Orchestra Excellence and ICDO – Festival “Suoni dal Golfo”

The first Festival organized by Orchestra Excellence and ICDO, which will introduce this new project to the entire world, will be in Lerici, a beautiful town on the Ligurian sea, in Italy.

The project means to create a new concept of orchestral experience for young musicians from all over the world, a group which has as main goal excellence in their performances, in their relationship with their colleagues, in their attitude towards their job. A new way of learning how to be an excellent orchestra player, where every single musician involved will be responsible for himself and its colleagues, in order to reach altogether the highest quality within a joyful and energetic atmosphere. It will be an orchestra where every musician will have the chance to express his ideas, propose programmes, create ensembles, have the chance to perform as a soloist, become responsible not only of his/her on playing but of an entire group, support the other musicians in their journey together. Every player will become a mentor and the team will be a family.

Cultural Diversity through music

Musicians from all over the world will gather in one place where diversities among them are going to be treasured as a virtue.

ICDO will:

▪Organize interactive workshops among the musicians and bring their personal stories together with promoting the message of unity in differences.

▪Partnership with Orchestra Excellence during the event to enhance the promotion of cultural diversity through music and workshops.

▪Produce a video which will convey the message of the whole event as one story of diversity, music, friendship & unity.

▪ Organize Conference

Importance of the project

The project is bringing a new and fresh approach to classical music. It means to change the perception that the musicians themselves have of their job, keeping the same energy of their school years alive. And at the same time, it means to change the perception of the “new generation” public with a more youthful and joyful image, keeping the highest quality of performance. It will be a project which will look at the entire world and not just locally. It can be exported anywhere because there are plenty of young musicians looking for an opportunity and struggling for a chance. The project brings them the hope that music is still the answer!

Project description

Orchestra Excellence is a project where young musicians from all around the world will be selected through online uploaded video. The system of selection will be totally transparent: every video will be uploaded in the online channel and the comments of the jury will be published so that anyone can read the reasons of the results and listen to the playing of every single candidate. The best applicants will be invited to take part in a festival where they will perform as orchestra players, as part of chamber ensembles, as soloists. They will rehearse in section rehearsals taking responsibility for their final result as well as supervised by internationally acclaimed mentors and then will prepare the concert programmes with the conductor and the soloists invited. All the musicians will live in the same place, will exchange their ideas, their experiences, share new projects, become friends and most of all, they will build a strong team. There will be two mentors for strings, one for woodwinds, one for brass and one for percussions. But the accent of this project is in the individual responsibility of every single musician to take care of the quality of their playing and of the playing of their colleagues and to learn how to make it their normal way of working.

The young musicians will be involved also in outreach events with the aim to attract the young generation to classical music. A fresh image, flash mobs, exciting programmes and no rules of behavior will be the key point of these events.

Orchestra Excellence and ICDO Festival Suoni dal Golfo – Lerici

During the past centuries, Lerici was hosting some of the most important artists of the world and that’s why its Gulf has been called “Gulf of Poets”. Shelley, Byron, Lawrence and many others lived in Lerici and have been inspired by its warm colors and wonderful sea. The programme of “Suoni dal Golfo” will celebrate the sea and the poets who loved Lerici. International soloists will perform in the most charming locations of Lerici and its surroundings and the Orchestra Excellence players will join them. Every day Lerici will be full of music, poetry, photography exhibitions and even will be surprised by flash mobs and special events. All the festival events, covered by the most important national and international press, will be streamed online and a documentary will be made to show the entire process of the Orchestra Excellence experience.

The closing event will be a concert with the orchestra performing on a platform on the sea for the first time in the world. The public will be enjoying such an exciting event, from the beach and the promenade of Venere Azzurra and/or from their boats and yachts.

The festival will be repeated every year in August with a duration of 14 days.

Locations:

Rehearsals and master classes: Castello di Lerici

Concerts:

Villa Marigola

Castello di Lerici

Parco di Falconara

Parco Shelley – San Terenzo

Oratorio in Selaa – Tellaro

Venere Azzurra seashore (on a platform)

Program 2017