NORMA – AN IMMENSE LOVE STORY. Piano concert with Rossana Tomassi Golkar – Rewritten by Luis Bacalov

Thursday 30 January 2025 – 7 p.m.

Italian Cultural Institute Berlin

Luis Bacalov rewrote Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma in 2009 in the form of a Piano Concerto exclusively for pianist Rossana Tomassi Golkar . The work was performed in 2011 in Boston and New York with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Through the mastery of Rossana Tomassi Golkar, the notes written by Luis Bacalov fly over the piano, expressing the magic and sublime tragic nature of Norma.

Rossana Tomassi Golkar graduated with top marks from the Conservatorio di S. Cecilia in Rome and L’Aquila at a very young age, where she studied Pianoforte, Composition and Conducting. She teaches piano at the U. Giordano Conservatory in Foggia. Since 1988, she has been playing all over the world, at traditional institutions and theatres. She has performed in Europe, Japan, Australia, Argentina and Mexico. She has toured extensively in the United States and Canada.

 

 

 

 

The Eight Seasons
Chamber Orchestra Accademia di Santa Sofia
Sonig Tchakerian, violin and concertmaster

Programme
Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons from op. VIII ‘Il Cimento dell’Armonia e dell’Invenzione’

Astor Piazzolla
Cuatro Estaciones porteñas
Version for violin and orchestra by Luis Bacalov