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  • 04/05/2017

    Success for the concert, "At the Origins of Art Music for the Flute" in Florence.

    The ICAMus concert of Early-Romantic American Music, At the Origins of Art Music for the Flute in North America, successully took place yesterday in Florence. Works by Edward Riley, Benjamin Carr, Anthony Ph. Heinrich, Stephen C. Foster. Myung San Ko, soprano; Kyle Sullivan, baritone; Viola Shaula Valerio, flute; Anna Toccafondi, piano and ensemble direction. A collaboration of ICAMus with Conservatorio di Musica “L. Cherubini” di Firenze, and Villa-Museo Bardini. Please view the first photos by Jae Hun Choi.

  • 04/01/2017

    Final rehearsals in Florence for the Early American Music concert of Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

    Florence, Italy: soprano Myung San Ko, baritone Kyle Sullivan, flutist and research scholar Viola Shaula Valerio, pianist and music director Anna Toccafondi are doing the final rehearsals for the Early American Music concert of Tuesday, April 4, 2017, featuring works from the American musical past, 1800-1848. A charming, unique, not-to-be-missed program!

  • 03/26/2017

    The Program for the Upcoming Event, "A Concert of Early American Music, 1800-1858", With a Program Note, Texts and Translations, is Online, Available for Download.

    The Program for "A Concert of Early American Music, 1800-1858", with a Program Note, texts and translations, is online, available for download. The upcoming concert, featuring rare and rediscovered works from the American musical past, takes place in Florence, Villa Bardini, on April 4, 2017, at 5:30 pm. Myung San Ko, soprano; Kyle Sullivan, baritone; Viola S. Valerio, flute; Anna Toccafondi, solo piano, piano accompaniment, ensemble direction; a project by Aloma Bardi.

  • 01/29/2017

    The newly released CD has arrived at the ICAMus Studio!

    "La tregua. Songs from a lost world of Italian Jewish composers, 1895-1945". Caroline Helton, soprano, and Kathryn Goodson, piano; Blue Griffin Recording, Inc., 2017. This new CD features works by composers who emigrated to the Americas to escape Nazi deportation: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Renzo Massarani and Vittorio Rieti; it also includes works by Leone Sinigaglia. ICAMus and Aloma Bardi have collaborated to this project with ongoing research on this rare repertoire and its rediscovery.

  • 01/19/2017

    Songs from a Lost World of Italian Jewish Composers; honoring the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and featuring composers who emigrated to the Americas in 1939 to escape Nazi persecution.

    A concert of soprano Caroline Helton and pianist Kathryn Goodson on January 29, 2017, in honor of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, featuring art songs of Italian Jewish Composers, Leone Sinigaglia, Vittorio Rieti, Renzo Massarani and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. ICAMus has contributed to this project with research in American archives on forgotten and unpublished works by Italian American composers.

  • 12/31/2016

    A Concert of European Premieres of Rare and Rediscovered Works of Early American Music, 1800-1858.

    A new ICAMus spring concert program of rare works from Pre-Civil War American Music, 1800-1858, takes place in the beautiful Villa Bardini of Florence, Italy, on April 4, 2017. Works by Edward Riley (1769-1829), Benjamin Carr (1768-1831; in America from 1793), Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781-1861), Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864). Myung San Ko, soprano; Kyle Sullivan (baritone); Viola Shaula Valerio (flute); Anna Toccafondi (solo piano, piano accompaniment, ensemble direction); a project by Aloma Bardi. This is the first program carried out by ICAMus within the recently-established Affiliation Agreement with the Music Conservatory of Florence.

  • 11/29/2016

    Rare Scores and Concert Programs Donated to the ICAMus Archive by Award-Winning Exhibition Curator, Archivist, and Lecturer, Bill Doggett.

    An important recent addition to the ICAMus Archive: rare scores of internationally renowned composers, notably Florence-born American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), and a collector’s item related to Dutch-born American composer Richard Hageman (1881-1966) and his only opera Caponsacchi, completed in the early 1930s and produced by the Metropolitan Opera in 1937. The items have been donated to ICAMus by award-winning exhibition curator, archivist, and lecturer, Bill Doggett. The Center established a special partnership with Bill Doggett Productions in 2015.

 

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