Our first Sunday Serene Sounds concert of the year will be given by Italian pianist Ida Pelliccioli. She will be playing a programme inspired by the work of unjustly neglected Spanish composer Manuel Blasco de Nebra. An heir in some ways to Scarlatti, his expressive world is far more searching, a quality that may sometimes recalls Haydn or Mozart, and prefigures Schubert or even Chopin. Ida’s programme will take us on a journey from Spanish keyboard music to the Viennese Classic Style through Manuel Blasco de Nebra’s work, starting with three sonatas by Scarlatti, who though born in Naples spent much of his working life in the service of the Spanish and Portuguese royal families.
We are dependent on your donations to keep running these concerts, and the suggested donation amount is £8, but please don’t worry if that’s more than you can afford.
There won’t be a full café at this concert, but tea, coffee and cold drinks will be available for twenty minutes before and after, and any profits from that will also go towards future concerts.
Programme:
Domenico Scarlatti – Sonata in D major K.492
Sonata in B minor K. 197
Sonata in F minor K. 386
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Fantasia and Fugue in C Major K. 394
Fantasia in C minor K. 396
Manuel Blasco de Nebra – Sonata n° 10 in C Major
Sonata n° 1 in C minor
F. Schubert – Drei Klavierstücke D946
About Ida Pelliccioli:
Ida Pelliccioli was born in Bergamo, Italy. She studied at the Nice Conservatoire de Région and at the École Normale de Musique de Paris – Alfred Cortot in the class of Serguei Markarov, Unesco Artist for Peace. During her studies, Ida Pelliccioli was awarded several scholarships, amongst them, one from the Zygmunt Zaleski Foundation and one from Fondation Albert Roussel.
Ida Pelliccioli participated in number of master-classes, among others with Jean-Claude Pennetier, Gerard Wyss and received a double diploma in interpretation and pedagogy, at the École Normale in Paris.
She received artistic guidance from Norma Fisher who teaches at the Royal College of Music in London, Stephen Gutman, and she is one of the rare pianists to have received guidance from the Cuban concert pianist Jorge Luis Prats.
Ida chose to avoid the international competition circuit and, before becoming a full-time pianist, received a double master diploma at the Sorbonne University – in Italian Literature and in Ancient Greek History, specializing for the latter in the practice of music during the Hellenistic period.
Ida has been performing throughout Europe, Canada and South Africa. In 2024 she will début in Sweden, Lithuania, Austria and Australia.
Ida shows a great interest in contemporary music: in September 2023 she performed music by Polish composer Elżbieta Sikora with soprano Joanna Freszel live on French radio – France Musique.
Ida has always been open to other forms of art and to collaborations. She appeared on screen, playing the role of a pianist, for the American TV Series “Find me in Paris” – Season 1 and 2 (2017/2018) and the French one “Munch” (2018).
In 2019, she was cast to double the role of the pianist in the short movie „Quand on ne sait pas voler” directed by Thomas Keumurian and produced by FILMO.
In 2022 she performed a quintet programme and in 2023 she collaborated with clarinettist Ann Lepage during a tour in the Netherlands.
Since 2021 Ida also has had a teaching position at Paris Conservatoire du 8ème arrondissement, where her class currently has 35 students.
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