Domus Artium, or the circuit of international concerts and convivial moments that bring music to unique noble residences in the capital. From the Galleria Borghese to Palazzo Colonna, to the Casino dell'Aurora of Villa Ludovisi Boncompagni and, new this year, also in institutional buildings and public spaces such as theAuditorium Parco della Musica. Conceived by Barrett Wissman, a career in global artistic management and former soul of the Tuscan Sun Festival in Cortona, the review was created to "promote interest in art and a future for culture".
Domus Artium
Domus Artium, with its dinners and toasts following the concerts or the special guided tours of the wonders of the sixteenth-century Roman residences, are a way to “grow a new audience of the future. They are not events designed for the elite, but to bring people closer to the artists and do it in a not too large environment, almost in intimacy”. Not surprisingly, we are also working on a season ticket booklet for young people. So we start with the patronage of the Ministry of Culture on January 27 at Palazzo della Cancelleria with Nina Kotova, who is the musical director of Domus Artium, together with Josu de Solaun in the sonata for cello by Chopin.
The review then continues until May with five dates in Rome and with the Canadian pianist Hélène Mercier together with the stars of the violin and cello, Renaud Capuçon and Kian Soltani and the first clarinet of the Paris Orchestra Pascal Moraguès. For them, the Quatuor pour la fin du temps, Olivier Messiaen's mystical masterpiece written during his imprisonment in a German camp in 1941. But this year also inaugurates the collaboration with the International Academy of Imola, which will bring the artists among school kids, to play or in masterclasses.
Music in noble houses
Experience that will culminate at the Flaiano Theater with the concert of four students for Imola in Rome. “We conceived this initiative together. It's not just a collaboration,” the Undersecretary for Culture Vittorio Sgarbi, who had already collaborated with Barrett at the time of the Tuscan Sun Festival. “He called me for the art section – he says – and with that festival he made Cortona a much more modern city. Music - continues Sgarbi - which is perhaps the highest art, is today perhaps a little marginal in our ministry. Bringing it to historic buildings is a way to make it fundamental again".
(Images Domus Artium Facebook page)
