San Marino. On Monday an evening of classical music at the Cloister of the Convent of the Servants of Mary in Valdragone
The San Marino cellist Francesco Stefanoelli and the pianist from Turin Claudio Berra will be the protagonists of the fourth and last appointment of the second edition of “Classica Giovani”, Monday 22 August at 21.00, at the Cloister of the Servants of Mary in Valdragone.
The young San Marino, 22 years old, is among the most awarded emerging Italian cellists in international competitions such as Penderecki in Cravovia, Jeunesses Musicales in Belgrade, Rahn in Zurich, Tartini Prize in Padua, Janigro in Croatia, Maura Giorgetti Prize at the Scala in Milan and many more.
He concluded his studies with Maestro Giovanni Sollima at the Academy of High Specialization of Santa Cecilia and now continues his journey at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia in Madrid with Maestro J. Peter Maintz.
He is a guest as a soloist and as a duo in important festivals such as the Unione Musicale di Torino, the Pesaro Concerts Organization, the Friends of Music in Florence, the Friends of Music in Padua, the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in Lubeck, the Oratorio del Gonfalone in Rome.
Claudio Berra, 25, winner of prizes in national and international competitions, has attended several masterclasses with great masters such as Andrea Lucchesini, Andras Schiff, Pavel Gililov, Roberto Plano, participating in events at the Ecole Normale in Paris. He too concluded his studies with the at the Academy of High Specialization of Santa Cecilia with Maestro Benedetto Lupo.
Recently admitted to the Royal College of Music in London at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel.
He has performed in several recitals in prestigious festivals as a soloist and in chamber ensembles.
At the concert one of the most beautiful sonatas of the cell repertoire will be performed, the Sonata op. 119 by Sergei Prokofiev. Born in 1949 as the product of a happy collaboration between the composer who reached the height of fame and a young, splendid, virtuoso cellist called Mstislav Rostropovic destined to become the greatest in the world. The Sonata was performed in Moscow by the author, on the piano, and by the dedicatory, which supervises the technical part of the cellist; soon the work left the Soviet borders and was acquired by the modern repertoire of the greatest cellists. The language is poetic, the expressive atmosphere, broad and meditative, childish melodies appear, all marked by an openly playful writing for the percussive effects of the piano and for the use of the stringed instrument, with pizzicato and detached.
The Russian composer prefers slow or moderate moments, where the cello at ease can pour out its specific singability. Nor could it be missing, in the enthralling finale, the accumulation of steps of skill with a great display of technical difficulties, a tribute to the incomparable virtuoso.
The concert ends with the Sonata by Geroge Enescu n.2, Romanian composer, violinist and conductor.
The duo will have to perform it in September in Bucharest and the renowned Romanian Athenaeum hall.
Each concert of “Classica Giovani” is accompanied by a collective of seven figurative artists who, with the title of Music’Arte, exhibit on the theme of the concert between the arts of sound and image. The exhibition is set up in the same Convent of Valdragone and can only be visited on evenings dedicated to music.
The review “Young Classic” it is organized by the Allegro Vivo Association with the patron of the Secretariat of State for Education and Culture, the support of the Giunta di Castello di Borgo Maggiore, the Società Unione Mutuo Soccorso, Giochi del Titano and in collaboration with the San Marino Music Institute.
Admission is € 8 and part of the proceeds will go to support students and families from Mozambique. Admission is free for students of the Musical Institute.
In case of bad weather the concerts will be held in the hall inside the Convent.