2013 – Project for the Year of the Italian Culture in USA
Embassy of Italy in Washington, Dc
Italian Cultural Institute – Washington D.C.
Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia
AIFIC – American Initiative for Italian Culture
Columbia Heights Educational Campus
Boyer College of Music and Dance – Italian program – FGIS Department
Project for the Year of the Italian Culture in USA
This project is dedicated to the new generation of the two Countries, to the young musicians, the talents celebrating the Italian and American musical culture.
The year of the Italian Culture in the USA, would like to be an opportunity to build partnership and a cultural network made of relations, exchanges and collaborations aimed at promoting a sharing of ideas and common values of active citizens and an international brotherhood.
Italians and Americans strings of the World Youth Orchestra (14 musicians)
Conductor Damiano Giuranna
Concerts:
Italian Embassy – Washington
November 15th
Booklet
Temple University – Philadelphia
November 16th
Booklet
The project ended with a concert Dedicated to the US Ambassador in Italy
performed by a Quartet of the World Youth Orchestra
WYO Quartet at Villa Taverna with Ambassador John Phillips
Alex Russell, violin I
Jacob Joyce, violin II
Marco Nirta, viola
Amedeo Cicchese, cello
Concert:
Villa Taverna – Rome
May 7th, 2014
Music Program:
G. Verdi Quartet in e minor
S. Barber Quartet op. 11