Concerts at the Preggio Music Festival will take place from 26th July through 16th August, 2008. For information about the opera to be performed this year at Preggio, Cosi fan tutte, please click on the Opera tab above. Chamber and sacred music will be presented in the Church of San Francesco, Preggio, with all performances beginning at 9:15 p.m. All tickets for the chamber and sacred concerts will be offered to the public at €10 each at the door on the night of the performance, first come-first served. Children under the age of 10 will be admitted free. We look forward to seeing you!


26 July 2008. Inaugural Concert of the 26th Season of the Preggio Music Festival: DOUBLE PIANISTS FRANCO PACIOSELLI & CARLO SEGOLONI, pianos, The Art of Transcription by Theodor Kirkner (all transcribed by him for piano duo): Robert Schumann, Symphony No. 4 in d minor ; Johannes Brahms, Quintet in f minor op.34, originally for piano and strings.

29 July 2008. CHOIR of MARY’S CHURCH, NOTTINGHAM, U.K., JOHN KEYS, conductor: works by William Walton, Orlando Gibbons, Henry Purcell, Sir William Henry Harrris, Herbert Howells, William Williams, Gerald Finzi. (The Choir will also appear at the Papal Basilica of Saint Francis, in Assisi, on 31 July at 9:00 p.m. and at the Cathedral in Perugia, on the Corso Vanucci, 1 August, also at 9:00 p.m.)

2 August 2008. VIOLIN AND PIANO DUO, CYNTHIA O’BRIEN violin, OBERDAN MEARINI, piano: Ludwig van Beethoven, Sonata in D major, Op.12, n. 1; Arvo Part, Fratres; Johannes Brahms, Sonata No. 2, in A major, Op. 100; Claude Debussy, Sonata for violin and piano.

4 August 2008. ORGAN CONCERT, ADRIANO FALCIONI, organist: J.S. BACH, Prelude and fugue in e minor BWV 548; Felix Mendelssohn, Sonata for Organ, op. 65 No. 3; T. Escaich, Evocation I- II; J. Jongen, Sonata Eroica op. 94; N. Hakim, Ouverture Libanese.

8 August 2008. THE ORVIETO FESTIVAL OF STRINGS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA, GEORGE ATANASIU, conductor, LENUTA CIULEI, violin, MARCO GRISANTI, piano, PAOLO TESTI, flute: Georg Philpp Telemann, Concerto for Four 'cellos; G.F. Handel, Concerto Grosso op. 6 n. 4 in a minor; J.S. Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, for violin, clavier & flute; Antonio Vivaldi, “Summer” from The Four Seasons; Peter Warlock, Capriol Suite.