18.05.2024 "Concert for the Festival of Europe"

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SUNDAY 18 MAY 2025
 "Concert for the Day of Europe"
At 16.30, Benedetto Marcello Conservatory
San Marco 2810, Venice
==> Event included in the Festival of Europe in Venice 2025
Free admission until seats are sold out

On Sunday, 18 May 2025 at 16.30 the Concert for Europe was held in the "Sala Concerti" (Concert Hall) of the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Venice, Sestiere di San Marco 2810, Venice, in collaboration with the Venetian headquarters of the Council of Europe and Europe Direct Venezia Veneto of the Municipality of Venice.

Biography of the Duo:
Beatrice Lupi studied piano with F. Gianella, C. Balzaretti, M.R. Diaferia, C. Bernava, M. Harsch. He graduated in piano at the G. Verdi Conservatory of Como, and obtained two masters from the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana: in Music Pedagogy, and in Chamber Music.
Francesco Paganini has a degree in Physics from the State University of Milan. He studied piano with M. de Cesare, M.R. Diaferia, M. Harsch. He graduated in piano at the G. Verdi Conservatory of Milan, and obtained two masters at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana: in Music Pedagogy, and in Performance.
Currently they are perfecting as a piano duo with M. Bruno Canino at the School of Music in Fiesole, where they attend the advanced course in piano duo since 2022, and attend the Master in Piano Duo at the Conservatorio B. Marcello di Venezia.
Beatrice and Francesco share the professional activity and life.
They have worked in the field of opera (Teatro Sociale di Como, Circuito Lirico Lombardo, Festival Opera Tigre di Buenos Aires) as pianists and collaborating masters from 2012 to 2016.
Participated as piano duo in masterclasses and lessons with M. Baron, C. Balzaretti, M. Harsch, N. Doallo, M. Jones, M. Baggio, J. Michiels, K. Szlezer.
From 2015 to 2017 they live in Argentina, dedicating themselves to the realization of concerts and masterclasses as well as to projects for musical training, for the diffusion of classical music, bringing music even into sensitive contexts.
From 2017 to 2020 they live in Bolivia, where they found the "Proyecto Conservatorio de Musica" of Sucre and are dedicated to the production of artistic projects and events throughout the country, in collaboration with local and international institutions and musicians.
 From 2020 they return permanently to Europe and live in Tuscany (Italy), where they work as teachers of piano and music and continue the concert activity with four hands and two pianos, as well as soloists and in other chamber formations.
 In 2023 and 2024 they organize duo tours in Argentina and Bolivia, where they perform concerts and masterclasses.
 
Main venues and festivals where they performed:
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ITALY
Teatro Sociale di Como, Conservatorio G. Verdi di Como, Salotto in Prova Milano, Piano city Napoli, PianoLab Martina Franca, Associazione Musicale Hesperia, Auditorium Il Pentagramma di San Gimignano, Concerti del Tempietto Roma, Coro di Santa Pelagia di Torino, Monferrato Classic Festival, Piano City Milano, Piano Estense Ferrara.
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SWITZERLAND
Sobrio Festival, RSI Auditorium Stelio Molo, Music in the Mendrisiotto, Pro Grigioni Italiano Bregaglia, Casa Houck, Domus Poetica, Galleria Matasci, Associazione Cultura Popolare di Balerna, Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, Grand Hotel Giessbach, Cave of marble of Arzo.
 
LATIN AMERICA
Argentina: Centro Cultural N. Kirchner (Buenos Aires), Usina del Arte (Buenos Aires), Scala de San Telmo (Buenos Aires), Camping Musical (Bariloche), Festival Opera Tigre (Buenos Aires), ECEM (Mar del Plata), Teatro de la Torre (Pinamar), Espacio Multicultural La Esquina (Miramar), Teatro municipal de Necochea, Teatro municipal de Balcarce, Centro Cultural Virla (Tucumán), Museo Fernandez Blanco (Buenos Aires), Centro Cultural Maktub (Córdoba), Punto de encuentro-casa de artistas (Pinamar), Casa de la Cultura (El Bolsón), Centro Cultural Cotesma (San Martín de los Andes).
Bolivia: Centro Simon y Patiño (Cochabamba), Teatro Mariscal (Sucre), Teatro 3 de Febrero (Sucre), Conservatorio plurinacional de Musica (La Paz), Instituto Cultural Boliviano Alemán (Sucre), Museo Colonial (Sucre), Club de la Unión (Sucre), Teatro de la Carrera de Comunicación (Sucre), Festival Barocco di La Plata, Festival Sucre Clásico.
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Cuba: Fabrica del Arte de La Habana.

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