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MATER FESTIVAL EUROPÄISCHE AKADEMIE, PALAZZO RICCI, Montepulciano
 The principal aim of Palazzo Ricci Academy activity is to create an international attraction point where musicians and performers can work together for particular projetcs. Each year there are many courses for high musical emprovement directed by important musicians. There is a collaboration with international music institutions like Beethovenfest of Bonn, the Academy of S. Cecilia, Fiesole School, Franci Institute of Siena, the Fondazione del Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte and are hosted cultural events of high level. The aim of the Academy is to strengthen the idea of European integration which is directly reflected in cultural and artistic forms. Palazzo Ricci has hosted important artists as Berliner Philhamoniker Quartet,Alban Berg, Fauré, Minguet and Auryn, the violinists Salvatore Accardo, Zakhar Bron and Walter Levin, the singers Edda Moser, Alberto Rinaldi and Siegfried Jerusalem, the composers George Crumb and Peter Ruzicka, the saxophonist Lee Konitz, the directors Michael Hampe and Georges Delnon, the cellist Frans Helmerson, the trumpet-players Gabriele Cassone and Urban Agnas, the pianists Pavel Gililov and Andrea Lucchesini, and many others. The European Academy celebrated in September 2006 it's fifth anniversary presenting to international press and to the audience a festival with more than 20 appointments. It was filmed for the TV and recorded by radio. For the occasion Henze, from the Music School of Neuss (in Renania Westfalia), the Opera Pollicino for children . Where&When |
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