August 2016 - Prosecco Festival

Prosecco lands, with Yuri Bashmet they will be the protagonists of the international music scene

Conegliano e Vittorio Veneto, 26-28 agosto 2016
After the exceptional preview in Moscow, the international music festival directed by Yuri Bashmet is back and it will bring on stage great soloists and talented new artists in the most evocative lands of Prosecco.
Among the guests, Paolo Tagliamento from Conegliano, rising star on the international music scene, Belle Shiu, who plays a piece by Tan Dun and Yuri Bashmet, viola soloist, director of the Moscow Soloists and interpreter of great Russian composers: Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich and Bodrov, author of a new piece written for the Insieme Vocale of the City of Conegliano. […]

Monday, 8 August 2016|2016 edition|

PROSECCO MUSIC FESTIVAL: ready for the 2016th edition!

Centred on the personality of its artistic director, the world renowned violist Yuri Bashmet, the festival “Sulle vie del Prosecco” develops on the beloved hills that characterise the Prosecco area, surrounding the North-eastern part of Italy that goes from Trieste to Vicenza, in the very heart of Venice’s and Treviso’s provinces.
Yuri Bashmet holds a special place amongst today’s musicians, affirming the viola as a recognized soloist instrument for the first time ever. Composers throughout the world have embraced this phenomenon and have composed more than fifty new works for the viola, especially for him.
At the end of August, Yuri […]