Kiev – The fourth Italian Baroque Music Festival, entitled “Italia Festival Barocco”, was inaugurated in Ukraine: a joint Italian-Ukrainian project dedicated to the musical expressions of Italian baroque music, organized by the Italian Embassy and the Italian Institute of culture in Ukraine, in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine. After the inaugural concert in Kiev, at the National Philharmonic of Ukraine, on Sunday, September 17 – which saw the presence of Alfredo Bernardini (oboe) as an orchestra conductor and soloist – the kermesse program will wind up (up to October 3) all over Ukraine with a dozen musical events that will feature prominent Italian groups and soloists acting as baroque instruments such as lute, tiorba, leg violet, cymbal and horn. Among them, the Venetian Archi dell’Arco Trio, the two Ensemble La Venexiana, the Accademia Bizantina, the oboist and conductor Alfredo Bernardini, the organist Maurizio Salerno, the countertenor Raffaele Pe, the conductor and harpsichordist Ottavo Dante. (9colonne)
