Festival Duni 25th Edition - I suoni della festa
From 16 September 2024 to 10 November 2024/ Italy / Matera
In 2024 the Duni Festival in Matera, one of the most important early music festivals in southern Italy, will turn 25 years old. Since 2019, when Matera was the European Capital of Culture, the festival has been a member of REMA and has gradually expanded its international image. Its mission is to offer concerts and performances that are rare or in first modern performance with a “southern” vision of the music of the past, in a region that is spectacular in terms of its artistic-cultural but also natural heritage, tracing the careers of composers who were born in Basilicata and later became among the protagonists of European music, from Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa (1566-1613) to Egidio Romualdo Duni (1708-1775). Once again this year, world-renowned ensembles and soloists alternate with young and mature performers active in the southern area. The 25th Edition of the Festival (from September 16 to November 10) is dedicated to “The Sounds of the Feast,” recovering a typical attitude of southern Italy during the Renaissance and Baroque ages, when Naples was its capital, to create splendid moments of popular festivals with music by the best composers then active.
Fifteen concerts will take place at significant historical sites in the city of Matera (Ridola Museum, Palazzo Bernardini on the magical vision of the ancient ‘Sassi’) and the nearby town of Grottole. It starts with the Renaissance festival and will lead up to the “Pulcinella marathon” dedicated to the original eighteenth-century musicians used in the neoclassical scores by Stravinsky, with alternating great performers such as Concerto Soave, Hopkinson Smith, Dan Laurin, Musicatreize, Francesco D'Orazio and l'Astrée, Marco Horvat's Faenza, to young performers of great professionalism engaged in unpublished repertoires and surprising modern recoveries, such as the Matera-born composer Giacomo Sarcuni, who became one of the great masters of the “Neapolitan school” of the 18th century, revived by the Duni Festival Baroque Orchestra in Matera and Naples.
Fifteen concerts will take place at significant historical sites in the city of Matera (Ridola Museum, Palazzo Bernardini on the magical vision of the ancient ‘Sassi’) and the nearby town of Grottole. It starts with the Renaissance festival and will lead up to the “Pulcinella marathon” dedicated to the original eighteenth-century musicians used in the neoclassical scores by Stravinsky, with alternating great performers such as Concerto Soave, Hopkinson Smith, Dan Laurin, Musicatreize, Francesco D'Orazio and l'Astrée, Marco Horvat's Faenza, to young performers of great professionalism engaged in unpublished repertoires and surprising modern recoveries, such as the Matera-born composer Giacomo Sarcuni, who became one of the great masters of the “Neapolitan school” of the 18th century, revived by the Duni Festival Baroque Orchestra in Matera and Naples.
Dinko Fabris
Artistic Director of Festival Duni, Matera
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