SUMMERFEST
Edition 2014
ITALY - FLORIDA - REPUBLIC OF PANAMA
For the past 22 summers, Fort Lauderdale’s Symphony of the Americas presents its summer festival, Summerfest, where they host an acclaimed European chamber orchestra for one month of performances throughout Florida and the Americas. The orchestra is joined by selected members of the Symphony of the Americas, and is funded in part by the Broward Cultural Council. Symphony of the Americas is Broward’s only professional orchestra, and Broward Center for the Performing Arts is its performance home.
For this year’s 23rd Summerfest, Symphony of the Americas will host the Mission Chamber Orchestra (MCO) in a return engagement, under the baton of Symphony Artistic Director, Maestro James Brooks-Bruzzese. On the occasion of the exhibition in 2014, the Symphony of the Americas has commissioned the Maestro Lorenzo Turchi-Floris (composer in residence) a new creation for piano and string orchestra that will be performed throughout the festival.
Summerfest begins July 14 with nearly 25 performances taking the duration of festival into mid-August. Activities include concerts, master classes, and educational outreach, taking the masterful sounds of this great ensemble to audiences in corners of the world who have never before experienced the exhilaration of live orchestral performance. Highlighted this summer is their featured and last performance at the official Panama Canal Centennial Celebration, held at the University of Florida, Gainesville,
OUR “MISSION” FOR SUMMERFEST 2014
In Panama, thousands of students take music education programs desired by governments, through music, help children to develop alternative plans to those who would lead them in the streets, to physical and moral poverty.
2014 - Festival Poster
2014 - Festival Bruchure
Artistic directors
(Symphony of the Americas)
(Mission Chamber Orchestra)
ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS
Violins I
Orlando Forte (Principal)
Sandro Tigishvili
Giorgio Tentoni
Flavia Di Tomasso
Clarissa Centurioni
Violins II
Svetlana Forte (Principal)
Rika Takaba
Margherita Musto
Sandy Riblett
Carlo Taffuri *
Violas
Nicola Narduzzi (Principal)
Lorenzo Sbaraglia
Stefano Azzolina
Violoncellos
Jürg Eichenberger (Principal)
Monika Eichenberger
Ilaria Calabrò Altan
Rahel Eichenberger
Dominique Eichenberger
Double-bass
Roger Bustamante (Principal)
Maurizio Raimondi *
Harpsichord
Renée LaBonte
* Added only in Italian concerts
Flute soloist
Marilyn Maingart
Oboe soloist
Juan Castillo
Violin soloist
Sandro Tigishvili
Violin soloist
Orlando Forte
Violin soloist
Svetlana Forte
Violoncello soloist
Edvard Grieg
Anitra’s Dance
Habanera, Op. 21, No. 2
(Arranged by Marilyn Maingart)
Marilyn Maingart, flute
Presentiments
(American Premier)
Lorenzo Turchi-Floris, conductor
Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 315 – Summer
Allegro - Adagio – Presto
Aleksandre Tigishvili, violin
Leopold Mozart
Sinfonia in Bb
Allegro, Andante, Presto
MUSIC PROGRAM
Robert Fuchs
Serenade No.2 in C Major, Op. 14
Allegretto – Larghetto - Allegro Risoluto – Finale: Presto
Allegro Appassionato, Op. 43
Jürg Eichenberger, violoncello
Le Cygne
Jürg Eichenberger, violoncello
La Bella Cubana
(Arranged by Orlando Forte)
Orlando Forte, violin
Svetlana Forte, violin
Serenade for String Orchestra, Op 11
Carneval of Venice
((Arranged by Marilyn Maingart)
Marilyn Maingart, flute
Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco
Concerto da Chiesa, Op.2 No. 4
Allegro – Largo - Presto
Ernest Bon Dohnanyi
Serenade for string orchestra Op. 10
Allegro - Allegro Vivace
Rapsodia del Canal de Panama
(World Premier)
Juan Castillo, oboe
Just One of those Things
(Arranged by Orlando Forte)
Orlando Forte, violin
MISSION CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
joins
SYMPHONY OF THE AMERICAS
MASTERCLASSES IN THE SCHOOLS
Lessons and instruments demonstrations in Panama schools
