Dario Doronzo / Pietro Gallo - Italian Metamorphoses Concert

The Italian Cultural Institute and the Consulate of Italy in Brisbane are pleased to present the Duo Dario Doronzo & Pietro Gallo in "Metamorphoses Concert"

The eclectic Duo Re-Imagine was born in 2015. The Duo offers a wide-ranging repertoire that combine classic Italian operatic lyricism (Monteverdi, Mascagni, Cesti, Porpora, Scarlatti, Verdi, Paisiello, Caldara, etc.) with modern jazz-style improvisation made in Italy through arrangements of Italian Opera arias (in the Reimagining Opera album) and metamorphoses of Antiche Italiane arias (in the Re-imagining Aria album). A skilful elaboration and interpretation of the complex and elegant rewriting in a modern key of compositions and opera arias from the cultured sphere.

The duo will perform at the Italian Cultural Institute in Sydney on 8 August and at the Brisbane Jazz Club on Saturday 10 August

Memory, research and modernity are the key elements that follow a singular path in terms of effects and sounds. Paying homage to the past to dialogue with the present is the ambitious goal of this duo. The common thread is the theme of 'rereading', a stylistic and aesthetic figure suitable for uniting two very different worlds such as that of classical music and the more liquid one of modern Jazz. The project retraces a singular path, in the bed of interpretation, in synergy with the thought of the French philosopher Paul Ricœur: the music - alter ego of the lyrics - rises above the intentions of the classical authors who created them to 'produce ' and 'recreate' another meaning, autonomous and new, in which explanation and understanding are united and not opposed in the interpretative process. The 'disassembly' and 'reassembly' of classical works with modifications and variations on the melodic, harmonic, timbral and rhythmic levels leads the listener to fully savor the true value of the Ancient Arias which, even today, continue to surprise us. An incessant panta rei of landscapes, sounds, colors that refer to distant cultures, a continuous and fruitful inspiration for new sounds which, after about four hundred years, still move the mysterious strings of our soul today.

Dario Doronzo and Pietro Gallo have to their credit numerous concerts for important Italian and foreign musical and cultural entities, including: Carnegie Hall in New York, Spectrum NYC, International Trumpet Guild | San Antonio (Texas), SKG Bridges Festival in Thessaloniki (Greece), Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center in İzmir (Turkey), Kailash Mital Theater in Ottawa (Canada), NoiseFloor in Stoke-on-Trent (England), Yeldeğirmeni Sanat Art Center and Italian Cultural Institute of İstanbul (Turkey), Kulturni Centar of Novi Sad (Serbia), İzmir European Jazz Festival, Embassy of Italy in Ankara (Turkey), Studio Acusticum | Piteå Concert Hall (Sweden), University of Niš (Serbia), Museu Nacional da Música of Lisbon and Museu Nacional Machado de Castro of Coimbra (Portugal), Italian Cultural Institute of Krakow (Poland), Auditorium Parco della Musica of Rome, Jazzit Fest | Pompeii, etc. They recorded for the DiG – Digressione Music label, with which they released the CD/LP “Reimagining Opera” (feat. Michel Godard at the Serpentone) and the CD “Reimagining Aria” (feat. Gabriele Mirabassi at the Clarinet). They teach trumpet and piano in Italian music conservatories and high schools.