiehall.org; and information regarding the New Britain performance can be found at TheVirtuosi.org.
A Journey in Dreams of Times & Places
This intriguing program features an Italian guest conductor at the baton with works by one of Italy’s most renowned composers and a contemporary work by an Italian American composer. Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936) was a noted musicologist who adapted Renaissance and Baroque pieces for the lute into a gorgeous series of pieces of Chamber orchestra entitled “Antiche danze et aries per liuto (“Ancient Dances and Airs for the Lute”). Maestro Tognetti leads the Virtuosi in a performance of Suite No. 3 from this series, a richly melodic tour of Renaissance Italian music. Contemporary composer Ernesto Ferreri, a North Carolina-based music educator, appears on the program with an encore of his Octet for Chamber Orchestra, op. 32, a work that received its world premiere by the Virtuosi as part of the very first We The People concert program in 2022. A Journey in Dreams of Times & Places climaxes with Tognetti and violin soloist Adrian Sylveen bringing Brahms’ magnificent and dramatic Violin Concerto, Op. 77. to the stage. Composed in 1878, this stately work is considered one of the four great violin concerti in the classical music repertory.
Damiano Tognetti
Italian Conductor and violinist Damiano Tognetti began musical studies at the age of seven with Maestro A.Fornai and graduated in 2001 from the “Boccherini” Musical Institute in Lucca under the guidance of Maestro A.Bologni. He was first violin and soloist of the institute’s orchestra. Having perfected his skills at the Fiesole Music School, he was the winner of several national competitions. Already a member of the Cherubini Orchestra of Piacenza directed by Riccardo Multi, he collaborates with various orchestras including Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Orchestra Regionale of the Emilia Romagna Tuscan Foundation, Orchestra of Padua and Veneto, Venetian Regional Orchestra.
Adrian Sylveen
Award-winning musician Adrian Sylveen enjoys a performing career as a conductor and a violinist in the United States and Europe. He is a founding artistic director of the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra and the Connecticut Lyric Opera. Mr. Sylveen has conducted approximately 35 operatic titles and has an extensive orchestral repertoire. He has conducted and performed concerts in the United States, Poland, Italy, Israel, Cuba, Switzerland, Germany, and the former Soviet Union and worked with ensembles such as the Israeli Chamber Orchestra, Teatro Lirico D’Europa, Olsztyn Philharmonic, Elbląg Chamber Orchestra, Holguín Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra da Camera di Greve-In-Chianti, The Palmetto Opera, Kamerata Gdyńska, and others.
“We The People”
Connecticut Virtuosi’s “We The People” concert series funded in part by an Arts grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. From 2021 to 2024 the Virtuosi will introduce audiences to the rich and diverse cultural threads woven by America’s immigrants into 20th and 21st-century music. Each concert features an immigrant composer and/or musician, whose music reflects inspiration from a distinct culture or group of cultures. Each concert includes written and/or spoken word pieces by writers who are themselves immigrants from the culture(s) being highlighted. When words fail, music speaks. The series explore connections between cultures, languages, and people.
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