CMFW Spring Festival 2023: “SOUNDS FOR ALL”
presents
Artists’ Concert II
“SOUND OF BEINGS”
~ BELLEZA Y COLORES DE UN IDIOMA POPULAR
Colors of Beauty: when Classic is Folk ~
Noemi Passiatore, guitar
Friday, April 21th at 7 PM to 8:30 PM
Covenant United Methodist Church on 4410 Duval Rd Austin, TX 78727
BELLEZA Y COLORES DE UN IDIOMA POPULAR is a musical novel which is centered in Catalonian guitar music. The special atmosphere of those sounds is in their “truth,” in the capability to speak intimately to the inner world of each listener. The songs of Llobet have the rare capacity to transport us in a journey within ourselves, where the Catalonian folk music is only a tool to discover our strong feelings, our sorrows, our joys. Their rhythmic suspensions, or the iteration of certain formulas, take us into the realm of true emotions where we are comfortable within our soul.
The Bolero by Arcas and the Cancion by Cassadò transfer the narration of this novel into the realm of dance and memory, liberating both our body and our emotions. The listener explores the present state of his body and his past emotions, always searching for that truth expressed by the Catalonian songs. In the end, La Depart by Coste is the last chapter of a journey of infinite beauty, where we discover the essence of who we are, the Sound of our Being.
Program
Miguel Llobet (1878-1938):
Leonesa; Cancò del lladre;
El Testament d’Amelia;
Presò de Lleida;
El noi de la mare;
El Mestre;
Julian Arcas (1832-1882) :
Bolero y Solea
Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909) :
Four Preludes
Gaspar Cassadò (1897-1966)
Cancion de Leonardo
Napoleon Coste (1805-1883) :
Le Depart (Fantasie Dramatique, op. 31)
Noemi Passiatore is a passionate musician very interested in historical performance and the original guitar repertoire of both the Romantic period and the early Twentieth Century. She is establishing her artistic profile around specific research on the historical sound of the classical guitar. Passiatore performs mostly with gut strings and without nails as she looks for a varied spectrum of instrumental colors.
After graduating from the “Tito Schipa” Conservatory working with Lapo Vannucci and Daniel Sardone, Noemi earned a Masters degree in Guitar Performance from Conservatory “U. Giordano” of Foggia. She attended numerous master classes and summer courses, always being selected as one of the best students.
Noemi’s passion for guitar started under the tutelage of Andrea Monarda when she was age 10 and continued at the Conservatory “Tito Schipa” of Lecce- Ceglie Messapica where she worked for six years with Oronzo Persano. During the academic year 2016-2017 she studied with M° Andrej Grafenauer at Lubiana Music Academy in the ERASMUS program, and she performed numerous concerts in Slovenia.
She won first prize in many national and international competitions, such as the “Salento Guitar Festival”, “Satie Competition”, Premio “Lucia Lurleo” and International Guitar Contest of Riga. She also recently earned her second Masters degree in performance at the Conservatory “A. Boito” of Parma.