Wonderful memories of Venice
PREVIOUS FESTIVAL PROGRAM
1 - 4 May 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 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
9 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
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
CHIOSTRO E CHIESA DI SANT' ELENA, VENEZIA
Some of the concerts will take place in this beautiful place
PREVIOUS FESTIVAL PROGRAM
3 - 6 May 2023
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Zupforchester Luzern
supported by
Schweizerische Eidgenossen - Confédération suisse - Confederazione Svizzera - Confederaziun svizra
Consolato generale di Svizzera a Milano / Consolato di Svizzera a Venezia
Zupforchester Luzern
INAGURATION & OPENING CONCERT 3 MAY 19:00
Venetian and German Baroque Mandolin Music
Wednesday 3 May 19:00 Chiostro / Chiesa Sant' Elena, Venezia
INTRODUCTION BY
Keith Harris & Lars Forslund
The mandolin orchestra from Switzerland
ZUPFORCHESTER LUZERN
Silke Lisko - conductor
Soloists
Silke Lisko - mandolin
Juliane Ebert Schulz - mandolin
Concert program - Music by Vivaldi, Albinoni, Telemann and others
Duration of the program maximum 60 minutes
Free entrance
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CONCERT 4 MAY 15:00
Venetian and Neapolitan Baroque Mandolin Music
Thursday 4 May 15:00 Chiostro / Chiesa Sant' Elena, Venezia
The international mandolin orchestra
VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Maxine Rizzotto - conductor
Concert program - Music by Vivaldi, Paolucci, Gervasio and others
Duration of the program maximum 60 minutes
Free entrance
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Mandolin Society "Sveti Nikola"
CONCERT 4 MAY 17:00
Classical, Macedonian and Bulgarian Mandolin Music
Thursday 4 May 17:00 Chiostro / Chiesa Sant' Elena, Venezia
The mandolin orchestra from North Macedonia Republic
MANDOLIN SOCIETY "SVETI NIKOLA"
Kiril Trajkovski - conductor
Concert program - Music to confirm
Duration of the program maximum 30 minutes
&
The mandolin orchestra from Bulgaria
MANDOLIN BAND "ELENA GENOVA"
Iliya Mitrev- conductor
Concert program - Music by Martin, Saint-Preux, Petisi and others
Duration of the program maximum 30 minutes
Free entrance
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Photo: Jukka Pesonen
Mandolin Mountain
CONCERT 4 MAY 19:00
Baroque, Classical and Romantic Mandolin Music
Thursday 4 May 19:00 Chiostro / Chiesa Sant' Elena, Venezia
The mandolin orchestra from Finland
MANDOLIN MOUNTAIN
Jouni Koskimäki - conductor
Concert program - Music by Scarlatti, Bach, Haydn, Sibelius and others
Duration of the program maximum 30 minutes
&
The mandolin orchestra from Germany
MANDOLINEN ORCHESTER NÜRNBERG
Siegfried Girgner- conductor
Concert program - Music by Dowland, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and others
Duration of the program maximum 30 minutes
Free entrance
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The Venice Mandolin Festival Orchestra plays Lofoten Suite
CONCERT 5 MAY 15:00
New Mandolin Music from Venice, Norway, Sweden and Finland
Friday 5 May 15:00 Teatro Vivaldi, Lido di Venezia
The international mandolin orchestra
VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Jouni Koskimäki - conductor
Lars Forslund - conductor
Concert program - Music by Koskimäki, Forslund and others
Duration of the program maximum 60 minutes
Free entrance
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Mandolinen Orchester Nuernberg
CONCERT 5 MAY 17:00
Old and New Mandolin Music from Japan and many other countries
Friday 5 May 17:00 Teatro Vivaldi, Lido di Venezia
The mandolin orchestra from Germany
MANDOLINEN ORCHESTER NÜRNBERG
Siegfried Girgner- conductor
Concert program - Music by Gilles, Yoshimoto, Azevedo, Girgner and others
Duration of the program maximum 30 minutes
&
The mandolin orchestra from North Macedonia Republic
MANDOLIN SOCIETY "SVETI NIKOLA"
Kiril Trajkovski - conductor
Concert program - Music to confirm
Duration of the program maximum 30 minutes
Free entrance
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Mandolin Band "Elena Genova"
CONCERT 5 MAY 19:00
Old and New Mandolin Music from Finland, Bulgaria and many other countries
Friday 5 May 19:00 Teatro Vivaldi, Lido di Venezia
The mandolin orchestra from Bulgaria
MANDOLIN BAND "ELENA GENOVA"
Iliya Mitrev- conductor
Concert program - Music by Stefanovski, Bregovic, Derbenko and others
Duration of the program maximum 30 minutes
&
The mandolin orchestra from Finland
MANDOLIN MOUNTAIN
Jouni Koskimäki - conductor
Concert program - Music by Koskimäki, Zappa, Bach and others
Duration of the program maximum 30 minutes
Free entrance
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The Venice Mandolin Festival Orchestra plays The Song of Japanese Autumn
CONCERT 6 MAY 15:00
Venetian Baroque Music and Japanese Mandolin Music
Saturday 6 May 15:00 Chiesa San Antonio, Lido di Venezia
The international mandolin orchestra
VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Lars Forslund - conductor
Concert program - Music by Vivaldi, Ugolino, Kuwahara and others
Duration of the program maximum 60 minutes
Free entrance
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CONCERT 6 MAY 17:00
Mandolin Music from early Venetian Baroque to Modern
Saturday 6 May 17:00 Chiesa San Antonio, Lido di Venezia
The mandolin orchestra from Switzerland
ZUPFORCHESTER LUZERN
Silke Lisko - conductor
&
Soloists
Silke Lisko - mandolin
Juliane Ebert Schulz - mandolin
Concert program - Music by Vivaldi, Romano, Jenkins, Angulo and others
Duration of the program maximum 60 minutes
Free entrance
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GALA CONCERT & CARNIVAL PARTY 6 MAY 19:30
An Italian Mandolin and Opera Gala & Party and buffet for the participants
Saturday 6 May 19:30 Private party in Sala Laguna, Lido di Venezia
The international mandolin orchestra
VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Jouni Koskimäki - conductor
Lars Forslund - conductor and others
Concert program - Music by De Curtis, Verdi, Puccini and others
Duration of the program maximum 60 minutes
No entrance - Private party
In colaboration with Opera da Camera di Venezia
& artists from The Carnival of Venice
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OPERA CONCERT 7 MAY 17:30
Baroque Music and Opera arias
Sunday 7 May 17:30 Teatro Kolbe, Mestre (Comune di Venezia)
The mandolin ensemble from Sweden
CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO
Concert program - Music by Vivaldi, Händel, Scarlatti and others
Duration of the program maximum 60 minutes
Free entrance
Reservation for any changes
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Soloists
Orchestras, soloists & conductors
Composers
PREVIOUS FESTIVAL PROGRAM
4 - 7 May 2022
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IN A G U R A T I O N & O P E N I N G C O N C E R T
Mandolin music by Italian 18th century composers
Wednesday 4 May 19:30 Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto
The mandolin & string ensemble
CAMERATA MANDOLINO CLASSICO
Maxine Rizzotto - conductor
&
Soloists
Natalia Marashova - baroque mandolin
Emil Galimzanov 10 years old - violin
Concert program - Music by Antonio Vivaldi
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C O N C E R T
Venetian 18th century Mandolin Music
Thursday 5 May 16:00 Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto
The international mandolin orchestra
VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Maxine Rizzotto - conductor
&
Soloist
Rene Izquierdo - guitar
Concert program - Music by Antonio Vivaldi
&
The mandolin orchestra from Germany
JUGENDZUPFORCHESTER BADEN-WÜRTTENBERG
Birgit Wendel - conductor
&
Duo by two teachers from the orchestra
Sonja Wiedemer - mandolin / Jonas Khalil - guitar
Concert program orchestra - Music by De Falla, Piazolla, Beethoven and others
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C O N C E R T
Venetian 18th century Mandolin Music
Thursday 5 May 19:30 Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto
The international mandolin orchestra
VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Maxine Rizzotto - conductor
&
Soloists
Natalia Marashova - mandolin / Thekla Schirz - mandolin
Concert program - Music by Vivaldi and Hasse
&
The mandolin orchestra from Germany
MANDOLINEN ORCHESTER NIEDERKASSEL e. V.
Robert Neff - conductor
Concert program - Music by Bach, Piazolla, Massenet and others
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C O N C E R T
The Gimo Collection
Friday 6 May 16:00 Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto
The international mandolin orchestra
VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Birgit Wendel - conductor
&
Soloist
Natalia Marashova - mandolin
Concert program - Music by Carlo Cecere
&
The mandolin orchestra from USA
MILWAUKEE MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA
Rene Izquierdo - conductor
Concert program - American Mandolin Music - from the early 1900s
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C O N C E R T
The Gimo Collection
Friday 6 May 19:30 Chiesa della Madonna dell'Orto
The international mandolin orchestra
VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Birgit Wendel - conductor
&
Soloist
Antonia Platzdasch - mandolin
Concert program - Music by Vito Ugolino
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The mandolin orchestra from Austria
SALZBURGER MANDOLINEN ORCHESTER
Gerhard Heitzinger / Natalia Marashova - conductors
&
Soloists
Paula Wesseley - mandolin
Emil Galimzanov - violin
Yulia Merten - mandolin
Natalia Marashova - mandolin
Thekla Schirz - mandolin
Concert program - Music by Eterardi, Caroso, Negri, Vivaldi and others
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G A L A C O N C E R T & C A R N I V A L P A R T Y
An Italian Mandolin and Opera Gala
Saturday 7 May 18:00 Gala concerto in a Venetian palace
All participants in The Venice Mandolin Festival
Opera da Camera di Venezia & Opera soloists
Dance Masters in 18th century costumes
Artists from Carnevale di Venezia
All the conductors of the festival
Maxine Rizzotto, Robert Neff, Rene Izquierdo,
Birgit Wendel & Natalia Marashova
The international mandolin orchestra
VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Natalia Marashova / Maxine Rizzotto - conductors
Concert program - Music by Kuwahara and Forslund
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Duo mandolin & guitar
Carlo Aonzo - mandolin & Rene Izquierdo - guitar
Concert program - Music by Bach, Paganini and others
The mandolin orchestra from USA
MILWAUKEE MANDOLIN ORCHESTRA
Rene Izquierdo - conductor
The mandolin orchestra from Austria
SALZBURGER MANDOLINEN ORCHESTER
Gerhard Heitzinger - conductor / Natalia Marashova - mandolin soloist
The international mandolin orchestra
VENICE MANDOLIN FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA
Gala Concert program - Music by Verdi, Puccini
The mandolin orchestra from Germany
MANDOLINEN ORCHESTER NIEDERKASSEL e. V.
Robert Neff - conductor
The mandolin orchestra from Germany
JUGENDZUPFORCHESTER BADEN-WÜRTTENBERG
Birgit Wendel - conductor
In colaboration with Opera da Camera di Venezia
& artists from The Carnival of Venice
Reservation for any changes
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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!
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
