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XVI Festival Italian Brass Week
Sunday, July 19, 2015, 08:00am
To Sunday, July 26, 2015
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XVI International Festival

ITALIAN BRASS WEEK

19-26 July 2015

Florence (Tuscany, Italy)

in partnership with
Teatro dell'Opera di Firenze European Brass Association
ANBIMA

 

European Brass Association

 

World Brass Association

 

E.M.M.A for PEACE

 

UNESCO

 

Artistic Director
Luca Benucci, first horn of Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

 


Festival Organization
Cultural Association “La Settima Musa”

Honor Board:
Dale Clevenger
Zubin Mehta
Josè Antonio Abreu
Daniel Barenboim
Riccardo Chailly
Seiji Ozawa
James Conlon
Ivor Bolton

 

 

 

A new appointment with the annual Brass International Festival "Italian Brass Week", is a coveted stage of thousands of young people from around the world. The quality and reliability have been awarded the bronze medal of the President of the Republic and with many other awards, though, the biggest was to have involved generations of young musicians, who are trained and have become excellent interpreters. Musicians from around the world will meet in Florence, from 19 to 26 July 2015, to share a unique festival in every aspect.

 


For this 16th edition, we chose a combination of values, places and practitioners that are planned for this week with their knowledge, beauty and skills.

 


Florence, cradle of the Renaissance, the city internationally recognized as cultural pearl, will host this happening dedicated to Brass. Horn players, Trumpet players, Trombon players and Tuba players from over 25 countries and 4 different continents have made a unique and special edition in 2014, but our challenge is to make it even more interesting and engaging with this 16th edition the exceptional participation of the Opera Theatre of Florence, wonderful partnerships already proven in the last edition. Festival activities will be held in the new theater, over 10.000 square meters of rooms used in the master classes and conferences with facilities that offers the best results to the tests of various ensembles and concerts.
From its beginning to the present, Italian Brass Week has been recognized as one of the most instructive and high leveled stages in the world, with excellent teachers and with the exclusivity of a method of coexistence and exchange cultural.

 


Under the artistic direction of Maestro Luca Benucci the first Horn of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the students will be able to be followed by professionals inimitable part of the largest and the most prestigious Orchestras and Universities in the world such as: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Indiana University, Rice University, North Western University,Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Australian Navy Band, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra del Konzertgebouw di Amsterdam, Deutches Symphony, Orchestra Simon Bolivar and other International Soloists.

 

 

 

The importance of comparison beyond borders

 

Florence, in those days, will become the capital of sound and magical notes that all the guys will bring to the streets, creating a wonderful artistic world, full of new ideas. This is an example of a new way of doing culture, just in Tuscany, a land that has seen the birth and the melodrama that has the birthplace of the great authors of international music.

 


At a time like the present, where the dispersion of talent highlights due to economic problems, give a chance to young people to join a moment of vacation with a moment of educational / cultural becomes very important. This, not to disperse what's wonderful we managed to create a musical level, to preserve those values at risk really to disperse in a globalization more and more wild. We Believe that this type of commitment has to be valued and not discouraged by a growth model who looks only to the spread, the financial capital and not to training of those who one day will pass on part of the story through the musical knowledge and beyond.

 

 

 

The choice of Florence as the host city

 

Florence is an important reference for the cultural growth and is a city devoted to reception and culturally already renowned as a meeting point between the present and the past.

 

The culture of students and professors from all over the place and the pleasure of living in an atmosphere that enhances the differences as the most intelligent of inner enrichment and professional.
Today, more than ever, to create a link between well-being, tradition and culture, could become a method of alternative holiday, with an organizational system that can accommodate the needs of a diverse audience.

 

 

 

Masters
The master classes will be taught by internationally renowned artists that are part of the greatest international orchestras, conservatories and universities around the world.

 

Our goal is to promote and encourage cultural exchange between young Italian and foreign, to consolidate a reality that too often passes unnoticed and give the opportunity to participate in an event of primary visibility for the world of brass instruments and music.

 

The sixteenth edition of the Brass Week proposes innovations in the shows and always in the training proposal of high level.

 

 

 

Italian Brass Week 2015

 

 

 

Artists & Teachers:

 

 

 

Trumpets
Andrea Dell'Ira, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Francisco "Pacho" Flores, Internazionale Soloist
Otto Sauter, Internazionale Soloist
Barbara Butler, Rice University
Charlie Geyer, North Western University

 

 

 

Horns
Dale Clevenger, former Chicago Symphony Orchestra professor at Indiana University
Luca Benucci, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Firoentino
Han Xiao Ming, Deutsches Sinfonie Orchester

 

 

 

Trombone
Jörgen Van Rijen, Concertgebouw di Amsterdam

 

Alain Trudel, Internazionale Soloist

 

 

 

Tuba
Roger Bobo, Tuba Legend, Ex Los Angeles Philarmonic Orchestra
Anne Jelle Visser, Musik Hochschule Zurich
Steve Rosse, Sydney Symphony Orchestra

 

 

 

Euphonium
Fletcher Mitchell, International Soloists Australian Navy Band

 

 

 

Masterclasses's Info:

 

The Horn campus has the following stipulations:

 

Students enrolled will have lesson opportunities with the following teachers and their respective available times as follows for the duration of Italian Brass Week:

 

·    3 lessons of 30 minutes with Luca Benucci

 

·    3 lessons of 30 minutes with Dale Clevenger

 

·    3 lessons of 30 minutes with Han Xiaoming

 

The Trumpet campus has the following stipulations:

 

Students enrolled will have lesson opportunities with the following teachers and their respective available times as follows for the duration of Italian Brass Week:

 

·    3 lessons of 30 minutes with Barbara Butler

 

·    3 lessons of 30 minutes with Charlie Geyer

 

·    3 lessons of 30 minutes with Otto Sauter

 

·    3 lessons of 30 minutes with Francisco "Pacho" Flores

 

·    3 lessons of 30 minutes with Andrea Dell'Ira

 

The Trombone campus has the following stipulations:

 

Students enrolled will have lesson opportunities with the following teachers and their respective available times as follows for the duration of Italian Brass Week:

 

·    5 lessons of 30 minutes with Jörgen Van Rijen

 

·    5 lessons of 30 minutes with Alan Trudel

 

The Tuba and Euphonium campus has the following stipulations:

 

Students enrolled will have lesson opportunities with the following teachers and their respective available times as follows for the duration of Italian Brass Week:

 

·    3 lessons of 30 minutes with Roger Bobo

 

·    3 lessons of 30 minutes with Anne Jelle Visser

 

·     3 lessons of 30 minutes with Steve Rosse

 

The daily schedule will be as follows:
9.00-13.00: Individual Lessons

 

13.00-13.30: Collective Masterclass

 

13.30-15.00: Lunch Break

 

15.00-18.00: Individual Lessons

 

18.00-19.00: Brass ensemble

 

19.00-21.30: Dinner

 

21.30: Evening Concerts

 

23.30 (or directly after the Evening Concerts): Jam sessions with jazz soloists of the festival at the Pub.
The group masterclasses and the concerts are included in the cost of tuition. It's not required to audition to participate in these. At the end of the Masterclasses, you will be awarded with a Diploma from the Italian Brass Week.

 

 

 

Master's Fee:

 

50 Euro for Registration and 350 Euro fort Tuition.

 

 

 

Scholarship Audition for IBW 2015

 

19 july 2015, Florence Opera House, Piazza Vittorio Gui (Florence, Tuscany - Italy)

 

10.00 H - Audition

 

Students will have the opportunity to compete for scholarships, made available by the ITALIAN BRASS WEEK, valued at 400 Euro.

 

The audition will be subdivided by classes: Trumpets, Horns, Tubas, Trombones.

 

Every class will be subdivided by students aged 18 and over, and those under 18 years old.

 

Application to the audition is reserved to all participants of the IBW 2015. For more information, please contact the Brass Week Secretary: [email protected]

 

 

 

Concerts:

 

 

 

19 july 2015, H 21.30

 

Florence Opera House

 

ITALIAN BRASS WEEK Opening Concert

 

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino's Brass Ensemble

 

Director: M° Dale Clevenger

 

Music by G. Rossini, G. Verdi, G. Puccini, P. Mascagni

 

 

 

20 july 2015, H 21.30

 

Florence, Santissima Annunziata Church

 

BRASS in the BAROC PERIOD

 

Music by J. S. Bach, A. Vivaldi, A. Marcello

 

The soloists of the Festival, will donate to the city and to all who will partecipate at the concert, a great musical evening. We will benefit the Foundling Hospital with a donation that will be requested at the entrance of the Church.

 

 

 

21 july 2015, H 21.30

 

Florence (location to be shortly determined)

 

VIRTUOSI at the OPERA

 

Music by G. Bizet, G. Puccini, G. Verdi, V. Bellini

 

 

 

22 july 2015, H 21.30

 

Florence, Palazzo Medici-Riccardi

 

ARNOLD JACOBS TRIBUTE

 

Italian Brass Week's Tuba Team

 

Director: M° Roger Bobo

 

23 july 2015, H 21.30

 

Florence, Santa Croce Church

 

UNITED BRASS ENSEMBLE

 

World premiere Events

 

Director: M° Roger Bobo

 

The United Brass Ensemble is made up of musicians from 24 different countries and has as its purpose the union between people through the universal language of music. Teachers and students IBW together to celebrate an international meeting in favor of UNICEF. The evening will include classical music, ethnic and folk.

 

 

 

24 july 2015, H 20.30

 

Florence, Ponte Vecchio and Arno River

 

WATER MUSIC for LIFE with the POP HORN ENSEMBLE

 

This concert is in collaboration with:

 

Associazione “I Renaioli” di Firenze

 

Circolo Canottieri di Firenze

 

H 20.30 - Musical Regata on the Arno River

 

H 21.00 - Water Music by G. F. Handel

 

Concert aboard the historic Renaioli boats

 

H 21.30 – Concert at the Circolo Canottieri di Firenze

 

Director: M° Dale Clevenger

 

 

 

25 july 2015, H 21.30

 

Florence, Piazza Signoria

 

ITALIAN BRASS WEEK ENSEMBLE in CONCERT

 

Music By C. Santana, J. Williams, R. Strauss, A. Copland

 

Director: M° Luca Benucci

 

 

 

26 july 2015, H 21.30

 

Florence, Opera House

 

ITALIAN BRASS WEEK “GALÁ CONCERT”

 

Chamber Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

 

Brass Soloist: Andrea Dell'Ira, Otto Sauter, Francisco “Pachi” Flores, Luca Benucci, Han Xiao Ming, Steve Rosse

 

Director: M° Alain Trudel

 

 

 

Website: www.italianbrass.com

 

email: [email protected]

 

Location Florence (Tuscany, Italy)

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