2020 marks four anniversaries: the 500th anniversary of the death of Raffaello Sanzio, the centenary of Amedeo Modigliani’s death, and Federico Fellini’s and Gianni Rodari’s birth.
On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Italian Cultural Institute in Stockholm celebrates culture as the only antidote to resentment with a concert performed by Massimo Quarta (violin) and Stefania Redaelli (piano).
PROGRAM
César Franck (1822 – 1890)
Giuseppe Tartini (1692 – 1770)
Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij (1840 – 1893)
Niccolò Paganini (1782 – 1840)
The violinist and conductor Massimo Quarta came to international attention in 1991 when he won First Prize at the prestigious ‘Nicolò Paganini International Violin Competition’ in Genoa. He has performed with such conductors as Yuri Temirkanov, Myung-Whun Chung, Christian Thielemann, Daniel Harding, Daniele Gatti, Aldo Ceccato, Vladimir Jurowski, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Daniel Oren. He is music director of the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM of Mexico City and a professor at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. He plays a violin by G. A. Rocca (1840).
Stefania Redaelli studied in Milan at the G. Verdi Conservatory, where she graduated in 1982. She improved with B. Canino, V. Pavarana and M. Perahia. She appeared as a soloist with the major Milanese orchestras such as the Angelicum, the Pomeriggi Musicali, the RAI Symphony Orchestra. She held recitals by invitation in the most important concert associations in Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, Great Britain. Together with Salvatore Accardo she participated at the Festival de Musique sur Mer in 1988 and at the International Music Weeks in Naples in May 1989, in a trio with R. Filippini. She also accompanied master classes held by Raina Kabaiwanska, A. Persichilli, F. Gulli and Yo-Yo Ma.
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