1. Course for cellists with monthly meetings in Rome - teachers Prof. Michael Flaksman and Prof. Jelena Ocic. Accademia Internazionale Musicale di Roma. Information: Eleonora Malavasi, secretary (email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).
2. Chamber Music Festival "Carl Orff" in Putignano, Apulien, Italy, September 2012 - Artistic Directors Michael Flaksman and Vito Amatulli. Information from V. Amatulli (email: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it )
3. Chamber Music Festival "Ascoli Piceno Festival" in Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy, September 2012 - Artistic Director Michael Flaksman. Information from This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
4. Newly released CD (Challenge Classics) with Jelena Ocic, cello and Federico Lovato, piano. The CD contains: Ignaz Moscheles Preludes based on J.S. Bach, L.v. Beethoven "Kreutzer Sonata" in Carl Czerny's version for cello and piano, Hindemith Sonata op.11 no.3

The Scuola di Musica di Fiesole is the dream of a great musician who was so enamoured with the deep sea of music that he felt the urgency to share this extraordinary cultural heritage with all of his fellow citizens. Italy has been for many centuries a synonym with music, but this primacy has slowly faded and musical language has become an unknown expression for most Italians: an unforgivable waste that Piero Farulli wanted to remedy in concrete terms by offering the keys to this secret world to everyone. Therefore in two rooms in Fiesole, as guest of the local Band, the viola of the never forgotten Quartetto Italiano founded a small School open to both children and adults who wished to make music either as a profession or simply as a passion.

We are pleased to announce a workshop in solo piano and chamber music with Professor Roberto Galletto, December 8-11 2011 at the Accademia Musicale "Ludus Tonalis" di Riano (situated just outside of Rome). The last day of the workshop will feature a Final Concert with the most promising participants. During the workshop there will also be a selection of participants to perform in the concert season of the Accademia for 2012. At the discretion of the workshop instructor, participants may also perform in 2 concerts on December 9 and 10. 

Professor Galletto teaches at the Conservatorio "S.Cecilia" di Roma and has a long career as a concert artist. He recently taught masterclasses at the prestigious Academy "I. Pederewski" in Poznan, and was a guest at the Dutch Classical Music Meeting and the Amsterdam Conservatory in the fall of 2011.

• masterclass announcement
• inscription form

www.quartettodicremona.it

• Quartetto di Cremona just signed a contract with the German label AUDITE to record all the Beethoven String Quartets in the next three years.
• Starting from next October, the Quartetto di Cremona will teach string quartet and chamber music for strings with piano in the prestigious international Walter Stauffer Academy, whose faculty includes Salvatore Accardo, Bruno Giuranna and Rocco Filippini. Auditions will take place in October.

For complete information: http://www.fondazionestauffer.eu/accademia.htm

Simone Gramaglia, violist of the Quartetto di Cremona, writes:

"Master4Strings, courses for viola and chamber music founded by Simone Gramaglia and his wife Roberta Ardito, is starting its 3rd season. Based in Bari and completely financed by private funds, the program is designed to provide the highest possible level of training to young and gifted musicians in southern Italy with limited financial resources. The program has grown and this year counts 10 viola students and 5 chamber music groups. This year there will also be a guest teacher every month."

Starting in October Simone Gramaglia (violist of the Quartetto di Cremona) will also be teaching viola for his second year at the Scuola Di Musica Di Fiesole. His wife, Roberta, will be his assistant. “In order to try to bring Italy near to other European nations, we'll start to teach viola directly to young children. We'll have 5 or 6 children in our class between 4 and 7 years of age that will start immediately with the viola. We obtained violas and viola strings specially made for children. It will be probably the first viola class in where is possible to study viola from the beginning, outside of Suzuki programs, developing immediately the sensibility for the sound and the role of this wonderful instrument. The idea is to write also a viola tutor in Italian language, which for the moment does not exist. All suggestions and experiences are welcome!”

http://www.amadeusonline.net

The September issue of Amadeus features a cd of the Prometeo Quartet playing the Schumann Opus 41 quartets, as well as in depth articles about Schumann, the writing of these quartets, and the career of the Prometeo. Excerpts from the cd can be listened to online:
http://www.amadeusonline.net/mp3/Schu0911.mp3

...their first International Festival of String Quartets, in Sicily.

Take a look at the flyer >>

14th International Chamber Music Course for Young String Players
27th July-7th August 2011 - Pra Catinat, Torino (Italy)

• Special guest: Rohan de Saram
• Honorary President: Dr. Hugh Maguire

The course programme consists of four daily classes two quartet sessions, one mixed group (trio/quintet/octet) and a chamber orchestra session. Every student plays in three different groups, each one coached by a different member of the teaching staff. Specific programmes are devised for established quartets (trios/quintets) who wish attend the course. At the end of the two weeks, all students will participate in both Passeggiata musicale at the San Carlo Fortress of Fenestrelle and in the Final Concert.

http://www.xeniaensemble.it/eng/courses/presentation.php