Christmas Concert

Christmas and wonder: the magic of music

The traditional Christmas Concert this year will have a special meaning: it will coincide with the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Music School and Choir “I Piccoli Musici”.
Founded forty years ago as an educational and musical reality dedicated to children, the School has grown over time, becoming a point of reference in the Italian choral scene. After the first years of training and comparison with other children's choirs, since the 1990s “I Piccoli Musici” have embarked on a path full of exciting experiences: participation in competitions, concerts, national and international festivals.
To celebrate this important milestone, several commemorative events and concerts are scheduled. In particular, the Christmas Concert for the City of Bergamo will see the participation of an extraordinary choir, composed of the current white voices and female voices: former choristers from the 1990s and 2000s, who, with enthusiasm and gratitude, are preparing to return to sing in the choir that made them grow, artistically and humanly.
The choir will be accompanied by a string quintet and will perform the most beautiful Christmas melodies written for this ensemble.
The concert will also be enriched by the presence of two talented pianists, Martina Mora and Elisa Arminio, graduates of the Conservatorio “Luca Marenzio” in Brescia, who will perform a refined excerpt from the four-hand transcription for two pianos of the famous The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky. The famous ballet, set on Christmas night, has over the years become one of the musical symbols of the festivities, thanks to its fairy-tale atmosphere and enchanting melodies that evoke magic, wonder, and the Christmas spirit.
A date not to be missed, to celebrate Christmas and four decades of music, growth, and shared passion.

Playbill

Director Mario Mora

with White Voices Choir and Female Ensemble I Piccoli Musici

White Voices Choir
Lisa Agazzi, Viola Albini, Michela Barbieri, Patrizia Barbieri, Giulia Belotti, Vittoria Belotti, Sofia Bertocchi, Aida Bertoli, Filippo Bertoli, Alice Cambianica, Andrea Cambianica, Sofia Cambianica, Laura Carminati, Michele Covelli, Riccardo Flaccadori, Noémie Gervasoni, Océane Gervasoni, Ginevra Giacinti, Giulia Giudici, Martina Giudici, Aurora Gritti, Léandre Maz, Anna Negroni, Maria Oberti, Paola Pegurri, Mara Petrovan, Greta Poloni, Giorgia Riboli, Gaia Rubbi, Letizia Rubbi, Ginevra Sacchi, Vittoria Sarmenti, Chiara Signorelli, Giorgia Sonzogni, Gaia Tironi, Irene Tommei, Ilaria Trussardi, Nina Zambetti, Angela Zerla, Carolina Zinetti, Michela Zinetti

Feminine Ensemble
Chiara Alborghetti, Marzia Allieri, Sara Ambrosini, Michela Ambrosini, Stefania Armati, Stefania Bassani, Raffaella Belotti, Arianna Bettoni, Anna Boffelli, Alessia Bresciani, Camilla Buso, Sara Cantamesse, Anna Colombi, Laura Consoli, Claudia Del Bello, Evelyn Evangelisti, Michela Facchi, Francesca Facchinetti, Silvia Freti, Roberta Galdini, Giulia Gelmi, Chiara Ghidelli, Linda Ghilardi, Elena Ghilardi, Chiara Ghilardi, Carlotta Ghitti, Elisa Giudici, Sonia Lazzaroni, Giorgia Lodetti, Francesca Longa, Debora Longa, Alessandra Longhi, Tiziana Lucchini, Patrizia Lucchini, Monica Marsetti, Laura Meli, Gloria Nicoli, Alessia Pasinetti, Valentina Patelli, Roberta Patelli, Lucrezia Pisoni, Valentina Rojas Espinoza, Andreachiara Semeraro, Giorgia Semeraro, Elena Spelgatti, Gloria Suardi, Laura Valenti, Clelia Valle, Agata Valle, Zelinda Valle, Laura Zambetti

and with
Davide Armanti violin
Francesco Rovetta violin
Ilaria Armanti viola
Michele Zipponi viola
Emanuele Tagliani double bass
Martina Mazzucchetti flauto
Alberto Braghini pianoforte
Martina Mora and Elisa Arminio piano

Program

David Willcocks Away in a manger
Peter J. Wilhousky Carol of the Bells
Finnish Song On suuri sun rantas autius
Spanish Christmas Madre en la puerta
Jay Althous Christmas pops trio
Adolph Adam Holy Night, Silent Night
John Rutter Christmas Lullaby

Angels’ Carol
Dan Forrest The First Noel
Irvin Berlin White Christmas
Johannes Brahms Wiegenlied
Mauro Zuccante Su Pizzineddu
John Williams Somewhere in my memory

From the ballet Lo Schiaccianoci by Čajkovskij (op. 71) excerpts from transcription for four hands and two pianos by Nicolas Economou:
March
Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy
Russian Dance (also known as Trepak)
Valzer dei Fiori