CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS
Egida Sartori and Laura Alvini Early Music Seminars 2014
Director: Pedro Memelsdorff

Alessandro Stradella 1639-1682
Seven cantatas newly discovered at the Giorgio Cini Foundation
17-21 May 2014, Venice 

The seminar will focus on a wholly unpublished repertoire: seven newly discovered cantatas for solo voice and b.c. by Alessandro Stradella (1639-1682) – six for soprano and one for alto.
The importance of the composer together with the originality and variety of the poetic and musical texts make this a particularly interesting artistic and scholarly occasion.

Call for applications
The Giorgio Cini Foundation offers 3 or 4 scholarships for sopranos or alto singers specialised in Baroque repertoires. These will cover the expenses of board and lodgings in the Vittore Branca Center Residency, as well as travel in economy class up to a maximum of 700 euros.
Participants are required to sing at pitch A=415.
The Giorgio Cini Foundation will provide the b.c. accompaniment.

Applications must be sent by email to [email protected] by 1 February 2014 and contain the following items:
– a detailed CV
– an MP3 demo – recording of a late seventeenth century Italian work.

Auditors may attend the seminar after obtaining approval from the Secretary’s Office.

Programme
17 May:          Introductory lecture by Dr. Giulia Giovani
18 – 20 May: Master-classes with M° René Jacobs
20 May:          Final concert
21 May:          Lecture by Prof. Gino Benzoni, round table

For further information: [email protected] – www.cini.it – tel. +39 041 2710258