A Evening of Mozart with ORT & Michele Campanella

For Mozart lovers, the Orchestra della Toscana will perform a program dedicated entirely to the composer on Tuesday, January 30.  Michele Campanella who is also the piano soloist, will conduct the evening.  The concert will focus on Mozart compositions created after he abandoned his job as a court musician in his native Salzburg, preferring to live in Vienna.

The concertos — n. 23 and n. 24 — were written while the composer was working on the comic opera The Marriage of Figaro. Campanella will play two more pieces, the Rondo in A Minor and Fantasia in A Minor for solo piano which shows Mozart’s introspectiveness and anticipates 19th century Romantic music.

Campanella was born in Naples in 1947. He was awarded the Alfredo Casella Prize at age 19, after studying with Vincenzo Vitale. This led to an international performing career, taking him to many countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, China, Argentina, Brazil, and Italy.  This event marks Campanella’s return to Italy after commitments abroad.

Before the ORT performance, Michele Campanella will meet the public for the presentation of his new CD, “Sonata in B minor,” released last November. The presentation will take place at the La Feltrinelli RED bookshop in the Piazza della Repubblica at 5 pm. Michele Campanella is quoted as saying, “The most beautiful thing that can happen to me is when I meet people who remember one of my concerts from 40 years ago: something has remained.”

The concert will be held at Teatro Verdi, via Ghibellina 99 at 9 pm.