Aug. 21 – From Foggia to Latin America, the Umberto Giordano ensemble will tour the continent, touching Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, and playing alongside important chamber music and orchestra personalities. The group will play with the London Festival Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Strings, and the Ndr Hamburg Orchestra. Directed and founded by violin player Dino De Palma, the Puglia chamber group already has important international gigs in its bag: born 10 years ago in Foggia, it already performed in India, Korea, Israel, Latvia, Sweden and Spain before making its grand debut, two years ago, at the New York Carnegie Hall. The South American tour opens today with a performance at the Coliseum Theater of Buenos Aires, folllwing Pinchas Zuckerman’s act in the Nuova Harmonia 2013 program. The group will perform Vivaldi’s Four Seasons while a video showing Puglia images will be played in the background. Also on scheduled is a famous intermezzo from the 16th century by Pergolesi, La Serva Padrona. The group will be directed by Gianna Fratta. The nine performers will the head to Uruguay and elsewhere in Brazil for a series of concerts dedicated to Italian music and the promotion of Puglia abroad.
