Sunday in Music
Young talents
In collaboration with the Stefano Strata Academy of Music
Introducer: Milli Russo
6 November 2022 11:00 - 13:00
INITIATIVE WITH FREE ADMISSION SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY
In the first appointment of the Strata Academy concerts at Palazzo Blu, guitarist Andrea Curiale, winner of the scholarship of Maestro Aniello Desiderio's classical guitar masterclass, offers a repertoire of great virtuosity that moves between three historical periods. The Solo op. 20 by Ferdinando Carulli, with which Andrea Curiale opens his performance, belongs to the first half of the 19th century, to that period of rebirth of the guitar that swayed between classicism and romanticism, as the expressive opening Largo, rich in cues and varied in its emotions, but regular in its phraseology, clearly shows. The second piece, Capricho árabe by Francisco Tárrega, on the other hand, is a clear example of fin de siécle music, with its Moorish exoticism identifying Spain with Andalusia and its flamenco music. The first concert closes with a piece from the first half of the 20th century, the Sonata op. 61 by Joaquín Turina. Written around 1930, the sonata is dedicated to the great Andrés Segovia, promoter of a second renaissance of the guitar: classical in its structure, the sonata reinterprets the typical stylistic elements of Andalusian music in a modernist key.
The second concert features the piano of a young Academy teacher and scholarship winner, Alessio Ciprietti. His programme, while giving space to the virtuosic gesture, is traversed by an expressive vein (the eighteenth-century Empfindsamkeit) of intimacy, sensitivity, and inner dialogue. Already in the first piece, Haydn's lively Sonata in F major, this expressive element creeps in, with an Adagio full of turmoil, where at times the silence is more eloquent than the sound. In Scarlatti's subsequent Sonata K 29, it is above all the unpredictable aspect of this sensitivity that emerges, so much so that at times the sonata appears almost disorienting in its juxtaposition of contrasting motifs. With the Sechs Klavierstücke op. 118 by Brahms, although composed at the end of the 19th century, we are in direct descent from the 18th-century Empfinsamkeit, so much so that Piero Rattalino likens them to the style of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach; the two pieces chosen by Alessio Ciprietti (n. No. 2 and No. 5) of this sentimentality manifest above all the intimist, melancholic, nostalgic side, the expression of a late Brahms and perhaps presaging the end, of his life as well as of his era. The concert closes with a Lisztian page of the highest virtuosity, that transcendental virtuosity that takes as its model the violinistic prowess of the beloved Paganini: Etude no. 12 from the Études d'exécution transcendante subtitled Chasse-neige, snowstorm. In the whirlwind of the blizzard, a dramatic, tortuous theme makes its way, expressed and varied in a decisive, exuberant, almost provocative manner, a far cry from the intimism of the Empfindsamkeit, but one that can still call to our soul by contrast.
Programme:
Andrea Curiale, guitar
Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) - Solo op. 20
Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) - Capricho Árabe
Joaquín Turina (1882-1949) - Sonata op. 61
Allegro
Andante
Allegro vivo
Alessio Ciprietti, piano
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - Sonata in F major Hob. XVI: 23
Allegro moderato
Adagio
Finale. Presto
Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) - Sonata in D major K 29 (L 461)
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) - From the Sechs Klavierstücke op. 118:
No. 2 Intermezzo
No. 5 Romance
Franz Liszt (1811-1886) - From Études d'exécution transcendante
no. 12 Chasse-Neige
Andrea Curiale, born in 1995, began studying classical guitar with Maestro Paolo Lambiase, earning his Level II Academic Diploma with distinction and Honourable Mention at the Conservatorio 'Nicola Sala' in Benevento. He furthered his studies at the Stefano Strata Academy in Pisa where he received 2 scholarships as best student in the Masterclasses of Aniello Desiderio (2022) and Lorenzo Micheli (2021).
He has attended masterclasses with internationally renowned masters including: Manuel Barrueco, Zoran Dukic, Carlo Marchione, Thomas Mueller-Pering, Nigel North, Marco Socìas, Pavel Steidl.
In 2020 he obtained a Master of Arts in Music Performance at the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana with Maestro Lorenzo Micheli.
He performs as a soloist and in duo with flutist Edoardo Silvi.
She has won numerous prizes in national and international competitions including:
1st prize at the 'Corrado Alba' International Guitar Competition
1st prize at the "Giulio Rospigliosi" competition 1st prize at the "Mantovani International Guitar Competition
1st prize at the 'Padova Guitar Competition
1st prize overall at the 'Napolinova' International Competition
2nd prize at the "Paganini International Guitar Competition".
He plays an instrument made by luthier Karl-Heinz Römmich.
Alessio Ciprietti, born Pontedera (PI) on 5 November 1999, began studying piano at the age of eight with Paolo De Felice.
He is currently being tutored by Muriel Chemin. He attended the Academic Three-Year Course at the L'Istituto L. Boccherini in Lucca in Gabriella Dolfi's class and an advanced course at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole with Andrea Lucchesini. He took part in national and international piano competitions and won 13 first prizes and 12 first prizes. In the categories without age limits, he was the winner of the 6th International Competition "Premio Crescendo" Città di Firenze and won third prize at the G. Giannoni Prize of the Riviera Etrusca Competition in the year 2017 and second prize in the year 2019, second prize at the Schumann Prize of the Giulio Rospigliosi Competition in the year 2019; he was the overall winner of Cat. D of the Orbetello Piano Competition 2019.
Since 2016, he has been expanding his repertoire with pieces for piano four-hands and chamber music. In various performances, recitals and concerts with orchestra, he has had the opportunity to play in several Italian theatres including Teatro di Vinci (FI), Auditorium del Suffragio in Lucca, Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Palazzo Blu in Pisa, Accademia Tadini in Lovere (BG), Teatro la Goldonetta (LI), Teatro Caio Melisso in Spoleto, Accademia dei Rozzi (SI), Miami International Piano Festival Academy (Florida) and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg . He has attended Masterclasses and courses with internationally renowned pianists such as Jin Ju, Wojciech Świtała., Gregorio Nardi, Mariangela Vacatello, Pasquale Iannone, Yuri Bogdanov, Philippe Raskin, Alberto Nosè, Francesco Libetta, Giselle Brodsky, Jorge Luis Prats, Amir Katz, Claudio Martinez Mehner, Walter Ponce, Ilya Itin.
In 2012, the Stefano Strata Academy of Music awarded him a scholarship as the best student in Maestro Giampiero Semeraro's masterclass.
Since 2020, he has been teaching piano at the Accademia di Musica Stefano Strata in Pisa.
