21 Feb. Alessandro Marangoni and Thomas Coard

It is with great pleasure that I welcome the Italian classical pianist and recording artist Alessandro Marangoni (Benito Flores in SL) to Switzerland for a live video concert in Secondlife. The concert will be at Music Island Sunday 21 February at 12.30 pm pst, 3.30 pm est 21.30 Suisse.

This is truly about two virtual friends getting together to play music.

Our program will consist of baroque, romantic and modern music all mixed for a concert of great diversity of emotions. The concert will also be broadcast live on Quicktime player at rtsp://64.33.51.171:8250/ThomDowd.sdp

On December 2007 Alessandro Marangoni played at Teatro alla Scala in Milan, with a tribute to the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata, with Daniel Barenboim.

Alessandro Marangoni was born in Italy in 1979. He studied piano with Marco Vincenzi, obtaining the diploma with honours (summa cum laude) and he continued his studies at the ‘Scuola di Musica di Fiesole’ with Maria Tipo. Besides his musical studies he also obtained a graduated with honours in philosophy at the ‘Università di Pavia’ with a thesis about Fernando Liuzzi’s philosophy of music. He was also a merit student of the Almo Collegio Borromeo, one of the most ancient and important European colleges.

After winning several national and international awards, Alessandro has appeared in many important musical events in Europe, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. His most recent performances were in Rome (Accademia di Santa Cecilia), Milan (Teatro alla Scala), Venice (Teatro La Fenice), Florence (Accademia della Crusca), Lucca (Associazione Musicale Lucchese), Ischia (the Walton Foundation), Cittadella in Assisi, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, as well as at the Engadiner Internationale Kammermusik-Festspiele, Sagra Musicale Umbra, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, the ‘Teatro Dal Verme’, Milan, the Saint John’s College, Cambridge.

As a chamber musician he collaborated with some of the most important Italian musical personalities and groups.

THOM DOWD and BENITO FLORES

MUSIC ISLAND

12.30 p.m. pst Sunday 21 Feburary 2010

Sonate 5 op. 2 "La Persan" Philbert de Lavigne c. 1700-1750

Gracieusement, Gaiment, Musette I et II,

Legèrement et Marqué

Wat Zal Men Op Avond Doen Jacob Van Eyck ca. 1590-1657

with Variations

Barcarole Gioachino Rossini 1792-1868

Sonate 1, op. 1, in A minor Jean-Baptiste Loeillet 1680-1730

Adagio, Allegro, Adagio, Giga

Waltz in A flat Johannes Brahms 1833-1897

6 Pictures for Soprano Recorder and Piano Daniel Hellbach 1958

Rise up

Shelter

Play Seven

Talk

Nonchalance

Roadrunner