Berlin, Festivaletteratura, MITO and Trinity College Dublin

proust1Emanuele Torquati will perform several concerts from end of August on, with different Solo and Chamber music projects. He will continue the collaboration with narrator Luca Scarlini, for two monographic tales on Ciaikovsky, playing a selection from “The Seasons op. 37/bis” and 18 Morceaux op. 72, and a completely new one on Marcel Proust, the latter for prestigious Festivaletteratura Mantova. The debut of this project will also include the performance of rares Reynaldo Hahn’s “Portraits de peintres”, on Proust’s texts, beside a selection of composers quoted in the “Recherche” and loved by the famous French writer. The concerts will take place on 27th August in Bormio and on 7th September in Mantova, with a repeat performance on 9th for Torri dell’Acqua Budrio.

More, on 30th October, Emanuele will give a Lecture-Recital at prestigious Trinity College Dublin, for the recently established Music Composition Centre. This institution is providing a new platform for composers equipped for the emerging music of the 21st century. In this occasion, Torquati will offer an extremely varied New Music program, featuring rising talents such as Samy Moussa and Francesco Filidei, along with important works by Pascal Dusapin, Michel Van der Aa and Jonathan Harvey, recently passed away.

As it regards his Chamber music projects, Emanuele will be first in Berlin, presenting “DISTANT VOICES STILL LIVES” with cellist Francesco Dillon on 3rd September at Deutsche Bank KunstHalle during “SUEDEN – Villa Romana in Berlin”. After that, they will take part in Italy’s biggest Festival, MITO Settembremusica, on 17th September in Turin, playing a Recital with music by Lucia Ronchetti, Sergeri Rachmaninov and Edvard Grieg.