EVENTS AND ARTISTIC PRODUCTION

The Conservatorio Tartini has always promoted the enhancement of its young musical talents, through a vast array of public performances. The end-of-year shows and the Musical Afternoons within the institution enable all the students to test their skills in front of an audience. The best ones, moreover, get the chance to perform in external venues, following a preselection to guarantee the qualitative standard attained. The I Concerti del Conservatorio series are by now a well-established tradition which every year via three seasonal shows, for a total of about 50 concerts in the Sala Tartini, offers space to faculty members, students and guests coming from prestigious national and international institutions. Furthermore, a vast network of agreements with musical institutions in the Triveneto and in neighbouring Slovenia and Croatia has been created, which enables the production of concerts in regional and cross-border theatres and in concert halls. Such concerts have as their protagonists, among others, the various ensembles of the Conservatory: the Symphony Orchestra, the String Orchestra, the Brass Band, the Big Tartini Jazz Band, the Combo for wind instruments and the Trieste Percussion Group. The students of the Tartini therefore have the chance not only to perform at important music festivals, such as Mittelfest, Lignano per la musica, Fondazione Musicale S. Cecilia of Portogruaro, Nei Suoni dei Luoghi, Carniarmonie, as well as appearing on important billboards of multi-cultural events, such as Pordenonelegge, the Carnevale della Biennale di Venezia, but also to take part in institutional events abroad, sponsored by embassies and cultural institutions (Vienna, Ljubljana, Belgrade, Sarajevo and more). Also, more and more frequently, the internationalization projects, shared with European institutions, foresee a series of concerts dedicated to the appreciation of territories and composers, like the Trieste-Praga 2015 project, for example, or the W.A. Mozart: I concerti per pianoforte ed archi project together with the conservatory of Vienna in 2016/17, the Busoni ed il suo tempo project with the conservatory of Graz during the winter of 2016 and, thanks to the collaboration with the University of Toronto, the participation of the students of the composition classes in the New Music Festival 2017 review in Canada. Particular importance is given to jazz productions and to the Big Tartini Jazz Band, with its participation in important events such as the Le Nuove Rotte del Jazz 2018 festival in collaboration with the Circolo Culturale Controtempo, the international festival TriesteLovesJazz – 12th edition, and the Nei Suoni Dei Luoghi 2018 festival. A recent enterprise of international importance was the national debut of the CEMAN Orchestra, a shared production of the CEMAN – Central European Music Academies Network – created by the Tartini Conservatory, which involved all the musical academies of the countries of the CEI area (Central European Initiative). The orchestra, with the
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support and funding of the Directorate-General for students, the development and the internationalization of higher education of the MIUR, together with the support of the CEI, brings together every year students from about fifteen different music academies from a dozen countries of central-eastern Europe. After the premiere in Zagreb, the orchestra made its debut in Trieste on October 28th 2018 at the Teatro Verdi with a concert-event, in collaboration with the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica of Silvio d’Amico, aimed at celebrating the end of the hostilities of the Great War. The production activities may furthermore avail themselves of the online high-quality audio-video transmission system LoLa created and devised by the Tartini Conservatory (see the research and innovation section). By means of this system it is possible to organize musical events remotely with musicians spread over different countries in Europe