Massimo Quarta, Enrico Dindo, and Pietro De Maria are among the most influential figures on the Italian concert scene, each with a brilliant international solo career. Together, they form a trio with a close-knit, harmonious sound. The program combines the vigorous, Romantic sounds of Brahms with the intense writing of Weinberg, one of the twentieth-century composers to be rediscovered.

Dindo, Quarta, De Maria

Teatro Politeama Garibaldi

Francisco López, principal flutist of the Gothenburg Opera, and Luca Lione, award-winning pianist, present a program that combines the refined writing of the Palermitan Eliodoro Sollima, on the centenary of his birth, with the exoticism of Rimsky-Korsakov and the Spanish colors of de Falla, along with Franck's celebrated Sonata . The concert is organized in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes in Palermo.

Francisco López, Luca Lione

Daniel Rivera, an Argentine pianist naturalized as an Italian and artistic collaborator of Martha Argerich, and Giovanni Federico Genna, a young pianist who has already won prizes in international competitions, offer a program for piano four hands that intertwines the classicism of Mozart with the romanticism of Schubert and Brahms, up to the French works of Debussy.

Daniel Rivera, Giovanni Federico Genna

Salvatore Di Lorenzo, a violinist from Palermo who trained at the Yehudi Menuhin School in London and the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin, and Gabriele Laura, a pianist from Palermo who won a gold medal at the Thalberg International Competition, offer a romantic program that ranges from the Schumanns, husband and wife, to Brahms, Bartók, Britten, and Ravel.

Salvatore Di Lorenzo, Gabriele Laura

Canto Conte is a project dedicated to the songs of Paolo Conte by Ilaria Pilar Patassini, performer and creator of the album in collaboration with conductor and arranger Angelo Valori. Canto Conte was among the five best albums of the year at the 2025 Tenco Prize in the Best Performer category. The album's eighteen tracks include great classics such as "Alle prese con una verde milonga," "Gli impermeabili," and the ever-present "Via con me," as well as songs for fans of Conte's repertoire such as "Reveries," "Elisir," and "Spassiunatamente."

Count's Song

Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara, an acclaimed Bach interpreter, and Giulio Potenza, winner of the Trinity Laban Hannah Brooke Prize in London, both professors at the “Scarlatti” Conservatory in Palermo, offer a program for piano four hands that ranges from Schubert and the little-performed Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach to the rare Koželuh, accompanied by the OSI quintet, and concludes with a tribute to Schubert by Palermo native Eliodoro Sollima, on the centenary of his birth.

Gianfranco Pappalardo Fiumara, Giulio Potenza

Ramin Bahrami, one of the world's leading living Bach interpreters, and Danilo Rea, one of Italy's leading jazz pianists, also known for his collaborations with Mina and Pino Daniele, continue their journey, following the extraordinary success of Bach is in the Air , from Bach's counterpoint to Rachmaninoff, via Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Debussy, and Satie. This encounter between the rigor of classical composition and the freedom of jazz improvisation is the fruit of a long-standing artistic friendship and a musical connection that has already been recognized by audiences throughout Italy.

Adagios in Classical Jazz

The Prometeo Quartet, one of Italy's most internationally acclaimed chamber music groups, pairs Emanuele Casale's Cantieri di solitudine , written for string quartet and defined as a "social concert," with Beethoven's last quartet, Op. 135: a comparison between a contemporary voice and Beethoven's chamber music legacy.

Prometheus Quartet

Ilya Gringolts, the youngest winner in the history of the “Premio Paganini” Competition and today one of the most authoritative violinists on the international scene, presents, with pianist Peter Laul, his usual chamber music partner, a program that opens from the classicism of Beethoven’s “Kreutzer” to the late Romanticism of Dvořák, the symbolism of Szymanowski and the Jewish influences of Bloch.

Ilya Gringolts, Peter Laul

Carmela Stefano, accordionist who has won first place in numerous national and international competitions and teaches at the “Scarlatti” Conservatory in Palermo, presents with the Virtuous Flair Accordion Quartet a program that demonstrates the extraordinary versatility of the accordion: from Bach transcriptions to the world premiere of Lundquist’s Intarzia , to the suggestions of Piazzolla’s tango and the virtuosity of Hermosa and Zolotarev.

Accordion Quintet

The Gomalan Brass Quintet brings to the stage twenty years of its international career, from Santa Cecilia to the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Wigmore Hall, with a tribute to Italian musical genius: from the solemnity of the "Sinfonia" from Nabucco and Puccini's celebrated "Nessun dorma" to the cinema of Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone, to the singer-songwriter genres of Tenco and D'Anzi and a tribute to Fred Buscaglione. A journey spanning four centuries of Italian music, from Gabrieli's Renaissance to Mauro Ottolini's contemporary jazz, conveyed with the virtuosity and theatrical verve that have always distinguished the quintet, winner of the "Città di Passau" Competition.

Gomalan Movies

Martina Meola, just fourteen years old, is already one of the most striking names in Italian piano: winner of the "Jeune Chopin" Competition in Lugano, presided over by a jury presided by Martha Argerich, she has already performed at the Salle Cortot in Paris and received the Alkan Prize for Romantic piano virtuosity. The program addresses works of great technical and expressive challenge: from Bach's counterpoint to the virtuosity of Chopin's Grande Polonaise , to the symphonic works of Prokofiev and the visionary Dantesque Liszt.

Martina Meola

Alexander Kobrin, gold medalist at the 2005 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and described by the BBC as "the Van Cliburn of today," is a regular guest at the world's major orchestras and concert halls, from Carnegie Hall to Wigmore Hall. The program spans three distinct periods in pianistic thought, from Beethoven to Brahms, all the way to the late Schubert, among the Viennese composer's most mature works.

Alexander Kobrin

In the summer of 1951, in the aftermath of World War II, three musicians exiled from Germany must decide the program for the inaugural concert of the Marlboro Festival in Vermont: a new way to study, teach, and make music in freedom. They feel it is a challenge that sums up their lives, their artistic union, and the journey that brought them there: from their rejection of Nazism and voluntary exile, to their rejection of German citizenship and emigration to the United States.

Beethoven in Vermont

Nagino Maruyama, Japanese pianist and winner of the 4th edition of the Scarlatti Piano Competition in Trapani and numerous international competitions, offers a program that begins with Schumann's Lisztian transcriptions and Scarlatti's baroque grace, leading to Ravel's nocturnal atmospheres, Debussy's luminous impressionism, and finally Brahms's monumental Variations and Fugue, one of the absolute pinnacles of Romantic piano literature.

Nagino Maruyama

Monika Leskovar, an award-winning Croatian cellist, and Martina Filjak, a Croatian pianist who is rapidly gaining international recognition, offer a program that combines Beethoven's classicism and Rachmaninov's late Romanticism with rarer works: the spiritual intensity of Pärt's Fratres and the rarity of the Croatian Bersa.

Associazione Siciliana Amici della Musica

Nov 9, 2026

Dindo, Quarta, De Maria

Nov 24, 2026

Francisco López, Luca Lione

Nov 29, 2026

Daniel Rivera, Giovanni Federico Genna

Dec 13, 2026

Salvatore Di Lorenzo, Gabriele Laura

Dec 14, 2026

Count's Song

Associazione Siciliana Amici della Musica