Join TYBO: Workshops & auditions scheduled on May

By theresia - January 27, 2016
TYBO looking for new musicians: workshops&auditions are scheduled from 4th to 7th May in Venice

The Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra (TYBO) organises from 4th to 7th May 2016 in Venice its yearly Auditions & Workshops to select new musicians that will take part in TYBO’s musical stages and orchestral projects in 2016-2019. Courses and auditions will be held in Venice, at “Giorgio Cini” Foundation.

The Auditions & Workshops are open to violin, viola, cello, doublebass, flute, horn and bassoon and will consist in a series of ensemble and orchestral master classes held by TYBO principal conductors (Claudio Astronio, Chiara Banchini and Alfredo Bernardini) and focusing on chamber and orchestral music of the Classical Era, including Boccherini, Mozart, Haydn, Kraus and others: the detailed program and the musical scores will be sent to admitted applicants by mid-April 2016.

The Auditions & Workshops are open to professional musicians – including advanced students – born after 1st January 1988. Both in-depth knowledge of performance praxis on authentic instruments and use of authentic instruments or copies of authentic instrument is a mandatory requirement. The use of classical instruments is warmly recommended by the Organisation and the Selection Committee.

For further details and complete informations go to the official Workshops&Auditions page or download the regulation!

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La recensione: “Un incanto barocco strega le Vigne”

By theresia - November 24, 2015
Una pioggia di applausi per il percorso da Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach fino a Boccherini dei giovani talenti della Tybo

[custom_heading center=”true”]Sabato sera l’esibizione della Theresia Baroque Youth Orchestra ha inaugurato il cartellone di eventi degli Amici della Musica, che proseguirà fino a maggio[/custom_heading]

di Elide Bergamaschi

Cresce sotto i nostri occhi per qualità, vigore, maturità, la bella compagine di talenti che dall’Europa tutta sono confluiti a rinforzare le luminose fila della Theresia Baroque Youth Orchestra. Con la città di Lodi, la formazione giovanile nata da un progetto di imprenditoria culturale pare avere ormai consolidato un legame a doppio filo fatto di musica condivisa a ricambiare un’ospitalità quanto mai preziosa per costruire, prova dopo prova, l’approccio interpretativo alla pagina.
Il concerto dello scorso sabato 21 novembre, al Teatro alle Vigne, sulla strada di Padova, dove erano attesi l’indomani, portava la firma di questi coraggiosi spadaccini dal volto pulito; era, questa, la loro quarta apparizione in terra lodigiana, dopo il trionfale debutto avvenuto lo scorso ottobre 2014 presso la chiesa di San Francesco.
Gli Amici della Musica hanno voluto la loro freschezza ad inaugurare il pregevole cartellone di appuntamenti che si snoderà fino al maggio prossimo. A guidarli, di fronte ad un pubblico coraggiosamente numeroso a dispetto della serata di pioggia torrenziale, era di nuovo l’asburgico nitore di Chiara Banchini, condottiera di razza con cui i giovani ragazzi della Tybo hanno ordito un avvincente percorso attorno alle ravvicinate distanze che da Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach portano alle soglie del tardo classicismo, ad Haydn e, soprattutto, a Boccherini.

Un viaggio serrato ed intenso sin dall’iniziale Sinfonia in mi minore Wq 178 del più celebre dei figli del sommo Kantor, articolata per frasi scolpite con pari sottigliezza e precisione, nel nervoso piglio dell’Allegro iniziale dalla spiccata vivacità concessa ai ritmi, all’uso puntuale dei chiaro-scuri assicurato da cembalo ed archi gravi. La nordica precisione di questa lettura, distante per latitudine e temperatura dalla plastica avvolgenza di Claudio Astronio, pareva sciogliersi di fronte alla suadenza di Johann Christian Bach e della sua Sinfonia concertante C 44; qui, privi delle autorevoli briglie del direttore, i ragazzi davano vita ad un autentico divertissement musicale dove l’austera formazione sembrava sposarsi felicemente ad più una svagata libertà; lampanti, le cifre dell’estro e di una temperata esuberanza esaltavano le pregevoli individualità di Agniesza Papierska e Klaudia Matlak – violini pronti a rincorrersi, tra echi e giocosi labirinti, nella Cadenza del primo movimento – e di Maria Misiarz al violoncello. E, a sorpresa, nel secondo movimento, ecco l’irrompere gentile e bucolico, dolce e progressivamente ripiegato in una dolente mestizia, del flauto di Laura Lovisa, a scardinare di nuovo lo sbalzo delle parti in rilievo e l’incalzante fondale del tutti. Un incanto.

Esponenziale nei volumi, nel sinfonismo della scrittura, nell’impettito procedere di cavalleria in parata solenne, il Boccherini levigato dalla Banchini, tornata alla testa dell’orchestra, era infine un saggio di vigorosa efficacia. Lasciate alle spalle le compassate geometrie della ramificata famiglia Bach, con la drammatica teatralità di un Haydn già applaudito nel concerto di debutto a fare da mirabolante punto di fuga, tutto di questa Sinfonia op. 42 suonava arioso, narrativo; lussureggiante, addirittura, il secondo movimento, che conduceva senza indugi alla giostra di ritorni del Presto finale, replicato a fine concerto, a ringragiamento di una autentica pioggia, questa volta di applausi.

Recensione pubblicata su “Il Cittadino” lunedì 23 novembre 2015

Zoroastro, le fotografie del set cinematografico

By theresia - October 21, 2015
Gli scatti di Massimo Di Capua raccontano il set di "Zoroastro"

[custom_heading center=”true”]Sbirciando nel backstage di Zoroastro[/custom_heading]

Nella bellissima gallery di Massimo Di Capua, alcuni scatti suggestivi che raccontano le giornate riminesi in cui Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra e Claudio Astronio hanno suonato per il film concerto “Zoroastro” di Gianni Di Capua. Buona visione!

Let’s show you the beautiful pictures by Massimo Di Capua: in the gallery you can see Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra and Claudio Astronio performing under the movie direction of Gianni Di Capua. Enjoy it!

Gianni Di Capua intervistato da Radio3

By theresia - October 17, 2015
La trasmissione Radio3 Suite intervista Gianni Di Capua: Francesco Antonioni dialoga con il regista del film concerto "Zoroastro" a pochi minuti dal ciak.

La trasmissione Radio3 Suite intervista Gianni Di Capua: Francesco Antonioni dialoga con il regista del film concerto “Zoroastro” a pochi minuti dal ciak.

What’s around the corner?

By theresia - September 16, 2015
A few tips about next concerts

What’s around the corner? The last project has just ended and a new adventure is already waiting for Theresia. We are going to tell more in the next weeks, but for now know that: we’ll be back in Lodi, which is one of our favourite venues; we’ll perform also in a town – Rimini – we have never been before, which is thrilling! For the very first time we’ll perform with singers, and the repertoriore will be totally new too: we will perform Rameau, excerpts from the opera “Zoroastre”. We are going to work again with our permanent conductor, Claudio Astronio, a great musician and a great friend, and, last but not least, the Rimini concerts will be filmed: yes, Theresia is going to be part of a documentary film, directed by Gianni Di Capua, and we are looking forward to it!

Concerts will be on 14th October in Lodi and on 16th and 17th October in Rimini.

Therefore stay tuned, we are going to tell more details in the next weeks!

Theresia in Bolzano

By theresia - August 24, 2015
Some shots from Bolzano concert!

Here there are some shots from the Bolzano concert: click on photos to enlarge.

Chiara Banchini intervistata da Radio3 Suite

By theresia - August 22, 2015
[row padding_top=”” padding_bottom=”” bg=”” bg_light=”true” appear=”false”] [column size=”1-2″ appear=”false”]Ecco il podcast dell’intervista che la trasmissione Radio3 Suite ha fatto a Chiara Banchini due giorni prima del concerto di Bolzano. Siamo felici di una così ampia attenzione alle nostre attività![/column] [column size=”1-2″ appear=”false”]Radio 3 Suite, the main musical radio program on italian national radio, interviewed Chiara […]

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Theresia a Dobbiaco

By theresia - August 22, 2015
Uno sguardo al concerto nell'Auditorium Mahler del Centro Culturale Grand Hotel di Dobbiaco

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The summer of Theresia: what are they going to play?

By theresia - August 15, 2015
Insights on the music that TYBO will perform in Bozen and Toblach

The program that Theresia will perform in Toblach and Bozen is entirely devoted to two of the most important composers of the late eighteenth century: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Luigi Boccherini. Musical storiography and also performers have often considered them as less important composers. But the truth is that, despite a certain isolation, both of them had a great influence, each one in his own way, on composers of the following generation. The concise G major Symphony Wq80 that Theresia will perform first was composed by Bach in Zittau in 1758. It is a very successful example of Bach’s symphonic style: we found masterfully melted structural elements (the three movements are linked and are supposed to be performed seamlessly) and narrative elements, that are enlighted by the “enpfindsam” nature of the musical style.

E flat major Concert Wq47 is the last instrumental composition by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: he composed it when he was 74, in the last year of his life (1788). This concert is undoubtfully the most famous composition written for both harpsichord and fortepiano, two instruments that, in the modern thought, appear to be like competitors and chronologically distant: but as a matter of fact, they coexisted in concert halls till the beginning of XIX century. Mozart himself performed his concerts with harpsichord in the mid-eighties while, in the same years, performing with fortepiano or harpsichord was immaterial. Bach’s musical writing demonstrates this claim, because language is the same for both: fortepiano and harpsichord converse with each other using the same texture and the same frames, without departing from a thread that focuses on the musical meaning, and deliberately leaving aside the dualism between harpsichord and fortepiano.

Boccherini’s late symphonic production is well represented by concise D major Ouverture (1790), one of the most celebrated works for orchestra, and by enchanting D major Symphony nr. 27 G520, written for Prussian King Wilhelm II in 1789. This very composition is a work of great interest with both structural and narrative elements modern and experimental, mostly in the last movement (Presto). The symphonic idea is here very close to an advanced concept, like the contemporary Viennese symphonic style of Mozart and Haydn.

Enlighted funds

By theresia - August 10, 2015
The Italian music magazine Amadeus dedicates a page to Theresia: music and patronage in the interview with Mario Martinoli by Edoardo Tomaselli

Edoardo Tomaselli

It’s a question of choice. If one has money, he can decide to use it to buy a home, or something else that money makes possible. The most whimsical ones will aim to purchase a Ferrari; otherwise, one can decide to give birth to an orchestra, and actually support it in its path. And all of this in a country like Italy, where private citizens that decide to invest in a patronage project have no fiscal facilitations at all. There is a fundamental element we should not ignore: patronage means making things real, means seeing how a project becomes a concrete reality, capable of growing over time.

For all these reasons Mario Martinoli gave birth, in 2012 in Rovereto, to Theresia Youth Baroque Orchestra. The orchestra is composed of a group of musicians under 30 from all over Europe and it is devoted to Classic repertoire; it has not an unique conductor, it has its own concert season, and organizes a serie of workshop in which musicians are waged. Only thanks to patronage. «The idea behind Theresia is actually the result of different ideas, and it is a crisis time solution… » as Martinoli explains. Mario Martinoli is an harpsichordist and an editor that has been working for years in the TV field. «The crisis didn’t spare even Trentino: despite the undertaking of the local institutions, it has become difficult, if not impossible, to plan cultural activities well in advance. During the last year I’ve seen many activities weaken and get thinner, while everywhere orchestras shut down. It’s the crisis of the public financing system, and of the private citizens world too. I did not care to buy a house, even less a sport car, and I preferred to invest my resources to give life to this orchestra.»

Patronage as the result of a choice, as a value in itself: beside Martinoli, other two private citizens support the project. They are an italian living abroad, who asks to stay anonymous, and the business woman Elena Gaboardi. «Patronage means making oneself available, without a feedback is due. In a project like this, bound to something unsubstantial like music is, one’s support allows the growth of an enterprise as alive as an orchestra can be», Martinoli says. Often the tutors themselves contribute unselfishly committing in the orchestra growing. Among the many names, Chiara Banchini’s one stands out: «In 2011 Chiara had decided to retire: but when she knew about our project she decided to get back in game, and as a conductor too. In the meantime we are programming next steps, till 2017, with many projects: one of them is devoted to Rameau, one other to german composer Joseph Martin Kraus». In 2015 Theresia – whose name is a tribute to Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, who revolutionized the Habsburg Empire on the basis of Enlightnment – has a rich calendar of concerts: in May they performed in Lodi, Rome and L’Aquila (with Claudio Astronio as conductor), on 21st August it will be in Toblach and in 22nd in Bozen (with Chiara Banchini); other concerts are scheduled till the end of November in many italian cities that decided to support the Theresia-project.