Jan 27 (Saturday)
2:30 p.m. | Walter Hall
Close connections between music and movies during the Twentieth century, including two original transcriptions for piano by D.Milhaud ( for Madame Bovary – Renoir – 1933 ) and Nino Rota (Casanova – Fellini- 1976), in addition to six pieces by Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco dedicated to famous movie actors (Garbo, Dietrich etc..) and to famous movie characters (Topolino, Charlot). Performed with the projection of original texts and images of the movie’s context.
Free Admission
GUEST PERFORMER
Piano: Roberto Turrin
Program
L’ Album de Madame Bovary (1933)
Darius Milhaud
Stars – Four Sketches for Piano (1939)
1) Greta Garbo
2) Deanna Durbin
3) Marlene Dietrich
4) Shirley Temple
Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco
2 Film Studies (1931)
1) Charlie (Charlot)
2) Mickey Mouse (Topolino)
Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco
Suite del Casanova di F.Fellini (1976)
1) O Venezia, Venaga, Venusia
2) L’ uccello magico
3) Intermezzo della mantide religiosa
4) The great Mouna
5) Il duca di Wurttemberg – prima parte
6) Il duca di Wurttemberg – seconda parte
7) La poupèe automate
Nino Rota
Roberto Turrin Biography
Italian concert pianist Roberto Turrin graduated from the “G. Tartini” Conservatory of Music (Trieste, Italy) where he studied with Luciano Gante, as well as Lya De Barberiis in Italy and Switzerland. After receiving awards from international music competitions in Stresa and Morcone, he began his career as a soloist, performing in more than 20 countries throughout North America and Europe. Among Turrin’s accomplishments include duo ensembles with violin, cello and clarinet, as well as numerous recordings for television and radio (RAI Italy, RadioTv Slovenia, Tv Polska, Bulgarian State TV, Belarus TV.). Turrin currently serves as teacher of the “G. Tartini” Conservatory of Music, where he has served as Director from 2015 to 2021 ; he previously served as artistic director of International Music Festival “Echoes” (Central European Initiative) and has been invited for the masterclass “The Piano Literature of the XX century” by many North American and European universities, including San Francisco State University, Stanford University, Northern Arizona University, University of Toronto, University of Illinois at Chicago, Roosevelt University at Chicago, Escola Superior de Musica Lisbon (Portugal), National Music Academy Sofia (Bulgaria), Music Academy Zagreb (Croatia), Royal Danish Academy of Music Copenhagen(Denmark) Norges Musikkhogskole Oslo (Norway), and Music and Arts University of the city of Vienna (Austria).