Italy&USA · Alba Music Festival · spring 2006
May 25 - June 4, 2006
Thursday, May 25, 2006
9,00 PM Alba, Auditorium Fondazione Ferrero
Opening evening: the Stradivari Vesuvius violin
In collaboration with the Board of String Instruments in Cremona
Josè Cueto, violin
D.D. Trivella, piano
Friday, May 26, 2006
7,00 PM Alba, Chiesa di Santa Caterina
Bruno Murialdo Opening Photo Exhibition
9,00 PM Alba, Chiesa di San Domenico
Music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Paul Hindemith
Katherine Wessinger, soprano
Italy&USA Festival Orchestra American Brass Players
conductor and trumpet soloist: Jeff Silberschlag
Saturday, May 27, 2006
5,00 PM Alba, Cortile di Piazza Risorgimento
Don Stapleson Jazz Session
9,00 PM Alba, Tempio di San Paolo
Voices at the Opera
Marilyn Taylor, soprano
Katherine Wessinger, soprano
Olivia Vote, mezzo soprano
Angela Horn, mezzo soprano
James Allbritten, tenor
Thomas Barrett, baritone
Sunday, May 28, 2006
11,00 AM Alba, Chiesa di San Giuseppe
Piano Recital: Roberto Metro, Elvira Foti
Franz Liszt: The Hungarian rhapsodies for four hands piano
Original transcriptions of the Author (R. 309)
9,00 PM Alba, Chiesa di San Domenico
Dedicated to Arvo Pärt
St. Marys Chamber Singers
Italy&USA Chamber Players
Beverly Babcock, organ
conductor Larry Vote
Monday, May 29, 2006
9,00 PM Alba, Chiesa di San Giuseppe
Baroque night
Katherine Wessinger, soprano
Giuseppe Nova, flute
Kazutaka Shimizu, flute
Giuseppe Nastro, cello
George Kiss, harpsichord
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
6,00 PM Alba, Coro della Maddalena
Piano Recital: Sue Song
9,00 PM Alba, Chiesa di San Giuseppe
Alba Festival Brass Ensemble
conductor: Joe Burnam
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
9,00 PM Alba, Tempio di San Paolo
Piano Recital: Brian Ganz
Thursday, June 1, 2006
9,00 PM Alba, Chiesa di San Domenico
Domenico Cimarosa, Sinfonia Concertante in Sol
Christian Dieter, Concerto Concertante n.3
J.S.Bach, Cantata BWV199, Mein Herze schwimmt in Blut
Olivia Vote, mezzo soprano
Giuseppe Nova, flute
Claudi Arimany, flute
Romania State Orchestra
conductor: Larry Vote
Friday, June 1, 2006
11,00 AM Alba, Teatro Sociale G.Busca
Viva Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi concerts for two soloists and strings
Beatus Vir for soloists, choir and strings RV 597
Italy&USA Chamber Players
Teachers and Choir of the Rocca Civic Institute
6,00 PM Alba, Coro della Maddalena
Piano recital: Paolo Vairo
Robert Schumann in the 150 year anniversary of the death
Arabeske op.18 in do maggiore
Sonata op.22 in sol minore
Carnevale di Vienna op.26
9,00 PM Alba, Teatro Sociale G.Busca
Dracula Night!
Richard Wagner, Idillio di Sigfrido
Bela Bartok, Danze Transilvane
David Del Tredici, Dracula
Katherine Wessinger, soprano
Romania State Orchestra
Italy&USA Players
direction: Luigi Maio
conductor: Jeff Silberschlag
Saturday, June 3, 2006
5,00 Pm Alba, Piazza Risorgimento
Don Stapleson Jazz Session
9,00 PM Alba, Chiesa di San Domenico
Dedicated to Mozart
Requiem in Re minore K626
Concert for piano and orchestra K467
Marilyn Taylor, soprano
Angela Horn, mezzo soprano
James Allbritten, tenor
Thomas Barrett, baritone
Brian Ganz, piano
St. Marys Chamber Singers
Romania State Orchestra
conductor: Larry Vote
Sunday, June 4, 2006
4,00 PM Alba, Coro della Maddalena
Piano Recital: Jean Jacques Balet, Mayumi Kameda
Paul Hindemith, Sonata
Claude Debussy, La Mer
9,00 PM Alba, Chiesa di San Domenico
From Europe to America
Gustav Mahler, IV Symphony
Scott Wheeler, Gradualia · Concert for piano
Kate Wessinger, soprano
Eliza Garth, piano
Romania State Orchestra
conductor Jeff Silberschlag