Six Strings Across Italy – the creation of an Italian classical music legacy
Lorenzo Bernardi – Classical Guitar
Performing:
Sonata K208 – Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata Op.15 (Allegro spiritoso, Adagio con grande espressione, Rondò finale) – Mauro Giuliani
Sonata in Do minore N.33 – Niccolò Paganini
Intermezzo from “Cavalleria Rusticana” – Pietro Mascagni
Fantasia sui temi della Traviata di Giuseppe Verdi – Francisco Tárrega
Mazurka Appassionata/ Confesíon – Agustín Barrios Mangoré
Una Fantasia per Ennio – Bruno Battisti D’Amario
Italy’s position in the Mediterranean and its grafting onto the heart of Europe has allowed “Bella Italia” to assimilate an incredible number of diverse cultural influences over the centuries. To explore this magnificent scenery and discover its aesthetic and spiritual values, the guitar – a popular, very versatile instrument – is the perfect dispenser of knowledge. The six strings of the guitar, in fact, have accompanied all the adventures of humanity, interpreting its drama, emotions, sociality and individual introspection.
The objective of this project is to accompany the spectator, specialist or amateur, to the discovery of Italian composers, who have enhanced the characteristics of this beloved instrument, its tone, and its expressive potential, with original writings or adaptations of masterpieces composed for diverse organic instruments throughout the ages.
In this new exclusive program, Lorenzo Bernardi, a young, passionate guitarist from Trento in Italy, has drawn on the treasure chest of Italian composers to present a program consisting of: the Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, the undisputed master of the Baroque, an unexpected Niccolò Paganini grappling with the guitar, the nineteenth-century operatic pages of Pietro Mascagni, the romantic melodrama of Giuseppe Verdi, and more recently the works of Mario-Castelnuovo Tedesco, influenced by the Andalusian virtuoso Andres Segovia, ending with the immortal scores of Ennio Morricone, where the guitar finds a new and vast stage.
About the Performer:
Born in Trento in 1994, Lorenzo Bernardi graduated from the Conservatory F.A Bonporti of Trento in 2015 and later received a master’s degree with honors from the Conservatorio L. Canepa in Sassari. He further specialized at Conservatorio de Musica Manuel Castillo in Seville, Spain, under the guidance of internationally renowned Professor and guitarist Francisco Bernier.
As a soloist, but also as a member of chamber groups and with orchestra, he has performed in Italy, Spain, Hungary, France, Denmark, Finland, Argentina, Chile, United States, Costa Rica, Bahrain, Japan, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, and India.
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