15 Jun 16 Jun 2018

TIMELESS POLYPHONIES

Thomas Larcher
Giulia Peri
Helena Winkelman
Francesco Dillon
Emanuele Torquati
Zeno Baldi
Magnus Andersson
Stefano Maiorana

Emanuele Torquati

Zeno Baldi

Magnus Andersson, Stefano Maiorana

Helena Winkelman

Fotos: Eva Sauer

The ninth edition of music@villaromana - the concert series curated by Emanuele Torquati and Francesco Dillon - goes by the title Timeless /Spaceless Polyphonies. It will follow the common theme of timeless and spaceless mutating polyphonies that are rich in assonances and references to worlds only seemingly distant from each other, from both the stylistic and temporal points of view.
The program of Timeless Polyphonies is distinguished by the superb level of accomplishment of the invited artists and the variety of events on offer. It is a quest for non-sectorial musical directions that bring together only apparently distant languages (classical and contemporary music, electronics, improvisation, figurative art and oral narration) through themes that go beyond categories and aim at speaking to (and helping to create) a curious and dynamic audience.

The absolute protagonist of the first event, Timeless Polyphonies (15 - 16 June), will be the music of the Austrian composer Thomas Larcher, a distinguished pianist who has lately been in the limelight on the European music scene with commissions for the Wiener Philarmoniker and Bregenzer Festspiele. For the first time in Italy, Larcher will be present at music@villaromana both as a composer and as a pianist and, at his express request, his works will be in dialogue with the seminal last works of Franz Liszt. The references and relationships between these two languages, chronologically distant but similar in imagination, will be echoed in the following Night Concert by the eclectic composer Zeno Baldi, a rising star in the latest generation of Italian composers, appearing here as an electronic musician. The play of voices, and hence of polyphonies, will continue with an intimate moment dedicated to chamber music with the Italian premiere of works by Jay Schwartz - current fellow at Villa Massimo in Rome - and Helena Winkelman - a Swiss composer and talented violinist, winner of the Schweizer Musikpreis 2017 – as well as the Italian premiere of Primo Studio piano solo by the Sicilian composer Emanuele Casale.
Other timeless dialogues- between ancient and modern- will feature in the Suoni Pizzicati project, involving Magnus Andersson, an electric guitarist, and Stefano Maiorana, a theorbist, who will alternately play Baroque pieces and pieces by contemporary composers joining in a duet in the new work commissioned by music@villaromana from the Argentine composer José Manuel Serrano.

Program

15 June 2018

8 pm
TALK
Thomas Larcher (Composer in Residence) in conversation with Stefano Lombardi Vallauri (musicologist)

9 pm
FOCUS LARCHER – in cooperation with Forum Austriaco di Cultura Roma
Special guest Thomas Larcher, for the first time in Italy

Thomas Larcher, Mumien (2001), for cello and piano
Franz Liszt, La Lugubre Gondola, for cello and piano
Thomas Larcher, Poems (2009), for piano – Italian premiere
Franz Liszt, Tristia, for violin, cello and piano
Thomas Larcher, My Illness is the Medicine I Need (2002 - 2013), for soprano, violin, cello and piano – Italian premiere

Giulia Peri, soprano
Helena Winkelman, violin
Francesco Dillon, cello
Thomas Larcher, piano
Emanuele Torquati, piano

11 pm
NIGHT CONCERT
Zeno Baldi

16 June 2018

8 pm
PIOVE MUSICA

Emanuele Casale, Piove Vita, Studio per pianoforte (2018), for piano – Italian premiere
Jay Schwartz, Music for Voice and Piano (2012), for soprano and piano – Italian premiere
Helena Winkelman, Rondo mit einem Januskopf (2000), for violin and cello – Italian premiere

Giulia Peri, soprano
Helena Winkelman, violin
Francesco Dillon, cello
Emanuele Torquati, piano

9 pm
MIT PHANTASIE

Stefano Pierini, Quaderno Kosovel (2017), for violin, cello and piano
Robert Schumann, Fantasiestücke, Op.88, for violin, cello and piano

Helena Winkelman, violin
Francesco Dillon, cello
Emanuele Torquati, piano

10.30 pm
SUONI PIZZICATI

Christofer Elgh, Preludio – girl touching clouds (2018), for electric guitar and theorbo – premiere
Francesco Corbetta, Caprice de Chaconne (1671), for Baroque guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, RAP (1994), for guitar
Johann H. Kapsberger, Preludio, Toccata arpeggiata (1604), for theorbo
Marco Momi, Quattro Nudi (2014), for electric guitar and electronics
Ferdinando Valdambrini, Toccata, Passacaglia (1647), for Baroque guitar
José Manuel Serrano, Serendipia del olvido (2018), for electric guitar and theorbo – premiere,
commissioned by music@villaromana

Magnus Andersson, classical guitar and electronic guitar
Stefano Maiorana, Baroque guitar and theorbo

With the generous support of