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STAUFFER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2024

 

5 – 10 July 2024

GARDEN OF PALAZZO STAUFFER

CREMONA

 

 

Now in its third year, the Stauffer Summer Music Festival takes place in the evocative atmosphere of Palazzo Stauffer’s Garden. Students and Teachers will be the protagonists of a cycle of five concerts, offering an immersion in the world of strings in their many nuances: from cello and double bass ensembles to the solo repertoire, from chamber music to orchestral music.

 

Friday 5 July, 9 pm

     Cello Consort

     Giovanni Sollima, cello

and Stauffer students

 

The polyhedric cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima will lead the Cello Ensemble in an exciting musical program, a musical journey with pieces from the instrument’s history from the 17th-century Viol Consort to today’s music.

 

Saturday 6 July, 9 p.m.

     Amabili contrasti

     Thumós Quartet and Trio Hermes

 

Chamber music will be the protagonist of the second evening, featuring the Quartetto Thumós and the Trio Hermes, ensembles of the String Quartet course held by the Quartetto di Cremona. The programme features Schumann’s First Trio and Shostakovich’s Sixth Quartet.

 

Sunday 7 July, 9 pm

     Note d’orchestra

     John Axelrod, conductor

and the Stauffer String Ensemble

 

The renowned American conductor John Axelrod will lead the Stauffer String Ensemble in the performance of some celebrated works of symphonic literature, from Mendelssohn and Puccini to Respighi and Wolf.

 

Tuesday 9 July, 9 pm

     Sinfonia a due

     Simon Zhu, violin

     Ettore Pagano, cello

 

The Stauffer alumni Simon Zhu, winner of the 53rd Paganini Competition, and Ettore Pagano, a very successful cellist on the international scene, will present a programme of brilliant virtuosity ranging from Bach and Paganini to Ravel and Glière.

 

Wednesday, 10 July, 9 pm

     Bass Night

     Alberto Bocini, double bass

and the Double Bass Ensemble

 

The Festival concludes with a concert of the Double Bass Ensemble: Alberto Bocini and his students will offer an unusual retrospective full of surprises about the fascinating instrument.

 

SOLD OUT

 

 

 

STAUFFER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2023

Second Edition

 

 

The Stauffer Foundation presented a new edition of the Stauffer Summer Music Festival, designed to offer an encounter with diverse musical cultures from around the world. The series of five free-entry concerts was held from July 12 to 16, 2023, in the Garden of Palazzo Stauffer.

 

The protagonists of the evenings were the students of the Academy and the summer masterclasses, who performed together with their teachers.

 

For the first time in the enchanting garden of the Cremonese academy, the guests included Pablo Ziegler, a living legend of Argentine tango, and Abel Selaocoe, a versatile South African cellist and composer who moves through various genres and styles. Also returning to the Festival stage was Aleksey Igudesman, a violinist and composer famous for his synthetic and theatrical approach to music. The acclaimed musicians shared the stage with the students of the Stauffer Academy.

 

In its second edition, the Festival also dedicated two evenings to renowned alumni: violist Daniel Palmizio and violinist Anna Tifu, artists who studied at the Stauffer Academy and have now established themselves on the international scene.

 

Alongside the students and Professors of Stauffer, the World Youth Orchestra, the resident ensemble, performed under the direction of Damiano Giuranna.

 

 

 

STAUFFER SUMMER MUSIC FESTIVAL 2022

First Edition

 

 

The first edition of the Stauffer Summer Music Festival, organized by the Stauffer Foundation, took place in the Garden of Palazzo Stauffer. This festival was designed to celebrate the diverse musical cultures of the world through string instruments and was dedicated to the memory of Andrea Mosconi, an excellent figure in the cultural scene of Cremona, who, together with Maestro Salvatore Accardo, was instrumental in the founding of the Stauffer Academy.

 

From July 8 to 16, 2022, six concerts were performed, featuring some of the greatest international artists alongside the students and alumni of the Stauffer Academy. On stage, Aleksey Igudesman, a versatile violinist, performed alongside Roby Lakatos, a legend of gypsy violinism; violinist Giuseppe Gibboni (winner of the 2021 Paganini Competition); and cellist Miriam Prandi, two distinguished alumni of the Stauffer Academy.

 

Additionally, the soloists of the Ensemble intercontemporain, Diego Tosi (violin) and John Stulz (viola), artists specialized in 21st-century repertoire, performed alongside young Stauffer students. The artists from the Morgenland Festival Osnabrück, one of the most important events on the international scene for the promotion of classical oriental music, also took part.

 

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