We will be launching, on Friday 25 March, a series of free concerts (of about 45 min.) which will be held at Lunchtime (between 1pm and 2pm) in the Pavillion Hall of our Institute.
The first captivating appointment, in collaboration with the TU Dublin Conservatory, will be a concert-show on the life of Emilia Giuliani, italian guitarist and composer of the nineteenth century. The performance by Federica Artuso (guitar) and Nicoletta Confalone (lyrics and narrating voice) includes the performance of songs by the composer and the narration, in English, of some anecdotes about her life. The melologue is one of the ways in which the interaction between words and music is beautifully enhanced.
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Free event with reservations required “BOOK NOW” below
Attention:
Given the increase in cases of Covid-19 infection, please wear a mask during the concert.
Thank you
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“Emilia Giuliani, a life as a novel”
Emilia Giuliani (1813-1850) was a gifted nineteenth-century guitarist-composer and daughter of the much more famous Mauro Giuliani. He was able to conquer early nineteenth-century Vienna and its most illustrious artists, such as Ludwig van Beethoven. Emilia’s life, in spite of herself, presents numerous twists and turns, due to the passionate conflict between a tragic predisposition to defeat and a stubborn desire to rebel against adverse fortune, to express, purely and simply, her own right to be an artist. Telling her story is not intended to be a mere reporter’s exercise, but rather a means of demonstrating the fatigue of female art. The performers on stage are a guitarist, Federica Artuso, flexible in switching from her role as a soloist to that of a soundtrack, capable of completing and emphasising the story with her talent and determination, and a musicologist-performer, Nicoletta Confalone, who knows how to apply her studies to Emilia Giuliani, whose first opera for solo guitar she rediscovered and published, in a narrative-theatrical sense, and therefore including sung moments, and others of real melologue, in which the human voice and that of the guitar dialogue like two voices in the same score.
Federica Artuso studied Guitar with Stefano Grondona at the Conservatorio in Vicenza, where she completed her academic studies cum laude and special mention. She also graduated in Philosophy and Didactics cum laude, and is currently a tenured teacher at the Liceo Musicale Pigafetta in Vicenza and a lecturer on pre-academic courses at the Conservatorio in Padua. She won several international guitar competitions and gave concerts all over Europe. In 2021 she published for the Tactus label a complete recording of Emilia Giuliani’s works for solo guitar. The double CD was enthusiastically received by international critics. She plays in a duo with guitarist Andrea Bissoli, and has collaborated on his recording project dedicated to Heitor Villa-Lobos and published by Naxos.
“Her playing is something special, out of ordinary, rare in the deepest sense.” Paul Galbraith (guitarist, UK).
Nicoletta Confalone is a guitarist and musicologist, who graduated cum laude at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice with Giovanni Morelli. In 2014 she won the Chitarra d’oro for musicology at the International Conference in Alessandria for her studies about Emilia Giuliani. In 2017 she published the book Un angelo senza paradiso – La chitarra alla ricerca di Schubert (Ut Orpheus, Bologna). She is a member of The Consortium for Guitar Research at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University and a Corresponding Member of the Accademia dei Concordi in Rovigo.She deeply believes in the necessity of a musical divulgation that combines depth and fun, and for this purpose she plans and realizes scenic-musical actions, especially dedicated to distinguished women guitarists, in collaboration with the guitarist Federica Artuso.
The Recitar Suonando Duo, composed of Confalone and Artuso, was born in 2012, in the name of their shared love for sounds and words, and from the desire to search together forms of music-historical dissemination that combine scientific rigour with a pleasant and captivating approach. They have put on numerous performances, including some portraits of women guitarists and one inspired by Confalone’s book on Schubert and the guitar.
Hall programme
- Preludio n.1 op.46
- Preludio n.6 op.46
- Belliniana n.1 op.2
- “Mira, o Norma” – Duetto from “Norma” *
- “Ma non fia sempre odiata” – Cabaletta from “Il Pirata”*
- “Ah! Bello a me ritorna” – Cavatina from “Norma”*
- “Un ultimo addio” – Duetto from “La Straniera”*
*Version for solo guitar by Emilia Giuliani
Federica Artuso, guitar made by René Lacote, 1835
Nicoletta Confalone, narrator and singer
Reservation no longer available