International stars in Versilia for "Pietrasanta in Concerto"

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05 July 2021The “little Athens of Versilia” summer capital of great music. Pietrasanta is back in Concert, now in its fifteenth edition. As always, the setting will be the Cloister of Sant'Agostino. Ten appointments on the bill from 22 July to 1 August. Musicians from all over the world will perform among the elegant and evocative marble columns of the Cloister, called by Michael Guttman, violinist and artistic director of the festival.

For the first time at the festival the disruptive violinist Daniel Hope. Among the protagonists the pianists Katia & Marielle Labèque, Andrea Lucchesini, Alexei Botvinov, Roberto Prosseda and Alessandra Ammara, Karin Lechner, Boris Berezovsky, Bruno Fontaine. Guests also the cello star Jing Zhao, the clarinetist Pierre Génisson and the flutist Giuseppe Nova with the highly anticipated return of Andrea Griminelli for the grand finale of the show together with the Moscow Soloists directed by Yuri Bashmet.

“We never left Pietrasanta, even in 2020, when traveling was so difficult - explains Guttman -. This year we are back with an even richer program, with wonderful Italian and foreign musicians. When the music returns, life returns! ”.

From Mozart to Rachmaninov, from Debussy to Schubert passing by Glass, Bizet, Verdi, Schumann, Chopin, Grieg, Beethoven: the great classics but also the new scores by world-famous contemporary composers including the concert for violin and cello by Airat Ichmouratov and the music of the composer Jorge Bosso that Pietrasanta in Concerto will propose in absolute first performance.

Pianists in particular will take the limelight of this edition: starting from the best piano duo in the world, that of the French sisters Katia & Marielle Labèque (23 July), to Andrea Lucchesini (29 July), a Tuscan pianist famous throughout the world. world guest for the first time of the festival, from the Ukrainian talent Alexei Botvinov (22 July) to Roberto Prosseda and Alessandra Ammara (24 July), a couple on stage and in life, engaged together in a concert entirely dedicated to Beethoven, with the expected return of the phenomenal Argentine artist Karin Lechner (28 July) and the legendary Russian pianist Boris Berezovsky (30 July) to Bruno Fontaine, pianist, composer and arranger (26 July).

But in addition to this roundup of pianists, Michael Guttman also invited the famous flutist Andrea Griminelli for the grand finale of the festival (1 August), the cello star Jing Zhao (22, 24, 28 July and 1 August), the clarinetist Pierre Génisson (26 and 28 July) and Giuseppe Nova (28 July) also considered one of the most representative Italian flutists of his generation.

Among the novelties stands out the presence of Daniel Hope (31 July), violinist with a disruptive and unconventional personality, guest for the first time in Pietrasanta in Concerto where he will propose a concert of baroque music together with the Air Ensemble.

And the festival will also be a showcase for chamber orchestras such as the Brussels Chamber Orchestra (25 and 28 July) and I Solisti di Mosca conducted by the great Yuri Bashmet (30 July and 1 August).

Also noteworthy is the Pietrasanta tribute in Concerto to Astor Piazzolla on the centenary of his birth with a one-of-a-kind concert composed and arranged by Jorge Bosso which will be presented on July 25 in absolute premiere. A score full of suggestions that through the Argentine sounds will lead us on a journey from the Pampa to the Naples of Diego Armando Maradona. The protagonist of this tribute to Piazzolla will be the couple composed by Michael Guttman himself together with Jing Zhao.

The traditional free concert in homage to the city of Pietrasanta has been confirmed, on July 26, which for this edition of the Festival will take place in the splendid main square in the background of the Cathedral of San Martino. The protagonists of the “swing” concert will be Pierre Génisson clarinet, Bruno Fontaine piano, Fabrice Moreau drums and Benoît Dunoyer de Segonzac double bass.

The Pietrasanta in Concerto Festival is promoted and organized by the Musica Viva Association in collaboration with the Municipality of Pietrasanta and with the organizational support of the Versiliana Foundation.