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Torino Milano Festival Internazionale della Musica
Torino Milano
Italy
http://www.mitosettembremusica.it
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Tel: +39.011.4424703 - 02.88464725
settembre.musica@comune.torino.it c.mitoinformazioni@comune.milano.it
http://www.mitosettembremusica.it
via San Francesco da Paola 3
IT-10123 Torino
via Dogana 2
IT-20123 Milano
MITO SettembreMusica
Since 1982, beside traditional symphonic and chamber concerts with repertoire programmes and frequent raids in jazz and author’s song, MITO SettembreMusica promoted substantial monographies devoted to contemporary composers. The spotlight also falls on the musical cultures of remote countries. Starting from 2007 it takes place in two cities: Torino and Milano.
This festival has been an EFA member since 1988.
Festival Programme
Each EFA member manages its own Calendar. In case there is no programme availabable for this year, please visit the festival's own website.
History
MITO SettembreMusica
Member since 1988
In 2007, the cultural union between Milan and Turin transformed the already famous 30-year old festival SettembreMusica into MITO SettembreMusica, bringing high-class music to the public at inexpensive prices. Throughout the month of September, Turin and Milan vibrate to the notes of this music, and theatres, churches, courtyards and squares, just a few of the more than seventy venues, get ready to welcome an immense audience.
This Turin-Milan connection is a prime example of cultural vitality that is unrivalled on the European scene, with the new SettembreMusica festival classifying as an avant-garde element in the bonding of the two cities, able to fill the whole area with music throughout September, and entice a brand-new public with its magnificent programmes.
Since 1978, Settembre Musica has been organized by the City of Turin Cultural Council, and right from the start it has always focused on certain basic features. First of all its framework: at least two concerts each day, one in the afternoon and one or more in the evening; over 100 concerts, some of them free, in concert halls, baroque churches and in the open air.
MITO SettembreMusica has progressively widened its horizons, growing in fame and authority, and finally joining the European Association of Music Festivals in 1988. After the early years when scheduling concentrated on the 17th and 18th century repertoire, MITO SettembreMusica now offers a 360-degree view of the history of music.
A growing event, it has attracted major performers such as Severino Gazzelloni, Daniel Barenboim, Maurizio Pollini, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Salvatore Accardo, Uto Ughi, Alfred Brendel, Gidon Kremer, Marta Argerich, Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Muti, Yuri Temirkanov, Claudio Abbado, Kurt Masur, Uri Caine, Neville Marriner, Krystian Zimerman, Murray Perahia, Zubin Mehta, Myung-Whun Chung, Colin Davis, Mstislav Rostropovic, Natalia Gutman, HK Gruber, Jordi Savall, Chet Baker, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Paolo Conte, Hanna Schygulla, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Michel Petrucciani, Goran Bregovic, Ornette Coleman, Ivano Fossati, Vinicio Capossela, Brad Mehldau, Ute Lemper, Cassandra Wilson, Bobby McFerrin, Enrico Rava, Fiorella Mannoia, Mau Mau, Africa United, Richard Galliano, Stefano Bollani, Franco Battiato, Mc Coy Tyner.
Since 1982 the festival has concentrated in part on contemporary composers, producing series of concerts to review their works, introducing them to the audience, publishing biographical and musicological books. Personalities introduced in this way have included Berio, Messiaen, Boulez, Ligeti, Henze, Nono, Xenakis, Carter, Donatoni, Gubaidulina, Andriessen, Reich, Schnittke, Kurtag, Sciarrino, Takemitsu, Petrassi, Pärt, Dutilleux, Maxwell Davies, Yun/Chin, Birtwistle, Hosokawa, Lachenmann/Rihm, and 13 composers for Italy's 150° Anniversary.
Since 1997 Settembre Musica has extended its range to ethnic music, and over the last few years special projects have been devoted to Central Africa, China, the Himalayan Region, Java, Cambodia, Kerala, South India, Iran, Vietnam, Korea, Gypsy traditions, Japan, Turkey, and Haiti.
After a successful experience in New York in 1990, for several years Settembre Musica organized concerts and panel discussions in several cities such as Athens, Prague, Madrid, Moscow, Boston, and Beijing devoted to Italian contemporary music, opening a new perspective on cultural export and giving audiences an idea both of the continuity and the variety of styles and trends in contemporary Italian music.
