SUMMERFEST
EDITION 2014
ITALY – FLORIDA – REPUBLIC OF PANAMA
For the past 22 summer seasons, Fort Lauderdale’s Symphony of the Americas presents its summer festival, Summerfest. Also this year, in collaboration with Musicfor International, they host an acclaimed European chamber orchestra for one month of performances throughout Florida and the Americas. The orchestra is joined by selected members of the Symphony of the Americas, and is funded in part by the Broward Cultural Council. Symphony of the Americas is Broward’s only professional orchestra, and Broward Center for the Performing Arts is its performance home.
For this year’s 23rd Summerfest, Symphony of the Americas will host the Mission Chamber Orchestra (MCO) in a return engagement, under the baton of Symphony Artistic Director, Maestro James Brooks-Bruzzese. On the occasion of the exhibition in 2014, the Symphony of the Americas has commissioned Maestro Lorenzo Turchi-Floris (composer in residence) a new creation for piano and string orchestra that will be performed throughout the festival.
Summerfest begins July 14 with nearly 25 performances taking the duration of festival into mid-August. Activities include concerts, master classes, and educational outreach, taking the masterful sounds of this great ensemble to audiences in corners of the world who have never before experienced the exhilaration of live orchestral performance. Highlighted this summer is our participation in the latest performance of the official centennial celebrations of the Panama Canal, which will be held at the University of Florida, in Gainesville.
OUR “MISSION” FOR SUMMERFEST 2014
Summerfest educational events reach over 20.000 students – introducing the masterful sounds of American, European and Latin composers.
By prestigious performances at the Broward Center of Florida, at the Panama National Theater, at the prestigious American Universities and at the tough schools of South America where children often listen in disbelief symphonic music for the first time.
Here begins our “mission”. Thousands of students take music education programs given by governments, helping children to develop alternative plans to those that would lead them to the streets, to physical and moral poverty.

SUMMERFEST 2014
FLORIDA - REPUBLIC OF PANAMA

SUMMERFEST 2014
ITALY

FESTIVAL 2014
Partnership
Artistic Director
Document
Mission Chamber Orchestra
ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS
VIOLINS I
Orlando Forte (Principal)
Sandro Tigishvili
Giorgio Tentoni
Flavia Di Tomasso
Clarissa Centurioni
VIOLINS II
Svetlana Forte (Principal)
Rika Takaba
Margherita Musto
Sandy Riblett
Carlo Taffuri *
VIOLAS
Nicola Narduzzi (Principal)
Lorenzo Sbaraglia
Stefano Azzolina
CELLOS
Jürg Eichenberger (Principal)
Monika Eichenberger
Rahel Eichenberger
Dominique Eichenberger
Ilaria Calbrò Altan
DOUBLE-BASSES
Roger Bustamante (Principal)
Maurizio Raimondi *
HARPICHORD
Renée LaBonte
SOLOISTS
Lorenzo Turchi-Floris (Piano)
Marilyn Maingart (Flute)
Juan Castillo (Oboe)
Sandro Tigishvili (Violin)
Orlando Forte (Violin)
Svetlana Forte (Violin)
Jürg Eichenberger (Cello)
* Added only in Italian concerts
MUSIC PROGRAM
Edvard Grieg
Anitra’s Dance
Pablo de Sarasate
Habanera, Op. 21, No. 2
(Arranged by Marilyn Maingart)
Marilyn Maingart, flute
Lorenzo Turchi-Floris
Presentiments
(American Premiere)
Lorenzo Turchi-Floris, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 315 – Summer
Sandro Tigishvili, violin
Leopold Mozart
Sinfonia in Bb
Robert Fuchs
Serenade No.2 in C Major, Op. 14
Camille Saint-Saens
Allegro Appassionato, Op. 43
Jürg Eichenberger, cello
Camille Saint-Saens
Le Cygne
Jürg Eichenberger, cello
WATCH VIDEOS - SUMMERFEST 2014
Jose White
La Bella Cubana
(Arranged by Orlando Forte)
Orlando Forte, Svetlana Forte, violins
Felix Dag Wiren
Serenade for String Orchestra, Op 11
Herbert Lincoln Clarke
Carnival of Venice
(Arranged by Marilyn Maingart)
Marilyn Maingart, flute
Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco
Concerto da Chiesa, Op.2 No. 4
Ernst von Dohnanyi
Serenade for string orchestra Op. 10
CD - SUMMERFEST 2014
Juan Castillo
Rapsodia del Canal de Panama
(World Premiere)
Juan Castillo, oboe
Cole Porter
Just One of those Things
(Arranged by Orlando Forte)
Orlando Forte, violin
ITALY – Recording session







ITALY – Concerts









Gainesville – Celebrating the Panama Canal Centennial



CONCERTS
ITALY PERFORMANCES
05 JUNE – 9:15 PM
All Saints’ Church
Via del Babuino, 153
00100 – Rome
FLORIDA PERFORMANCES
19 JULY – 2:00 PM
John Knox Village
651 SW 6th St.
Pompano Beach
19 JULY – 8:00 PM
First Congregational Church, UCC
2501 N.E. 30th Street
Fort Lauderdale
PANAMA PERFORMANCES
21 JULY – 8:30 AM
Instituto Bern Las Mañanitas
Panama
Educational Concert
22 JULY – 8:30 AM
Instituto Bern La Chorrera
Valle Dorado
Panama
Educational Concert
23 JULY – 7:30 PM
Westin Panamá
Crystal Ballroom
Panama
Gala Concert
24 JULY – 7:30 PM
Rotary Club of Panama City
Panama
25 JULY – 7:30 PM
Rotary Club of Chorrera
Chorrera
26 JULY – 8:00 AM
Bahia Meeting Room
Panama
Educational Concert
FLORIDA PERFORMANCES
30 JULY – 8:00 PM
Dor Dorim Auditorium
Weston Philharmonic Society
2360 Glades Circle
Weston
31 JULY – 2:30 PM
Tradition of the Palm Beaches
4920 Loring Drive
West Palm Beach, FL 33417
2 AUGUST – 8:00 PM
Miami Lakes Methodist Church
14800 NW 67th Ave
Miami Lakes
3 AUGUST – 2:00 PM
Sunrise Civic Center Theater
10610 West Oakland Pk. Blvd
Sunrise
8 AUGUST – 8:00 PM
Florida Atlantic University Theater
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton
9 AUGUST – 8:00 PM
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
Amaturo Theater
201 SW 5th Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale
10 AUGUST – 2:00 PM
Susan B. Katz Theater
17189 Sheridan St.
Pembroke Pines
11 AUGUST – 6:30 PM
Il Circolo of Palm Beach
Doubletree by Hilton
Palm Beach Gardens
12 AUGUST – 7:30 PM
Christ by the Sea,
United Methodist Church
3755 Hwy AIA
Vero Beach
15 AUGUST – 7:30 PM
University of Florida
Phillips Performing Arts Center
Gainesville
SUMMERFEST IN PANAMA
Lessons and instruments demonstrations in Panama schools



























