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With just a month left before the opening of Cremona Musica 2019, the calendar of the events of this edition is growing day after day, making this the richest edition.
The calendar already contains more than 120 events, such as concerts, masterclasses, exhibitions, books presentations, conferences, that are enriching the awaited exhibition area of the most important fair for high-quality musical instruments.
Among the protagonists of this editi...
Among the great protagonists of Cremona Musica 2019 there is Amnon Weinstein, the Israeli luthier who is moving the world with his collection of violins which belonged to victims of the Holocaust, “Violins of Hope”. Over the last decades, Weinstein has collected 79 violins, telling their stories and restoring them, in order to make them fit to play again in the most prestigious theaters in Europe and in the World. During Cremona Musica we will se...
The upcoming edition of Cremona Musica is hosting a series of piano events organized by Yamaha Music Europe branch Italy.
Prominent artists such as Paolo Buonvino, Kekko Fornarelli, Stuart Isacoff, Andrea Rebaudengo, Gwilym Simcock, and the robot pianist Teo Tronico, will perform with the innovative pianos that can record and reproduce the most complex performances.
An extraordinary offer of events, characterized by creativity and innovation, a...
After a forced stop of more than a year due to an injury, the pianist Lang Lang is back, promoting his new album "Piano Book" and preparing for a new tour from next Fall. The New York Times dedicated a long read to the comeback of the most famous contemporary pianist. Here is an extract:
But he [Mr. Lang] insists he is not the same man, or musician. Mr. Lang — who long maintained that his greatest fear was an injury that would leave him unab...
With almost 100 years of history, GEWA is a point of reference for musicians of all the world. We interviewed their Chief Operating Officer Simona Maria Roveda to find out more about their evolution and history, looking forward to meeting them at Cremona Musica 2019.
Gewa is almost 100 years old: how was it born and how did it develop?
Gewa was founded in 1925 by Georg Walther, who also gives his name to the company. Originally it was a prod...
The violinist Itzhak Perlman talked about Violins of Hope, the collection of violins from the Holocaust curated by the Israeli luthier Amnon Weinstein, in a recent interview. Amnon Weinstein will be at Cremona Musica this September (27-29/9), to be awarded for his project Violins of Hope. In this occasion some of the violins of the collection will be exhibited at Cremona Musica and played by the Turkish violinist Cihat Askin. "On a visit to Tel A...
