Exhibition 'Filippo Siebaneck: a man of culture for Bergamo'

Exhibition opening: Wednesdayì 19 March 1025 – 6pm

Opening to the public:
Wednesday 19 March 1025 from 6.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 March from 6.30 p.m. until 8.30 p.m.

The Donizetti Theatre Foundation and Bergamo Jazz, together with the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo and the Friends of the Carrara Academy, intend to remember Filippo Siebaneck, who for many decades was an extraordinary man of culture who left his mark on the life of the cultural institutions of Bergamo and beyond, through an exhibition of photographs of him with great artists, posters and documents.

Specifically, in our city, with the International Jazz Festival, with the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo, with the Accademia Carrara, and with numerous art exhibitions – three above all: the one on Giovan Battista Moroni in 1979, Tesori Miniati in 1995 and the Carrara Bicentenary in 1996 – Filippo Siebaneck has distinguished himself as a person who has tried in every way to create and enhance an image of Bergamo as a city of art and culture.

As President of the Azienda Autonoma del Turismo, but even before holding this position, Filippo Siebaneck – together with a group of jazz music enthusiasts, including the journalist Paolo Arzano – was one of the driving forces behind the International Jazz Festival, of which Bergamo Jazz è the natural heir. Staying alive from 1969 to 1978 and then for two more editions in 1982 and 1983, the Review hosted, at the Donizetti Theatre and then at the Palazzetto dello Sport, illustrious names such as Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Lionel Hampton, Keith Jarrett, Max Roach, Gerry Mulligan, Art Blakey, Charles Mingus, Herbie Hancock, Archie Shepp, Sam Rivers, Elvin Jones, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Chick Corea, Lee Konitz, Freddie Hubbard and many others.

For those who got to know him and for those who are about to discover him, Filippo Siebaneck è is well represented in these few words taken from a speech he gave at the annual meeting of the Amici della Accademia Carrara, an association he chaired for thirty years: «We are not content to enjoy great and beautiful things ourselves: we want others to know, learn, enjoy as we do». Words that are also perfectly suited to jazz.

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In collaboration with
FESTIVAL PIANISTICO INTERNAZIONALE DI BRESCIA E BERGAMO
ASSOCIAZIONE AMICI DELL’ACCADEMIA CARRARA