Santu Lussurgiu center of international classical music , universal language capable of making different peoples and cultures dialogue fraternally, with workshops, lessons and concerts for a cultured and competent audience and many enthusiasts.
The most prestigious names in the firmament of orchestral music until Wednesday 10 August in the characteristic medieval village to play and prepare promising young musicians. Directly from the prestigious orchestras of London, Paris, Geneva, Salzburg, Amsterdam, the teachers will prepare students from all over the world with intensive lessons in oboe, clarinet, piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass.
Among the masters Roman Simovic on the violin from Montenegro, from Serbia Gordan Nikolitich on the violin and Milena Simovic on the viola. On the cello David Cohen from Belgium and Uladzimir Sinkevitch from Belarus, then on the piano Simon C. Phillips from the UK, Olga Sitkovetsky from Russia and Linn Rothstein from Canada.
Concerts at 7 pm on 4, 5 and 10 August , at 9 pm on 7, 8 and 9 August in the evocative church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, the central nucleus of the ancient convent complex of the Observant Minor Fathers.
Saturday 6 August concert in Cabras in the church of Santa Maria Vergine Assunta at 9 pm, with maestro Simone Pittau, artistic director of the Festival, who will conduct Roman Simovic on violin, Milena Simovic on viola.
The festival, organized by the Chamber Orchestra of Sardinia founded by Pittau, is now an unmissable event in the center of Montiferrino, site of the first edition in 2009. A rich festival for residents but also for tourists, who come to discover the evocative streets of the historic center and to be enchanted by local culture and traditions.
“We must work to ensure that music, all music, is available to everyone and that there are no inhibitions or fears for studying and listening to classical music. We have believed in it for years and for this reason we alternate concert activity in the world with that which sees us in our home, in Sardinia, proposing the notes of the most sought-after violins or pianos in Europe in our communities, in our churches, in our squares ”, underlines Pittau.