MANDOLIN ACADEMY IN VENICE

Welcome to Venice 2024!


THE VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL

Concerts in Venice 1 - 4 May 2024


FESTIVAL PROGRAM

1 - 4 May 2024


* * *

INAGURATION CONCERT & OPEN REHEARSAL 1 MAY 19:00


Wednesday 1 May 19:00 Chiostro / Chiesa Sant' Elena, Venezia


The international mandolin orchestra

VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Lars Forslund - conductor


Concert program - Music by Vivaldi and others


Free entrance


* * *

Zupforchester Baar

CONCERT 2 MAY 17:00


Thursday 2 May 17:00 Chiostro / Chiesa Sant' Elena, Venezia


The mandolin orchestra from Switzerland

ZUPFORCHESTER BAAR

Melina Murray - conductor


Concert program - Music by Vivaldi and others


Free entrance


* * *

CONCERT 2 MAY 19:00


Thursday 2 May 19:00 Chiostro / Chiesa Sant' Elena, Venezia


The international mandolin orchestra

VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Lars Forslund - conductor


The church choir from Sweden

TRYSERUM-ÖSTRA EDS KYRKOKÖR

Marie Dimpker - conductor


Concert program - Gloria by Vivaldi


Free entrance


* * *

Salzburger Mandolinenorchester

CONCERT 3 MAY 17:00


Friday 3 May 17:00 Chiostro / Chiesa Sant' Elena, Venezia


The mandolin orchestra from Austria

SALZBURGER MANDOLINENORCHESTER

Gerhard Heitzinger - conductor


Concert program - Music by Vivaldi and others


Free entrance


* * *

CONCERT 3 MAY 19:00


Friday 3 May 19:00 Chiostro / Chiesa Sant' Elena, Venezia


The international mandolin orchestra

VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Lars Forslund - conductor


The church choir from Sweden

TRYSERUM-ÖSTRA EDS KYRKOKÖR

Marie Dimpker - conductor


Concert program - Gloria by Vivaldi


Free entrance


* * *

Tryserum-Östra Eds kyrkokör

CONCERT 4 MAY 17:00


Saturday 4 May 17:00 Chiesa Sant' Antonio, Lido di Venezia


The international mandolin orchestra

VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Lars Forslund - conductor


The church choir from Sweden

TRYSERUM-ÖSTRA EDS KYRKOKÖR

Marie Dimpker - conductor


Concert program - Gloria by Vivaldi


Free entrance


* * *

OPERA & GALA CONCERT 4 MAY 19:00


Saturday 4 May 19:00 Sala Laguna next to the church of Chiesa Sant' Antonio, Lido di Venezia


The international mandolin orchestra

VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

Lars Forslund - conductor


The mandolin orchestra from Austria

SALZBURGER MANDOLINENORCHESTER

Gerhard Heitzinger- conductor


The mandolin orchestra from Switzerland

ZUPFORCHESTER BAAR

Melina Murray - conductor


The church choir from Sweden

TRYSERUM-ÖSTRA EDS KYRKOKÖR

Marie Dimpker - conductor



Concert program - Opera-arias by Vivaldi and Canzoni Napolitane


Free entrance


Reservation for any changes


* * *

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL




IN SPRING, 2024, THE VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL INVITES

music lovers and players of the mandolin, mandola and guitar, of all levels, as well as mandolin and guitar orchestras, professional players and conductors, from all over the world, to enjoy great music and art in Venice. How would you and your mandolin orchestra like to make music in Venice, one of the most beautiful cities in the world?


Come to Venice and give concerts in incredibly beautiful churches and palaces dating back to the Middle Ages. And play music by the most Venetian of all Venetian composers Maestro Don Antonio Vivaldi - "Il prete rosso" (The red priest) in the huge joint mandolin orchestra at a gala evening in the spirit of the Carnival of Venice. In May, 2024, the Venice Mandolin Festival will continue the unique tradition of a mandolin festival in Venice, a festival of concerts for everybody who loves to play and hear the mandolin, mandola and guitar.


Yet again, this exciting event will bring together enthusiasts from all over the world to play, to meet, exchange stories and ideas, and form international friendships. Who knows where it can lead? Get in touch with us so we can tell you more about how the Festival works.


• Come to amazing Venice and enjoy being part of this very special international musical community. Everyone is welcome!
• Come to Venice and be part of THE VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA! This project orchestra is open to everybody.

THE VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA

A rehearsal in a Venetian church 2023

PLEASE, COME TO VENICE AND BE PART OF THE ORCHESTRA

A super international orchestra - and people come back year after year!

THE VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA - REPERTOIRE




THE VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA PLAYS VIVALDI / CRISTIANO / FORSLUND
The repertoire includes Venetian baroque music from the Golden Age of Venice, greatly loved music from the amazing opera "Giustino" with wonderful arias (don’t forget your paper handkerchieves!), sacred music like "Gloria" by Lorenzo Cristiano / Lars Forslund for 4 solo voices, choir, solo mandolin, solo guitar, mandolin orchestra, harpsichord and organ, and the "Spring - La Primavera" from the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi with the very young violin soloist Emil Galimzanov, and not to mention the most famous mandolin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi. At the Opera Gala Concert and Carnival Party, we will perform with The Venice Mandolin Festival Orchestra arias from one of the most beautiful operas by Antonio Vivaldi namely "Giustino" and we will be joined by leading professional singers from famous Italian opera houses. We will also perform The Lofoten suite and Cantata di Roma by Lars Forslund, and more music.


YOU CAN PRACTISE THE REPERTOIRE ON OUR WEBSITE

Here, on our website you can already now study and practise the repertoire of The Venice Mandolin Festival Orchestra. Please download the sheet music on the PDF-files and listen to the music on the MP3-files below. Before you are coming to Venice you can practise and listen to the music of The Venice Mandolin Festival Orchestra. The music by Vivaldi we will send to you later, or download from IMSLP.


THE GUEST ORCHESTRAS OF THE VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL

The guest orchestras will perform various concert programmes with music from Renaissance, Baroque to modern and folkmusic in the concerts of The Venice Mandolin Festival 2024.

A GRAND COLLABORATION WITH SACRED MUSIC

A joint concert with sacred music for mandolin orchestra and opera singers

GLORIA DI LORENZO CRISTIANO

Musica sacra per soprano, mezzosoprano, mandolino solo, chitarra solo, 2 oboi,

orchestra a pizzico o orchestra d'archi, cembalo ed organo di Lars Forslund

GLORIA - PRIMA PARTE

1 Gloria in Excellcis

2 Et in terra pax

3 Laudamus te

4 Gratias agimus tibi

GLORIA - SECONDA PARTE

5 Propter magnam gloriam

6 Domine Deus

7 Domini Fili unigenite

8 Domine Deus, Agnus Dei

GLORIA - TERZA PARTE

  Qui tollis peccata mundi

10 Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris

11 Quoniam tu solus sanctus

12 Cum Sancto Spiritu

SACRED MUSIC BY LORENZO CRISTIANO 

Lorenzo Cristiano is a pseudonym of Lars Christer Forslund, and this choral work is composed for a mixed or women's choir, four vocal soloists

(SATB or SSAA), string or mandolin orchestra, harpsichord, organ, solo mandolin and solo guitar. The music is inspired by sacred Italian

Baroque music, in particular by Vivaldi and Corelli.

Klick on a button to open a MP3. file with the Musescore sound of a mandolin orchestra and a PDF. file with the sheet music of the full score

and all parts. You can download the sheet-music of your instrument part and print it or open it on your  computer, i-pad or tablet and than

conect speakers or headphones on another devise (smartphone or mp3 player) or open two windows on your computer, i-pad, tablet or smartphone. If you don't know how to do, please ask somebody who knows about modern technic.


Please, use this music as you want but you must follow international copyright laws and report to your country's music bureau

for copyright when you use this music in public, such as concerts, recordings, film, internet and streaming etc.


Please, use good speakers or headphones! Good luck!

SACRED MUSIC - SEVEN MEMORIES FROM ROME

Sacred music with inspiration from the churches of Rome

CANTATA DI ROMA

Musica sacra per soprano, mezzosoprano, 2 oboi, ocarina, mandolino,

chitarra, cembalo ed orchestra a pizzico o d'archi di Lars Forslund

AVE MARIA

Ave, Maria, gratia plena, Dominus tecum. Benedicta tuin mulieribus, et benedictus fructus ventris tui, Iesus. Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, ora pro nobis peccatoribus,nunc, et in hora mortis nostrae. Amen.


SALVE REGINA

Salve Regina, mater misericordiae: vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra, salve. Ad te clamamus exsules filii Hevae. Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes in hac lacrimarum valle. Eia, ergo, advocata nostra, illos tuos misericordes oculos ad nos converte. Et Iesum, benedictum fructum ventris tui, nobis post hoc exsilium ostende.

O clemens, o pia, o dulcis Virgo Maria. Amen

REGINA CAELIS

Regina caeli, laetare, alleluia:Quia quem meruisti portare, alleluia. Resurrexit sicut dixit, alleluia. Ora pro nobis Deum, alleluia.


GLORIA

Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto. Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper, et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.


ORATIO FATIMA

Domine Jesu, dimitte nobis debita nostra, salva nos ab igne inferni, perduc in caelum omnes animas, praesertim eas, quae misericordiae tuae maxime indigent.

SANCTUS

Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus exercituum: Plena es terra gloria tua: Gloria Patri, Gloria Filio, Gloria Spiritui Sancto


JUBILATE DEO

Jubilate Deo omnis terra, Servite Domino in laetitia. Laudate nomen ejus, quoniam suavis est Dominus; Alleluia!

Klick on a button to open a MP3. file with the Musescore sound of a mandolin orchestra and a PDF. file with the sheet music of the full score

and all parts.You can download the sheet-music of your instrument part and print it or open it on your computer, i-pad or tablet and than

conectspeakers or headphones on another devise (smartphone or mp3 player) or open two windowson your computer, i-pad, tablet or smartphone.If you don't know how to do, please ask somebody who knows about modern technic.


Please, use this music as you want but you must follow international copyright laws and report to your country's music bureau

for copyright when you use this music in public, such as concerts, recordings, film, internet and streaming etc.


Please, use good speakers or headphones! Good luck!

SIX IMPRESSIONS FROM LOFOTEN OF NORWAY - THE LAND OF BACCALÀ

The history from 1432 of a Venetian Nobelman and Sea Captain

LOFOTEN SUITE

Musica per concertino di mandolino, chitarra e cembalo

ed orchestra a plettro di Lars Forslund

THE MAGIC MOUNTAINS IN THE SEA

"Le montagne magiche nel'Oceano Atlantico" - Allegro maestoso


Fishing boats and dangerous sea

This music describes the sea and the storms, the danger out in the dark and high seas, and that the song gives courage.


THE SONG OF MIDNIGHT SUN

"Il sole di mezzanotte"

Allegro con moto


Midnight sun rays high in the sky

This is a song without words, describes the wonderful light over the mountain peaks, the lambs, sea eagles and puffins.

AURORA BOREALIS

"Aurora Boreale"

Andante misterioso


A dancing lighting game

Tango rhythms symbolizes the dancing light across the sky and the cluster chords and the tremolo the magic sky.


THE BEAUTY OF NATURE

"La bellezza della natura"

Andante amoroso


Sea, mountains and fish market

The octave intervals in the mandolin, depicts the glassy surface of the sea, powerful chords Vikings religious rock and baroque sequences dried fish loaded on the ships to Venice.

BACCALÀ - THE GREAT SUCCESS

"Lo stoccafisso, un grande successo"

Andante maestoso


The trip to Spain, Portugal & Italy

These music describes the millennial exports of dried fish from Lofoten to southern Europe. Folia, Waltz and Flamenco will be mixed with sad melodies at the loved ones farewell.


THE FURIOUS SEA

"Il mare furioso e il nobiluomo di Venezia" - Allegro furioso


The storm and shipwreck

The dramatic music, the fast playing and sweeping arpeggios, the chords and pounding rhythm of the instruments symbolizing ice, furious waves and the darkness of the sea.

Klick on a button to open a MP3. file with the Musescore sound of a mandolin orchestra and a PDF. file with the sheet music of the full score

and all parts.You can download the sheet-music of your instrument part and print it or open it on your computer, i-pad or tablet and than

conectspeakers or headphones on another devise (smartphone or mp3 player) or open two windowson your computer, i-pad, tablet or smartphone.If you don't know how to do, please ask somebody who knows about modern technic.


Please, use this music as you want but you must follow international copyright laws and report to your country's music bureau

for copyright when you use this music in public, such as concerts, recordings, film, internet and streaming etc.


Please, use good speakers or headphones! Good luck!

HISTORY AND LEGEND

Pietro Querini from Venice




PIETRO QUERINI AND THE REAL STORY OF THE BACCALÀ

Pietro Querini was a nobelman, navigator and captain from the Republic of Venice. He became famous after he and his crew were shipwrecked on the Røst, south of Lofoten in northern Norway, January 5, Winter 1432. When he later returned to Venice, he wrote a report about his travels to the Senate. It was published and printed in Venice. Here you can read an excerpt from Pietro Querinis own story.


In October 1431 was Captain Querini and his ship, a cog, on its way from Crete with a cargo to Bruges in Flanders, where they encountered a terrible storm off the west coast of France. The storm broke the masts of the ship and they were driven by the Gulf Stream across the North Sea. They had to jump into the lifeboat and they fought in the icy storm in many weeks. Most of the sailors drowned or died of hunger and exhaustion when they were left to their cruel fate.


Shortly after New Year 1432 became the surviving stranded on an island in the archipelago of Lofoten near Røst. Only eleven men, of a crew of 68 men was survived. They were found by local fishermen after 29 days. They became taken charge of by the fishermen and spent more than three months, together with the inhabitants of the island Røst.


This dramatic event was the origin for trade between northern Norway and Italy. After many months in Lofoten Pietro Querini realized benefits of the dried fish, possible to store a long time and it had great nutritional value, so he decided to send a couple of boxes of dried fish to Venice. This was also the origin of the success of baccalà in Italy.


PIETRO QUERINIS TRIP IN SWEDEN

On the return trip to Venice visited Pietro Querini a Venetian Count Giovanni Franco, who lived on Stegeborgs castle near Söderköping in Sweden. Querini stayed there for a time and after fourteen days following the Count them with 100-120 fine riding horses to Vadstena. The purpose of the trip across Östergötland, which took them five days, was to seek indulgences during the annual Peter Festival on August 1, 1432, and that of the crowd which inquire about possible boat trips from Lödöse.


In Vadstena their host Mathias, called Mafio and Mapheo in the stories, took after a few days the visitors to the port city Lödöse at the Göta River, where the family is said to have owned a large manor-house in the neighborhood. From Vadstena it was eight days' journey, and Pietro Querini, which during the trip had fever, praising his host's kindness to provide him with one of their best horses; it was a horse with so soft walk that he said he never experienced anything like that.

QUERINIS ROUTE - “VIA QUERINISSIMA”

Thanks to this trip Pietro Querini has managed to popularize a successful combination of Norwegian dried fish and Italian cooking in the Veneto region. The dried fish is cooked as Baccalà alla vicentina and is regarded as a national dish.


THE TRAGIC END OF THE TALE OF QUERINI

After a few years home, Pietro Querini went out on a new voyage with his ship in order to explore the North Pole, but this time he did not manage to survive and disappeared in the eternal ice forever.

PIETRO QUERINI E LA VERA STORIA DEL BACCALÀ

Pietro Querini and the real story of the baccalà

IN PARADISO




EXCERPTS FROM IN PARADISE BY PIETRO QUERINI:


“It was a hundred and twenty souls who lived on the island, and at Easter there were seventytwo who received Holy Communion and confessed himself as pious and faithful Catholics. They have nothing but fish to sustain life with, because it is not possible to grow anything. Three months of the year, June, July and August, the sun never sets, and in the winter months it is almost always night, and they have always light from the moon.


During the year fishing the endless amounts of fish. The one who is most prevalent, indeed immeasurable quantities, called cane fish (cod), the other being flounder, but of wonderful size, each fish should I believe weighed two hundred libre. The fish dries in the Sun and wind without salt, and because there are fish with little oily liquid, it becomes hard as wood. When they want to eat it, they knock it with the back of an ax, which makes the filamentous equal tendons, then fed butter and spices to give it flavor. It is a commodity of inestimable importance in oceans.


Flounder are, since it is so large, quartered and salt. In May, they go so from the island in a pretty big boat of fifty barrels and loaded with fish sail to a place in Norway more than a thousand mil away called Berge (Bergen). There will likewise ship of three hundred to three hundred and fifty barrels, loaded with all sorts of goods into Germany, England, Scotland and Prussia, everything needed to live and dress. And those who come with fish (and there is an innumerable amount of boats), it switches the goods they need, for as mentioned they can not grow crops where they live. They neither have nor use any kind of coin, so when they have exchanged goods, they travel back. But they always make sure with the sufficient fuel for the entire year, and other necessary things.


The men in these islands is the most spotless people and has a beautiful appearance, the same applies to their women. So innocent is that they do not care about locking anything, not even women suit on. And this was easy to see, in the same room where husband and wife and children were sleeping, there lived also we, and clothed the naked when they should go to bed. Every Thursday they used to have a sauna and then overlaid those of the house with them, and went completely naked to the sauna a stone's throw away, where they mingled with the men. They are (as I have mentioned before) the most pious Christians, and on holidays they fail never go to Mass. In the church kneels always when they pray, and sometimes never at the muttering incantations, curses saints or mention the devil's name. When a relative dies, keeping the wives of men the day of funeral, a great gathering of all the neighbors, who by custom and ability dressed in magnificent and precious clothes. The deceased's wife dress in their finest and dearest finery and serve guests as she often reminds them that they must be pleased with the deceased's soul peace sake. They always meet the fast on those particular days, and all feasts that come during the year keeps those with Christian piety.


Their dwellings are round and made of wood. They have only one aperture midst of headroom. In winter it is so unbearably cold that they cover the opening with mighty fish skins, which are cooked so they let through much light. They use thick woolen clothes from London and elsewhere, leather they use little or nothing of. To accustom children to the cold and enable them to withstand the better, they take their newborns when they are four days old and lay them naked under the skylight, remove the fish skin and lets the snow fall on them. Throughout the winter, from February 5 to May 14, the time we were there, it snowed almost always. Those children who survive childhood, are so hardened and accustomed to the cold that those adults care little or nothing about it. Imagine then how the rest of us, who were badly dressed and not used to living in such areas, would carry us. But with God's help we kept out everything.


In the spring came the countless wild geese and built nest on the island, many close to the house walls. So tame they were since they had never been frightened by something, that when housewives went to the nest, traveled goose slowly and let the women quietly take the eggs they wanted and that they fried omelet for us. When they went, came the goose back to nest and lay down to incubate. We thought this was quite adventurous, like much else that it will take too long to tell. (...)


In the time we were there, treated people's friendly after their best ability, and for two months we ate enormous quantities of their food, for example, butter, fish and occasionally meat. It was as if we could never get enough, and had it not been for this food was so easily digested, we had eaten us to death. Our medicine was fresh milk, for each householder had four to six small cows subsistence of his family.


When we got to May, it was the end of the month they used to transport the fish to Bergen, and they were preparing also to take us. But a few days before had a woman married to the man who ruled over all the islands, but as it was away, we heard that we were sent there on the spot. She sent her chaplain in a boat rowed by twelve vessels, and on behalf of the woman he handed over to me, who stood above the others, sixty cane fish dried in the wind, and three large rye bread, round as with us. (...)


So we sailed between many islands, and the entire time we navigated south through straits, (...) This continued the journey in fifteen days with almost only tailwind and constantly controlled by we cairns which was set on top of the islands, and that showed us the fastest and deepest route. The people lived in many of the islands, and these took merciful against us when they learned of the monk how it was with us. They gave us what they had, for example, milk and fish, without any payment”


Venezia


Pietro Querini

THE CONCERTS




THE CONCERTS
Concerts will be held in the heart of Venice and on the beautiful island of Lido, 15 minutes from St Mark’s Square by vaporetto

(water bus) number 1.


The general details are based on our experience at previous Festivals

• Both artistically and organisationally, it’s best if each visiting ensemble presents one complete concert of its own.
• Each concert should last about 60 minutes.
• You can rehearse before your performance for up to three hours in the church or concert hall where the concert will take place.


At the closing Gala Concerto & Carnival Style Party,

we hope that all guest orchestras, individual participants and small ensembles will play in the Venice Mandolin Festival Orchestra.
• The VMFO will rehearse Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 10:00 to 13:00 and concerts at 15:00.
• The Festival Orchestra is directed by a professional conductor with special experience in the field of mandolin orchestras.
• The Orchestra is open to all players from guest orchestras, individual participants and small ensembles.
• The VMFO will give a concert of its own, and also perform at the closing gala concert on Saturday evening.
• This concert will also include a performance of Baroque dances with the Venetian dance master Roberto Barison and his troupe.


Do you have any questions?
It is impossible to explain everything on a website, so please contact us with your particular questions about the Venice Mandolin Festival. We will do our best to answer them. Do not hesitate to ask anything that interests you!

INFORMATION 2024

THE VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL:


Wednesday 1 May:

19:00 inaguration concert.


Thursday 2 May: 

10:00 rehearsal, 13: 00 break. 

Concerts 15:00, 17:00 & 19:00.


Friday 3 May: 

10:00 rehearsal, 13: 00 break.

Concerts 15:00, 17:00 & 19:00.


Saturday 4 May: 

10:00 rehearsal, 13: 00 break.

Concerts 15:00, 17:00, gala party 19:30

THE PRICE INCLUDES:

Playing in The Venice Mandolin Festival Orchestra.

All concerts, own & joint concerts.

All rehearsals, own & joint rehearsals.

Administration and preparations. Marketing - posters - advertising.

Rent of chuches & locations in Venice.

Rent of rehearsal hall. Gala concert & Carnival party with snacks and prosecco in a private location.


PARTICIPATION FEE:

Euro € 150 / person for adults

Euro € 100 / person for students

Euro €   50 / person for companions

ACCOMMODATION & TRANSPORT: Accommodation, transport in Italy and flights to and from Italy, food & drinks are not included in the price, except snacks and prosecco in the final party. You do best to book your own hotel or private apartment in Venice that you can easily find online.


EXTRA DAYS:

For those of you who come to Venice earlier or stay a few days extra, we can arrange a guided tour. We visit cafes, ice cream bars (gelaterie), wine cellars. We look at architecture, art and tell the story of Vivaldi. Euro € 10 / person

THE FINAL OPERA & GALA CONCERT AND THE CARNIVAL PARTY OF THE VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL

A joint concert and party with The Venice Mandolin Festival Orchestra, Opera Singers & Artists from The Carnevale di Venezia


Our opera soloists and dancers from Carnevale di Venezia, are all humble, very friendly and professional artists.

Everyone is used to make music and collaborate with mandolin orchestras both in Venice and abroad.

The collaboration and exchange concerts have been going on since 1998.


IMPORTANT INFORMATION


Klick here!

OPERA GALA & CARNIVAL PARTY

from the golden age of Antonio Vivaldi and Venice. A joint concert and party with all participants

of The Venice Mandolin Festival, singers, dancers & artists from Carnevale di Venezia




PURE ENJOYMENT

The Festival ends with an 18th century style opera gala. It's a private party, like the ones Venetian aristocrats 200 years ago would have enjoyed. The revellers this time are the participants in the Venice Mandolin Festival, the Opera da Camera di Venezia, with soloists and dancing masters, performers from the renowned Carnival in Venice - many in period dress - and you and your friends.


DANCING MASTER ROBERTO BARISON IS A VENETIAN ORIGINAL

He and his dance associates, Ricercardanzando, are among Italy’s most celebrated dance ensembles. They will introduce you to the delights of the 18th century ballroom. They know what you need to know to get started, and under their gentle but masterful expert guidance, you will soon forget yourself and be part of the revelry as much as the experienced dancers.


IN MASCHERA - A MASKED BALL

In a private location, the guests dance an elegant and stately minuet - that most courtly of courtly dances. If you want to dress up in 18th century style, or wear fanciful costumes and fantastic head-gear or masks - just anything suitable to the cultivated madness of a Carnival in Venice - feel free. Do whatever your imagination desires.


Reservation for any changes


* * *

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DRESS IN INSPIRATION

of a Venetian masquerade ball

THE DANCE ENSEMBLE RICERCARDANZANDO

Dance master Roberto Barison from Venice and his dance ensemble

Ricercardanzando belong to one of Italy's most

requested dance ensembles.


* * *

CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO PLAYS VIVALDI & BACH

A mandolin and guitar orchestra from Sweden - Lars Forslund, conductor

Silvia Ricca 3 (2)
97F4ACD0-C400-4BDD-94A9-114E9AB21E26
Maxine Rizzotto Carnevale 2 (2)

A MANDOLIN & OPERA GALA CONCERTO WITH CARNIVAL PARTY AND BAROQUE DANCE

We will hold the final mandolin & opera gala concerto and the carnival party in a private location

LARS FORSLUND PLAYS BACH - AN INSPIREING WINE CONCERTO

Lars plays on a mandolin built by Gabriele Pandini, Italy

LARS FORSLUND PLAYS BACH - AN INSPIREING CAFÉ CONCERTO

Lars plays on a mandolin built by Gabriele Pandini, Italy

LARS FORSLUND PLAYS SCARLATTI WITH VENETIAN FRIENDS

Lars plays on a mandolin built by Daigoro Ochiai, Japan

THE VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL

Concerts in Venice 1 - 4 May 2024


Please contact us with your questions about The Venice Mandolin Festival.

We have much more to tell you about the organisation, soloists,

orchestras, concerts, repertory, the big party and so on.

We are very happy to try to answer your questions.

Don't hesitate to ask everything you wonder!

To apply or find out more about The Venice Mandolin Festival 2024

CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO PLAYS NÄSLUND

Concerto for guitar, Kenneth Frejd - guitar, Keith Harris - conductor - Omberg, Sweden 2007

WATCH OUR VIDEOS

Beautiful 3D films about The Carnival of Venice in the 18th century. Or play along to our soundtracks.


Music by Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Näslund and others