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Final concert and award ceremony of the Dante 700 Competition
1 Ottobre 2021 @ 21:00 UTC+1
5€ - 8€
Final concert and award ceremony of the Dante 700 Competition
1st October at 21:00
Teatro Politeama – Prato
Performance of the three finalists’ pieces of the competition, announcement and awarding of the winner
> Nachbild – Steven Heelein
> The waves I ride have never yet been crossed – David John Roche
> Dantesca – Matteo Rubini
Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato | Orchestra Filarmonica di Firenze – La Filharmonie
Nima Keshavarzi, conductor
About the concert
The word «sinfonia» – symphony – entered the Italian language thanks to Dante’s Commedia. It appears in the third Cantica with the verse «the dulcet symphony of Paradise». Coming from the whirling linguistic forge of him who «was of the mother tongue a better smith», the word undertook a glorious path in the history of music until today. It is this which in the first place moved two orchestras from Tuscany, Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato and La Filharmonie, to connect in an act of gratitude towards Dante, on the 700th anniversary of his death. Guiding musicians to draw inspiration from the Divina Commedia with an International Competition of Symphonic Composition seemed an appropriate idea to the two institutions.
La parola «sinfonia» fece il suo ingresso nella lingua italiana grazie alla Commedia di Dante. Compare nella terza Cantica, col verso «la dolce sinfonia di Paradiso». Uscita dalla vertiginosa fucina linguistica di colui che fu davvero «fabbro del parlar materno», quella parola intraprese un cammino glorioso nella storia della musica, fino ad oggi. È questo, in primo luogo, che ha mosso due orchestre toscane, la Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato e la Filharmonie, a unirsi in un atto di gratitudine a Dante nel settimo centenario della sua scomparsa. Indirizzare i musicisti a trarre ispirazione dalla Commedia con un concorso di composizione sinfonica è parsa l’idea più appropriata da parte di due istituzioni che vogliono celebrare «l’altissimo poeta». The three finalist composers of the Dante 700 International Symphonic Composition Competition participate through an artistic residency in orchestral rehearsals in contact with the conductor and performers. The three scores will be performed by the Camerata Strumentale Città di Prato and the Filharmonie Orchestra conducted by Maestro Nima Keshavarzi in the final concert open to the public at the Teatro Politeama Pratese. At the end of the concert the Jury of the competition will determine the winner.
Nima Keshavarzi
Nima Keshavarzi dedicates with passion to opera and to symphonic repertoire and has collaborated with some of the major Italian and European opera houses such as the Rome Opera House, the Teatro Regio in Turin, Palau de les Arts in Valencia, the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, the Teatro Regio di Parma – Verdi Festival, the Rossini Opera Festival. He is guest conductor of the Tehran Symphony Orchestra and the Iranian National Orchestra. Co-founder and musical director of La Filharmonie – Florence Philharmonic Orchestra; he has conducted the orchestra since its debut in 2016 in Florence, achieving an exciting success with audiences and critics. He assisted Zubin Mehta and Roberto Abbado.