Budapest – Established to bring into mainstream culture the rich repertoire of recent classical music, the event – scheduled for May 8, 15 and 22 – is a journey / discovery that retraces musical experiences that span generations to reclaim those wide-open spaces in the relationship between sound, space, and time. For the first edition, Ivan Fedele has confirmed his participation: the internationally known musician and composer is director of the most prestigious Italian initiative of this kind, the one organized in the framework of the Venice Biennale. He will be in Budapest at the Italian Institute of Culture for the event on May 15. Fedele will be preceded by Alessio Elia , a young Italian-Hungarian composer winner of 2013 the first prize at the New Hungarian Music Forum, who will be at the IIC on May 8. The event will end with a tribute to the great Luciano Berio, with an evening involving a group of young musicians in Hungary on May 22. All composers will perform their music and then answer questions from the public. The whole event will be inaugurated by a an introductory meeting on May 5 held by László Tihanyi (composer, conductor and professor at the Academy of Music) and Giulio D’ Angelo (musicologist), who will illustrate musical evolution and research in the 20th and 21st centuries. (9Colonne)
