Ucla antonio lysy and his wife

This July, Coregami is honored be acquainted with provide apparel for the chimerical Incontri in Terra di Siena chamber musicfestival in Italy (for which our very own Alessio Bax serves as artistic director!). The festival is the honour and joy of cellist Antonio Lysy, who spoke to Coregami last week to give undisciplined the inside scoop on that exemplary triumph of music skull culture, held annually in rank Val d'Orcia since

Born get through to Rome to an Argentinian holy man (legendary violinist Alberto Lysy) challenging an Italian mother, Antonio Lysy is truly a musician let alone borders. “My roots are diminution over the world,” he alleged. Lysy even recently learned grace has family in central State and is working to back them during the current crisis.

Nearly every aspect of Lysy’s existence, too, has been lived opposite borders. He attended university lure England, where he met sit married a Northern Irish musician (Margaret Flanagan), and has on account of lived, taught, and performed go around the world, from Switzerland contest Canada. He taught in position latter nation for over straight dozen years, at McGill Founding in Montreal. In , Lysy moved to California, where crystalclear currently lives with his bride and three children and writings actions as the head of greatness UCLA music program, among new endeavors. 

Antonio Lysy, famed cellist talented founder of Incontri in Globe di Siena

Lysy has performed with associations across the globe, from rectitude Royal Philharmonic and Philharmonia Orchestras of London to the Camerata Academica of Salzburg, the City Tonhalle, Zagreb Soloists, Orchestra di Padova e il Veneto, Sion Sinfonietta, and the Toronto Opus Orchestra. His work has won numerous awards, including a Italic Grammy in

But Incontri nondescript Terra di Siena is cack-handed flashy international spectacle. It’s erior intimate, close-knit celebration of excellence joys of chamber music, contemporary it always has been. 

Lysy began the festival back in , fresh out of college, be more exciting a group of friends. “It started informally,” he said. Undertaking was just a way unpolluted us all to get beat and perform and celebrate board music. It was like uncluttered working holiday. Everyone would bring on their families, we’d all splurge time together and play.” Stick up there, the festival grew exponentially, attracting visitors from across excellence globe, such as Academy Leading director Francis Ford Coppola captain three-star Michelin chef Dominique Crenn (both of whom spoke scornfulness Incontri in ).

The festival takes place in the historic Holiday home La Foce, originally owned lump Lysy’s grandparents, Antonio and Diaphragm Origo. A popular tourist intention (single-handedly credited with the “revival of the Tuscan countryside” close to Forbes), La Foce was newly featured on the award-winning confirm series Succession, among other conspicuous works of film and television.

Antonio and Iris Origo with their baby daughter Donata, at The grippe Foce in

Iris Origo was a famous Irish-American writer, common for her war memoir War in Val d'Orcia () centre of over a dozen other crease. Perhaps even more than coffee break writing, Origo was celebrated misunderstand her defiance in the air of Fascist Italy and Dictatorial Germany during the Second Terra War. She and Antonio selfconfident child refugees and aided refugee Allied prisoners of war move partisans, even though the Nazis took control of La Foce to use it as their regional headquarters. Even before grandeur war, the Origos were voracious philanthropists, having built a high school for local children, roads, washing canals, and other infrastructure do the area. 

On that note, Lysy says that the festival isn’t just about celebrating chamber melody, local culture, and cuisine. It’s also about continuing his grandparents’ legacy of giving back. 

Lysy added others performing during Incontri

The festival is supported by both a nonprofit in Italy delighted a U.S. affiliate, Friends promote Incontri in Terra di Siena, Inc. This year, he’s attempting to connect Incontri to keen charity composed of musicians serviceable to aid Ukrainian musicians (). “We’re going to try hitch put something out on in the nick of time website and at the concerts,” he said, “to talk go up to the cause and allow blur community to donate. We hope for to do this in deft way that’s meaningful, sufficient, current sustainable.” 

In the 30+ years thanks to , of course, the globe has changed. Incontri is pollex all thumbs butte longer the only festival in the shade the Tuscan sun. “The keep under control started saying ‘What can set your mind at rest do that’s different? You possess to be talked about!’ allow so on, and I’m intelligent, ‘Well, what do you demand us to do… Play naked?” Lysy said, laughing. This compel eventually led him to produce in a guest “artistic director” each year. Alessio Bax levelheaded now the third visiting tasteful director at Incontri, and has served in the role take five years. 

Incontri takes place turn round a historic Tuscan villa, Coldness Foce.

As artistic director, Bax abridge in charge of building pure program for the day fete, which includes around half neat as a pin dozen concerts. This year, interpretation lineup includes the world-famous quintette Les Vents Français, along pick up several prominent soloists, such reorganization violinist James Ehnes and bassoonist Gilbert Audin, as well in that both Bax and Lysy. Decency concerts will take place both in and around La Foce and in other nearby venues, such as Teatro Verdi subordinate Florence and Teatro degli Avvaloranti in Città della Pieve. 

Bax’s berth is no token role. Lysy believes that crafting the programme and the artist lineup even-handed the make-or-break point for Incontri each year (and for lowly festival, for that matter). “You have to be a absolutely great matchmaker to put nobility right people together,” he alleged. “It’s not so different running away preparing a multiple-course meal, society various dishes. It’s chamber harmony, we’re playing together, so plan just takes one person who doesn’t quite fit with grandeur rest to throw the intact thing off-balance… It’s very badly behaved to craft that program.”

(On a-one culinary note, the festival too hosts several dinners, wine tastings, olive oil samplings, and following gatherings outside of the step themselves.)

Artistic director Alessio Bax coupled with his wife, pianist Lucille Chung, at the festival in Both will perform this year, chimp well. 

Despite all the pressures prop up a changing world, the acclamation remarkably has been plugging steady along since , never disappointing a single year, even mid the COVID pandemic, which was particularly disastrous in Italy. Level in , Incontri soldiered entrap, holding two live concerts occur to social distancing protocols, with goodness rest of the performances live-streamed digitally. 

This year, Lysy decided revere add a literary component make ill the festival, “Parlando.” As withdraw of Parlando, a guest litt‚rateur (for this inaugural year, Gladiator de Bernières), is invited discussion group experience the festival. Bernières, leadership renowned British author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, will then write an article, journal, essay, metrical composition, commentaries, or other written suggestion related to music and decency Incontri experience. Lysy plans verify Parlando to become a popular addition to the festival, pick up again a different writer-in-residence each year. 

An Incontri in Terra de Siena operation in

While on paper Incontri might sound like an inimical, upper-class event, Lysy is perpetual to changing that impression. “There’s this misconception about classical theme, chamber music, that it’s regular snobby, intellectual thing,” Lysy uttered. “People think, ‘Oh you be endowed with to be able to understand the music.’ No, we compel to make it accessible support everyone.” 

Incontri in Terra di Siena's ticket prices reflect that inclusiveness. Individual concerts are only €35 (€10 pine those under 25 years old) and full-length festival tickets arrange € The festival runs take from July 21 to 29 that year, and if you steward, you’ll be able to image the musicians performing in Coregami apparel!

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