Festa della Musica – 29th Edition
Make Music Day
Taormina, Thursday 21st June 2023
This is the 29th edition of this wonderful music festival, originated in France in 1982, with the initiative conceived by the French Ministry of Culture, throughout France, where amateur and professional musicians invaded streets, courtyards, squares, gardens, stations and museums.
Meanwhile the “Fête de la Musique” has become an authentic social phenomenon.
Since 1985, the festival has been held in Europe and around the world. Since 2016, in Italy more than 700 cities have joined, creating a network distributed throughout the country. Lots of live music concerts take place every year on 21 June in all cities, mainly in the open air, with the participation of musicians of all levels and genres. Free concerts, value of the musical gesture, spontaneity, willingness, curiosity, all music belongs to the festival. Amateur or professional, everyone can express themselves freely, the Music Festival belongs, first and foremost, to those who make it.
This is the programm for Taormina:
11.00AM – Church of Santa Caterina
Ensemble of the Conservatory “A. Corelli” of Messina
Ensemble of the Conservatory of Music “A.Corelli of Messina – “I Quattro e quaranta” guitar sextet: Mariano Scarpaci, Bianca Leo, Roberto Ceraolo, Sabrina Antonuccio, Antonio Donzì, Fabio Giacoppo, performoing works by M. Amoroso, J. Rodrigo, G. P. Telemann, G. Mafali, F. Kleynjans, A. Soraci, C. Machado Xote, C. Machado and J. Lennon, P. Mc Cartney.
6.00PM – Terrazza delle Palme, Hotel Villa Schuler
Riccardo Buzzurro, classic and latin guitar music.
Graduated in classical guitar, he has performed on various international stages, directed the Taormina mandolin orchestra, creates his guitar arrangements of the great themes of music.
More info: event, Riccardo Buzzurro, www.hotelvillaschuler.com
7.00PM Public Gardens “Florence Trevelyan”
Orchestra mandolinistica Gioviale Taormina
rchestra Mandolinistica Gioviale Taormina. The instrumental ensemble is consisting of mandolins, mandolas, mandoloncelli, guitars and double bass and will perform a wide range of music from classical mandolin musics to film music arrangements. The name is inspired by the greatest Sicilian mandolin player of all time, Giovanni Gioviale, an instrumentalist who lived until the mid-20th century.
More info: event, Orchestra Gioviale
8.00PM Piazza Carmine
Domenico Quaceci: Ascendant
rchestra Mandolinistica Gioviale Taormina. The instrumental ensemble is consisting of mandolins, mandolas, mandoloncelli, guitars and double bass and will perform a wide range of music from classical mandolin musics to film music arrangements. The name is inspired by the greatest Sicilian mandolin player of all time, Giovanni Gioviale, an instrumentalist who lived until the mid-20th century.
More info: event, Domenico Quaceci
9.00PM Largo Santa Caterina
Bandacircular + Paternò Music Lab Brass Band
andaCircular recalls the village bands that entertain large audiences, involving them in dance to rhythms of various cultures. The band is directed as if it were a Drum Circle. BandaCircular is directed by Romina Adorno Pincha, Percussionist and Drum Circle facilitator. Banda plays rhythms from African, Brazilian and Latin American culture. BandaCircular will play together with the PML, Paternò Music Lab, a brass band directed by master Angelo Di Stefano.
More info: event, BandaCircular
9.30PM Pizza Castelmola in CASTELMOLA
Klostes
he village of Castelmola near Taormina also takes part of the European Music Day. Within the walls of the ruins of the castle of Mola takes place a special event, in keeping with the evocative location. The evening starts at 18.00 h with a lecture in italian language on Feng Shui – l’energia che risuona (the energy that creates resonance), at 19.15 h the Quartetto Klostès performs Anthropop Music. Often meeting to spin and learn the art of weaving the four women of the qaurtetto Klostès (Luisa Biondo harp and voice – Eleonora Bonincontro oud – Anna Maria Castrogiovanni guitar – Novella Novelli voice) started playing in September 2021. The name of the group, refers to a term of the ancient Greek language, which indicates the thread that is produced by the action of spinning. Their music style is linked to Eastern, Greek, Sephardic, Grecanic, digging into the anthropological roots of the Mediterranean, preferring Sicilian dialect. The evening will be finished with the performance of Padma – with her programm “arte mistica del fuoco in danza e musica” (the mystical art of fire in dance and music). Thanks in part to her background as a dance-movement-therapist, Padma is able to symbolically convey all the power of the fire element, which is the real protagonist of the scene, going beyond the technical aspect of the dance and the instrument.
More info: event, Klostes
WHERE TO STAY
Hotel La Pensione Svizzera – Hotel Villa Schuler – Hotel Villa Ducale – Hotel Villa Carlotta
