2017 Melbourne International Guitar Festival / September 22-24
The headline act for this year’s festival is Lorenzo Micheli from Italy who will be performing on Saturday 23rd September at 7:00pm at the Melba Hall (Melbourne University, Parkville).
This event has been organized in collaboration with the IIC. Members and current students of the Italian Cultural Institute will enjoy a
50% discount on tickets to see Lorenzo Micheli and also on festival passes when purchasing tickets online prior to the Festival.
To obtain the promocode please write to iicmelbourne@esteri.it
Tickets also include complimentary beer, wine and cheese during intermission.
Tickets can be purchased here
See the poster here
Lorenzo Micheli, guitar
PROGRAMME
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Mauro Giuliani (Bisceglie, 1781-Naples, 1829)
Grandi Variazioni op. 114 (1823)
Alexandre Tansman (Lodz, 1897-Paris, 1986)
Hommage à Chopin (1966)
I. Prélude
II. Nocturne
III. Vals romantique
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (Florence, 1895-Los Angeles, 1968)
from the Caprichos de Goya op. 195 (1961)
XII. No hubo remedio. Passacaglia on the “Dies irae”
XIII. Quién más rendido?
XX. Obsequio a el Maestro
XVIII.El sueño de la razón produce monstruos
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André Jolivet (Paris, 1905-1974)
Tombeau de Robert de Visée (1971)
I. Prélude
II. Courante française
III. Double de la Courante
IV. Sarabande
V. Passacaille
Niccolò Paganini (Genova, 1782-Nice, 1840)
3 Sonatas M.S. 84
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Rondo op. 129 (1946)
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Lorenzo Micheli has taken up a busy concert career throughout the world since winning the first prize in some of the most prestigious guitar competitions (Alessandria, “Guitar Foundation of America Competition”). He has played more than 600 concerts all over Europe, in two hundred US and Canadian cities, in Africa, Asia and Latin America, as a soloist and with orchestra.
His discography (over 20 titles in 15 years on the labels Naxos, Stradivarius, Pomegranate, and Soundset) includes the music of Dionisio Aguado, the Quartets, op. 19, by François de Fossa, the Sonatas by Viennese composer Ferdinand Rebay, a CD of 17th Century Italian music for baroque guitar, archlute and theorbo, a collection of Arias and Cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, the complete guitar Concertos and the 24 Preludes and Fugues for two guitars by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, a double CD of chamber masterpieces by Mauro Giuliani, Miguel Llobet’s complete guitar works, Antoine de Lhoyer’s Duos Concertants, three anthologies of music for two guitars (“Noesis”, “Solaria” and “Metamorphoses”), and the album “Morning in Iowa”, with former Dire Straits member David Knopfler. His latest recording, “Autumn of the Soul”, was released by Contrastes Records in November 2014.
A very active editor and researcher, Lorenzo has published solo and chamber works with guitar by such composers as Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Ferdinand Rebay. He is in charge of a collection of guitar music for the Canadian publisher “d’OZ”.
Lorenzo lives in Milan, Italy. He has served on faculty at the University School of Music (Musikhochschule) in Lugano, Switzerland, since 2011, and he is Artist in Residence at the University of Colorado.
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