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PIANO SUMMER SALENTO

26|08|21 – 03|09|21

Don't stop the music!

Important: We have been experiencing technical issues with ticket reservations. We are not sure how long it has been going on, so if you’ve reserved your tickets for the concerts via the form on our website, and have not received a confirmation email, please make your reservation again by sending an email to salento@pianosummer.eu. Sorry for the inconvenience!

Important: As the concerts are open air, in case of unfavorable weather conditions, they may be delayed to the next day. If such thing occurs, ticket holders will be informed of the change.

PIANO SUMMER is the festival for piano music par excellence in Southern Europe – a project established eight years ago, which has attracted over 8000 visitors. An unusual cultural project, far from the safely travelled European cultural highways with their accompanying folklore, which seem to be inevitable at classical music festivals; it offers first-class musical performances with an opportunity for the audience to experience renowned artists at close range as well as fresh new talents from the international music scene.

In past editions, artists such as Natalia Gutmann, Gülsin Onay, Klaus Schilde, Miku Nishimoto and Goran Jurić have shown their skills on our stage, and the festival not only has offered successful summer academies, but also many world premieres and support programs for the young performers.

A festival that helped a sleepy southern Serbian provincial town far from the capital, which is now part of a worldwide network of 20 creative cities in the field of music, to be awarded a Unesco prize.

The project includes numerous concerts, a summer academy, competitions to promote young talent, an artist-in-residence program, and a creative network initiative that enables young people from all over the world to participate, gain experience, and learn to organise such a project.

 

Zoran Imširović
Founder & Artistic director

Zoran Imširović
Founder & Artistic director

Piano Summer is finally coming to Salento! After the first edition last year being canceled due to the pandemic, we have decided to let optimism reign and to have this first edition of Piano Summer Salento take place in late August / early September 2021. The program will be slightly adapted in volume, but the most important is to defy the circumstances and to bring music back on stage.

The world needs art and beauty to heal. The Salento region, depending a lot on tourism, will need activities as such to recover from the trauma and economic damage left by this crisis, as well as the artists. They have been as badly affected by the cancellation their activities and have lost all sources of income over a long period of time. With four concerts in the Chiostro dei Carmelitani in Nardò and another one in the Castello di Depressa, our inaugural season will bring a select program of piano music performed by internationally renowned artists to you. We hope that the audience – local residents and visitors alike – will enjoy this series of concerts, which will take place in open air venues respecting the sanitary requirements in place.

Thank you to everyone who supported us on this way so far and during the summer!

Don’t stop the music!

 

Katrin BrĂśkelmann
Festival Director

Katrin BrĂśkelmann
Festival Director

PROGRAM

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Castello Winspeare | Depressa

26|08|21, 21:30h

Postponed to 27|08|21, 21:30h

ZORAN IMŠIROVIĆ

Zoran Imširović was born in 1979 in Yugoslavia. At the age of fourteen, he started his music education in Niš in Svetlana Korunović’s class, while simultaneously being tutored by Miroslava Lila Petrović in Belgrade. In 1997, Zoran was accepted in the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, his main professors having been distinguished pianists such as Vadim Sukhanov, Michael Leslie, Gernot Sieber, Roxana Steubing and Olaf Dressler. Pivotal musical impulses arose from the longtime work with Klaus Schilde and Eliso Virsaladze and from master classes with Rudolf Kehrer, Michail Voskresensky, Amadeus Vebersinke, Georg Sava, Karl Betz, Naum Starkman, Eliso Virsaladze, Klaus Schilde, Konrad Richter and Menahem Pressler.

After completing his studies, he started an international concert career by presenting his work in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Malta and the former Yugoslavian countries. Especially noteworthy is his FRANZ LISZT SUPERSTAR tour, which took place on the occasion of the composer’s 200th birth anniversary and was also showcased on German public television. Among other awards and distinctions, he has won the Golden Lion of Veneto in Italy.

As an artist, Zoran in constant search for new ways to bring music closer to the audiences and for this reason he initiated in 2014 the PIANO SUMMER project. Zoran has participated in festivals such as Kammermusik Festival NĂźrnberg, Klavierfestival Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Musikherbst Radolfzell, The Flower of Tisa, Chopin Fest Belgrade, Brahms Festival Heide. He is also a regular performer at concerts organized by the Goethe-Institut, Heinrich BĂśhl Stiftung, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Konzerthaus Berlin, Konzerthaus Bleibach, Richard Strauss Villa Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Palazzo Del Gran Guardia Verona, Hubert Burda Hall Munich, Nymphenburg Palace, the Munich Residence, Ars Bosnae, Centre Culturel de Serbie Paris, Balkannet, Sarajevo Art and SANU.

Piano

Bach
Toccata BWV912 D Major

Liszt
Sposalizio „Anne du Pelerinage II“
La lugubre gondola I & II
Invocation „Harmonies poetiques et religieuses“
Valse oubilee no. 1
Consolation no. 3

Albeniz
Iberia Book I
• Evocation
• El Puerto
• Fête – Dieu à Séville

Castello Aragonese | Nardò

27|08|21

Canceled (concert from 26|08 postponed to 27|08)

Cocktail • Evening reception for the festival guests

Chiostro dei Carmelitani | Nardò

28|08|21, 21:30h

ZORAN IMŠIROVIĆ

Zoran Imširović was born in 1979 in Yugoslavia. At the age of fourteen, he started his music education in Niš in Svetlana Korunović’s class, while simultaneously being tutored by Miroslava Lila Petrović in Belgrade. In 1997, Zoran was accepted in the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich, his main professors having been distinguished pianists such as Vadim Sukhanov, Michael Leslie, Gernot Sieber, Roxana Steubing and Olaf Dressler. Pivotal musical impulses arose from the longtime work with Klaus Schilde and Eliso Virsaladze and from master classes with Rudolf Kehrer, Michail Voskresensky, Amadeus Vebersinke, Georg Sava, Karl Betz, Naum Starkman, Eliso Virsaladze, Klaus Schilde, Konrad Richter and Menahem Pressler.

After completing his studies, he started an international concert career by presenting his work in Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Malta and the former Yugoslavian countries. Especially noteworthy is his FRANZ LISZT SUPERSTAR tour, which took place on the occasion of the composer’s 200th birth anniversary and was also showcased on German public television. Among other awards and distinctions, he has won the Golden Lion of Veneto in Italy.

As an artist, Zoran in constant search for new ways to bring music closer to the audiences and for this reason he initiated in 2014 the PIANO SUMMER project. Zoran has participated in festivals such as Kammermusik Festival NĂźrnberg, Klavierfestival Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Musikherbst Radolfzell, The Flower of Tisa, Chopin Fest Belgrade, Brahms Festival Heide. He is also a regular performer at concerts organized by the Goethe-Institut, Heinrich BĂśhl Stiftung, Pinakothek der Moderne Munich, Konzerthaus Berlin, Konzerthaus Bleibach, Richard Strauss Villa Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Palazzo Del Gran Guardia Verona, Hubert Burda Hall Munich, Nymphenburg Palace, the Munich Residence, Ars Bosnae, Centre Culturel de Serbie Paris, Balkannet, Sarajevo Art and SANU.

Piano

Bach
Toccata BWV912 D Major

Liszt
Sposalizio „Anne du Pelerinage II“
La lugubre gondola I & II
Invocation „Harmonies poetiques et religieuses“
Valse oubilee no. 1
Consolation no. 3

Albeniz
Iberia Book I
• Evocation
• El Puerto
• Fête – Dieu à Séville

Chiostro dei Carmelitani | Nardò

30|08|21, 21:30h

MIKU NISHIMOTO

The Japanese pianist Miku Nishimoto has lived and worked in Europe for many years. After completing her studies in Hanover with Professor Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, she received further important stimuli in Munich through working with Klaus Schilde, Andreas Schmidt. Her concerts in Germany and other European countries soon attracted wider recognition. Prizes at international competitions, among others in Porto, Vevey or at the Bach competition in Leipzig testify to the exceptional skill evident in her compelling piano performances.

Nishimoto-Neubert's sense of style is central to her interpretative approach. This enables the pianist to convey a wide spectrum ofofusic to her listeners. Her sensitive articulation and musical understanding is brought to bear on a wide range of musical genres including piano chamber music. A number of recordings testify to the broad repertoire of the pianist, ranging from Bach to contemporary works. She places special emphasis upon the Romantic and Impressionist piano literature.

For several years she has been for accompaniment at the University for Music and Performing Arts in Munich. In October 2017 she was appointed an honorary professor.

Piano

Bach
Italian Concerto BWV971
English Suite no. 2 BWV807

Beethoven
Sonata op. 111

Chiostro dei Carmelitani | Nardò

01|09|21, 21:30h

ADRIANO JORDÃO

Adriano JordĂŁo was born in Angola in 1946. He studied in Portugal with Helena SĂĄ e Costa and other teachers. In 1967, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation offered him a grant, which enabled him to do a year of advanced study in the United States of America. In 1969, after completed the National Conservatory of Lisbon advanced course with the highest distinction, in Helena Matos class, he continued to study in Paris, under the guidance of Yvonne LefĂŠbure. He won awards in several Portuguese and international competitions, including the 1st Prize in the Debussy International Competition in France.

Adriano JordĂŁo's artistic career has taken him all over Europe, North and South America, as well as Africa and Asia. After his American dĂŠbut in the USA (with the Kingsport Symphony in the Tennessee) he played in San Francisco, Washington, Boston and New York, at the Lincoln Center (with the New Orchestra of Boston under David Epstein) on the Carnegie Hall( with the Queen's Symphony under John Neschling) and also in Canada. His concerts in Brazil, at all the major halls, in Mexico, Venezuela, Paraguay, as in Africa (Morocco, Senegal, Cape Vert, Angola and Mozambique) or Asia (India, Thailand, China, Korea ,Japan) achieved always great success. Adriano JordĂŁo also appeared, besides of course Portugal, in Spain, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Austria, Finland, Russia, Byelorussia, Ukraine, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Turkey.

Founder and Director of the Macao International Music Festival for the first five years, Artistic Director of the Casa de Mateus and the Azores Festival in all their editions, was also Director of the Sintra Festival.

For 2021 he hopes to complete many of the projects postponed in 2020, with concerts already scheduled in Coimbra, Mafra and Azores, and also in Rabat, Morocco, Belgrade and Varjam in Serbia and in Brindisi and Rome, in Italy;

ADRIANO JORDÃO

Piano

Bach/Liszt
Prelude and fugue BWV 543 a minor

Seixsas
3 sonatas
• A major
• C Major
• D major

Haydn
Sonata Hob. XVI:35 C major
• Andante con espressione
• Rondo Allegro

Beethoven
Sonata op. 13 c minor “Pathétique”
• Grave – Allegro di molto con brio
• Adagio Cantabile
• Rondo:Allegro

Debussy
Estampes
• Pagodes
• La soirée dans Grenade
• Jardins sous la pluie

Chiostro dei Carmelitani | Nardò

03|09|21, 21:30h

GÜLSIN ONAY

Gülsin Onay began playing the piano at the age of three, and gave her first public recital on Turkish Radio when she was six. With the aid of a special state scholarship she studied with Ahmed Adnan Saygun and Mithat Fenmen, and then in Paris, where her teachers includes Pierre Sancan, Monique Haas and Nadia Boulanger.. She graduated from the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 16, winning the prestigious “Premier Prix du Piano”, and prizes in top international competitions, including the Marguerite Long-Jacques Thibaud (in Paris) and the Ferruccio Busoni (in Bolzano), quickly followed. Gülsin Onay's subsequent, truly international career has spanned 80 countries across all continents, from Venezuela to Japan. She has given concerts in the major musical centres of the world. She has performed as a soloist with such leading orchestras as Dresden Staatskapelle, Philharmonia Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic, Japan Philharmonic, Munich Radio Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Tokyo Symphony, Warsaw Philharmonic and Vienna Symphony Orchestras. Gülsin Onay's many festival appearances include Berlin, Warsaw, Granada, Mozartfest Würzburg, Newport, Schleswig-Holstein, Singapore and Istanbul.

Gülsin Onay is acknowledged worldwide as the definitive interpreter of the music of Ahmed Adnan Saygun, the leading Turkish composer of the 20th century, whose works feature prominently in her concerts and recordings, and whose 2nd Piano Concerto (which she premiered in Turkey and abroad) was dedicated to her. Other contemporary composers who have dedicated works to Gülsin Onay are Hubert Stuppner, Denis Dufour, Jean-Louis Petit, Muhiddin Dürrüoğlu-Demiriz, Marc-André Hamelin and Bujor Hoinic.

Gülsin Onay's over 20 recorded albums to date illustrate the breadth of her repertoire as well as her interpretive power, with solo works and concertos from Haydn and Mozart to the contemporary era. Her 2007 CD featuring live concert recordings of Tchaikovsky’s 1st and Rachmaninov’s 3rd Piano Concerto has been acclaimed by critics and virtuosi alike. In 2008 CPO released her recording of both Saygun concertos, to widespread critical acclaim. For the 250 anniversary of Beethoven's birth, Gülsin Onay has recorded 2 CDs of the composer's works. Many of her concerts have been broadcast on European radio and television, and in the USA on National Public Radio. During the 2020–2021 coronavirus pandemic, Gülsin Onay has become a regular performer on social media, where her livestreamed concerts have received several million views.

Piano

Chopin
Brilliant variations on the favourite rondeau of “Ludovic” by HĂŠrold and HalĂŠvy, B flat major, op. 12
Nocturne op. 9 no. 2
Ballade no. 3 op. 47
Andante spianato and Grande Polonaise brillante op. 22
Sonata no. 3 op. 58

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