BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.1.7//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1495@poonamusic.com DTSTART:20190914T133000Z DTEND:20190914T133000Z DTSTAMP:20190902T092805Z URL:https://poonamusic.com/events/alessandra-ammara-and-roberto-prosseda-p iano-4-hands/ SUMMARY:Alessandra Ammara and Roberto Prosseda\, Piano 4 hands DESCRIPTION:In a programme of Schubert: Fantasia in F minor D 940\; Mendels sohn: Fantasia MWV T1 in D minor (first performance in India)\, From incid ental music for A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Ravel: Ma mère l'oye Suit e (author's transcription for piano four hands)\n\nSupported by Italian Em bassy Cultural Centre\, Mumbai Section\n\nAlessandra Ammara has drawn the attention of the musical world from a young age\, succeeding in major inte rnational piano competitions such as the "J. Iturbi" in Valencia\, the "Ca sagrande" in Terni\, "G. B. Viotti" in Vercelli\, and the "Van Cliburn" in Fort Worth. In 2000 she was awarded “Laureate” by the "Esther Honens" international piano competition in Calgary\, Canada.\n\nMs. Ammara’s co ncert highlights include performances at Grosses Philharmonie in Berlin\, Salzburg Grosse Festspielhaus\, Musikverein in Vienna\, Salle Cortot in Pa ris\, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam\, Gasteig in Munich\, Jack Singer Hall in Calgary\, Bass Hall in Fort Worth and Meridian Center in Washington. She has thrilled audiences as soloist with orchestras such as Wiener Symphonik er\, Berliner Symphoniker\, Orchestra Sinfonicadella Rai\, Calgary Philhar monic\, Cape Town Philharmonic with conductors like \;Fabio Luisi\, Ge org Pehlivanian\, Roberto Minczuk\, Bernard Labadie\, En Shao\, Lior Shamb adal.  \;\n\nAn enthusiastic chamber music performer\, Ms. Ammara gave concerts with Ingrid Attrot\, Rocco Filippini\, Alban Gerhardt\, Anton Ku erti\, Shauna Rolston\, the Takacs Quartet and the Sine Nomine Quartet. Si nce 1999 she has formed a piano duo with her husband Roberto Prosseda. The duo's recording of Mendelssohn's complete woks for piano duet was release d by Decca in 2015\, winning the “Disco del mese” Award of Classic Voi ce magazine.\n\nMs. Ammara’s discography for the German label Arts inclu des Chopin’s 4 Ballades\, GiacintoScelsi’s Preludes\, Schumann's Carna val\, Davidsbündlertänze and Album for the Young\, Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit and Miroirs.\n\nTogether with some of the greatest pianists in the w orld\, she recorded the new complete Chopin edition produced by Brilliant Classics. For the same label\, Ms. Ammara recorded a CD dedicated to the I talian composer Roffredo Caetani (1871 – 1961) in 2014. In spring 2016\, Piano Classics \;will release the first volume of Debussy's Complete Piano Works.\n\nAlessandra Ammara graduated from the "L. Cherubini" Conser vatory of Florence and the Accademia Pianistica of Imola. She honed her ta lents as a student of great musicians like Maria Tipo\, Paul Badura-Skoda\ , Dmitri Bashkirov\, Franco Scala\, Boris Petrushansky\, Leon Fleischer\, William Naboré and FouTs'ong at the International Piano Foundation at Lak e Como and the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole.\n\nMs. Ammara is piano profess or at Istituto di Alta Formazione Musicale in Ravenna and is often invited to sit in international piano competitions and to give master classes for American and European Universities and Conservatories.\n\nRoberto Prossed a was born in Latina\, Italy\, in 1975. His Decca albums dedicated to Feli x Mendelssohn\, including the Piano Concerto No. 3 with the Gewandhaus Orc hestra and Riccardo Chailly\, \; have won much acclaim in the press\, including the CHOC from Le Monde de la MusiqueClassique\, the Diapason d'O r and Chamber Music CD of the Month in the UK's Classic FM magazine. \ ;\n\nIn 2010\, Deutsche Grammophon selected twelve recordings by Prosseda to add to the box set\, "Classic Gold". In 2014 Prosseda completed his 10- years project of recording all Mendelssohn's piano works for Decca in 9 CD s.\n\nRoberto Prosseda has performed regularly with some of the world's mo st important orchestras\, such as the London Philharmonic Orchestra\, New Japan Philharmonic\, Moscow State Philharmonic\, Santa Cecilia\, Filarmoni cadella Scala\, Bruxelles Philharmonic\, ResidentieOrkest\, Netherlands Sy mphony\, Berliner Symphoniker\, Staatskapelle Weimar\, Calgary Philharmoni c\, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic\, Leipzig Gewandhaus. He performed under the baton of David Afkham\, Marc Albrecht\, Christian Arming\, Harry Bicke tt\, Riccardo Chailly\, Pietari Inkinen\, Yannik Nezeit-Seguin\, George Pe hlivanian\, Dennis Russel-Davies\, Tugan Sokhiev\, Jan Willem de Vriend\, Jurai Valcuha.\n\nOther than Mendelssohn\, whose piano music he is conside red to be a leading interpreter of today\, Prosseda's interpretations of M ozart\, Schubert\, Schumann and Chopin have been particularly praised\, an d these composers have in fact featured in Prosseda's recent Decca recordi ngs. In 2015\, Prosseda started the complete recording of Mozart' Piano So natas with a modern piano tuned with unequal temperament. An active propon ent of Italian music\, Prosseda also recorded the complete piano works of Petrassi and Dallapiccola.\n\nIn September 2011 Prosseda gave his debut on the pedal piano\, performing the Concerto for Pedal Piano by Gounod in th e world premiere version for modern instrument. Concerts are planned in th e next seasons on this instrument\, rediscovering the original composition s by Robert Schumann\, Franz Liszt and Charles Valentin Alkan. Several com posers\, including Ennio Morricone\, have already written new pieces for p edal piano for Roberto Prosseda\, and a recording of the four Gounod's pie ces for pedal piano and orchestra with Orchestra della SvizzeraItaliana co nducted by Howard Shelley\, released on the Hyperion label in fall 2013.\n \n\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://poonamusic.com/pms_wp/wp-content/uploads /2019/07/Alessandra-Ammara-crop12.jpg CATEGORIES:Piano 4 hands LOCATION:Mazda Hall\, Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India GEO:18.5198845;73.87824479999995 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Sardar Dastur Hoshang Boys High School\, Pune\, India;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Mazda Hall:geo:18.51 98845,73.87824479999995 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR