Festivalino 2024: Mascarade Trio

Festivalino 2024: Mascarade Trio

Inspiring the next generation

On 1 June 2024, at our headquarters at Palazzo Corsini al Prato, the Mascarade Trio, composed by Mascarade Opera's Artistic Director Julia Lynch (piano), Tijmen Huisingh (violin) and Ross Montgomery (clarinet) performed a dazzling lunchtime concert as part of the Mascarade Opera Foundation's Festivalino 2024.

The full recording of the concert is available on our Youtube channel HERE


Programme

Darius Milhaud
Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano, Op. 157b

i) Ouverture

ii) Divertissement 

iii) Jeu

iv) Introduction et Finale

G. C. Menotti

 

Gian Carlo Menotti
Trio for Violin, Clarinet and Piano

i) Capriccio, allegro

ii) Romanza, andante espressivo 

iii) Envoi, allegro

 

Francis Poulenc
Novelette no. 3 in E minor, FP 173

Julia Lynch, Piano

 

Francis Poulenc
L'invitation au château, FP 138

i) Act I

ii) Act II: Valse brillante

iii) Act II: Mouvement de valse hésitation

iv) Act II: Valse des petites taupes

v) Act III: Valse brillante 

vi) Act III: Tempo di Boston

vii) Act III: Tango

viii) Act III: Mouvement de valse hésitation

ix) Act III: Moderato

x) Act III: Appassionato

xi) Act III: Trés vite et trés canaille 

xii) Act III: Tempo di tarantella 

xiii) Act III: Polka finale

xiv) Act III: Presto

xv) Act III: Follement vite et gai


Igor Stravinskiy
Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet

Ross Montgomery, Clarinet

 

Igor Stravinskiy
L'histoire de soldat: Suite for Violin, Clarinet and Piano

i) Marche du soldat

ii) Le violon du soldat 

iii) Petit Concert 

iv) Tango - Valse - Ragtime

v) Danse du diable

For the full programme of the FESTIVALINO 2024

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The Florence Choral Course as an annual summer course, which thanks to our supporters is made entirely free for participants and dedicated to the study, performance and promotion of Italian choral music. Up to 25 singers from all over the world have the unique opportunity to come to Florence for in immersive period of daily rehearsals, choral technique workshops, individual singing lessons, archival tours, history lectures and masterclasses with world famous practitioners, including soprano Dame Emma Kirkby and director of Milan Cathedral Choir Maestro Massimo Palombella.
The week culminates in concert and ecclesiastical performances in some of Florence’s most iconic buildings, including Palazzo Tornabuoni, Santissima Annunciata and Santa Maria Novella, as well as a sung mass in the great cathedral of Milan.

In addition, the programme’s advanced choral course for aspiring professional singers provides students a unique opportunity to come to Florence for an intensive programme of study, rehearsals, masterclasses and performances, as well as historical lectures and tours in the heart of the most important city of Renaissance. 

In addition, the programme’s advanced choral course for aspiring professional singers provides students a unique opportunity to come to Florence for an intensive programme of study, rehearsals, masterclasses and performances, as well as historical lectures and tours in the heart of the most important city of Renaissance. 

HOW TO APPLY

Applications for the Florence Choral Course July 2024 will open on 1 January 2024.

To apply please send two recordings and your CV to thesacredmusicprogramme@mascaradeopera.com

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