The Tuesday Evening Concert Series presents the famed Italian baroque chamber orchestra, EUROPA GALANTE, on October 12 at 8:00 pm in Cabell Hall Auditorium at the University of Virginia, sponsored in part by the Italian Cultural Institute of Washington, D.C., with the following program:
International music critic BERNARD JACOBSON will give a special pre-concert lecture at 6:45 pm in Minor Hall. Mr. Jacobson is a contributing editor of Fanfare Magazine, has been music critic of the Chicago Daily News, and Program Annotator and Musicologist for the Philadelphia Orchestra, He is the author of the booklet documenting Carnegie Hall's 2000 Perspective Series in celebration of Daniel Barenboim's 50th year on the concert stage, and is currently working on a book of the history of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In 1990, violinist FABIO BIONDI founded EUROPA GALANTE, which has, through their intensive international concertizing and recording success, already become the most internationally renowned and awarded Italian ensemble of antique music. The ensemble has sold nearly one million records; their recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons alone has sold more than 500.000 copies and received international awards. EUROPA GALANTE has performed in many of the world's major concert halls and theatres. The ensemble often collaborates with the Ente Santa Cecilia in Rome to recover and restore eighteenth century Italian operas . In 2004, it will inaugurate the Santa Cecilia Season with Handel's opera Lucio Silla. The ensemble has a varying structure, and often performs chamber music such as the string sonatas of Italian composers of the seventeenth century. Born in Palermo, FABIO BIONDI started his international career at the age of twelve, performing his first solo concert with the RAI Symphony Orchestra. Moved by an early and inexhaustible cultural curiosity, at the age of 15 Biondi was introduced to the pioneers of the new approach to baroque music, an opportunity that was to expand his musical vision, altering the direction of his career. At 16 he performed Bach's violin concertos at the Musikverein of Vienna to perform. He has since played first violin with the most famous ensembles specializing in 'authentic' early music performance: Cappella Real, Musica Antiqua Wien, Seminario Musicale, La Chapelle Royale, and with Les Musiciens du Louvre. Fabio Biondi plays with a Ferdinando Gagliano violin (Naples 1766) kindly lent by the Fondazione Salvatore Cicero. Interested ticket buyers should call the Cabell Hall Box Office beginning March 16 at 434-924-3984 to get on the waiting list for seats released by subscribers. Prices are $24-orchestra; $20-loge & balcony; and $10-students, partial-view seats, and standing-room only. Student one-hour rush seats are $5. Parking lots have been reserved for evening concert goers: B-1 on Jefferson Park Avenue and half of C-2, near Bryan Hall. Contact: Karen Pellón Phone: (434) 244-9505 E-mail: kpellon@tecs.org |
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