Italian Culture Institute in Cairo Hosts "Affresco Italiano"

On the occasion of World Music Day and with the intention of promoting knowledge of the Italian musical repertoire of the late nineteenth century, the Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo is hosting “Affresco Italiano”, which is a cello-piano duo consist of two Italian artists Ludovica Rana, cellist and Maddalena Giacopuzzi, pianist

The cello-piano duo presents a program focused on the musical work of three great Italian composers of the late romanticism: Ferruccio Busoni, Giuseppe Martucci and Francesco Cilea. The proposed works draw a space-time area that describes a decade of great spiritual, artistic and cultural intensity: 1880-1890. A decade characterized by a spiritual climate that sought to affirm its own style and connotation, a particularly dense period for the Italian musical scene in which chamber music not only found its place, but defined its considerable cultural depth. 

A season marked by a cultural battle, in which the Italian musicians "placed" themselves, with considerable effort, in a totally operatic context in Italy and with a strong instrumental presence in Germany. Busoni, Martucci and Cilea have outlined a path that has defined stylistic innovations for future generations.

The duo composed by Ludovica Rana, cellist and Maddalena Giacopuzzi, pianist was formed in 2018 and already has played numerous concerts in renowned festivals partnering with Roman Philharmonic Academy, Society of the Concerts of Milan, Academy Verona Philharmonic, Viotti Festival, Vercelli Civic Theater, Walton Foundation, Milan music, Oratorio del Gonfalone, Rome, Musica Insieme, Bologna, Friends of Music of Lonigo, Sfere Sonore Association, Lecce, Association Opera Prima, Lecce.

In 2021 the Rana Giacopuzzi duo won the “DV Young Sounds International Competition “of the record label Da Vinci. Thanks to these achievements, their debut CD entitled “Affresco italiano” has been released in the summer of 2022.

Ludovica studied at the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland, the Menuhin Academy, the Pavia Cello Academy and the Santa Cecilia Academy. She currently teaches Chamber Music at the "Tchaikovsky" Conservatory in Nocera Terinese and plays on a “Claude Augustine Miremont” from 1860. Maddalena studied at the Bolzano Conservatory, “Incontri col Maestro” of Imola, at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. She teaches piano at the ISSM "Paisiello" in Taranto.