Piano solo recital featuring Paolo Bartolani, piano at Castello di Borghese Vineyard 17150 Rte 48, Mattituck, NY 11952 Friday, December 8th, 2023, at 6:00pm
Come to celebrate the holiday season! Holiday Concert returns this December! Come to celebrate the holiday season with a piano music recital presenting two classical composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart & Ludwig van Beethoven!
Beginning now, reserve your tickets for an experience that will fill Castello di Borghese Vineyard with the sounds of the holiday season. After the concert you can share a glass of wine with the musicians and share moments of cheerfulness together.
Music Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Fantasia in C minor, K. 475 (date 1785) Piano Sonata No.14 in C minor, K.457 (date 1784) Molto allegro (C minor) Adagio (E♭ major) Allegro assai (C minor)
Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Sonata n. 15 op. 28 Op. 28 (date 1801) Allegro, Andante in D minor, Scherzo: Allegro vivace, Rondo: Allegro ma non troppo
Rites of Spring Music Festival is supported by private donors and with public funds. From Suffolk County, Grant from SCOCA. the office of Cultural Affairs. In collaboration with Castello di Borghese Vineyard
Paolo Bartolani, pianist Founder & Artistic Director of Rites of Spring Music Festival Paolo Bartolani is a pianist, musicologist and music manager, working in both classical and contemporary music. He graduated in 1989 from the Santa Cecilia Music Conservatory in Rome (Italy). He studied with Eduardo Hubert, and after graduation, with Charles Rosen, György Sándor and Andor Foldes. He also studied French piano repertoire with Germaine Mounier at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. In 1994, he received his Master in Musicology of the 20th century degree under the direction of Hugues Dufourt at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in collaboration with IRCAM / Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Paolo performs as a soloist and also as a member of chamber ensembles in Europe and United States. He writes articles for the musicology journals Sonus-Materials for Contemporary Music and Music/Reality. In 2006, he created a Master Degree Program in Cultural Enterprise Administration at the University of Perugia, where he also teaches. At the Venice Biennale, from 2008 to 2012, Paolo was the General Coordinator of ENPARTS - European Network of Performing Arts, which promotes the creation of new works in dance, music and theater by young artists. From 2009 to 2014 he was the Director of the Résonnance Italy, a nonprofit organization based in Switzerland, where he was responsible for its artistic and humanitarian program, "bringing music to places where it is not heard." The members of the organization – singers, instrumentalists, conductors – have performed more than two hundred concerts in hospitals, nursing homes and prisons in order to promote musical sensibilities and share the joy of music. He has been the General Coordinator of Music Up Close Network at Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome. The Network includes seven European orchestras who promote new orchestral works and support a new generation of musicians to connect with young audiences. He founded the Rites of Spring Music Fest in 2016 to promote classical and contemporary music on the North Fork of Long Island, and to combine music,history and the natural environment. The Festival currently is a non-profit organization 501c3 and he is the Artistic Director and Responsible for developing the Festival’s program.