Franceschini to young musical talents: “You deserve the same mobilization for Sport victories”

“The country is rightly mobilizing for sports victories but not enough for incredible and extraordinary results on a cultural level, such as those achieved by these young people”. This is what the Minister of Culture, Dario Franceschini complains, receiving at the Collegio Romano, together with the director of Rai Cultura, Silvia Calandrelli, the young Italian musical talents winners of international competitions: the violinist Giuseppe Gibboni first ‘Paganini Award’ of Genoa 2021, Alexander Gadjiev second ‘Chopin Prize’ of Warsaw 2021, Leonora Armellini fifth ‘Chopin Prize’ of Warsaw 2021, Giovanni Bertolazzi second ‘Listz Prize’ of Budapest, as well as Maestro Ottavio Dantone, musical director of the Byzantine Academy orchestra of Ravenna, second best to the world at the ‘Gramophone Award’ 2021. For the owner of the Mic, “it is right that the country recognizes the ability and merit of these young Italian talents, who have distinguished themselves in international music competitions. This trend must be reversed, because each of they also represent the hundreds of young people who do not win prizes but study a lot, they work hard every day passing their or life to play, to rehearse, in Italian conservatories, having chosen a difficult path that requires talent but also great sacrifice “. For Franceschini,” today must be the first of a long series of occasions in which talent and work artistic, capable of winning the most important classical music competitions in the world, is publicly recognized by the institutions of their country. Italy not only has a glorious past full of famous masters and artists, but it also has an important present in which young talents and professionalism continue to assert themselves and be appreciated around the world “. As for the winners, they do not betray the Minister of Culture their emotions in the meeting in the Cruise Library at the Roman College, the home of the Mic. “It is an immense honor to have won the Paganini Prize – confesses Giuseppe Gibboni, student of Maestro Salvatore Accardo – I also had the privilege of making my debut with the ‘National Academy of Santa Cecilia: I was in Rome but without my violin – he says – luckily I arrived at two in the morning just in time for rehearsals in the morning … I have not yet had the opportunity to play the violin-cannon of Paganini, I could only admire him but soon I will crown this dream “. For Giovanni Bertolazzi,” to develop his musical path undoubtedly talent and vocation are needed but also and above all a spirit of sacrifice. that is, because music requires a total commitment and time seems never to be enough. From an early age I dream of devoting myself to music, I let myself be inspired by the great Masters of the past but woe to try to emulate them, it would be too risky “. A” danger “that Alexander Gadjiev also warns, speaking of” an infinite path, in search of ourselves. and of what excites us “, while Leonora Armellini observes that” there is the widespread idea that the commitment to music takes a lot from personal life and instead it is the opposite, it gives a lot because music and life go hand in hand “. (by Enzo Bonaiuto)