From August 11-20 2017 ICMA, the College music academy, will host the 7th edition of the violin course held by the London-based association “New Virtuosi”
This summer activity with the London-based association first started in 2009 with the aim of raising a new generation of young and talented violinists. Over the years it has become a much awaited moment both for the musicians and for the local audience that has greatly appreciated their concerts.
Candidates have undergone a strict selection process by Artistic Director Ani Schnarch, professor at the London Royal College of Music and founder of “New Virtuosi”. This year, musicians will include 21 violinists aged between 13 and 26, coming from China, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, Russia, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan and Turkey.
Throughout the course, wich involves both individual and group classes, the young musicians will work on their technical and performance skills by interpreting some of the most interesting virtuoso pieces of the solo and chamber music repertoire. World-famous violinists such as Felix Andrievsky and Itzhak Rashkovsky, both teaching at the London Royal College of Music, and Qian Zhou, Head of Strings at Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, National University of Singapore will join Schnarch in the teaching activities. Pianists of the calibre of Irina Andrievsky, Ed Liddall, Evgenia Lakernik, Kumi Matsuo, violinist Shiry Rashkovsky and cellist Ben Shibolet will also collaborate.
Several concerts will follow. The young and talented students will be presented to the public on Monday, August 14th in Ampezzo (Udine), in the Chiesetta dei Santi Rocco e Bartolomeo di Voltois, within the “CarniArmonie” season in collaboration with the Municipality of Ampezzo and the Fondazione Luigi Bon. On Tuesday, August 15th at 9 p.m. they will then perform in the Museo Revoltella Auditorium within the “Concerto di Ferragosto”, in cooperation with Civici Musei di Storia e Arte. On Thursday, August 17th they will be in Lignano Sabbiadoro, at the Sala Darsena at 9 p.m., in collaboration with the Cultural Association “Insieme per la Musica”. On Friday, August 18th they will play in the Chiesetta di S. Francesco in Palmanova (Udine), in cooperation with Accademia Musicale Città di Palmanova. Finally, on Sunday, August 20th they will come back to the College Auditorium in Duino for the GRAND FINALE: 2 closing concerts, at 5 p.m. and at 9 p.m. The young students will interpret pieces from the virtuoso repertoire, the closing concert will be performed, as usual, by “New Virtuosi Ensemble”, 21 violinists who will doubtless take your breath away
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