Barbara Boganini (Camerata Strumentale "Città di Prato", Prato, Italy) and Evan Rothstein (Guildhall School of Music & Drama, London, UK, and ECMTA, European Chamber Music Teachers’ Association) have joined the ICAMus Board of Directors. Aloma Bardi submitted their candidacies for discussion by the Board at the February 2011 Board Meeting. The candidacies were unanimously approved.
While the Stephen Collins Foster program, a collaboration with the Scuola Comunale di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi", is being performed at the Teatro Magnolfi of Prato, Italy, please read the Articles and Press Announcements just published, and the coverage appeared in Today's Newspapers and on the Web.
On the eve of the Stephen Collins Foster performance in Prato, Italy, ICAMus thankfully remembers prominent musicologist Charles Hamm (1925 - 16 October 2011).
As the tenth anniversary of the founding of ICAMus is approaching, (January 25, 2012) Aloma Bardi has written The Directory of ICAMus Events 2003-2010.
10-1-2011. The ICAMus Seminar on Stephen Collins Foster performance taught by dr. Paolo Somigli, with American music specialist dr. Marta Poggesi at the piano, just took place at the Scuola Comunale di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" in Prato, Italy.
Foster texts of the upcoming October 22nd, 2011 ICAMus concert with Scuola Comunale di Musica “Giuseppe Verdi” of Prato, Italy are online.
The Section *In Depth - Subscription Area* of the ICAMus Web site is currently being populated.
The ICAMus performance project by Gershwin specialist Lorenzo Puliti focusing on a selection of George and Ira Gershwin's "Strike up the Band" in the 1930 published version,
as a collaboration with Scuola di Musica di Fiesole during the academic year 2010-2011, had its public presentation at Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Festa della Musica, in a new arrangement by the Composition Class of the School.
The collaboration with Scuola di Musica "Giuseppe Verdi" of Prato, Italy aimed at achieving a historically informed performance of Stephen Collins Foster's Songs in different arrangements by the author, will soon be having its public debut.
This academic year 2010-2011 the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, voice class of Lucia Mazzei, is working on a performance project by Lorenzo Puliti, focusing on a selection of George and Ira Gershwin's Strike up the Band in the 1930 published version.
