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“A Guitar at the Opera”, a performance by guitarist Carlo Fierens.

“A Guitar at the Opera”, a performance by guitarist Carlo Fierens.

Friday, February 8th at 6pm
Instituto Cervantes
31 W Ohio
Chicago, IL

18 febb

 

Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute on the occasion of the Guitarrisimo Festival at Instituto Cervantes, 31 W Ohio St, Chicago.

This program is focused on guitar adaptation of famous Opera pieces. The classical guitar, with its timbers and its expressive qualities, has always been considered a perfect instrument to portray the human voice. Therefore, many famous opera arias have been transcribed for an instrument that can emphasize all the emotional content of the most beloved pages. On the six strings, not unlike an orchestra, we can experience the atmospheres of the famous operas by Mozart, Rossini, and Verdi.

Program

Fernando Sor (1778-1839) Introduction, theme and variations on an air by Mozart

Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856) “Il trovatore”

Francisco Tarrega (1854-1909) Fantasia su motivi de “La Traviata”

Agustin Barrios (1885-1943) Un sueño en la floresta

Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) Rossiniana n.1

Francisco Tarrega Gran Jota

Guitar: Carlo Fierens

Carlo Fierens was born in Finale Ligure, Italy. He started studying guitar with his father Guillermo, an internationally celebrated guitarist. He later obtained the Diploma at the Conservatory for Music in Alessandria, with the highest scores (10 cum laude) and his Master degree in Guitar at the Trento Conservatory, always with the highest scores and special mention. He began his performing career at an early age and started to participate in both national and international competitions, obtaining more than ten first prizes. His awards include the 1 st prize at the International Guitar Competition“Alirio Diaz” in Rome, 1st prize at the international competition “Italian Festival” (chairman: M° Marcello Abbado), 1st prize at the Matinee Musicale competition, Indianapolis.

He was also finalist at the International Music Prizes Competition (USA), and thanks to the high artistic value of his performance he was awarded with the title and grade of “Honorary Associate of The National Academy of Music”. In 2013, he won the “Italian National Prize for the Arts”, a prize awarded by the Ministry of Education to the best music student of the year, among all conservatories and schools of music. He also took part in many guitar festivals in Europe (Italy, Spain, Austria and Germany) where he had the possibility to visit master-classes and have lessons with famous guitarists such as Roberto Aussel, Pablo Marquez, Eliot Fisk, Paul Galbraith and others.

He has performed across America, Europe, and Asia, in prestigious venues such as Kennedy Center in Washington (USA), Academy Hall of the Baptist University in Hong-Kong, Munetsugu Hall in Nagoya (Japan), Museo Metropolitano de Buenos Aires (Argentina), Museu Villa-Lobos in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Teatro San Babila di Milano, Sala delle crociere in Roma (Italy), Arno Babajanyan Music Hall in Erevan (Armenia).

He graduated from the University of Cremona (BA and MA degrees in musicology) with the highest mark and “summa cum laude”. There he also played many times in lesson-concerts. As a musicologist he was invited to make lectures for the “Rossini” musical association in Savona and wrote several articles and essays mainly on guitar music and contemporary composers. In 2010 he has won a scholarship to study at the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel (Switzerland) where he has completed a research on contemporary guitar repertoire, and in 2011 he studied at the University of Denver – Lamont School of Music with Ricardo Iznaola and Jonathan Leathwood, with a full-ride scholarship. He was Performing Assistant at the Bowdoin International Music Festival (ME). He is currently pursuing his doctorate with Ernesto Bitetti at the Jacobs School of Music (Indiana University), where he also serves as Associate Instructor.

Free and open to the public.
Reservations kindly requested

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