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Claudio Jacomucci Events and CD Release, Amsterdam – Netherlandsby Rob Howard |
The Italian Accordion Academy and Kathleen Delaney Dance Company, in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam, ICK International Choreographic Centre Amsterdam Emio Greco/PC Scholten, Pigini Accordions, Legato Albani (Urbino, Italy), Centro Ricerca Teatro (Venezia) present a series of events in Amsterdam in April: On April 23rd/24th a master class by Claudio Jacomucci (accordion) and Kathleen Delaney (Alexander Technique) took place at the Italian Cultural Institute. On April 28th, at the Vondelkerk, the premiere takes place of Claudio Jacomucci's new work ‘Tensegrity’ for 8 accordion and 4 dancers. The work is based on interdependency of musicians and dancers: 8 accordionists surround the scenic space and are literally "played" by dancers, who activates sound reactions in the musicians. According to movement in the space they may change and modify the sound material and depending on parameters such as distance, speed and movement quality. The program includes also an accordion-cello duet playing J.S.Bach ‘Sonata III’, with the well-know italian cellist Francesco Dillon; other transcriptions of Charles Ives ‘Unanswered Question’; Gyorgy Ligeti – ‘Couleé’; Claudio Jacomucci-Kathleen Delaney's ‘Aracne’, a work inspired by Rita of Tarantula, homage to the Ethnographer Ernesto De Martino; a work by Dillon/Jacomucci – ‘Pisces’, who will bring to the scene the original costumes by Sonia Biacchi. Performing are the dancers Francesca Arcuri, Ivelice Brown, Kathleen Delaney, Matteo Graziano, Raquel Gualtero, coming from Italy, Spain, Venezuela and the Netherlands. The event will be repeated in Urbino (Sala Raffaello), Italy, on June 3rd 2012. On Sunday April 29th, 8 pm, Professor Luigi Volta and Claudio Jacomucci will present the new solo CD ‘Beyond’ (Blowout Records 2012, works by Gismonti, Pascoal, Jacomucci, Marzocchi, Melis, Fassone, Taktakishvili) at the Italian Cultural Institute. At 8.30pm the musicians of the Italian Accordion Academy Dennis Allegaert, Marco Ambrosio, Barbara Ardenois, Rik Cornelissen, Luca Pignata, Luca Piovesan, Belma Sarancic, Yvo Staudt, Marco Valenti, Jutta Winter will perform a concert with works by Hosokawa, Norgaard, Perocco, Paganini, Scarlatti, Mozart, Gismonti, Bach, Davis, Purcell, Mussorgsky, Banschikov, Runchak, Angelis, Semionov. For further information email: info@claudiojacomucci.com |