PIANO FESTIVAL “PROJECT ODRADEK” – FROM JUNE 30 TO JULY 21

“Odradek Project” is a great piano festival that will involve traveling in July Cagliari and four other major Italian cities: Rome, Florence, Pescara and Trieste, for a total of 29 concerts. The formula is innovative and brings a real freshness to the world of the concert. The artists, youth and class interpretive selected according to criteria of excellence, are Italian citizens and foreign and belong to the newly formed non-profit association “Odradek Project”, by which you produce cars, concerts and impact of high-quality CDs under the ‘American label Odradek Records.
As a group, as a company of the show, arriving at a place and give rise to a real piano festival, shaking a little ‘foundations to some of the cornerstones of traditional music making. Choice of places artistically relevant, offering free tickets for the concerts, performers presenting the program to the public, stop after running to sign copies of CDs and chat amiably with fans breaking down the barrier between ritual interpreter and listener. An idea of the musical event in which audience and musician participating in a shared creative experience. CDs are available in the concert halls are also free offer to purchase. The proceeds are used to support the activities of the Association.
These are some of the assumptions that make “Odradek Project”, the character-imaginary object came from the pen Kafka, an innovative concert of the third millennium. As a powerful inspiration cosmopolitan plant initiative, which arises from the very beginning with connotations of the will of the international master John Anderson, American pianist resident in Italy who initiated the project. Italian and Japan, Spain, Malaysia and Russia the first artists that have joined. There are five major Italian cities that receive the first year experience and scenarios well beyond national borders are already in the plans and ambitions “Odradek” next year.
“Project Odradek” Odradek Records and share the same philosophy and the same mission: both are engaged in the construction of a new mode of production and use of classical music that can break free from those laws which are not good quality of aesthetic experience and culture, drawing closer to the artists and their world meaningful to the public, with their sensitivity and expectations.
The inclusion of contemporary repertoire composition is another typical figure of Odradek, which aims to combine tradition and innovation to enhance even the recent stylistic periods. The “Project Odradek” it wants to regain the value of music as a basic element of culture and identity of a society very complex and diverse as today. They range from Classicism and Romanticism of Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, the First and Second century Schoenberg, Prokofiev, Bartok, up to contemporary, for example with the studies of the Italian premiere of Unsuk Chin. The commitment is in fact culturally engagé, aware of the dizzying heights of the challenge and intensely vibrant enthusiasm of these mature but still young musicians who have decided groped for new ways to create “new worlds”.
The Festival “Odradek Project” will take part in the Hall of Portraits of Cagliari Siotto Palace. The concert dates are June 30-1-7-8-14-21 July – starting at 21. The offer for entry is free.