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1991-2001 Sixtieth Anniversary of the birth of the pianist Dino Ciani 1941-2001
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Why
"Dino Ciani"
The "Dino Ciani" Association derives its name
and its animating spirit from a great young pianist, a remarkable personality of
the Italian and International music world.
Dino Ciani has been a distinguished artist for his intensely meaningful
performances, for the enthusiasm he communicated, for the deep impression left
on everyone who was lucky enough to attend his concerts.
His art, although fulfilled and mature, has been young only: his wonderful
energy was interrup-ted in 1974, by a car accident. He was only 33.
Thus it is not by chance that he has been chosen as the symbol of the ™Dino
Ciani¨ Association, founded to promote musical culture, especially through the
education and specialization of young musicians in order to introduce them to
the possibility of a profession in that field and improve every opportunity of
experience and comparison.
Dino Ciani can be remembered through these young talented artists whom the
Association operates to promote by organizing concerts (up to 600 every year),
festivals, courses and competitions. The most prestigious competition dedica-ted
to Dino Ciani is held in Verbania - Stresa and is closely connected to the
homonymous three-year old International Competition of the Scala Theatre in
Milan. We have been honoured by eminent personalities from the Italian music
world joining the Guest Committee together with Artistic Directors anc
Supervisors of the most important Italian Theatres, evidence of the importance
of our music competition.
For the last four years, the competitions entrance-fees have been entirely given
to the charities "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza" San Giovanni Rotondo
- Foggia and the Association for the people struck by Alzheimers disease led by
Charitas of Verbano.
The Association ™Dino Ciani¨ aims to help charitable
activities and attempts to support many significant cultural projects.
COURSES: international music courses.
ORCHESTRA: the musical courses Orchestra Ciani.
ORCHESTRAS COMPETITION: Teatro "La Fabbrica" in Villadossola (VB) -
May 1999.
The courses are reserved for students and graduates of the Conservatoire and
include a comprehensive group of musical disciplines: pianoforte, harp guitar,
chamber music, quartet, pianoforte with four hands; string instruments: violin,
viola, violoncello and contrabass; wind instruments:clarinet, flute, oboe, bag
pipe, trum-pet, trombone, cornet. The courses also include the Orchestras
conduction, bringing this way the whole to a unity: the students of this course
will lead an orchestra formed by other students attending single-instrument
courses, the result being a different orchestra each time but always called
"Orchestra Ciani dei Corsi Musicali".
In relation to this, the Paul Harris Competition (Soloists con Orchestra) must
be remarked: it took place in Villadossola on May 1999 and the orchestras
conductor came right from the "Dino Ciani" specialized courses.
The courses give the young musicians many opportunities to meet each other and
to work together, as they are engaged not only as soloists, but also in chamber
groups or in the orchestra hard work. The courses represent an important
emotional exchange and also a moment for friendship an creative fun.
Music
for life
The ™Dino Ciani¨ Association conveys another important
message whose meaningful title is "Music for
Life" .
Considering thus the cultural and spiritual affinities between scientific and
musical research, the association is engaged with activites where music is
employed to help diseased people and medicine in general. This is obtained by
using music both as a relief and asa vehicle meant to spread information about
the work of many humanitarian organizations. Therefore the "Dino
Ciani" Association has been cooperating with groups of doctors belonging to
several hospitals for many years, generally with musictherapy sessions or simply
with concerts performed by young artists already awarded in "Dino
Ciani" competitions.
One of the first hospitals that joined this project was the University
Scientific Institute S. Raffaele in Milan. This cooperation led to a round table
entitled ™Music beyond the show¨ which was held in Verbania in 1995 and which
was meant to analyse and discuss the sessions realized with the S. Raffaele
Hospital of Milan. Lectures were given by experts of the field such as the
psychologist Dr. Italo Pistoia, the psychologist Dr. Nullina Nizzola, the
sociologist Dr. Vittoria Gnocato, the music therapist Dr. Ombretta Franco, the
musical critic Dr. Andrea Bambace.
The orchestra of the "Dino Ciani" specializing course, then as in
other occasions before, performed with a remarkable concert at the beginning and
at the end of the meeting.
The number of concerts connected with Music for Life has been increasing in the
last years, involving the S. Biagio Hospital in Domodossola and the Pio Albergo
Trivulzio of Milan. There the Monday Concert has already become an appreciated
appointment. Milans newspapers inform about the concerts programmes and allow
all the fans and the guests relatives to join the initiative.
To L.I.T.A goes the merit of having started. L.I.T.A. is
an association created to take care of the problems connected with old age and
it includes also doctors and social assistents. The Monday concerts represent a
social occasion, especially for the old people living in the Pio Albergo
Trivulzio, and a chance to experience that special kind of emotion that only art
can give.
The enthusiastic audience is the best rewarding for these young artists who
create a mutual understanding with their listeners ready to reply with signs of
praise.
The
concerts
It is difficult to imagine how many young artists,
graduated in our Conservatoire, are able to perform, even for a demanding
audience, a wide repertory of classical pieces with cultural maturity and
interpreting skills. Many of them hardly find a large audience. In fact the
classical music appreciators are not such a wide audience, and in addition a
part of them is used to enjoying their favourtite music at home, with records,
feeling the harmony of the notes, alone with their own thoughts.
This is why on one hand the listeners often miss the typical emotion given by a
concert where a creative relationship is estabilished between the performer and
the audience and on the other hand the artist cannot enjoy the chance to express
and to perceive the impact of his art while performing and to receive the
applause which is certainly the most appreciated reward for the performers
passion and effort. The "Dino Ciani" Association, by organizing
concerts in many cities, in Italy and abroad, gives its contribution to the
increasing of opportunities to meet given to artists and audience, an audience
that is gradually growing. These young artists have successfully performed in
culturally remarkable places such as Palazzo Albrizzi in Venezia, Circolo
Ufficiali in Trieste, Sala delle Camelie and Salone delle Feste of the Grand
Hotel des Iles Borromées, Villa Francesca, Sala dei Rododendri of the Hotel
Regina and Palazzo dei Congressi in Stresa.
Memories'
album
But in the "Dino Ciani" memories album there
are also performances held in Duino, Mestre, Roma, Domodossola, Verbania, Baveno,
Macugnaga, Verona, Arizzano, Assago, Bad Ragaz, Bannio Anzino, Bee, Briga,
Calasca Castiglione, Catanzaro, Cinisello Balsamo, Cortina dAmpezzo, Dissimo,
Druogno, Ginevra, Isola Bella, Isola Pescatori, Malesco, Martigny, Masera,
Montana, Ornavasso, (etc.)... and even at the Gianadda Institution of Martigny,
always engaged in cultural and artistic activities.
It is really touching to go back to those events and read those evocative titles:
"Ecoffres d'Art - Arts caskets" (harmonic mixture of music and
painting) "Notes on the Lagoon" and "Beyond Stars" and
"Arabesques in the Lagoon¨"- "Sea Harmonies" -"Listen
Together" - "Once Upon a Time: Stars are Listening" - "Never-ending
Song" - "Song for You" - "Doges Concerts" - "Spring
Concerts" - "Serenissimas Concerts" - "Elegies in
Duino" - "Eternal harmonies" - "Arts Concerts" -
"Art Spell" - "Libe a Tale for the Soul" - "Golden
Notes" - "Francesco Forgione" - "Homage to Padre Pio" -
"Homage to the Guest" - "To Give a Dream" - "Stresa and
the Borromei family" - "I will play for You" - "A Light for
the Churches".
And more concerts in Milan: at the Hilton Hotel, Hilton Hotel Baglioni and Forte
Crest Hotel and also at the Forte Holtel Agip in Venice, Duino, Trieste, Assago,
Rome.
Compact
Disc
A beautiful and moving memory is associated with the
production of a CD with pieces of music by F. Liszt realized in a little church
turned into a recording room: hectic days of hard work and passionate rush,
where the sounds reached a supernatural force. With very few remakings, the CD
was produced at a constant and tireless pace that immediately attained a formal
perfection.
The result consists in 6.000 CDs printed with the name of the performer, Simone
Gragnani, on the colour picture of the church of Montebuglio, slanting and
oblique, as in a dream, taken from the swollen mirror of a car. Even this work
is gat to the musical art, in the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the
Rotary Club Pallanza Stresa in 1999.
Competitions
The 2000 competition-season closing balance has been
brilliant: the first edition of the International Music Competition
"Francesco Forgione" with the support of the General Consulate of the
German Federal Republic and the Provincia di Milano, and the second edition of
the International Music Competition "Isole Borromee" both supported by
the Comunit Montana Valle Ossola. Both held in Verbania Intra by the Auditorium
of the Famiglia Studenti "Il Chiostro" on May 5 - 13, 2000
In fact the two International Music Competitions held last year (2000) have been
attended by more than 160 competitors. The entry fees of the partici-pants have
reached the amount of 12 million lira and have been entirely given to the
Charities "Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza" San Giovanni Rotondo -
Foggia and the association for the people struck by alzheimers disease led by
Charitas of Verbano.
The
"Thank You" notebook
DIANA DE SILVA - Farmaceutica Bracco and Dr. AMALIA
MANTICA ARRIGOTTI.
Luckily the "Dino Ciani" Association has many friends who love music
and care about the future of young musicians encouraging them with prizes and
awards. Among these friends it is necessary to remember Dr. Diana De Silva -
Casa Farmaceutica BRACCO who, in the first Edition of the International Music
Competition "Francesco Forgione" and in the contemporary second
Edition of the International Music Competition "Isole Borromee" (Verbania
May 5 -13, 2000) has provided prizes for the participants, with 150 wonderful
Byblos packets for the girls and Ferr ones for the boys.
It has been a great event, for everybody, welcomed with joy by the competitors,
the parents and the audience.
Every participant has received the Bracco prize as a reward for their effort and
skills, even not considering their single performance worth. As a souvenir we
keep a journal of the competition with the names and addresses of the artists
who have writ-ten their "thank you". We call it the "thank you"
notebook.
We are especially grateful to Dr. Amalia Mantica Arrigotti who has offered with
generosity all the money prizes at the first International Music Competition
"Francesco Forgione" Verbania 2000.
BANCA POPOLARE DI INTRA: a train of gifts
BP Is contributions to culture are rich and timely. The Banks own vocation is to
produce and to increase wealth; the discernment of its managers allows it to
extend that talent to the social and cultural field by financing projects that
start and grow and will give rise to many more.
That is how BPI is often beside us and its logo follows our success. Its
presence is always visible even in the concert halls and the competitions
theatres where the audience applause is also meant for whom, behind the scenes,
helps making dreams come true.
The
future concerts
Other pictures to remember and celebrate the ten year
of the ™Dino Ciani¨ Association
And if our present time is full of appointments such as the concerts at the Pio
Albergo Trivulzio in Milan on Mondays, the recitals at Palazzo Albrizzi in
Venice on Saturdays and those at the Circolo Ufficiali in Trieste, our plans for
the future are even more promising. Ready to start are the "Concerti del
Decennale" to be held in Stresa: "Concerti di Primavera" from
April 27 to June, "Concerti d'estate" from 29 August 27, 2001, and
"Concerti d'Autunno" from August 29 to October 8, 2001.
Competitions
in 2001
We are trying to make them more and more interesting...
Every competition will be followed by another edition: the International Music
Competition "Francesco Forgione" Verbania is at its II Edition; the
International Music Competition "Isole Borromee" Verbania is at its
III Edition.
Verbania will also host the final selection and prize-giving of the II National
Competition "Progetto Musica" of the Soroptimist International of
Italy in September 2001.
Where
is the ™Dino Ciani¨ Association?
... Even the empty concert hall, when you can still hear
the music and the applause of the evening, when the flower vases are picked up
and the sponsor banner are taken away when the sings of the concert slowly
disappear and everything seems over, the "Dino Ciani" Association is
still there, ready to start again.
The engagement we have taken on to help young artists with talent never stops
for breaks. Many of them perform in "Dino Ciani" concerts to
"try" a new programme before an important competition, or an
exa-mination, or the recording of a new CD.
The "Dino Ciani" Association welcomes them with love and trust in
their hopes.
Sometimes these reasons hide the simple need to gather together. These are often
occasions of joy. These musicians meet old friends after having studied for long
periods and share their own progresses with them. It is a way of comparing
different works and encouraging each other. It often happens that some of them
become very important professional artists, busy with their success. Even though
this will make it difficult for them to attend our meetings we are not sad.
This is exactly what we expect from them. We are very proud and, sharing their
happiness, we follow them in the most prestigious concert halls, with the only
wish that their talent will be recognized and will bring them to the stars...
... e lievi le stelle percorrono il cielo (Giovanni
Pascoli)
Competition
Programme and Golden album
The competitions have followed two different aims.
The piano competitions were meant for a very limited
number of young artists with great talent in order to allow them to accept the
challenge of selective and engaging competitions, with particularly difficult
pieces of music. The winners are now promises of the Italian piano world.
Other competitions have been conceived and realized as music parties: open to
younger artists, for every kind of instrument, even though they have prizes
according to skills, they are basically meant as a tribute to passion, work,
will.
Music might not become a profession for these young partecipants who will
maintain nevertheless a cultural interest and continue appreciating the joy and
the emotional tension of music. Hundreds of happy faces, proud parents - and for
the best ones the satisfaction of a public exibition - are the nice memories of
the Association as much as they are for who has lived them as a participant.
Our music lives within the passion and the talent of
young artists and the affection of all the people who have been following and
supporting us for years.
*GOLDEN ALBUM*
National Piano competition "Dino Ciani" 1981
I Edition National Piano competition "Dino Ciani"
category juniores I prize Davide
Cabassi
category seniores I prize Alessandro
Cesaro
Verbania-Intra - November 1981 Auditorium Famiglia Studenti
National Piano competition "Dino Ciani" 1983
II Edition National Piano competition "Dino Ciani"
category juniores I prize Gianluca Cascioli
Verbania-Intra - November 1983 Auditorium Famiglia Studenti
National Piano competition "Dino Ciani" 1996
III Edition National Piano competition "Dino Ciani"
category seniores I prize, ex aequo Alessandra
Ammara and Riccardo Bini
Gran Premio Giuseppe Imperatori (ITL. 15.000.000)
Verbania / Stresa - November 1996 Palazzo dei Congressi Stresa
International Music Competition "Paul
Harris" 1998
I Edition Piano Performance
Gold Medal and ™Paul Harris¨ Prize Davide
Cabassi
Verbania-Intra - May 1998 Auditorium Famiglia Studenti
International Music Competition "Paul
Harris" 1999
II Edition Piano Performance "Paul Harris"
Prize and Gran Coppa del Cinquantenario Simone
Gragnani
Verbania-Intra - May 1999 Auditorium Famiglia Studenti
International Music Competition "Paul
Harris" 1999
II Edition Piano Performace with Orchstra "Paul Harris"
Prize and Coppa Pierluigi Sandonnini Simone
Gragnani
Villadossola (VB) - May 1999 Teatro "La Fabbrica"
International Music Competition "Isole
Borromee" 1999
I Edition Winner of Competition
harpist Assia Cunego
Verbania-Intra - May 1999 Auditorium Famiglia Studenti
National Competition "Progetto Musica" 1999
Soroptimist International dItalia Final Selection
I Prize mezzo-soprano Silvia
Capra
Verbania-Intra - May 1999 Auditorium Famiglia Studenti
International Music Competition "Francesco
Forgione¨"2000
I Edition Piano Performance
I Prize Choi Yun-A
Verbania-Intra - May 2000 Auditorium Famiglia
Studenti
International Music Competition "Isole
Borromee" 2000
II Edition
I Prize violinist Maritan
Anania (duo with pianist
Davide Furlanetto)
Verbania-Intra - May 2000 Auditorium Famiglia Studenti
International Music Competition "Francesco
Forgione¨"2001
II Edition Piano Performance
I Prize ******
Verbania-Intra - November 2001 Auditorium Famiglia
Studenti
International Music Competition "Isole
Borromee" 2001
III Edition
I Prize ******
Verbania-Intra - November 2001 Auditorium Famiglia Studenti
Appointments
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The "Concerti Ciani
del Decennale" at Villa Francesca /
Stresa: |
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The Concerts "Musica
per la vita" at Pio Albergo Trivulzio in
Milan: |
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The "Concerti
Ciani" of Circolo Ufficiali in Trieste: |
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The "Concerti
Ciani" of Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice: |
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The "Concorsi
2001" : |
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International Music Competition "Francesco
Forgione" |
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International Music Competition
"Isole Borromee" |
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International Music Competition "Francesco
Forgione" |
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International Music Competition
"Isole Borromee" |
