Everything is ready for the start of the 22nd musical season of the Orchestra of the University of Milan, which is back with a program full of concerts and new features. Starting with the recent transfer of management to the Fondazione UNIMI. From this year, the Orchestra UniMi becomes, to all intents and purposes, a professional orchestra composed of freelancers. A renewed framework that imposes it as an avant-garde protagonist in the cultural panorama of the city of Milan.
The new season was presented in the Sala Napoleonica of the Statale, in Via Sant’Antonio, in the presence of the Councillor for Culture of the City of Milan, Tommaso Sacchi, Marina Carini, Vice-Rector for Third Mission, Cultural Activities and Social Impact of the Statale, Luca Solari, President of the Fondazione UNIMI, Claudio Toscani, President of the Orchestra UniMi , Luisella Molina, General Manager of the Orchestra UniMi , Daniela Cammarano, First Violin soloist of the Orchestra UniMi , Marco Berrini, Choir Master of the Choir UniMi .
Eight concerts make up the 2021/2022 Season, three more than last season, including five symphonic concerts, traditionally the main element of the UniMi musical offer, two chamber concerts, for Christmas and Easter, and one dedicated to choral singing, which welcomes an artistic group from another university: the Rutgers University Glee Club, which in 2022 will celebrate its 150th anniversary. In addition, there will be an extraordinary concert scheduled for May 10, 2022 at the Basilica of San Marco.
A musical journey that, as is the vocation of the Orchestra UniMi, also looks to contemporary music, offering a world premiere (January 25) and an Italian premiere (February 22) and that this year adds another piece to the mosaic: a project to rediscover rarely heard pieces by 20th century composers in collaboration with the Associazione NoMus, which collects, preserves and catalogues archives and musical funds that would otherwise be undervalued and at risk of oblivion.
“After the health emergency penalized the past two seasons, the Orchestra inaugurates its 22nd symphonic review by resuming full contact with its public, which has continued to follow it even during the most difficult periods of the pandemic. It does so with a richer calendar of events, with established conductors and soloists and talented young people, with a wide range of initiatives on the front of dissemination, professional training and involvement of new audiences”.
The inaugural concert, scheduled for November 30, at 8 pm. 30 on the stage of the Aula Magna of the University of Milan – which will host all the evenings in the program – is entrusted to the baton of Michele Gamba who will conduct the Orchestra UniMi in a repertoire that goes from Mozart, Stravinsky and Prokof’ev to Luciano Chailly (1920-2002): the execution of his Ricercare del X tono by Giovanni Gabrieli is emblematic of the new synergy realized this year between Orchestra UniMi and Associazione NoMus.
Reservations for November 30 concert will open on November 23 >>> HERE.
