Capraia Musica Festival 2021 - Tuscan Archipelago

XVI Edition
artistic director Maria Grazia Amoruso

Held from 25 July to 30 July '21

Festivals
Promoter: Ars Musica Capraia Association

Organizer: Ars Musica Capraia Association
Church of Sant'Antonio and other locations
Via Vittorio Emanuele, 26
Capraia Isola
Tuscany
+393284410041
info@capraiamusicafestival.it
www.capraiamusicafestival.it

The Capraia Musica Festival, 16th Edition, takes place from 25 to 30 July in the most evocative places of the small island located in the Tuscan Archipelago. Inaugurates Mario Brunello Sunday 25 (10pm) with a solo cello concert.

The review includes everything seven concerts, located in some of the characteristic sites of the island. To reach them, there are two occasions on which the opportunity is offered to join a small trekking route led by an expert and combined with the concert, in the matinee on July 29, and on the 30th in the early evening. An original proposal for an immersive experience, which particularly predisposes to conscious listening to the concert, according to the intent of the festival, to combine sounds and nature, and to contribute to the enhancement of the naturalistic and landscape beauties of Capraia.

Another appointment (26 July) that almost blends music and nature in a single experience, is the concert at the Grotta del Cavallo, one of the most beautiful and spectacular sea caves on the island. The public will be hosted on boats that will be stationed in the sea, at sunset, when the play of the rays of light that penetrate the cave and reflect on the waves creates a truly magical atmosphere.

The other concerts will take place in the Church of Sant'Antonio and its cloister, while the closing concert will take place in the ancient Church of Santo Stefano.

The program:

25 July (10pm) Church of Sant'Antonio Opening concert
Mario Brunello will open the festival with a concert for solo cello, scheduled music by JS Bach, Marin Marais, Franz Ignaz von Biber, Mieczyslaw Weinberg

26 July (8 pm) Grotta del Cavallo Concert on the sea

27 July (7 pm) Church of Sant'Antonio
Concert by the Duo Luca Ciammarughi, piano and Jacopo Taddei, saxophone, with a program dedicated to Granados, Albéniz, Piazzolla, Stravinsky ...

28 July (10pm) Church of Sant'Antonio
Concert by the baritone Christian Federici, accompanied on the piano by Riccardo Risaliti, musicologist, teacher and performer with a consolidated artistic career.

29 July (8.30 / 10) Church of Sant'Antonio Concert and trekking
Trekking in the characteristic village of Capraia, and concert by the acclaimed pianist Bice Costa Horszowski

29 July (10pm) Cloister of Sant'Antonio
Concert of the Second Practice Ensemble: Fabiano Martignago flute, Mauro Spinazzè violin, Marco Barbaro bassoon and Michele Geremia organ, with a program of Baroque music performed on original instruments

July 30 (7 pm) Church of Santo Stefano Trekking and closing concert
Sara Maria Grazia Amoruso, pianist and organist, artistic director of the festival, to close the review with a concert in the Church of Santo Stefano. He will play an extraordinary instrument, a portative organ with wooden pipes, completely disassembled, built by the organist Giorgio Nella (1929. - 2010) inspired by the Italian organs of the sixteenth century.

Other information of interest

All Festival concerts are free. Info and reservations: capraiamusicafestival.it/programma.html

There is more

The Island of Capraia

Capraia is the third largest island in the Tuscan Archipelago, with an area of 19.3 sq km. It is the only island of volcanic origin in the Archipelago, and was formed about 9 million years ago. About 8 km long (from Punta Teglia in the north to Punta dello Zenòbito in the south) and 4 wide, it has an area of 19.26 km² and a perimeter of about 30 km. It is 64 km from Livorno, 50 km from the Island of Elba and only 30 km from Corsica.
The island forms an autonomous municipality in the province of Livorno with a population of about 300 inhabitants. There are two inhabited centers that overlook the largest island inlet facing east: the nucleus of the port, a simple and pretty seaside village, and the town, the oldest village close to the fort of San Giorgio. The town has the typical fortress houses and is connected to the port by the only asphalted road about 800 meters long. Frequented by the oldest navigators and home to a Roman residential settlement, Capraia was also the subject of raids by Saracen and Turkish pirates. It will be in the 16th century the Genoese of Banco di San Giorgio to make it safer with the homonymous fortress and to equip it with a series of coastal towers. Modern history has instead seen the development of an agricultural penal colony, active from the second half of the nineteenth century until 1986, which occupied the northern portion of the island.

It is possible to reach Capraia from Livorno by embarking from the Mediceo port on the Toremar company ferry; the crossing takes about 2 hours and 45 minutes. Information on Toremar ferry timetables on www.toremar.it
Toremar ticket office in Livorno: 0586 896113 - Toremar ticket office in Capraia: 0586 905069

Information on the Island of Capraia:

ProLoco Capraia Isola www.prolococapraiaisola.it

Official site for the tourism promotion of the Island of Capraia www.visitcapraia.it/

Tuscan Archipelago National Park www.islepark.it

Elba Island: holiday and tourism information guide www.infoelba.it