SUMMERFEST

EDITION 2016

FLORIDA  – REPUBLIC OF PANAMA

Musicfor International joins this year the Fort Lauderdale’s Symphony of the Americas in its 25th Anniversary summer music festival: Summerfest. In collaboration with Musicfor International, one month of performances throughout Florida and the Americas from July 9 to August 10. Activities include concerts, master classes, and educational outreach, charity concerts, taking the masterful sounds of this great ensemble to audiences in corners of the world who often have never before experienced the exhilaration of live orchestral performance.

This festival will highlight the “Best of the Best”. The Summerfest Chamber Orchestra will be composed by musicians and soloists who have participated in the festival over the past 25 years, including orchestras such as the Arpeggione Chamber Orchestra (Austria), the Mission Chamber Orchestra (Italy), Hungarian Virtuosi (Hungary) , I Musici Estensi (Italy) and more. Representing more than 10 different countries, all joined in cultural exchange by principal musicians of the Symphony of the Americas, in the performance of several styles of classical and popular music for strings,

Under the baton of Symphony Artistic Director, Maestro James Brooks-Bruzzese, orchestral concerts feature the music of Vivaldi, Mozart, Bloch, Fuchs, Piazzolla, a commissioned piece by Italian composer in residence Lorenzo Turchi-Floris , a special arrangement of Latin music by Grammy Award winning Mexican composer Eduardo Magallanes, and more. Musicfor members and other soloists will perform, including the Summerfest’s Concertmaster Orlando Forte (Cuba), violinist Svetlana Forte (Ukraine), Symphony of the Americas principal flutist Marilyn Maingart (USA). The Georgian violinist Sandro Tigishvili will present as soloist an American premiere of a string arrangement of the Concertino by Georgian composer Otar Taktakishvili that the Symphony of the Americas has commissioned to write on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Summerfest.

OUR “MISSION” FOR SUMMERFEST 2016

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 Teatro Nacional de Panama, the prestigious American Universities and 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.

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SUMMERFEST 2016

FLORIDA – REPUBLIC OF PANAMA

FESTIVAL 2016

Partnership

Artistic Director

Document

Summerfest Chamber Orchestra

James Brooks-Bruzzese 

(Symphony of the Americas)

Lorenzo Turchi-Floris 

(Musicfor International)

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Ft Lauderdale Connex

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ORCHESTRA MUSICIANS

VIOLINS I

Orlando Forte (Principal) (Cuba)

Sandro Tigishvili (Georgia)

Giorgio Tentoni (Italy)

Mathilde Schucany (Switzerland)

Valentin Mansurov (Uzbekistan)

VIOLINS II

Svetlana Forte (Principal) (Ukraine)

Nicola Narduzzi (Italy)
Balint-Gabor  Varay (Hungary)

Sandy Riblett (USA)

VIOLAS

David  Pedraza (Principal) (Mexico)

Bernet  Aurelie (Switzerland)

Stefano Azzolina (Italy)

CELLOS

Aziz Sapaev (Principal) (Uzbekistan)

Ilaria Calabrò Altan (Italy)

Peter-Tamas Varay (Hungary)

DOUBLE-BASS

Roger Bustamante (Principal) (Peru)

HARPICHORD

Renée LaBonte (USA)

SOLOISTS

Lorenzo Turchi-Floris (Piano) (Italy)
Marilyn Maingart (Flute) (USA)
Juan Castillo (Oboe) (Panama)
Sandro Tigishvili (Violin) (Georgia)
Orlando Forte (Violin) (Cuba)
Svetlana Forte (Violin) (Ukraine)

ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR

MUSIC PROGRAM

Ernest Bloch
Concerto Grosso No. 1

Giuseppe Tartini
Sonata in G minor “Devil’s Trill”
(Arranged by Marilyn Maingart)
Marilyn Maingart, flute

Lorenzo Turchi-Floris 
Aspettando Anninnora
Variations and Theme for Piano and String
Orchestra
(World Premiere commissioned for Summerfest 2016)
Lorenzo Turchi-Floris, piano

Otar Taktakishvili
Concertino
((Arranged by Sandro Tigishvili – World Premiere commissioned for Summerfest 2016)
Sandro Tigishvili, violin

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento K137

Karl Jenkins
Palladio

WATCH VIDEOS - SUMMERFEST 2016

Astor Piazzolla
Libertango
(Arr. Ricardo Roel)

Antonio Vivaldi
L’Estro Armonico, Op. 3
Concerto No. 8 for 2 Violins in A minor RV 522
Svetlana and Orlando Forte, violin

Robert Fuchs
Serenade No. 2, Op. 14 in C

Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in F minor, RV 297 – Winter
Sandro Tigishvili, Violin

CD -  SUMMERFEST 2016

Benedetto Marcello
Introduction – Aria – Presto

Peter Warlock
Capriol Suite

Francesco Manfredini
Concerto Grosso Op. 3 No. 9

Moises Simons
El Manisero
(Arr. J.A. Bornot)

Eduardo Magallanes
Intensamente Romantico
(World Premiere commissioned for Summerfest 2016)

FLORIDA – Recording session

FLORIDA – Concerts

Summerfest 2016 - Panama - James Brooks-Bruzzese and Lorenzo Turchi-Floris
Summerfest 2016 - Florida -Lorenzo Turchi-Floris - Masterclass
Summerfest 2016 - Florida - Roger Bustamante - Masterclass
PANAMA – Concerts

CONCERTS

FLORIDA PERFORMANCES

15 JULY – 7:00 PM
Sunrise Civic Center Theater
10610 West Oakland Pk. Blvd
Sunrise, Florida 33351

16 JULY – 2:00 PM
John Knox Village
651 SW 6th St.
Pompano Beach

16 JULY – 8:00 PM
First Congregational Church, UCC
2501 N.E. 30th Street
Ft. Lauderdale

17 JULY – 8:00 PM
Broward Center for the Performing Arts
Amaturo Theater
201 SW 5th Avenue
Ft. Lauderdale

20 JULY – 12:30 PM
Tradition of the Palm Beaches
4920 Loring Drive
West Palm Beach, FL 33417

20 JULY – 8:00 PM
Dor Dorim Auditorium
Weston Philharmonic Society
2360 Glades Circle
Weston

PANAMA PERFORMANCES

25 JULY – 9:30 AM
Instituto Bern Las Mañanitas
Panama
Educational Concert

26 JULY – 9:00 AM
Instituto Bern La Chorrera
Valle Dorado
Panama
Educational Concert

27 JULY – 10:00 AM
Belisario Porras
Local public school
Panama
Educational Concert

28 JULY – 1:00 PM
INAC Theater
Casco Antiguo

29 JULY – 10:00 AM
Educational concert
Panama
Presented by the US Embassy

29 JULY – 3:00 PM
Educational concert in Mail
Panama
Presented by the US Embassy

30 JULY – 9:00 AM
Miramar Hotel
Panama
Educational Concert

FLORIDA PERFORMANCES

4 AUGUST – 7:30 PM
Christ by the Sea, United
Methodist Church
3755 Hwy  AIA
Vero Beach

6 AUGUST – 8:00 PM
Miami Lakes Methodist Church
14800 NW 67th Ave
Miami Lakes, FL

AUGUST – 6:00 PM
Florida Atlantic University Theater
777 Glades Road
Boca Raton

9 AUGUST –  7:00 PM
Susan B. Katz Theater
17189 Sheridan St.
Pembroke Pines

SUMMERFEST IN PANAMA

Lessons and instruments demonstrations in Panama schools 

Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Peter-Tamas Varay, cello - masterclass
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Balint-Gabor Varay, violin
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Nicola Narduzzi, violin
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Peter-Tamas Varay, cello
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Mathilde Schucany, violin
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Orlando Forte - Masterclass
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Marilyn Maingart, flute
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Ilaria calabrò Altan, cello
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Svetlana and Orlando Forte, violin
Summerfest 2016 - Panama -James Brooks-Bruzzese and Jorge Bennet
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Masterclass
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - David Pedrazza - Masterclass
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Roger Bustamante - Masterclass
Summerfest 2016 - Panama - Mrs. and Mr. Bern