The Italian Cultural Institute in Washington DC, in collaboration with Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone (CRUP) and the National Italian Music Committee (CIDIM), invites you to attend the concert Suono Italiano – Friuli in Musica, performed by musicians from Friuli Region.
The Duo Laura Bortolotto, violin, and Matteo Andri, piano, will delight you with a program with music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, and César Franck.
LOCATION
Embassy of Italy – Auditorium
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
DOORS OPEN BETWEEN 6:00PM AND 6:55PM
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PROGRAM
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata op. 12 nº 2 in la maggiore
Allegro vivace
Andante, più tosto Allegretto
Allegro piacevole
Johannes Brahms
Sonata in re minore nº3 op. 108
Allegro
Adagio
Un poco presto e con sentimento
Presto agitato
Cesar Franck
Sonata in la maggiore
Allegretto ben moderato
Allegro
Recitativo – Fantasia, Ben moderato
Allegretto poco mosso
LAURA BORTOLOTTO
Born in 1995, Laura is a rising star of the new Italian violin firmament.
She graduated at the age of 14 in Violin performance from the “G. Tartini” Conservatory of Trieste “cum laude” and special mention of honour. She started her violin studies at the age of 4 with Domenico Mason. She continued her studies with Pavel Vernikov and she attended masterclasses by Fucks, Semchuk, Accardo, Rachlin, Volochine, Martin, Mazor, Pogorelova, Makarova, Montanari and others. She is currently attending a class with Marco Rizzi at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim.
In 2012 she won third prize, the audience prize, at the Palazzetto Bru Zane Festival International competition in Mirecourt (France). In 2011 she was awarded First Prize at the International Hindemith Competition in Berlin. In 2010, only 15 years old, she won the 29° Vittorio Veneto National Violin Competition, the most important Italian national violin competition, becoming the youngest among the winners in the competition’s history (since 1962). Previously, she won numerous first prizes and awards in national and international competitions, among which “Il Piccolo Violino Magico” in Portogruaro, Concorso internazionale Postacchini di Fermo, Concorso Europeo Marcosig di Gorizia. In 2010 she was among the 3 winners of the XIV Rassegna Musicale Migliori Diplomati d’Italia of Castrocaro Terme.
Laura Bortolotto already performed with various important orchestras, among them: Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Deutsche Kammerorchester Berlin, Ukrainan National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Nuova Orchestra Busoni di Trieste, Orchestra dell’Accademia Naonis di Pordenone, Orchestra Giovanile della Valle d’Aosta, orchestra San Marco di Pordenone, Mitteleuropa Orchestra. She played with various pianists, like Leonora Armellini and Massimo Somenzi, with the violinist Daniele Pascoletti, the oboist Luca Vignali, and her usual partner Matteo Andri.
She performed in prestigious halls: the Salzburg Mozarteum, Kiev Philharmonia, Sale Apollinee del Teatro la Fenice di Venezia, Teatro Comunale di Firenze and Sala Santa Cecilia dell’Auditorium Parco della Musica di Roma. She has played for important festivals and series, among them Festival del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, festival “Assisi nel mondo”, festival “Fantasie 2008″, “Il Doppio” 2010 di Portogruaro (VE), Stagione Sinfonica della Valle d’Aosta, Festival Pianistico di Spoleto and in the cities of Cosenza, Padova, Venezia, Duino, Trieste, Pordenone, Milano, Aosta, Gressoney, Sirmione, Firenze, Vicenza, Sulmona, Roma, Salisburgo, Berlino, Kiev.
In 2013 she recorded the Concerto for Violin and Piano of Mendelssohn for Rainbow Amadeus and in 2014 , again for Amadeus , the Concerto and Symphony Concertanti of Federigo Fiorillo .
In 2010 the President of Italy, Giorgio Napolitano, awarded her with the Attestato di Onore di Alfiere della Repubblica “for her refined quality as young violinist “.
Laura Bortolotto plays a 1815 Giovanni Battista Ceruti violin, generously loaned by Fondazione Pro Canale.
MATTEO ANDRI
He graduated in piano with honors and special mention under the guidance of Prof. Maria Grazia Cabai, and graduated in composition with 110/110 in the class of prof. Renato Miani in the Conservatory “J. Tomadini” of Udine.
He attended various master classes with Paul Badura-Skoda, Giorgio Lovato, Siavush Gadjiev, Daniel Rivera, Bruno Canino, Boris Petrushansky and Riccardo Risaliti. He studied chamber music with the “Trio di Trieste” and the “Trio di Parma”. In 2008 he took part to the ‘”International Ensemble Modern Academy” in Schwaz (Austria), and in 2012 he took part to the “Manifeste”, an exhibition of contemporary music organized by IRCAM in Paris.
In 2001-2002 he won first prize in the Piano-Competition of Castiglione Fiorentino and San Pietro in Vincoli, second prize in the Third National Piano Competition of Val Bormida, and he also won first prize at the International Piano Competition “Amadeus”, the SIAE prize in the “Best of Italian Graduates Competition” in Castrocaro, and second prize in the competition “Young Talents de Rossi A. Rios” sponsored by Soroptimist International of Italy. In 2005 he won first prize at the ninth edition of the “Stefano Marizza” Prize (Trieste). In 2011 he won third prize at the “Mario Zanfi Liszt-Prize” of Parma, performing at the Teatro Regio accompanied by the orchestra of the theater.
He played for numerous associations and concert seasons of “Amici della Musica” of Vicenza, Udine , Rovigo and Padua, the International Music Festival “Nei suoni dei luoghi” 2004 and 2005, for the season “Carniarmonie”, for the “Academy of Piano Studies” Piano Ricci, for “Udine Contemporanea”, the Soroptimist Club of Italy to the 100 th Council of Delegates in the Hall of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, for “Philological Circle” of Milan, for “Musical Encounters” at the Sala Puccini of the Conservatory of Milan, the “Officers Club of Udine”, for the music season “Varese for Varese”, for the 2nd “International Piano Festival” in Sacile, for “Camerata Music” in Sulmona; he took part to the “Music Festival 2004” and “Beethoven Marathon” at the “Teatro Giovanni da Udine” .
He played alongside renowned musicians such as the oboe player Jose Manuel Rojas, the clarinetists Nicola Bulfone and Giampiero Sobrino, violinist Laura Bortolotto and trombonist Sergio Bernetti. He also featured in the Wiener Saal of the Mozarteum in Salzburg both as soloist and as chamber musician.
He performed several concertos for piano and orchestra in the musical review “The Music of St. Martin” Tolmezzo, the second concert of Franz-Xaver Mozart with ‘Orchestra Sinfonica del Friuli Venezia-Giulia, the first concert of Chopin the “Mittelorchestra” for UdinEstate “2010.
His music was performed in the festival “Udine Contemporary 2007”.
THE PROJECT
The Friuli in Musica project was born from the desire to promote the Friuli culture both abroad and in Italy with some of the numerous excellent young musicians from Friuli Venezia Giulia. This project is part of a wider international one, the CIDIM’s Suono Italiano, which is organized in partnership with the Italian Institutes of Culture, diplomatic and consular representatives, the Ente Friuli nel Mondo, the Fogolậrs Furlans and international organizations. For the Italian circuit, Friuli in Musica is part of CIDIM’s national program Circolazione musicale in Italia, which has been set up in collaboration with prestigious concert societies recognized by MiBACT that receive backing from the Fondo Unico dello Spettacolo. The proposed concerts for Suono Italiano-Friuli in Musica are organized according to the musical genre and instrumental formation, and include solo recitals and chamber music. The programs are quite original, and include a repertoire that extends from the end of the seventeenth century to the present day, with the aim of presenting the different styles and languages that characterize the history of western music.
THE PROMOTERS
CIDIM (Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica – Italian National Music Council) was recognized in 1982 by the International Music Council (an NGO with an official partnership with UNESCO), is a non-profit organization dedicated to coordinating musical activities, as well as collecting and publicizing material about music at a national and international level. For many years it has been extremely active in the promotion of Italian music and musicians both at home and abroad, through projects involving performances, editorial activity, and recordings. In this way, with the sponsorship and contribution of MiBACT and MAECI, it has carried out in this particular sector one of the most efficient and incisive campaigns to date in Italy.
Various collaborative relationships have been established in order to implement the promotion of music, and among these the one with the CRUP Foundation has proved to be particularly fruitful. CRUP is an institution in Friuli which is now in its 25th year of activity, and it is one of the major promoters of artistic excellence in the provinces of Udine and Pordenone. It is also engaged in promotional activities in other sectors such as public health, education, scientific and technological research, art and culture.
The Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone (CRUP) is one of 88 Italian banking foundations, and it was founded in 1992 following the reform of the banking sector with the Law number 218/1990 (the Amato Law). However, its history has deep roots and is linked with the spirit of solidarity that had its origins in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries with the establishment of Monti di Pietà (pawnbrokers), then subsequently it developed above all in the financial sector with the Cassa di Risparmio di Udine and (from 1968) Pordenone. The double function ceased in 1991, and the CRUP Foundation carried on its traditional philanthropic work, in particular in the social and cultural field, while the banking activity was entrusted to the Casse di Risparmio banks. The cooperation between the CRUP Foundation and CIDIM, together with the consultancy with the Conservatorio Tomadini di Udine is at the origin of Friuli in Musica, a program that aims to develop and promote artistic excellence in Friuli. This will be done through a series of concerts in order to promote, both in Italy and abroad, young musicians from Friuli who have distinguished themselves artistically, winning national and international recognition.