The Puccini Festival pays tribute to Pier Paolo Pasolini, writer, poet, director, screenwriter, playwright and journalist, in the year in which the centenary of the birth of one of the greatest Italian intellectuals of the 1970s is celebrated.
A tribute paid through the initiative, “La meglio Gioventù”, two evenings of unpublished music – which takes its title from the collection of poems dedicated to young people that Pasolini published in 1954 and which inspired the four new compositions entrusted to the musicians Marcello Filotei, Salvatore Frega, Andrea Manzoli and Roberta Vacca, which will be premiered on 2 and 3 August under the direction of Maestro Fabio Maestri.
The two evenings, in collaboration with the Dante Alighieri Society, will be streamed worldwide through the Dante offices. The initiative enjoys the support of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers – Mission Structure for the enhancement of national anniversaries and the participatory dimension of the new generations.
The Composers
Salvatore Frega
In him and in his music there is a synaesthesia between sounds and colours, experienced from Goethe onwards but really deepened by the composer. Frega’s new path seems to lead to original, almost unique results, based not on an impressionistic juxtaposition but on a precise planning”. (Renzo Cresti)
Marcello Filotei
enjoys mood swings. Making the most of his moments of optimism, he graduated in piano, composition and electronic music from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. The rest of the time he puts into music what he cannot express otherwise.
Roberta Vacca
is a teacher at the Conservatorio “A. Casella” in L’Aquila, where she also completed her musical studies, continuing them at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Accademia Chigiana with Azio Corghi. Winner of numerous national and international prizes and awards, composer-in-residence at Mac Dowell Colony (U.S.A.), Fondazione per le Lettere e per le Arti di Bogliasco and Residenza d’Artista “Le Ville Matte”, she has to her credit several works performed in Italy and abroad, present in five monographs and several record collections on various labels.
Andrea Manzoli
born in Atri (Te), graduated in Composition at the Conservatory of Music “Nino Rota” in Monopoli under the guidance of Maestro Marco Della Sciucca. In 2004 he obtained a diploma in Composition avec mention très bienat the Conservatoire National de Région in Strasbourg and in 2009 he graduated from the Advanced Course in Composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with M° Ivan Fedele. Many of his compositions have been performed by orchestras and ensembles.
