The Palazzo della Musica of Prato, Italy, appointed American-music scholar and ICAMus founding director Aloma Bardi as Curator of the American Music Center/Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana in Prato, Italy for the next five years.
We joyfully share the first shots of yesterday's success in Prato. The pianist Beniamino Iozzelli, in his splendid first collaboration with ICAMus, enchanted the audience with his inspired performance of Chopin, Skrjabin and Crumb, where American music entered into dialogue with the great international piano repertoire.
ICAMus launches an ongoing collaborative project with pianist Beniamino Iozzelli. In Prato, Italy, Saturday, October 26, 2024, at 5:00 PM, a new concert program features works by Fryderyk Chopin, Aleksandr Skrjabin, George Crumb (1929-2022). Sala Zipoli, Palazzo della Musica, Via Santa Trinita 2, Prato. Free admission. A collaboration of ICAMus with Scuola di Musica G. Verdi.
Professor Paolo Somigli, a musicologist and longtime collaborator of ICAMus, assisted by the Center’s librarian, Paolo Belli, has curated an exhibit showcasing music scores, landmarks of musicological and biographical interpretation of Gershwin and the Rhapsody, and recordings, including fascinating collector’s items. “Rhapsody in Blue: cent’anni di un capolavoro [100 years of a masterpiece] ” honors the centennial of one of the most influential and beloved American musical compositions of all time. On display September 18, 2024-February 12, 2025; open Mon-Fri, library office hours; Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana, Palazzo della Musica, Via Santa Trinita 2, Prato, Italy.
The Program booklet (PDF - in Italian) for the upcoming opening event of the American Music Center (Centro di Documentazione sulla Musica Americana) is accessible and can be downloaded from this page. The booklet is also printed and available at the Center. The program provides a guide to the event (presentations & live performances) as well as to the Center’s space and its content (Library & Special Collections).
The public opening of ICAMus in Prato, Italy, includes presentations, performances, and a tour of the Collection. With Aloma Bardi, the Duo Alberto Bologni-Carlo Palese (violin and piano) and special guests. A day of celebration of American Music in its extraordinary diversity through the centuries. Palazzo Martini-Palazzo della Musica, Via Santa Trinita 2, Prato, Italy; Saturday, May 18, 2024, beginning at 5:00PM; free admission to the presentation and visit; admission ticket to the 9:00PM concert.
Dr. Douglas Hedwig is an American composer, trumpeter, conductor, scholar, and music educator, who recently (August 2023) donated to ICAMus his extensive personal archive of compositions, sketches, recordings, documenting his extraordinary musical career as a composer and performer. A selection of the Douglas Hedwig Collection will be on display at the new American Music Center in Prato, Italy; the entire Collection will remain accessible for study and research.
After twenty-two years of activity, ICAMus has now donated the Non-Profit Organization's Library and Archive to the City of Prato, Italy, to create an American Music Center! The Collection and Archive have been moved from the ICAMus Studio in Ann Arbor, MI, to Palazzo Martini, Prato. The public opening of the new Center is announced for May 18, 2024.
Italian Jewish composers who emigrated to the Americas, and how they contributed to the music and musical life of their countries of adoption: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Vittorio Rieti, and Renzo Massarani. With live music performance. The presentation is part of the 2nd Italian Jewish Studies Conference - La musica e gli ebrei nell’Italia moderna e contemporanea, Camaldoli, Arezzo, Italy, July 3-7, 2023; the conference is organized by Fondazione CDEC and Camaldoli, and is directed by Profs. Gabriele Boccaccini and Gadi Luzzatto Voghera.
The EMA Vinci album includes the world première recording of Fantasy for violin and piano on Themes from Donizetti, and of two Greeting Cards from Opus 170. The CD celebration, with the performers, the duo Alberto Bologni-Carlo Palese, and special guests, is coordinated by Aloma Bardi. In Florence, Italy, at the historic Dischi Fenice record store, Wednesday, May 24, 2023 at 6:00 PM. Click on red title to discover the event details!
