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International Chamber Music Festival
Since its inception, Classiche Forme has been a festival set in art and nature with a precise and unmistakable identity, certainly among the most important cultural initiatives in Europe for revitalising the perception of chamber music in the imagination of young people and mainstream audiences.
Classiche Forme stood out since its first edition as such a prestigious event that it received, in 2017, the Medal from the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella, testifying the high value of Festival for the musical culture of the region and for the promotion and nurture of young talents. It also received the prestigious EFFE Label, Europe’s quality stamp for remarkable arts festivals, from the European Festivals Association, supported by the European Commission and Parliament.
Among the artists of the past editions there are such important names as Mario Brunello, Renaud Capuçon, Alessandro Carbonare, Silvia Careddu, Rosa Feola, Pablo Ferrandez, Benjamin Grosvenor, Georgy Kovalev, Benedetto Lupo, Alexander Malofeev, Quartetto Modigliani,Emmanuel Pahud, Hyeyoon Park, Liya Petrova, Nicola Piovani, Simone Rubino, Aleksey Shadrin, Sayaka Shoji, Giovanni Sollima, Kian Soltani, Stephen Waarts
“I have always imagined Classiche Forme as a residency for musicians, where a group of friends, whom I share the stage with during my concerts around the world, can meet and live the same atmosphere, in a place outside of time, as a historical farm in Salento can be. My musical activity leads me to meet different people who are in this environment, establishing good friendships: combining them in original ways can create something which arises curiosity more than traditional concert series. This is the true ambition of ClassicheFORME, and if we look at the outcome of the past editions, we are probably on the right path” says Beatrice.
Classiche Forme, with its underpinning idea of cultural promotion, pays great attention to contemporary music, commissioning specific works for the themes of the Festival. Here are the composers who have signed the opera commission, from the first edition today: Antonioni in 2017, Marcello Panni in 2018, Silvia Colasanti in 2019, Giovanni Sollima in 2020, Carlo Boccadoro in 2021, Fabio Massimo Capogrosso in 2022 and Domenico Turi in 2023, nel 2024 Nicola Piovani e nel 2025 Riccardo Panfili.
Thanks to the renewed media partnership with Rai5 and RaiRadio3, many of the festival concerts will be recorded and broadcast on a delayed basis.