Theresia Wind Ensemble’s whistle-stop spring tour

By Emilia Campagna - April 28, 2023

Ready for a nice spring trip? The season is blooming, the weather is mild, and we are sure our musicians will be overjoyed for the three-stage tour that will take Theresia Wind Ensemble from Lodi to Rome to end in Koper (Slovienia).
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Ready for a nice spring city trip? The season is in bloom, the weather is mild, and we are pretty sure our wind musicians are excited to embark on are excited to embark on a three-stop tour which takes the Theresia Wind Ensemble to Lodi, Rome and finishes in Koper (Slovenia).

Theresia Wind Ensemble’s tour venues

Starting from 1st May, the wind players of Theresia Orchestra will meet in Lodi, home of the iCons Foundation and regular starting point of many of orchestra’s residencies. Five full rehearsal days studying music by Krommer, Mozart and Rossini under the guidance of Alfredo Bernardini, will culminate in a concert on Friday 5 May at 9:00pm at the Aula Magna of the Liceo Verri as part of the concert season of Lodi’s Teatro alle Vigne.

The next day, we’ll travel to Rome! Part of the afternoon and evening may be used to enjoy the beauty of the Eternal City, as the capital of Italy is often called. No doubt there are plenty of opportunities to savour blissful moments in Rome, strolling along the Tiber, enjoying legendary ice creams, being enchanted by majestic monuments, Baroque fountains and lush gardens.

Without pushing it too far, the wind players will perform the next day at the Quirinale Palace, the residence of the President of Italy. The concert of Sunday 7 May, 11.50 am will be broadcast live (!) on Rai Radio 3 as part of the weekly concert series from the Quirinale organised by Italy’s national broadcaster.

The concert series “I concerti della Rai al Quirinale” started in 2001 and for over twenty years, every Sunday (with rare exceptions) has made it possible to listen to great chamber music thanks to live radio broadcasting on Rai Radio 3 and all other stations in the Euroradio network of the European Broadcasting Union. Performing at the Quirinale is a great honour and a great opportunities for Theresia to connect live with our remote audience. However, this is not the first time for us at the Quirinale: the orchestra also performed at the Quirinale in 2015. If you want, you can take a little trip back in time and listen to our previous concert following this link!

The entrance to Quirinale Palace: the free concert ticket also includes a visit to the prestigious location

The spring tour of Theresia Wind Ensemble will end in Koper, a lovely, friendly city we’ve visited before. The wind players will perform on Monday 8 May, at 7.30 pm in a beautiful and historically rich venue, the Regional Museum. This concert will be broadcast and streamed live too (this time by RTV Slovenia) about which we are absolutely thrilled!

Another stunning location…. The Regional Museum of Koper (Capodistria, Slovenia)

What’s on the music stand?

This wind academy will focus on Harmoniemusik: this term originally identified an ensemble derived from the military band and composed of five to fifteen musicians. The name is due to the fact that in the early days of classicism, in the orchestral context, the wind instruments had the task of supporting the harmony of the pieces, instead of the now increasingly obsolete basso continuo. With the technical improvement of wind instruments and the increasing technical skill of the players, this formation gained partial independence, thanks in part to a vast repertoire of compositions dedicated to it.

Wind ensembles became particularly sought after in certain contexts, such as outdoor concerts (Serenades or Nocturnes) or during short marches and parades. They became increasingly popular and widespread, as evidenced by the presence of an large, specially composed repertoire and transcriptions from operas, ballets and symphonies.

Franz Krommer’s Partita op. 71, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Divertimento K388, and Wenzel Sedlak’s transcription of the most famous parts of Gioacchino Rossini’s Barbiere di Siviglia will be the musical program. Enjoy!

Theresia a Lodi e Padova

By Emilia Campagna - November 28, 2015

[custom_heading center=”true”]Le foto dei concerti con Chiara Banchini[/custom_heading] Quelli di Lodi e Padova sono stati due concerti speciali: hanno chiuso un anno meraviglioso e di cui ripercorreremo le tappe in un prossimo post; sono stata la terza esperienza dell’orchestra con Chiara Banchini, dopo gli stage dell’ottobre 2014 e dello scorso agosto; inoltre hanno visto protagoniste […]
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[custom_heading center=”true”]Le foto dei concerti con Chiara Banchini[/custom_heading]

Quelli di Lodi e Padova sono stati due concerti speciali: hanno chiuso un anno meraviglioso e di cui ripercorreremo le tappe in un prossimo post; sono stata la terza esperienza dell’orchestra con Chiara Banchini, dopo gli stage dell’ottobre 2014 e dello scorso agosto; inoltre hanno visto protagoniste nella Sinfonia Concertante di JC Bach alcune delle nostre più valide musiciste (la flautista Laura Lovisa, le violiniste Klaudia Matlak e Agnieszka Papierska e la violioncellista Maria Misiarz), ed è sempre un piacere per TYBO dare risalto ai propri talenti. Nella gallery fotografica alcuni momenti di quelle serate magiche!

The Lodi and Padua concerts were really special: they were the last concerts of a exciting year, that we’ll recall in a future post; they were the third step of the collaboration with Chiara Banchini after the concerts held in October 2014 and in the last August; then, last but not least, in these concerts four of the best TYBO musicians – Laura Lovisa (flute), Klaudia Matlak and Agnieszka Papierska (violin) and Maria Misiarz (cello) – were soloist in the JC Bach’s Symphonie Concertante, and it’s always a pleasure to highlight our young talents. In the photogallery you can see some moments of those magic nights!

Amici della musica “A. Schmid”, a long story of passion for music in Lodi

By Emilia Campagna - November 18, 2015

It is not the first time for TYBO in Lodi, and it’s not even the first time that we collaborate with “Amici della Musica A. Schmid”, Lodi’s concert society. But this time is very special, because the concert of Theresia on 21st November will open the concert season 2015-2016 of “Amici della Musica”. It’s a […]
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It was 1953 when a group of friends and music lovers decided to start a regular concert season of chamber music in Lodi: World War II had ended since eight years, and sure problems for people were still overwhelming, but they had the purpose of offering citizens opportunities to listen to classical music concerts. In Italy at that time it was neither simple nor obvious to program chamber music concerts: the dominance of opera was still unchallenged. Concert society devoted to chamber and instrumental music were such a few, especially far from major cities. The eleven promoters were then quite daring: beneath them, there was Augusto Schmid, who for years was President of Amici della Musica and, in practice, the Artistic Director too.

The musical activity began on March 6, 1954 with a concert by the young pianist Enrica Cavallo, destined for a brilliant career especially in duo with her husband, the great violinist Franco Gulli. In the following years some of the greatest musicians of that time performed in Lodi: Nikita Magaloff, Alfred Cortot, Alexis Weissemberg, Paul Badura Skoda, Vasa Prihoda, Arthur Grumiaux, Ivry Gitlis, Teresa Berganza, Trieste Trio, La Salle and Amadeus Quartet.

Paolo Marcarini has been Artistic Director since 1972; the 15-16 concert seasons consists of eight concerts, mainly devoted to chamber music and to classic-romantic repertoire. After Theresia concert, the theater will host the italian pianist Maria Perrotta (8th December) who will play music by Mozart, Brahms, Schubert: the concert season will end on 8th May with piano recital of Roberto Plano. In the meantime, Lodi’s music lover may listen to Kiev Radio and Television Orchestra (10th January: conductor Volodymyr Sheiko, soloist the pianist Sabrina Lanzi); in 6th February clarinetist Alessandro Travaglini, violist Bruno Giuranna and pianist Bruno Canino perform trios by Mozart, Reinecke, Kurtag and Schumann. Virtuoso violinist Stephan Milenkovic will give a recital on 13th March, and in April jazz lovers will have their moment, with the concert by Mattia Cigalini and Andrea Pozza (Saxophone and piano).