May 6 – “The Italian Piano Duo,” born in 2008 during a meeting between Antonella Vitelli and Luciano Bellini, has a gig on Thursday, May 9 in the Sala dos Espelhos – Palácio Foz (Lisbon) with the recital “The Song of Europe”. The duo carried out a real selection process of Italian and Latin pieces, proposing finally only the most interesting and less famous songs. “The Italian Piano Duo” has already toured South Korea (in 2009 and 2011), Indonesia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tunisia, Estonia, Finland, Indonesia, Chile, Argentina and Brazil, taking their music to several local networks, receiving acclaim from the major magazines and newspapers. They also participated at the prestigious International Festival “October Music of Carthage” in Tunisia, in October 2010, and performed in Seoul, in November 2011, at a concert dedicated to Nino Rota in collaboration with the most famous Korean soloists. The duo performed numerous concerts in Italy, also choosing the country to introduce their new songs: “Sul mio nome” and “Anima in pena” composed by Ezio Monti, and “Notturno” by the Brazilian master Joao Guilherme Ripper, who in May 2010 composed “Duos Italian” for them. Antonella and Luciano also teach numerous seminars and master classes in piano and chamber music in Italy and abroad.
