Concorso 2 Agosto announces the program of XXIII Edition

Concorso 2 Agosto is proud to announce the program of XXIII Edition that will take place in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna at 9:15 pm on August 2nd 2017 to remind the day in memory of the Victims of the Bologna Train Station Bombing of 1980.

Below the program of the evening:
 
Final Concert of the Twenty-Third Edition of the International Composing Competition “2 Agosto”
Piazza Maggiore – Bologna
August 2nd, 2017 – 9:15pm
 
Fondazione Toscanini Orchestra 
Conductor: Maestro Alessandro Cadario
 
Soloists:
Badrìa Razem – Voice
Ivano Battiston – Accordion
Alessandro Castelli – Trombone
Enzo Filippetti – Saxophone
 
Tommaso Colafiglio – Electric Guitar
Francesco La Capra – Electric Bass
Francesco Rondinone – Drums
 
Italo Bianco – Video creation
Antonio Colangelo – Video direction
Oddrun Eikli –  Avatar voice
 
Thank you for your cooperation
Dora Maria Sacco
Maria Cristina Sacco
Simona Spinella
 
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“Tre per Tre”
Piece commissioned by the International Composing Competition “2 Agosto”
to the winners of the “Premio Veretti” – World Premiere 
 
Sail through your eyes for alto saxophone and orchestra, by Federico Torri
Geghardfor voice, accordion and orchestra, by Benedetta Zamboni
Paráclitus for trombone and orchestra, by Jacopo Aliboni
 
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“J-Rhapsody”
for saxophone and orchestra, by Lorenzo Fiorentini
Third Prize
 
“C(y|ir)cles. In cerca della a-dualitа”
for accordion and orchestra, by Paolo Cognetti
Second Prize
 
“TrombionOphone or Riders in the Field of Hope”
for saxophone, accordion, trombone and orchestra, by Mohammad Amin Sharifi
First Prize
 
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Also Sprach Eumir: Deodato revisited
arrangement and orchestration by Aurelio Zarrelli from Also Spach Zarathustra (Strauss/Deodato)
and Do It Again (Deodato)
Commissioned by the International Composing Competition “2 Agosto” – World Premiere