Events28 June 2019

Cervo: The International Chamber Music Festival [Video]

Gender transversality, interpreted by absolute artists, intercepts and stimulates a confrontation between seemingly distant musical worlds that are indispensable for those who love music.

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Cervo is a shock. A pyramid of history, architecture and people who live it. Perhaps are these people with the shy normality mixed with love for the place where they live, that make Cervo alive and unique. A vitality that runs through the steep alleyways, the historic buildings, the hidden corners and those whose beauty is revealed as a sudden vision. A vitality that has a common denominator: music.

Music and Cervo have a profound connection, a bond whose progeny is tied by the bizarre fate that, over fifty years ago, prevented violinist Franco Vallora from participating in a charity evening at the church of San Giovanni Battista, better known as " Chiesa dei Corallini ”. It was his impromptu substitute, Sandor Vegh who underwent the iconographic shock, but above all the acoustics of the churchyard of this church. Vegh falls in love with Cervo, buys the house overlooking the square like a natural backdrop, elaborates and then proposes an ambitious and visionary project to the Municipality.

Cervo and culture attract each other; the many people who discreetly choose it as an ideal buen retiro (good retreat) know this. Pietro Citati, Henry Furst and his wife Orsola Nemi, Casorati, Campagnoli, Gina Lagorio, are just some of these, but the list of artists, writers and celebrities of contemporary culture that have frequented and frequent the village, would be very long.

It was inevitable that the International Chamber Music Festival would follow a path of growth, development and maturation. A bright and modern idea has become a structured project, declined in half a century of high-level music and which in recent years has been further enriched with a jazz incursion. Today the Festival changes its skin again, in a dynamism inherent to its being and multiplies appointments. In a moment where art and culture suffer the cyclical falcidia, Cervo invests quantitatively and qualitatively, betting on the present but even more on the future of a review that is renewed, reconfirming fully its primordial ambitions.

Program 2019

13 July 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Uto Ughi - Bruno Canino

17 July 2019 at 9.30 pm Oratorio di Santa Caterina Andrea Bacchetti In collaboration with Lions Club Imperia Host Free admission offer. The proceeds of the receipts will be donated by the Imperia Lions Club Host to charity .

19 July 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Giornate Géza Anda - Pietro De Maria Between rigor and freedom - A journey through time through Studies, Impromptus and Fantasies for piano, second concert of the three-year cycle in collaboration with the “Géza Anda” Piano Competition in Zurich.

22 July 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Giornate Géza Anda - Dasol Kim. In collaboration with Piano Competition “Géza Anda ”in Zurich and with Imperia Lions Club Host.

26 July 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Paolo Fresu & Daniele Di Bonaventura with Jaques Morelenbaum.

28 July 2019 at 9.30 pm Naturalistic area "Parco del Ciapà" The three sisters Canti, tammurriate, tarantelle and pizziche from southern Italy. The venue is located in a natural area can be reached with a walk on a dirt road lasting about 20 minutes. It is advisable to wear sneakers and bring a torch with you to illuminate the path on the way back. A free shuttle service (minivan 7 seats) from Piazza Castello will be available for elderly and disabled people starting at 8.00 pm. A guided tour of the park will also be organized with an environmental hiking guide, Piazza Castello meeting point at 8.00 pm.

31 July 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Calidore String Quartet. In collaboration with the Festival Paganiniano di Carro and FAI - sez. Liguria.

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02 August 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean In collaboration with Festival Teatrale di Borgio Verezzi Theatrical performance and musical from the novel by Alessandro Baricco- adaptation by Igor Chierici Music by F. Waller, A. Shaw, G. Gershwin, I. Jones, H. Akst, R. Rodgers directed by Luca Cicolella with Igor Chierici Marco Vecchio - piano Mario Martini - trumpet Lauretta Galeno - voice Gianluca Fiorentino - guitar Emanuele Valente - double bass Production Igor Chierici Executive production Garaventa Foundation.

06 August 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Vilde Frang - Nicolas Altstaedt In collaboration with FAI - section Liguria.

09 August 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Cervo meets the Tenco Prize in collaboration with Club Tenco.

13 August 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini String quintet by Berliner Philharmoniker and Tatjana Vassiljeva. In collaboration with Festival Paganiniano di Carro.

16 August 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Danilo Rea.

18 August 2019 at 9.30 pm Seborga - Piazza s. Martino String Quartet of the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra. In collaboration with the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra Foundation. Single seat not numbered € 15.00.

22 August 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Kevin Zhu - Valentina Mass. In collaboration with the ¨Premio Paganini¨ violin competition of Genoa.

24 August 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Vitaly Pisarenko Tribute to Vladimir Horowitz. In collaboration with the Documentation Center "Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli" and with Festival Amfiteatro of Levanto.

28 August 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Benedetta Torre - Archi all'Opera. In collaboration with the Carlo Felice Theater Foundation of Genoa.

31 August 2019 at 9.30 pm Piazza dei Corallini Arnulf Von Arnim and Ian Fountain - piano four hands.