FLORENCE, ITALY – From the 4th of July to the 2nd of August, Florence will host the 19th Florence Youth Festival. This edition will see eleven youth orchestras from Italy, Europe and US, more than 1.000 musicians will perform under the amazing Loggia dei Lanzi, a unique open air museum. Florence Daily News is media partner of the event.
The opening concert of the 19th Florence Youth Festival will be on the 4th July at 9.15pm, and will see the Davis Senior High School Baroque Ensemble, with a baroque repertoire from Vivaldi to Bach and Geminiani. The ensamble is conducted by Angelo Moreno.
The 10th July, at 8.30pm, the Orchestre des Etudiants de Louvain-La-Neuve, will perform a Spanish repertoire: Bizet, De Falla, Rodrigo and Verdi, under the direction of Philippe Gerard.
The 11th July, at 8.30pm, the Maryland Classic Youth Orchestra together with the Delaware Youth Symphony, will offer pieces from the Italian Romantics to Dvorak and Bernstein, and will be conducted by the Italian director Simeone Tartaglione.
On the 18th of July, at 8.30pm, it twill be possible to enjoy music from the Russian and German tradition, symphonic and ballet, but also the Tuba concert from Vaughan-Williams, performed by the Youth Orchestra from the Music School in Bochum. The orchestra is directed by Norbert Koop.
Romantic Danish atmosphere can be enjoyed on the 21st of July at 9.15pm, with the Dusika Youth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christian Schmiedescamp, first trombon at the Philharmonic Orchestra of Copenhagen. Repertoire from the Scandinavian music, with an Italian tribute: the Fantasia from Lovreglio, dedicated to La Traviata by Verdi.
On the 23rd July, at 9.15pm, the Britten Youth String Orchestra, founded and directed by Loes Visser, will perform a vaste repertoire from opera to polke and tangos, with the soprano Roza Herwig.
History and mith are represeted by the Swiss Central Youth Orchestra repertoire on the 28th July at 9.15pm. The orchestra is conducted by the very young director Joseph Sieber with a program that propose music by Rossini, Wagner, Dovark and a transcription for orchestra of Viva la Vida from the Colplay.
On the 30th of July, at 9.15pm, there will be a special event that will see two Italian groups performing on the same evening. The firs part will see the Orchestra Giovanile dell’Istituto Sammarinese, conducted by Massimiliano Messeri, that will perform Vivaldi and Mozart and a world premiere he composed for the festival, dedicated to Dante. The second part of the evening will host the Mondaino Young Orchestra, a very young Jazz formation, directed bt Michele Chiaretti, they will perform classics jazz pieces from Ellington, Porter and Goodman.
The last concert of the 19th Florence Youth Festival, on the 2nd of August, at 9.15pm, will see the Belgian Youth Wind Band Eendracht Kortijk-Aalbeke, conducted by Stan Christianen. This is a wind band with a special repertoire that include also famous movie sound tracks by Morricone, Williams and Zimmer.
These are precious musical moments, that the young musicians will give as a gift to the Florentine, Tuscan, National and international audience, from a very well known classic repertoire to swing, Jazz, and contemporary pieces.
As in the past editions, all the participating orchestras will perform also in other towns in Tuscany and Italy, in collaboration with festivals such as Cremona Summer Festival, MusicaRiva Garda, Festival Marenco in Novi Ligure, la Reggia di Caserta, Festival Musica dal Mondo in Perugia, Sorrento Classica.
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