Dialogues And Music Sundays 2011: A Bridge Between History, Art, And New Cultures
Once again this year, the Centro Studi e Ricerche Santa Giacinta Marescotti is proud to present the fourth edition of “Dialogues and Music Sundays”. This annual event transports us back in time, allowing us to breathe the intense aromas of the Baroque era through the performances of exceptional artists.
This year, an important collaboration enriches the event: the Associazione Culturale Ruspoli, based in São Paulo, Brazil, will host Italy to celebrate the history of the Ruspoli and Matarazzo families, who profoundly influenced the cultural and artistic development of both countries. This encounter aims to unite past and present, tradition and contemporaneity, through a rich program of cultural activities including concerts, photographic exhibitions, shows, documentaries, seminars, and much more.
The Heart of the Event: III International Prince Francesco Maria Ruspoli Competition
October 1 – 2: Baroque Talents on Stage
The first two days of October will be entirely dedicated to the III International Prince Francesco Maria Ruspoli Competition, which this edition also focuses on the Baroque period in its vocal and musicology sections.
- Saturday, October 1: Semifinal for candidates in the Baroque Singing Section.
- Sunday, October 2: Award ceremony for the Singing winner, followed by their concert and the presentation of the Musicology Section winner.
The jury for the Baroque Singing Section will be chaired by M° Sergio Casoy, joined by distinguished figures such as M° Gloria Banditelli, M° Raffaella Milanesi, M° Manuel Granatiero, M° Roberto Duarte, and Prof. Egidio Saracino. For the Musicology Section, the jury will be composed of Prof. Giorgio Monari (Scientific Director and president), Prof. Dinko Fabris, and Prof. Manuel Carlos De Brito.
Master Classes and Artistic Deepening (October 3)
Master Class on stage interpretation of baroque singing
Prof. Egidio Saracino will hold an unmissable Master Class at Ruspoli Castle on the stage interpretation of Baroque singing. Through the analysis of the character and their dramaturgical placement, combined with the interpretive study of arias, participants will be able to deepen how to characterize the expression of emotions.
Egidio Saracino, editor, special correspondent, and music critic for the newspaper “Avvenire” and collaborator of prestigious magazines, was director of the Press Office and PR of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. A university lecturer and successful director in numerous European theaters, he is the author of essays on Italian melodrama and a member of important international musicological societies.
Master Class on guitar for the interpretation of Brazilian music
The renowned guitarist Daniel Wolff will conduct a guitar Master Class dedicated to the interpretation of Brazilian music in the suggestive setting of Ruspoli Castle. Typical rhythms, phrasing, and various aspects of classical guitar technique will be explored, making the course accessible to students of all levels.
Daniel Wolff is the first Brazilian to earn a doctorate in guitar from the Manhattan School of Music in New York, studying with masters such as Abel Carlevaro, Eduardo Fernandez, and Manuel Barrueco. His career spans from concert performance to composition, teaching, and arrangement, an activity that also earned him a Grammy Award. A professor at the Federal University of Porto Alegre and the University of the Arts in Berlin, he is an internationally renowned artist.
Exclusive Concert: Daniel Wolff and Rimsky Quartet (October 5)
Concert by Daniel Wolff. Music for guitar and string quartet.
The musical highlight of the event will be the concert held at the charming Chiesa di San Lorenzo in Lucina (Rome). The protagonists will be guitarist Daniel Wolff and the Rimsky Quartet, composed of Manfred Croci (violin), Estera Kawula (violin), Gisella Horvat (viola), and Tatyana Mukhambet (cello).
The program will range from “Illuminata” by Egberto Gismondi and the “Concerto in the Italian Style, BWV 971” by Johann Sebastian Bach, to works such as “Aria with Variations – The Harmonious Blacksmith” by Georg Friedrich Händel and “4 pieces for guitar and string quartet” (“Cunhã-tan do Andirá”, “Uirapurú do Amazonas”, “Lullaby for Janine”, “Ventos do Sertão”) by Gaudencio Thiago de Mello. The concert will conclude with “Vieni a prendermi” by Daniel Wolff.
Italy – Brazil Moment 2012: A Year of Shared Culture
To celebrate the Italy/Brazil Year 2011 (with projects extending into 2012), the Associazione Culturale Ruspoli has brought together a group of renowned Brazilian and Italian curators, specialized in various areas of the arts and cultural production. The goal is to offer new generations the opportunity to explore the history, culture, and arts of both countries and their profound relationship.
Past and present, tradition and contemporaneity will merge in activities that will stimulate reflection and research in the most diverse fields of artistic expression and knowledge, reproducing the valuable historical-cultural path established between Italy and Brazil, consolidated through dialogue between artists, historians, and thinkers from these two extraordinary universes.
Cultural projects commemorating the Italy/Brazil Year will symbolize the diversity of cultural exchange promoted for over twelve years by the general coordinator Giada Ruspoli, now through the Associazione Ruspoli. Events of classical and popular music, visual arts and technology exhibitions, shows, documentaries, book editions, seminars, workshops, and photographic exhibitions will be held. All this to revitalize the relationship born between the Ruspoli & Matarazzo families with the marriage of Claudia Matarazzo and Francesco Maria Ruspoli, VIII Prince of Cerveteri, celebrated in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1923.
Numerous historical-cultural and interdisciplinary events will be held, including:
- Publication of the book “Francesco Maria Ruspoli: Prince and Patron of the XVIII Century”
- Photographic exhibition titled “A Trajectory of Immigration between Italy and Brazil”
- Presentation of the winners of the first, second, and third International Prince Francesco Maria Ruspoli Competition with a concert in Brazil
- Documentary “The Ruspoli and Matarazzo: A Journey Between Past and Present / Italy and Brazil”
- Concert Aquarela Italiana – From Opera to MPB: Italian Paths in Brazilian Music
- Show of Brazilian and Italian Popular Music: Quartetto con Postura Libera – Songs between Italy and Brazil
- Contemporary Art Meeting Brazil-Italy: BR.IT – Festival of Art and Technology
HOW THE “DIALOGUES AND MUSIC SUNDAYS” PROJECT WAS BORN
On the occasion of the celebrations for the 250th anniversary of Händel’s passing and 300 years since his departure from Vignanello, the Centro Studi Santa Giacinta Marescotti wished to build the program of “Dialogues and Music Sundays” around the Baroque period, its music, and its figures.
In this context, the desire arose to dedicate an Award to Prince Francesco Maria Ruspoli, a great patron and protector of prominent personalities, who lived in Vignanello in the 18th century, and who hosted the great master of Baroque music: Händel, at his court. It is precisely on the first Sunday that this competition takes place, with the aim of involving young talents from all over the world each year.
The main goal of the Centro Studi Santa Giacinta Marescotti is to propose a new and rich edition of “Dialogues and Music Sundays” each year, thereby establishing it as a fixed event concerning music (classical and non-classical) and artistic experimentation. No less important is the desire to restore an international circuit of Baroque art, where Italy, and Vignanello in particular, are the pivots from which various international realities, such as Halle, London, and São Paulo, branch out. Above all, there is the desire to pay homage to Prince Francesco Maria Ruspoli and the spirit of the era, bringing the Castle back to life with the atmospheres, sounds, and aromas of a period of great splendor for Vignanello and for Italy, re-proposing in a modern key the patronage that made him great in the eyes of his contemporaries.
With these intentions, the Centro Studi Santa Giacinta Marescotti is committed to involving a vast and heterogeneous audience, lovers of music and art, professionals and non-professionals, an undifferentiated public that loves to share this kind of atmosphere with us.
