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by Nicola Iannello 02 July 2020The 2020 edition of the “Classica al tramonto” festival, the chamber music festival that the University Concert Institute organizes every summer in the green spaces of Rome, is about to start. The venue for the events will be particularly evocative, the Botanical Garden Museum of the "La Sapienza" University, a secret and silent place close to Palazzo Corsini alla Lungara in Trastevere. Instead, the formula of the festival has not changed, which consists in presenting some of the best soloists and Italian groups, young but already established. And a special ending with jazz.

Opening on Sunday 5 July with Gloria Campaner, an already internationally acclaimed pianist who has recorded for EMI and Warner. Together with her the violin by Michele Redaelli and the cello by Enrico Saverio Pagano, respectively "shoulder" and artistic director of the Canova Chamber Orchestra. The peculiarity is that the three musicians will play from time to time in trio, duo and solo, proposing music by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Respighi (by the little known Bolognese composer Notturno, in tone with the environment and the time) .

On Friday 10 July pianist Beatrice Cori - just 23 years old but already winner of various national and international competitions, including the Paris International Music Competition - plays Chopin, Liszt and Debussy. We continue with the Caravaggio Piano Quartet: two different interpreters follow one another in the evenings. Made up of three young Italians and one Spanish, this quartet won the Farulli Prize last year as part of the Abbiati Prize, awarded by Italian music critics to the best chamber youth group: Beethoven and Fauré scheduled.

On Tuesday 14th the pianist Sofia Adinolfi (National Award of the Arts for the Chamber Music section) is on stage with music by Bach and Beethoven and then the Trio Enea, a very young group, born within the Avos Chamber Music Project and already started a brilliant career: he will perform the Trio op. 100 by Schubert.

On Friday 17th the pianist Alessandro Simoni plays Chopin, Liszt and Stravinskij. In the second part you will hear a Trio by Rachmaninov and a Quartet by Schumann in the performance of the violinist Mirei Yamada, the violist Luca Sanzò, the cellist Lara Biancalana and the pianists Andrea Di Marzio and Antonino Fiumara: a group made up of masters and students from the 'Avos Chamber Music Project. The young cellist, who in 2018 won a scholarship for the Yehudi Menuhin School at just fourteen, deserves special mention.

Conclusion Thursday 23 with jazz. The title "The Five Voices" refers to the five performers - Ada Montellanico and Ialsax Quartet - who will present music by Monk, Korea, Konitz, Nunzi, Girotto and Pascoal. Montellanico is one of the most original and refined singers of the Italian jazz scene and has collaborated with Jimmy Cobb, Lee Konitz, Paul McCandless, Enrico Pieranunzi and Enrico Rava. With her he plays the Ialsax Quartet, founded in 1991 by Gianni Oddi, who for many years was 1st Sax Alto of the RAI Orchestra of Rome and then of the PMJO.

The rules on the prevention of coronavirus, in particular the spacing and use of the mask, will be scrupulously observed. All concerts at 8.30pm.