Wednesday 29 May – The award ceremony of the School Competition 2019 was held at the Teatro Sociale di Bergamo Alta, in the context of the 56th International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo.
Winner of the School Competition 2019 was Adela Mhilli of the Primary School “Maria Piazzoli”, Ranica.
The Jury also awarded the III A and IV A classes of the San Pellegrino Terme Comprehensive School.
A long-time supporter of the initiative, the Pesenti Foundation intends to promote and encourage the growth of new generations, on the fundament of an educational path and cultural knowledge acquisition.
In this edition, the Competition Commission has decided to present two provincial awards to the third- and fourth-class students of the San Pellegrino Terme Primary School and to a student of the Primary School of Ranica. The papers produced by the students of the San Pellegrino Terme Primary School, in particular, highlighted the value of the Festival’s new “Young talents and Beyond” initiative: a series of concerts by the most brilliant students of the Bergamo Conservatory held all over the province, in conjunction with the “Festival e Beyond” schedule.
Conservatory students perform in schools, answering questions and sharing stories, for a music to be heard, to be seen, to be known and… to be touched.
Likewise, in gratitude for the year-long collaboration with the S.M.I.M. Provincial Orchestra and the Bergamo Youth Orchestra, performing at the competition award ceremonies, the Festival awarded them as important local musical institutions, with the wish they could perform on the Festival stage in the near future. Two special awards were also presented to the orchestras’ outstanding representatives, professors Edoardo Caffi and Katia Vestri.
Winner of the School Competition 2019 was Adela Mhilli of the Primary School “Maria Piazzoli”, Ranica.
The Jury also awarded the III A and IV A classes of the San Pellegrino Terme Comprehensive School.
Il Festival
The 56th edition of the Festival focused on the most beautiful and inspired pieces of Romantic music, with the evocative title “Veiled Music”, celebrating the works of Schumann (the Maestro) and Brahms (the Student).
Founded in 1964, the Festival hosts elite music players in the charming settings of the Teatro Grande di Brescia and the Teatro Sociale di Bergamo Alta, two superb late-eighteenth-century architectural jewels. About 50 concerts of Romantic music in less than two months. The Festival also takes place in various “alternative” venues, such as ancient palaces, churches, courtyards, squares, offering collateral initiatives and a series of concerts by young talents.
In his famous and very acute review of the young Johannes Brahms in 1853 Robert Schumann noted: “There was genius in his playing that made an orchestra out of the piano, with plaintive and jubilant voices. There were sonatas, or rather veiled symphonies.”
“In this climate some of the greatest, sincere, passionate and yet familiar works for piano were written,” the artistic director Pier Carlo Orizio explained. “I am sure the artists that will perform in our Festival this year will make us rediscover the timeless charm of this Music.”
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