On Tuesday, May 25, at 8:00 p.m., the Orchestra UniMi will close its twenty-first symphonic season at the Sala Verdi of the Milan Conservatory. For the first time on the orchestra’s podium will be Antonino Fogliani, music director of the Rossini in Wildbad festival and principal guest conductor at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. The program opens with an Italian premiere: Topelius Variations for string orchestra, by Norwegian composer Henning Kraggerud. Afterwards, the acclaimed soloist Mariangela Vacatello will perform Franz Liszt‘s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-flat Major. Robert Schumann‘s Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major will close the concert.

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On Tuesday 4 May, the Orchestra UniMi resumes its symphonic season with a concert conducted by Ahmed El-Saedi, artistic director of the Cairo Symphony Orchestra. The programme features a world premiere, Facing, composed especially for the occasion by Andrea Benedetto, winner of the 2019 Milan Conservatory Prize. This will be followed by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy‘s Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64: the soloist is Fabiola Tedesco, one of the most interesting Italian musicians of her generation, winner of the Daniele Gay Prize 2019. Finally, Camille Saint-Saëns‘ Symphony No. 2 in A minor Op. 55, will close the concert.

The concert will be live streamed at 7 p.m. on video.unimi.it.