Photos from Festival Italiano Concert of 20 October 2018

Beautiful concert yesterday evening with with renown musicians Luca Manghi, flute and Matthew Marshall, guitar. Here are some photos by Gianni Flego.

The Festival Italiano concert, part of the Dante Alighieri Chamber Music Series, also fall during The Week of the Italian Language in the World 2018, so it was a double celebration, and many language students, as well as Italians, attended.

The musicians also talked about their repertoire and their instruments

The performance was well attended and followed by an Aperitivo, with drinks from our sponsors Peroni, Campari, and Italian Cuvée, and food prepared by our volunteers from the Dante Auckland.                                                            Thank you all for coming and see you at the next concert of the Dante Alighieri Chamber Music Series on 24th November!

18TH ITALIAN LANGUAGE WEEK IN THE WORLD - 15 to 21 October 2018

The 18th Italian Language Week in the World is an event promoted yearly by the cultural and diplomatic network in the third week of October. It focuses on a theme that acts as the leitmotif of a vast cultural programme to promote the diffusion of the Italian language. The initiative was launched in 2001 through the joint action of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Accademia della Crusca

The 18th edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World, will take place from 15 to 21 October 2018, and will be dedicated to “Italian and the web, social networks for the Italian Language”. 

The Dante Alighieri Society of Auckland programme for the week:

Every day from 15 to 21 October 2018 we will post we will post a tile with an Italian word to learn on FB, Instagram, Twitter and other Social Media.

Also, on Saturday 20 October we will have two events, one in the morning and one in the afternoon:

Sat 20 Oct 2018 11am - Auckland Art Gallery, free talk by Dr Bruno Ferraro: Transgression and Punishment in Dante's Inferno

Sat 20 October 2018 5:00pm – 6:30pm - St Lukes Church, a concert of classical Italian music:

Festival Italiano Concert  (Followed by Italian Aperitivo)

Photos of the Piano Concert with Duo Paola Biondi and Debora Brunialti - Auckland 9 October 2018

The Italian Festival Season in Auckland is in full swing and tonight we celebrated with a four hands piano recital with Italian Duo Paola Biondi and Debora Brunialti who presented a stunning program of music by Sollima, Gershwin, Bollani, Canonici and Mozart/Buttal. A special thank to Italian Embassy in Wellington for bringing these two wonderful pianists to New Zealand. Duo Biondi Brunialti The concert was followed by an Italian Aperitivo, and for this we would like to acknowledge our drink Sponsors Peroni Nastro Azzurro, Campari New Zealand, Italian Cuvée and food sponsors Massimo's Italian Cheeses, Il Forno, Sous Chef and, of course, all the amazing volunteers of the Società Dante Alighieri Auckland. 

Photos by Gianni Flego

 #FestivalItalianoAuckland #FestivalItalianoNZ

Photos by Gianni Flego

Video by Wilma Laryn

Beautiful art work by the children of the Dante School

The children of the Italian school had a great time today painting with watercolours. What a great start to the school holidays, and bravissimi to all the bambini! Thank you to the teachers Flavia, Ekarasa and Alice for sharing these photos.

Photos from the first Festival Italiano Concert, and the third Dante Alighieri Chamber Music Series 2018

Il Raccolto New Zealand

Beautiful concert tonight with:

Luca Manghi, flute, Wolfgang Kraemer, recorder, Ben Hoadley, bassoon, 

Edith Salzmann, cello, Milena Parobczy, violin, and David Kelly, harpsichord.

Photos by Gianni Flego.

Amazing duo: Luca Manghi, flute and Wolfgang Kraemer, recorder.

Milena Parobczy preforming a stunning Partita for solo violin N2 in d Minor, BWV 1004 -
Chaconne, Johann Sebastian Bach.

Wolfgang Kraemer, Luca Manghi, and Milena Parobczy.

Wolfgang Kraemer, Luca Manghi, and Milena Parobczy.

Luca Manghi, Edith Salzmann, David Kelly and Wolfgang Kraemer.

Ben Hoadley, Luca Manghi, Wolfgang Kraemer, Edith Salzmann, and Wolfgang Kraemer
(Not visible: David Kelly at the harpsichord).

Luca Manghi, Wolfgang Kraemer, Ben Hoadley, Edith Salzmann, Milena Parobczy and David Kelly.
Music by Antonio Vivaldi.

Luca Manghi, Wolfgang Kraemer, Ben Hoadley, Edith Salzmann, Milena Parobczy and David Kelly.
Music by Antonio Vivaldi. 

Luca Manghi, Wolfgang Kraemer, Ben Hoadley, Edith Salzmann, David Kelly and Milena Parobczy. Bravo!! 

Grazie Società Dante Alighieri - Sede Centrale

Un ringraziamento speciale alla sede centrale della Società Dante Alighieri di Roma per aver offerto una scholarship in Italia ad una nostra studentessa e per averci aiutato finanziariamente nella messa in scena di un musical per il 2019 qui in Nuova Zelanda!

La scholarship consentirà alla nostra studentessa Kelly McKinnon di frequentare per due settimane una scuola di lingua a Bologna nella prima metà del prossimo anno.

I finanziamenti, invece, ci aiuteranno a mettere in scena un musical, interamente in italiano, previsto per il mese di maggio 2019.

Grazie all’aiuto e ai contributi della sede centrale, continuiamo con entusiasmo a promuovere e diffondere la lingua e la cultura italiana in Nuova Zelanda!

A special “thank you” to the headquarters of the Dante Alighieri Society in Rome for offering a scholarship to one of our students, and for helping us toward the costs of a musical that we will stage here in New Zealand in 2019.

The scholarship will allow our student Kelly McKinnon to attend two weeks full time language tuition in Bologna in the first half of 2019.

The funds, will help us staging a musical, entirely in Italian, in May 2019.

These precious contributions from the Dante’s headquarters will assist us in our ongoing work in promoting and spreading the Italian culture and language in New Zealand!

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Photos form our second Dante Concert with Tobias Ringborg

Wonderful concert last night with violinist Tobias Ringborg, in New Zealand to conduct La bohème at NZ Opera in September, who played with our local musicians Luca Manghi (flute) and David Kelly (piano). 

The programme included music from Italy, France and Sweden. 

Thank you to all who attended, and stayed after the concert for a drink with us. 

See you at the next Dante event!

Dante Chamber Music Series 2018: Concert 2, featuring Swedish conductor and violinist Tobias Ringborg

We have an beautiful concert coming up soon, featuring Swedish conductor and violinist Tobias Ringborg, in New Zealand to conduct La bohème at NZ Opera in September, along with our local musicians Luca Manghi (flute) and David Kelly (piano).

A colourful programme of music from Italy, France and Sweden.

Featuring works by Rossini, Catalani, Debussy and Stenhammar.

Tickets at the door $25 / $20 Dante Alighieri Society members / $10 students
Cash only please.

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