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PASQUALE ALLEGRETTI GRAVINA

 

Pasquale Allegretti Gravina graduated in Violin with highest honors, cum laude and honorable mention from the “S. Giacomantonio” Conservatory of Cosenza. He attended the Hochschule der Kunste in Bern with M° C. BELCEA. Since 2020 he has been studying with M° B. BELKIN at the Academy Foundation in Imola, he is also enrolled at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia with M° S. TCHAKERIAN. He is a winner of numerous international competitions: Mimas Music Festival, “Massimo Marin,” etc. At the age of sixteen he was selected for a masterclass with violinist D. HOPE, in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon and Play with a Pro. He has several recordings to his credit for major labels (Warner, UraniaRecords, Limen). He has performed as soloist and sideman in prestigious concert halls and music festivals: Musikverein in Vienna, Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), Teatro Olimpico (Vicenza), Auditorium Morón (Buenos Aires), Vatican Palaces, Jesuit Church (Lucerne), University of Bern.

PROGRAM

 

First Round

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Violin Concerto N. 5 in A major K 219 (Allegro)

Niccolò Paganini: Caprices for Violin op. 1 N. 1; 17; 24

Eugène Ysaÿe: Violin Sonata N. 6 op. 27

Second Round

Claude Debussy: Sonata for violin and piano in G minor L 140

Johannes Brahms: Sonata N. 3 in D minor op. 108

Maurice Ravel: Tzigane for violin and piano

Semifinal

Igor Stravinskij: Suite Italienne for violin and piano

Francis Poulenc: Sonata for violin and piano FP119

Niccolò Paganini: I Palpiti (arr. F. Kreisler)

Final with orchestra

Jean Sibelius: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D minor op. 47