International stars and emerging young people for the University Concerts Institution

 Joshua Bell, Natalie Dessay, Ivo Pogorelich, Danilo Rea, Fazil Say, Jordi Savall, Ton Koopman, Renaud Capuçon, but also the 18-year-old Korean Yunchan Lim winner of the Van Cliburn piano competition in Fort Worth in Texas.

A program from Renaissance polyphony to today's music.

In perfect continuity with the previous one, the 2022-23 season of the IUC - University Institution of Concerts offers from 15 October 2022 to 20 May 2023 a very rich and varied calendar of thirty-seven concerts, traditionally on Tuesday evening and Saturday afternoon in the Aula Magna of the “Sapienza” University of Rome, entrusted to some of the greatest interpreters on the international scene, with a repertoire that touches five centuries of music history.

“It is a particularly ambitious program - 

says the artistic director Giovanni D'Alò -.

by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in the form of a concert for three evenings goes in this direction 

: 15, 17 and 18 October.

An original production that brings the Canova Chamber Orchestra and its founder / director Enrico Saverio Pagano back to the Aula Magna.

To impersonate Don Giovanni will be Vittorio Prato, Giacomo Nanni will be Leporello, Sabrina Cortese Donna Anna, Luca Cervoni Don Ottavio, Michela Guarrera Donna Elvira, Giulia Bolcato Zerlina, Matteo Mollica Masetto and Salvo Vitale the Commendatore.

Also on stage the Josquin Desprez Polyphonic Group prepared by Francesco Miotti.

To complement the project, on October 17 the artists will hold a matinee specifically aimed at students entitled 

.

We will meet again the Canova Chamber Orchestra and Enrico Saverio Pagano at the end of the season with the cellist Erica Piccotti, another precocious Italian talent who already boasts a brilliant career.

On the program the 

by Schumann and the famous 

by Haydn. 

International stars

After retiring from the opera scene, the French soprano Natalie Dessay proposes to the IUC the recital entitled 

accompanied on the piano by Philippe Cassard

A vocal journey that focuses on the poetic text, including Lieder by composers such as Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and Alma Mahler, Francis Poulenc's monodrama 

(based on a text by Cocteau) and arias from 

by Massenet, 

's Faust,  Debussy's

and 

by Stravinsky.

Do not miss the appointments with the violinist Joshua Bell (he will perform Sonatas by Beethoven, Schumann and Debussy with the pianist Peter Dugan), with the other violinist Julian Rachlin (alternating with the viola, he will play the Sonata for viola and piano by Šostakovič and the Sonata for violin and piano by Franck with pianist Itamar Golan), Jordi Savall (

, in quartet with Lorenz Duftschmid also on seven-string bass viola da gamba, Xavier Díaz-Latorre theorbo and guitar, and our Luca Guglielmi on harpsichord), Ton Koopman (with Dutch harpsichordist Tini Mathot and the Amsterdam Baroque Soloists Orchestra), guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas (with pieces by Albéniz, Granados, Rodrigo and Tárrega).

There is no shortage of great pianists, from Ivo Pogorelich to Nelson Goerner to Lucas Debargue.

The cycles of Alexander Romanovsky and Mariangela Vacatello dedicated to the complete work for piano solo by Sergej Rachmaninov and to the Sonatas by Aleksandr Skrjabin also continue.

Super Duo

A separate chapter deserves some concerts that mark the meeting of prestigious soloists.

This is the case of the Moldovan violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the Turkish pianist Fazil Say;

the German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt and his compatriot pianist Alexander Lonquich;

violinist Renaud Capuçon and pianist David Fray, French;

by Massimo Quarta and Pietro De Maria, violin and piano;

the Russian violinist Sergej Krylov will interpret and the Uzbek pianist Michail Lifits;

the violinist Ilya Gringolts returns in duo with Francesco Corti from Arezzo, one of the most popular harpsichordists in Europe.

Exceptional room meetings

Among the meetings of great soloists with established chamber groups, two concerts by the Quartetto di Cremona stand out, the first with the clarinetist Alessandro Carbonare, the second with the cellist Eckart Runge.

The Jerusalem Quartet will be joined by Elisabeth Leonskaja, a living monument of the glorious Russian piano school, for the Shostakovich Quintet.

In full chamber spirit also the concert by pianist Giorgia Tomassi and violinist Gabriele Pieranunzi who have chosen to share the stage with friends such as Fabrizio Falasca (violin), Francesco Fiore (viola) and Danilo Squitieri (cello).

Founded in 2013, the Montrose Trio brings together two members of the unforgettable Tokyo Quartet (violinist Martin Beaver and cellist Clive Greensmith) with Canadian pianist Jon Kimura Parker. 

by jazz player David Baker to the romantic atmospheres of the Trio op.

66 by Mendelssohn to arrive at the twentieth-century anxieties of the Trio op.

24 by Mieczysław Weinberg.

Rhythms and harmonies "from the New World" also in the 

with the Cuarteto Latinoamericano.

Young people "un certain regard"

As always, the IUC has an eye for the talents of the new generation.

From the Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth, Texas, comes the winner: 18-year-old South Korean Yunchan Lim.

The Brescia-born Federico Colli, born in 1988, already known to the Roman public, who for his debut in the Aula Magna has chosen a program that combines 

by Mozart and Schubert with two compositions by Sergej Prokof'ev: 

and 

(in a spectacular version for solo piano signed by Tatiana Nikolayeva).

Much appreciated at the latest edition of the Warsaw Chopin Competition, Leonora Armellini proposes 

in which she will perform the Sonata op.

35, the Third Ballad and a selection of Nocturnes and Poles.

Two Lions for 

The Ars Ludi Ensemble performs 

(1987), "historic" musical theater score by Giorgio Battistelli, a tribute to the great French writer by staging three characters from famous novels: Professor Lidenbrock (

), Doctor Ferguson (

) and Captain Nemo (

). 

Gesualdo Project

After the exceptional success of the complete performance of Carlo Gesualdo's Madrigals proposed in recent years, the 

continues its journey into the polyphonic work of the most modern of Renaissance polyphonists, focusing on sacred production.

In fact, it will be the turn of the 

, the collection for the Office of Darkness of Holy Week, of which we will listen to the part relating to Holy Thursday in the performance of La Compagnia del Madrigale, the most accredited Italian group in this particular repertoire.

Jazz and surroundings

Petra Magoni in 

together with the pianist Andrea Dindo, builds a path that, along the lines of Kurt Weill's musical theater, starts from Germany and reaches Cole Porter's America. 

sees the pianist Danilo Rea in a pressing and brilliant interplay with Massimo Moriconi on double bass and Alfredo Golino on percussion.

An alchemy between three musician friends who, improvising, get lost and find themselves in a continuous and unexpected game of famous melodies reinterpreting some evergreens of Italian songwriting and American standards in a jazz key.