From Fauré to Ravel, emotions at Villa Necchi

Today at Villa Necchi Campiglio - at 5 pm, violinist Clarissa Bevilacqua (pictured) and pianist Leonardo Pierdomenico offer a refined program that combines the twilight lyricism of Lili Boulanger, with “Nocturne” and “Cortège,” with the evocative poetry of Gabriel Fauré’s “Sonata No. 1.” Also a tribute to George Gershwin, with famous excerpts from “Porgy and Bess,” and the brilliant “Sonata No. 2” by Maurice Ravel, rich in blues influences and timbral experimentation.

Clarissa Bevilacqua began studying the violin at the age of five and made her solo debut at the Pritzker Pavilion in Chicago in front of thousands of people at the age of nine. Since then she has held recitals at Carnegie Hall in New York, in Chicago, Paris, Weimar, Milan, Florence, Siena, Piacenza, Varese, Genoa, Cremona. Leonardo Pierdomenico, after winning the “Raymond E. Buck” Jury Prize at the 2017 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, began a formidable career; he is considered by international critics to be "a pianist in whom outstanding technical ability and attention to sound are combined with imagination and inexhaustible, scrupulous musicality". At just 18 years old he won the Venice Prize at the Teatro La Fenice; He has collaborated with the Fort Worth Symphony, the Orchestre Royal De Chambre de Wallonie, the Orchestra Sinfonica del Teatro La Fenice, the Orchestra Verdi di Milano, the Nordwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Wuhan Philarmonic Orchestra, the North Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and conductors such as Yves Abel, Diego Matheuz and Nicholas McGegan among others. His piano performance at La Scala in the recent “Peer Gynt” by Grieg and pieces by Frederic Chopin in the dance show “Balanchine/Robbins” last year are unforgettable.

Grace Lissi