Italian Baroque Evening

Tbilisi’s Baroque Festival is in full swing. On December 1 at 7PM, an ‘Italian Baroque Evening’ will be held at Rustaveli Theater. The concert, entitled ‘The Red Cloak’, is to be held within the Baroque epoch of Italian composers including Antonio Vivaldi. Vivaldi's music will be performed at the concert, as well as Venetian musician Célétie Diede Dádio, performing with Georgia Sinfonietta. David Amadio participated in the festival last year, and we invited him to the event again this year.

Davide Amadio lived and studied in Venice. He was a student of A.Vendramelli, and later continued his studies in Germany with M.Flaxmann, and subsequently with Micha Maisky, which sparked his interest in Baroque in the early 90’s. In 1988, together with P. Cognolato, he founded the chamber orchestra ‘Interpreti Veneziani’. In thirty years of playing solo in more than 50 countries around the world, he has recorded more than 30 albums’ with Ricordi, MusicStrasse, Rivo Alto, Electa and Sonar. Together with his ensemble, Davide Amadio performs all year in Venice, in the picturesque Church of San Vidal. He founded and supports three musical establishments, all of high prestige, in three different venues across the city of Venice “The Museum of Music”, “Vivaldi and his Time”, and “The Masterpieces of modern Violin”. Participating in numerous Baroque festivals in Italy and abroad, he holds master classes in Baroque music in Venice, Buenos Aires and Tokyo; particularly on Vivaldi and cello concerts. He has collaborated with the Biennale of Modern Art and artist Yoko Ono. Through the years, Davide has become a source of inspiration for many artists. In 2016, at the 30th Conference for Artificial Intelligence in Tokyo, a study was presented for the construction of a cello playing android, into which the database of 42 cellists from throughout history were compiled, from Casals to Rostropovich, Maisky Yo-Yo Ma to Davide Amadio himself. He plays with a Cello Andrea Postacchini made in Italy on 1827.

Before the concert at 19:00, a lecture by David Gigineishvili about upcoming music/piece will be held.

Tbilisi Baroque Festival will end on December 7. In an epic closing, the Georgian Sinfonietta will take part with world famous Baroque artists: Sergio Azzollini (bassoon, Italy), Giovani de Angeli (oboe Italy), Priska Comploi (oboe, Italy), Ai Ikeda (bassoo, Japan) and Davide Amadio (cello, Italy).

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