Saturday, October 13, at 7:30 pmSaturday, September 29
DISCANTO -- Traditional music of Abruzzo, Italy
With guests from VIVACCI! Italian folk dance group
Calvary Center for Culture and Community, 48th Street and Baltimore
Avenue
Tickets and refreshments on sale from 6:30, doors open at 7:00, music
starts at 7:30.
Tickets are $8-$18 and available in advance from House of Our Own
Books (3920 Spruce) or http://www.crossroadsconcerts.org
DisCanto was founded in 1995 by Michele Avolio to help keep alive the
folk music of the central Italian region of Abruzzo. Much of the
groups’ repertoire comes from Alvolio’s earlier group Vico del
Vecchio and includes traditional music from Abruzzo and southern
Italy, saltarelli (dance tunes), original songs in the Abruzzan
dialect and ethnic music from other Italian regions. During the
second half of the concert, members of Vivacci, Philadelphia's
Italian folk dance group, will teach steps to some of the dance tunes
for you to try out.
Michele Avolio began his musical career as a pop guitarist, but in
1977 he joined the traditional band that later became Vico del
Vecchio and began to study and to re-elaborate old popular songs from
the Peligna valley of central Abruzzo. When the group disbanded in
1995, he became the musical director of DisCanto. Since the 70’s,
Avolio has composed music for many theater companies, documentaries,
and museum exhibits, taught modern guitar as well as traditional
instruments, and been artistic director in ethnic music festivals in
the Abruzzan towns of Vasto, Capestrano, Civitella Alfedena, Villetta
Barrea and Sulmona.
Sara Ciancone studied Cello at the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in
L’Aquila and has played in many orchestras and other classical and
new music groups. Before joining DisCanto in 1999, she played in the
female band called Laos that presented musical arrangements of the
popular music of Italian regions including Abruzzo, Campania, Puglia
and Sicily.
Antonello di Matteo is a native Abruzzan whose interest in the
Italian bag-pipes started when he was 14. He studied and later taught
at the Accademia dei Transumanti of Abruzzo (AcTA) in Chieti, played
in cultural and folkloristic festivals in Abruzzo and beyond, and
taught Italian bagpipes and the flute at many conventions and
traditional music workshops. Antonello joined DisCanto in 2004.
Massimo Pacella studied violin at the Alfredo Casella Conservatory in
L’Aqulia under Maestros Pasquale Pellegrino, A. Perpich, P. Toso and
M. Pradella. He also took part in a seminar at the Accademia
Chigiana, taught by H. Szeryng. With Maestro Sabatino Servilio, he
founded the Insieme Strumentale Serafino Aquilano in 1992 and gave
many concerts in Italy, Spain, Holland, Germany and The United
States. In 1994 he joined DisCanto’s predecessor, Vico del Vecchio.He
teaches violin at the Music School in Sulmona and at the Dante
Alighieri school in Paganica.
Germana Rossi started studying the accordion at the age of six, but
later put that instrument aside to study the violin at the Alfredo
Casella Conservatory in L’Aquila, from which she graduated in 1997.
She began her career playing classical and baroque music and founded
the Ophelia music school (where she now teaches) and the first
university orchestra in Italy, where she was the artistic director
and backup violinist until 2001. A collaboration with the People’s
Theater Company of Pescara introduced her to southern Italian and
Hebrew folk music and inspired her to begin playing accordion again
and to found the all women band Laos Voce del Sud (Voice of the
South) which performed both Italian and non-Italian traditional
popular music. In 2000, she joined DisCanto.
You can listen to DisCanto and purchase tickets at http://
www.crossroadsconcerts.org
Crossroads events are in part supported by grants from the
Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, and the 5-County
Arts Fund, a Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts program of the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
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