JAZZ.FM91’s SOUNDS OF ITALY PIANO SERIES: VITTORIO MEZZA
Pianist, composer and music professor, Vittorio Mezza will wrap up JAZZ.FM91’s 2017 Sounds of Italy Concert Series. Receiving his diploma and bachelor in jazz from the St. Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome, he attended various course and master classes held by international musicians including Franco D’Andrea. Mezza has gone on to lead jazz piano […]
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ITALIAN FILMS AT HOT DOCS 2017
Hot Docs, in collaboration with The Italian Trade Commission and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present three Italian documentaries: The last Resort by Thanos Anastopoulos and Davide Del Degan; The Challenge by Yuri Ancarani; Libera Nos by Federica Di Giacomo. PROGRAM The Last ResortThanos Anastopoulos, Davide Del Degan | Italy, Greece, France | […]
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CARLOTTA DE BEVILACQUA AT DIGIFEST 2017
Italian architect and designer Carlotta De Bevilacqua, will be one of the speakers as “Meet the Media Guru” in this year’s edition of Digifest 2017. Graduated in 1983 in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, she is mainly known for her research in contemporary lighting design. In the early 1990s she started to design lighting […]
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THE ITALIAN MUSICAL LANDSCAPE IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY
THE INFLUENCE OF ARNOLD SCHÖNBERG’S WORK.A lecure by Paolo Somigli (The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) Arnold Schönberg, creator of a profound renovation of twentieth century music through his “free atonality” and the 12 sound method of composition, received much attention on behalf of Italian cultural and musical circles since the turn of the century. Musical […]
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LUISA SELLO IN CONCERT
Italian flautist Luisa Sello will be performing in Toronto with the UofT Symphony Orchestra and in Sutton at the Georgina Arts Centre and Gallery. The concert is a part of the project ‘Great Music’ organized by the Amici della Musica Association of Udine, supported by the Region Friuli Venezia Giulia and the Istituto Italiao di […]
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“PASSIO”: THE MATER DOLOROSA IN POPULAR TRADITION
On this special Good Friday concert, Vesuvius Ensemble presents a unique comparison of popular and classical music for Holy Week with a particular emphasis on the Mother of Sorrows. Anguished melodies from various folk traditions will mix with heart-rending settings of the Stabat mater and other liturgical texts. This juxtaposition invites a collective meditation on […]
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ICFF Year-Round Program: screening of ONDA SU ONDA
L’Altra Italia/ICFF Association, with the support of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, presents the screening of ONDA SU ONDA, directed by Rocco Papaleo. VAUGHANApril 6th, 20176:30 pm Reception8:00 pm ScreeningColossus Vaughan(3555 Highway 7 West) TORONTOApril 21th, 20177:00 pm ReceptionMaison Mercer(15 Mercer St.)9:00 pm ScreeningTiff Bell Lightbox(350 King St W) $ 40 Reception and Movie$ 13 […]
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SCREENING OF L’INFERNO (1911)
Special Event hosted by the International Seminar On The Critical Approaches to Dante (ISCAD 2017) with live musical accompaniment by Maurizio Guarini. L’Inferno, directed by F. Bertolini, G. de Liguoro and A. Padovan, is a 1911 Italian silent film, loosely adapted from Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. L’Inferno took over three years to make, and […]
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JAZZ.FM91’s SOUNDS OF ITALY PIANO SERIES: FRANCO D’ANDREA
His artistic history is so rich and intense that his originality radiates through all of his collaborations and work, Franco D’Andrea is featured at the JAZZ.FM91 Sounds of Italy Concert Series! A poet with his instrument, rooted in the tradition of Afro-American music, his rhythmic ramblings are detailed with insistent riffs, quotes and authenticity. D’Andrea […]
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INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON THE CRITICAL APPROACHES TO DANTE
In 2015 the world celebrated the 750th anniversary of Dante’s birth and started preparing the celebrations for the upcoming anniversary of his death. No need to say, these anniversaries concern, more than Dante himself, Dante’s readers. What one should celebrate and discuss are centuries of readings, both silent and aloud; of commentaries and doubts; of […]
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