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Hi everybody!

My name is Alessandro and I am an Italian tenor and pianist. I live in Fordham, Cambridgeshire, and I teach Singing and Piano. . . . . ...

Monday 28 October 2019

Venice!

Dear friends,

some 10 days ago I was again, after some years, in Venice for a concert!
The Italian pianist Francesca Cardone, who lives in Salzburg, invited me to join her for a concert dedicated to Franz Liszt and his relationship with Italy: she performed some piano pieces inspired by Italian art and literature (Raffaello and Dante) and together we did the 3 Sonnets by Petrarca set to music by Liszt in the 1840s.
These 3 pieces are written in a style quite close to the Italian Opera, and as Liszt was a great pianist himself - one of the greatest ever indeed - also the piano part is very interesting.
Here you can listen to the second Sonnet, I' vidi in terra, first read by Anna, then performed by Francesca and me.

We had the great honor to perform in the wonderful Palazzo Grimani, which was the Doge's family Palace and today is a wonderful museum. It was a great emotion to sing in the hall on the first floor, with the big windows on the Canale on one side and on the Palace's court on the other.








Saturday 5 October 2019

Fundraising Concert for the East Anglian Air Ambulance

Hi everybody!

A new fundraising event is organised by my friend Cedric Ghevaert - like every year, on the last Sunday of October Cedric invites lots of musician, professionals and amateurs, to perform and raise funds for a different charity. This time the money raised with tickets and donations will go to the East Anglian Air Ambulance.

I will perform some songs with Cedric and the beautiful Ave Maria for voice and organ written by Battista Pradal with the great organist Anne Page; there will be the Stagecoach Newmarket choir, members of the Newmarket Chamber Orchestra and many others!

Join us on Sunday 27th October at 4 pm at All Saints Church: tickets are on sale for £10 from Sweet's Newsagent in Newmarket or online. Tickets will also be available on the door for £15.

See you there!