Opening Concert
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Festivals
The opening event of the 10th edition of Chigiana International Festival & Summer Academy
The Chigiana International Festival & Summer Academy celebrates ten years of history, with an edition themed "Tracce" (Traces) which will be held from July 5 to September 2, with more than 100 concerts in the most evocative places of Siena and Siena area.
On July 5, at 9:15 p.m., at Teatro dei Rinnovati in Siena:
Opening Concert - Special Events
Ilya Gringolts, violin
ORT – Orchestra della Toscana
Chigiana Percussion Ensemble
Francesco Conforti, Antonio Gaggiano
Marco Angius, director
Giacinto Scelsi Anahit, Lyric Poem dedicated to Venus
for violin and 18 instruments
György Ligeti Concerto for Violino and Orchestra
Béla Bartók Concerto for Orchestra [elab. R. Freisitzer]
The Festival schedule includes 8 major symphony concerts, a large open-air event in Piazza del Campo, 5 opera performances, 8 first performances, more than 800 musical performers involved, 31 courses, 7 production workshops, 8 in-residence trainings.
A contemporary focus will be dedicated to the Hungarian composer György Ligeti (1923-2006), considered one of the leading and most original personalities of the New Music.
