The 2017 New Music Festival is centred around the work of visiting prominent Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino and features several Italian guest performers including violinist Emmanuele Baldini and pianists Roberto Turrin and Erika Crinò. The festival also presents the results of an ongoing musical collaboration with Italy’s Conservatorio G. Tartini. With a wide spectrum of chamber, vocal, electroacoustic, opera, dance and orchestral music, and partnering with Toronto’s excellent New Music Concerts, the festival offers an insight into the rich Italian culture of contemporary music, side-by-side with the creativity emerging from Toronto and UofT.
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A chamber ensemble and soprano Stacie Dunlop perform Sophie Dupuis’ 2016 prize-winning Perceptions de La Fontaine and Salvatore Sciarrino's Canto Degli Specchi. The Cecilia String Quartet perform Salvatore Sciarrino’s String Quartet No. 7, as well as Chasing Beauty by Rebekah Cummings, this year's winner of the University of Toronto String Quartet Composition Competition.
Presented by Dennis Patrick.
Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park
Free