The music of the University Institution of Concerts doubles to remedy the limited spaces

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16 October 2020Thirteen appointments with international stars and emerging young people.

The season of the University Institution of Concerts starts in the name of great music, with the intention of resuming the discourse interrupted by the pandemic.

Season 75 has been suspended, but the 76th season is even more aggressive to maintain the high standard of quality, in a period of emergency.

For now, this is the first part, from October to December, pending the presentation of the second part of the bill, which will start in early 2021.

The Rector of the University of Rome "Sapienza", Eugenio Gaudio, underlines this: "Collaborating to keep this tradition alive, especially in this particularly complex period due to the pandemic, means reiterating the centrality of music within the cultural offer that our The University is aimed at the university community and the general public ”.

In addition to the Aula Magna della Sapienza, concerts will be held at the Teatro Italia and the Teatro Palladium.

Here is how Giovanni D'Alò, artistic director of the IUC, comments on the program of this 76th edition: “The Covid emergency has imposed extremely rigid limits, but we have tried to make a virtue of necessity.

You will find fewer foreign artists, especially those who come from particularly attentive countries, and many more Italian artists ”.

The first appointment is with Alexander Lonquich, a darling of the IUC.

The German pianist opens the concerts on Tuesday, October 20, in a double appointment at 6 pm and 9 pm, with a program dedicated to Beethoven (Sonata op. 90) and Schubert (Sonata D 960).

The inauguration of the concerts on Saturday 24 October is entrusted to the Byzantine Academy, with the violinist Alessandro Tampieri also acting as director;

double show, at 5.30 pm and 8.30 pm, with a title -

- which combines the Baroque style with Anglo-Saxon folk.

Both inaugurations in the Aula Magna of Sapienza.

All the other concerts will have the same formula, with two close representations that allow the sanitation of the spaces between the first and the second.

Again at Sapienza the recital by Benedetto Lupo on Tuesday 27, with music by Brahms and Schumann.

The Quartet of Cremona will instead be on the stage of the Teatro Italia, who with the first clarinet of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, Alessandro Carbonare, will dedicate the evening to Mozart, Saturday 31. Same place on Tuesday 3 November for Giuseppe Albanese, who invites us to dance with a varied program, ranging from Weber to Delibes, from Tchaikovsky to Stravinskij, from Debussy to Ravel.

An exceptional trio with Massimo Quarta's violin, Enrico Dindo's cello and Pietro De Maria's piano, in a tribute to Brahms on Tuesday 10 November.

On Sunday 15th the Russian violinist Sergej Krylov and the pianist Edoardo Strabbioli will try their hand at Beethoven's Sonata “A Kreutzer” and Ravel's Sonata.

Europa Galante, conducted by Fabio Biondi, also violinist, in a monographic evening on Haydn on Monday 16th. Tribute to Beethoven on Friday 20th: Gloria Campaner will face the Concerto "Imperatore", with the Canova Chamber Orchestra conducted by Enrico Saverio Pagano, who then will perform the Seventh Symphony of the Genius in Bonn.

The concert will be preceded by the presentation of the IUC celebratory stamp of 75 years.

On Tuesday 24 the Bulgarian pianist Emanuil Ivanov performs a Chopin Sonata and the Pictures of an exhibition by Mussorgskij.

The review moves to the Teatro Palladium della Garbatella for a foray into the world of opera, albeit a chamber one, on Tuesday 1 December with

, which Michael Nyman has taken from Oliver Sacks' best seller ;

voices by Elisa Cenni, Roberto Jachini Virgili and Federico Benedetti;

Fabio Maestri conducts the Ensemble InCanto;

directed by Carlo Fiorini.

We return to La Sapienza on Saturday 12 December, when the young Russian pianist Philipp Kopachevsky celebrates his debut in Rome with

Schumann's

and some pieces by Chopin.

Also in the Aula Magna the closing of this first part of the season on Tuesday 15 December with "Absolutely ... Ennio Morricone", a tribute to the recently deceased composer by Paolo Zampini (flute), Luca Pincini (cello) and Gilda Buttà (piano) , which offer two different concerts at 6pm and 9pm.