FLAME | Florence Art Music Ensemble aims to bring together musicians and artists to offer audiences a new experience of concerts, a new approach to the contemporary.
At the present, the ensemble's stable set is formed by Chiara Scucces - flutes, Emilio Checchini - clarinets, Ilaria Lanzoni - violin, Michele Marco Rossi - cello, Luisa Valeria Carpignano - piano; Andrea Cavallari and Luisa Valeria Carpignano are the ensemble's directors.
FLAME is a versatile ensemble that each year involves young professional musicians from Italy and elsewhere in Europe in large-scale projects: for example, a chamber-music event to celebrate the hundredth birthday of Elliott Carter (participants included Ursula and Heinz Holliger, Gianfranco Vinay and Italo Dall’Orto); or the day dedicated to John Cage at the Palazzo Vecchio, when simultaneous performances of his works were given in all the galleries of the building, enabling the listener to experience Cage’s music as if following the sequence of a visual arts exhibition.
The ensemble has also given concerts dedicated to the most famous contemporary Italian composers (Salvatore Sciarrino, Luciano Berio, Fausto Romitelli), where the contemporary repertoire alternated with masterpieces from the classical repertoire, from Beethoven to Brahms.
In addition to traditional concerts, the ensemble also engages in multimedia projects (e.g. projects for New York University in Florence), art installations and experimental cross-over projects between theatrical performances and new technologies in real time.
FLAME collaborates regularly with young composers, organizes Call for Scores (2013, 2015) and
commissions every year several world premieres.
The ensemble, which has its home at the National Museum of the Bargello, has been invited to
represent Italian contemporary music at various other festivals in Europe: it performed, under the baton of Claudio Ambrosini, at the opening concert for the London Ear Festival 2013, broadcasted by the BBC Radio 3; that same year FLAME inaugurated the Weimar Spring Contemporary Music Festival. In 2015 FLAME was the ensemble in residence for the London Ear Festival, with the generous support of Italian Ministry, G.A.I. (Movin'up Project) and Italian Cultural Institute.
Programma
LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA
Tartiniana Seconda | per violino e pianoforte
ZENO BALDI
In punta | per flauto, clarinetto, violino, violoncello, pianoforte
ALBAN BERG
Quattro pezzi | per clarinetto e pianoforte op. 5
JOHANNES HILDEBRANDT
Annäherung I | per flauto e pianoforte | prima esecuzione italiana
NICCOLÒ CASTIGLIONI
Dulce Refrigerium. Sechs geistliche | Lieder per pianoforte
GABRIELE COSMI
Funf Turme | Suite per violoncello solo (I movimento)
GWYN PRITCHARD
Features and Formations | per violino solo, flauto clarinetto e violoncello | prima esecuzione italiana
CHIARA SCUCCES flauto
EMILIO CHECCHINI clarinetto
ILARIA LANZONI violino
MICHELE MARCO ROSSI violoncello
LUISA VALERIA CARPIGNANO pianoforte
In Punta
Acrobata (s. m.) è chi cammina tutto in punta (di piedi): (tale, almeno, è per l'etimo):
poi procede, però, naturalmente, tutto in punta di dita, anche,di mani (e in punta di forchetta):
e sopra la sua testa: (e sopra i chiodi, fachireggiando e funamboleggiando):
(e sopra i fili tesi tra due case, per le strade e le piazze: dentro un trapezio, in un circo, in un
cerchio, sopra un cielo): volteggia su due canne, flessibilmente, infilzate in due bicchieri, in due
scarpe, in due guanti: (dentro il fumo, nell'aria): pneumatico e somatico, dentro il vuoto
pneumatico: (dentro pneumatici plastici, dentro botti e bottiglie): e salta mortalmente: e
mortalmente (e moralmente) ruota: (così mi ruoto e salto, io nel tuo cuore):
Edoardo Sanguineti (Corollario, Feltrinelli, Milano 1997)
