Opening the Music Festival at Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese on June 21, 2010 is the ”Antonella Aprea Quintet”.
Rome – Opening the Music Festival at Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese on June 21, 2010 is the ”Antonella Aprea Quintet”.
Antonella Aprea is one of the most interesting new voices of Roman jazz. Her Quintet, with Attilio Di Giovanni on piano, Giorgio Cuscito on sax, Andrea Nunzi on the drums and Stefano Nunzi on double bass, has performed with artists such as Renzo Arbore and Romano Mussolini over the last ten years. The deep passion in Antonella’s distinctive velvety voice is perfect to interpret classics by Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington and many others.
The event will be held at Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese during the Fête de la Musique. This event, launched in France in 1982, has since taken on international proportions and is now held in over 100 countries.
Every year the popular, free Music Festival takes place on June 21st to celebrate summer solstice. It gives the opportunity to professional musicians and non to play in the open, on streets, in the squares and in parks. This extraordinary occasion for cultural and artistic exchange allows audiences to enjoy a wide variety of free concerts.
L’ADCEP – Association pour le Développment de la Création, Etudes et Project – is in charge of coordinating the event in France and abroad on behalf of the Cultural and Communications Ministry.
Marie Beréngère Chapoton, Managing Director of Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese states, “Every year many businesses, companies and authorities take part in putting together the Music Festival, adding to the international development of the event”. “ Because of our strong liaison with France, we have chosen to help develop and spread this event event in Italy, aware that music is for all people and cultures.”
In Italy, the AIPFM – Italian Association for Promotion of the Music Festival – together with the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, has made an agreement to involve as many cities as possible in Italy and to coordinate relations with other European countries. At present Siena, Modena, Lucca, Arco Val di Ledro and Rivoli take place in the event. An agreement between the French and Italian Ministry of Culture has been approved aimed at promoting artistic trade between the two countries and to give more visibility over the border to the artists involved.
On June 21st, the Music Festival will take place in Italy.
In the beautiful setting of the Cuisine & Lounge La Terrasse in Sofitel Rome Villa Borghese, deeply tied to French cultural activities, an elegant evening of music will be held.. Antonella Aprea’s concert for 80 invited guests will take place in the early evening on the spectacular panoramic terrace overlooking Villa Borghese.
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