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Way Out West Touring in Italy
For the first time, the acclaimed Australian world/jazz group, Way Out West, brings its blend of Vietnamese, African, and jazz sounds to Italy.
Way Out West’s sound has been described as “utterly unique” and features the hauntingly beautiful timbres of traditional Vietnamese instruments.
Way Out West is led by award winning trumpeter and composer, Peter Knight, it also features world renowned West African percussion specialist, Ray Pereira, along with other Melbourne music luminaries, reed man Paul Williamson, earthy acoustic bassist Howard Cairns, and young firebrand drummer Rajiv Jayaweera.
6th July Camerata Musicali Sulmonese, Sulmona
9th July Veneto Jazz Festival Fiesso d'Artico (Venezia)
Virginia Ryan at the Spoleto Festival 2008
An exhibition of Virginia Ryan’s work will be on display from 6 July until 31 August in Spoleto. The exhibition includes a vast multi-sensorial "landscape” of works completed in Africa and Italy which deal with three fundamental themes: the territory, memory, and identity. Sound settings created with the collaboration of the American anthropologist and musician Steven Feld accompany the visual work.
Since 2001, Ryan’s work has explored West Africa as seen through her position as a foreigner and as an artist. The exhibition “Multiple Entries- Africa and beyond 2001-2008”, also includes some of Ms Ryan’s most recent works completed in Italy which deal with modern trans-national themes, such as racial issues and ecology.
Virginia Ryan was born in Melbourne and grew up between Australia and Italy. She attended the National School of the Arts of Canberra and the University of Edinburgh, and has also lived in Egypt, Brazil, Scotland, and the former Yugoslavia. Since 1995 she’s been living and working in Italy. She is an artist, a writer and an art therapist.
In 2000, she opened a studio in Accra, Ghana. She also founded the Foundation for Contemporary Art in Ghana, is an associate professor of the New York University in Ghana and a member of the Pan African Circle of Artists (Lagos, Nigeria).
Ms Ryan’s exhibition is supported by the Australian Embassy in Italy, the National Commission for Culture in Ghana and the Foundation for Contemporary Art in Ghana.
When:
6 July - 31 August
Where:
Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna
Palazzo Collisola
Via Loreto Vittori, 11
Spoleto
More information:
Virginia Ryan
Festival di Spoleto
World Youth Day
Sydney Symphony in Italy
The Sydney Symphony is set to embark on a tour to Italy in September and October 2008, representing the culmination of Maestro Gianluigi Gelmetti’s five years as the Orchestra’s Chief Conductor and Artistic Director.
The tour will see a full-strength Sydney Symphony of 92 musicians performing 8 concerts over 12 days at some of Italy’s most prestigious festivals and performance centres, marking the first time the Orchestra has toured Italy in its 76-year history.
Taking in the Italian cities of Merano, Turin, Siena, Naples, Rome Modena, Milan and Verona, the Sydney Symphony and Maestro Gelmetti will perform works for which they have received critical acclaim during Maestro Gelmetti’s tenure. Pieces by Ravel and Beethoven will be complemented with a work by recent Sydney Symphony composer-in-residence, Australian Liza Lim featuring indigenous Australian didgeridoo player, William Barton.
“The 2008 Italian tour is a chance for our two countries to celebrate their close musical relationship, one that I am proud to have fostered during my time with the Orchestra. The tour is also an opportunity to take my beloved Sydney Symphony home to show Italian audiences how fruitfully our partnership has developed over the past five years”, says Gelmetti.
More information:
Sydney Symphony
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