performance, outdoor spaces of Dello Scompiglio, 6.00 PM

Inuksuit

Site-specific performance for nine percussionists based on a piece by John Luther Adams  

An immersive sound action involving the natural space of Dello Scompiglio, amplifying the ritual and collective dimension of listening. The audience is invited to enjoy a sensory experience that connects body, sound and environment.

Discussion, to follow

Perspective Sounds 1982 Sound / Environment / Image

with Franco Masotti and Veniero Rizzardi

Concert, SPE – Performance and Exhibition Space, 8.30 PM

Quartetto Sincronie

The Wind in High Places

Aulis Sallinen, String Quartet No. 3, Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March
John Luther Adams, The Wind in High Places
Stefano Scodanibbio, Mas lugares for string quartet

Quartetto Sincronie
Houman Vaziri, Agnese Maria Balestracci violins
Arianna Bloise, viola
Elide Sulsenti, cello 

Quartetto Sincronie presents a three-dimensional reflection on the present day, through three works for quartet.  The concert opens with String Quartet No. 3, Some Aspects of Peltoniemi Hintrik's Funeral March (1969), by Aulis Sallinen, a funeral march inspired by a traditional Finnish piece, reinterpreted and reworked in a form that recalls the theme with variations. The work symbolically becomes a funeral march for planet Earth, victim of a slow and seemingly unavoidable decline, complicit and responsible for indiscriminate human action on our planet.

The sounds of John Luther Adams’s quartet, The Wind in High Places (2011), giving the concert its title, paint a different, pure panorama, where the force of nature, capable of readjusting itself and reclaiming its spaces, manages to react and conquer that seemingly predetermined destiny, causing us to reflect on our responsibility and on the need to unite, as a kind of human guest of the planet, and to be protagonists of a change that begins from small things. Adams, actively involved in social work, uses music as a descriptive tool, but also to denounce the climate situation, as an instrument for criticism and awareness.

We thus arrive at Stefano Scodanibbio’s work, Mas Lugares (2003) his lively, modern reinterpretation of an ancient work that is the root and the original richness. Scodanibbio explores the most intimate drama of the composition, starting from the primordial material, represented by madrigals by Claudio Monteverdi. The material and the musical instrument that interprets it are not distorted but transformed. Scodanibbio’s operation is to broaden the spectrum of the instrument’s possibilities, with a careful study that transcends its boundaries. An active approach to musical and expressive research that enriches the historical material with contemporary aspects, shedding new light and new possibilities of interpretation.

Music thus challenges its interlocutors to become aware of the value of what one has and is, with the courage to question oneself, seek, and then actively implement change, desiring something new, different and better. Human’s involvement in his own present is a prerequisite for transformation.

Quartetto Sincronie – Formed in 2011, Quartetto Sincronie is primarily dedicated to a twentieth century repertoire with an in-depth study of the evolution of sound language, innovative content and compositional parameters present in scores from the last and present centuries. Quartetto Sincronie perfected its studies under the guidance of A. Nannoni and M. Da Silva, at the Fiesole School of Music and the Cremona Quartet at the W. Stauffer Accademia in Cremona. At the invitation of the Swedish Embassy, the Quartet performed at the ceremony awarding the Nobel Prize for Physics to G. Parisi. It has performed for the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and has collaborated with the American Academy in Rome for the Aluminium Forest event and many collaborations with composers such as D. Bravi, C. Shaw, D. Glanert, W. Dougherty, M. Guerra, L. Troiani, J. Janulyte, and G. Razaz. Prizewinner at the 2nd edition of the F. Mencherini International Competition for the Interpretation of Contemporary Music (Cagli PU, 2013), the Quartet has been a guest at various festivals and theatres; IIC Berlin, IIC Stockholm, Saudi Music Hub-Riyadh, Pontino Festival, IUC-Roma, Tenuta dello Scompiglio, Società dei Concerti di Milano, Lago Cromatico Festival, Terre d’Arezzo Festival, Portogruaro International Festival, Società del Quartetto of Vicenza, 54^th Nuova Consonanza Festival, Festival dei Due Mondi - Spoleto, Morellino Classica (GR), Giovani in Musica (RA), Villa Torlonia Theatre (Rome), and the Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome). It has collaborated with the Rome Opera House as an on-stage quartet in A. Ekman’s ballet, “Cacti”. The Quartet was a guest on Piazza Verdi for Radio Rai 3, was the main feature of “Mestiere Teatro” for Classica HD on Sky, and recorded for S. Cappelletto’s programme, “Inventare il tempo”, broadcast on Rai 5 in the episode dedicated to “F. Schubert”.

In December 2023, the Quartet’s first album, “Malipiero e Monteverdi” was released by Stradivarius, a project dedicated to the Italian composer in his role as an innovator of 20^th century Italian instrumental music, a reviewer and publisher of music of the past, and a source of inspiration and research. The album received the ICMA 2025 nomination.

The Quartet was selected by the Fondazione Accademia Musicale Chigiana of Siena to take part in the project, Young Italian Musical Talents in the World, an initiative established in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the CIDIM - Italian National Music Committee.