Lucca Recorder Course 2007 - Brochure
PAOLO FAETI
Dear Friends,
I am hereby posting the Final Announcement and Brochure of Lucca
Recorder
Course ( Easter 2007 ).
I am sorry for the rather basic formatting of it,due to the ASCII
messages'
limitations. The same brochure can be dowloaded in a much tidier PDF
format in the *Files* sections of the "Recorder" and "Flautodolce" MLs,
which are hosted by Yahoo! .
An Italian version of this brochure is also available at the same
location
of the latter ML.
To all Members of this NG , my kindest regards and Happy New Year from
Italy !
Paolo
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ORCHESTRA ITALIANA DI FLAUTI DOLCI
Dir. M° Celestino Dionisi - Piazza dei Malcontenti , 1 - I-55100 LUCCA
- Italia
V International Course
of
Ensemble
Recorder playing
Lucca, 4th - 7th April 2007
Tutors : António Carrilho, Celestino Dionisi e Petr Zejfart
Foreword
This will be four ( 4 ) days long and will take place in the week before
Easter 2007, ie from Wednesday
4th April 2007 to Saturday 7th of April 2007, inclusive. For your
reference, Easter is on 8th of April 2007.
We are going to have António Carrilho, Celestino Dionisi and Petr
Zejfart for tutors .
António Carrilho lives in Portugal, where he has performed Concerts on
national radio and television. He
has developed an intense career as a soloist, both in Portugal and
abroad, in a repertory that spans from
the Middle Age to our days. He teaches at Coimbra's National Music
Conservatory as well as at the Con-
servatory of Music of Caldas da Rainha. He also teaches every year in a
number of residential Courses
and Master Classes
Celestino Dionisi has been teaching amateurs for 20++ years at Urbino' s
Summer School, and in many
other Courses and Seminars. He founded the Italian Recorder Orchestra
in year 2000, a growing group
of amateurs and professional musicians, meeting regularly, and giving
concerts in many Italian venues.
He teaches at Rome's National Music Conservatory and is also a well-
loved performer and conductor.
Petr Zejfart was born in Prague, but has been living in Italy for more
than 20 years now. He has played
as a soloist for some of the finest national and European baroque
groups. Many of his best performances
have been released on Compact Disks published by Teldec, Virgin and
Supraphon, and other leading
firms. He teaches at Parma's National Music Conservatory. He directs and
teaches every year in a num-
ber of residential Courses both in Italy and in the Czech Republic.
The idea behind our course was to blend the best of different national
ways of teaching Recorder music to
amateurs, and to reunite players from the Italian- and English-speaking
areas. In fact in the previous Edi-
tions we ended up using three different languages, as we also had a good
many course members from
our German-speaking South-Tyrol. Most of our Tutors are fluent in at
least two major European Lan-
guages.
The first day of the Course will be a Seminar of Recorder Ensemble
Playing, directed by Petr Zejfart,
with an optional extension on the second day too.
Music will be chosen amongst transcriptions from works by J.S. Bach, H.
Purcell, and other baroque
masters. Participants will be led into Ensemble playing in a beginner-
friendly way. No previous experi-
ence is required. Just bring your recorders and enjoy !! All the scores
/ parts for this Seminar will be pro-
vided to participants free of charge. Music will be chosen and gauged
keeping in mind the lower end of
the Course members' abilities too.
The following three days will be aimed at the personal musical
development of each Course Member.
Participants will receive individual lessons by António Carrilho and
Celestino Dionisi, and will have a
chance to deal with any kind or recorder repertoire in the friendly and
relaxed atmosphere of one-to-one
classes. Tutors will be delighted to accompany students if needed.
Recorder Trios / Quartet / Ensembles
are also welcome. Participants shall bring their own scores / parts,
including of course all the continuo /
accompaniment parts. An skeleton timetable will be issued later in the
year, and will then be adjusted
during the Course, to allow for the teaching needs of members.
The Course is meant for amateur players with abilities ranging from
Lower Intermediate to Advanced.
We would like you to focus the choice of scores on the Baroque / Late
Renaissance periods, but modern
recorder music is also welcome.
Course Venue
Wednesday 4th April 2007 to Saturday 7th April 2007:
SCUOLA DI MUSICA SINFONIA Viale Carducci, 559 55100 - Lucca
You can contact us through the year at the following address : OIFD
(ORCHESTRA ITALIANA DI FLAUTI
DOLCI, c/o M° Celestino Dionisi,- Piazza dei Malcontenti 1, 55100 LUCCA,
Italy), or preferably through
this email address:
Recorder Set Music
All the scores / parts for Petr Zejfart's Seminar will be provided to
participants free of charge.
For António Carrilho' s master class, Members will bring the scores they
want to play ( see above ).
Enrolment and rates :
Course and PublicConcert : Euro 150,00
Daily Enrolment : Euro 40,00 per day
In both cases rates must be paid in full upon registration at the
Course's venue, in Lucca.
Rates include all the Course's musical activities. They DO NOT include
travels, meals and accommoda-
tion, for which Members are required to make their own arrangements.
For your own convenience, in Ta-
ble 3 we are providing a comprehensive list of Hotels, Bed & Breakfast,
etc, as available in (or near)
Lucca. This list is provided as a general reference only, to the best of
our knowledge, and is not meant to
be a complete directory. The Course's Management cannot accept any
liability whatsoever about it.
Members must check personally that their chosen accommodation meets
their requirements and budget.
Members are also requested to plan their travel routes and timings
accurately, so as to reach the Course
venue in due time every day. In the unlikely event the Course is
cancelled, e.g. owing to force majeure,
the Course Management's liability is limited to refunding all Course
rates already paid.
We will try to accept even late enrolments if possible, but we cannot
guarantee this will be feasible, unless
Members did notify their enrolments at least one month prior to the
Course .
At any rate, enrolments will be stopped once the maximum number of
members ( i.e. 30 ) is reached.
The management reserves the right of making changes and adaptations to
the Course Program and Venues, as dictated by the number of
participants, by teaching requirements, and by all cases of force
majeure .
Enrolling to the Course implies the full knowledge of the above
mentioned terms and notices, and entails
a full acceptance of them.
Table 1
Daily Timetable
Wednesday 4th & Thursday 5th April 2007 --- Petr Zejfart's Seminar :
Morning:
09.00 -- 10.30 First session
10.30 -- 11.00 Coffee - Break
11.00 -- 12.30 Second session
Afternoon:
14.30 -- 16.00 First session
16.00 -- 16.30 Coffee - Break
16.30 -- 18.00 Second session
From Thursday 5th April to Saturday 7th April 2007 -- António
Carrilho's and Celestino Dionisi's
Courses (Mornings and Afternoons) : Course members will meet at 9.00
on Thursday 5th April, and a
timetable will be then compiled with the times of Members' lessons for
the first day. The following timeta-
bles will then be compiled likewise on a day-by-day basis. All lessons
will be 30 minutes long.
Public Concert ( Saturday 7th April 2007)
The exact timing and location will be notified to Members on site,
during the Course.
Course Final Dinner ( Optional )
The restaurant and the rates for the Final Dinner will be made available
from the start of the Course.
See also Table 2 ( Additional Activities )
Table 2
Additional Activities
1. All Course Members are warmly invited to an informal party, which
will be offered to
them free of charge at the main headquarters of the Orchestra Italiana
di Flauti Dolci, in
Piazza Malcontenti, 1 Lucca. This party will take place on Friday 6th
April 2007 from 8.00 pm on. If you are in Lucca with you partner /
spouse, by all means bring her / him with you !! We only ask you to let
us know about it well in advance, so as to be able to make all the
required preparations and arrangements !! Should you care to bring also
your recorder(s) with you, you might consider joining a little informal
session which often takes place after such dinners... To come to our
place, get first of all to Porta S.Anna, which is a well-known gate of
the City. Then walk along Via S. Paolino, heading towards Piazza S.
Michele ( S. Michele Square, where one of the main Cathedrals in Lucca
is visited-). Piazza Malcontenti is found about midway between Porta S.
Anna and Piazza S. Michele. Ring the doorbell labelled "Dionisi -
Topazzini". There we are, looking forward to meeting you !
2. As in the previous edition, we are expecting the well-known
Italian recorder maker Giacomo Andreola at the Course. Giacomo will
bring a selection of his recorders, which will
be available for trial by Course Members. Besides, he will also be
available for technical information and consulting about his
instruments.
3. There will be a Final Concert session, together with the members
of the Italian Recorder Orchestra ( also directed by Celestino Dionisi
), which will be held in the afternoon of Saturday 7th of April 2007.
The exact timing and location will be notified to Members
on site, during the Course .
4. On Saturday we are planning a Final Dinner, to be held in a
nearby Trattoria. We will notify all Members the venue for this dinner,
and the rates, which will probably be very
reasonable. These dinners are a time-honoured and well loved
traditional follow-up to our meetings. Lucca usually offers a very
intriguing cuisine with good value for money.
We do hope you will be with us for a yummy bite, and a light-hearted
evening ! Friends and families are most welcome, but, again we do need
to know the exact number of people who are coming, in order to make all
the reservations at the Trattoria. Please make sure you notify well in
advance to the Course Manager the exact number of people at-
tending the Final Dinner, to avoid disappointments.
Table 3
Getting to Lucca
Lucca is easily reached by ordinary roads, motorways , and railway. In
particular, Lucca's main railway station is
within a fifteen minutes' walk from the Casermetta S. Croce, whereas a
main coaches' station is found in the square
by Porta S. Anna, i.e., a few minutes' walk from Piazza Malcontenti.
Lucca's historical centre is very easily explored by walking, or
riding your bicycle, as places of interest, Hotels,
Restaurants, etc, are reasonably close to one another.
Lucca has also a very handy RadioTaxi service ( Tel . 0583333434 ) and
a few bicycle hires (please check the list
printed hereunder). The nearest Airports are in Pisa ( 19 km ) and
Florence (about 70 km). Both Airports offer a
comprehensive choice of domestic and international flights and
Carriers.
Accommodation
Here is a list of Hotels, Bed & Breakfast, and other available
accommodations in or near Lucca. This list is provided
"as it is", to the best of our knowledge , for general reference only,
and is not meant as a complete directory. The
Course' s Management cannot accept any liability whatsoever about it. On
account of the rather special period of
the year, please make sure you reserve your accommodation well in
advance !
Accommodations listed in bold characters are located particularly close
to the Course Venues.
HOTELS
(In decreasing prices ranking - i.e., from the most expensive to the
cheapest)
- GRAND HOTEL GUINIGI Via Romana 1247 Tel. 05834991
- NAPOLEON Viale Europa, 536 Tel. 0583316516
- CELIDE Viale Giusti, 25 Tel. 0583954106
- LA LUNA Corte Compagni, 12 Tel. 0583493634
- PICCOLO HOTEL PUCCINI Tel. 058355421
- SAN MARCO Via S.Marco 368 Tel. 0583495010
- REX Piazza Ricasoli, 19 Tel. 0583955443
- UNIVERSO Piazza del Giglio Tel. 0583493678
- BERNARDINO Via di Tiglio 109 Tel. 0583953356
- DIANA Via del Molinetto 11 Tel. 0583492202
- MODERNO Via Civitali, 38 Tel. 058355840
- STIPINO Via Romana, 95 Tel. 0583495077
- MELECCHI Via Romana, 37 Tel. 0583950234
BED & BREAKFAST - GUEST HOUSE
- CATASTINI MIRELLA Viale Cavour, 38 - Tel. 0583492673
- CORTOPASSI PATRIZIA Via Pisana, 66 - S.Anna Tel. 058356670
- CORTOPASSI PATRIZIA Via Nottolini 10 S.Concordio Tel. 058355340
- LA TORRE 1 Via del Carmine, 11 - Tel. 0583957044
- VILLA ROMANTICA Via Barbantini, 246 - Tel. 0583496872
- LA COLONNA Via dell'Angelo Custode, 16 - Tel. 0583440170
- CASA ALBA Via Fillungo, 142 (II° piano) - Tel. 058349536 Cell.
3355720642
- SAN FREDIANO Via degli Angeli 19 - Tel. 0583469630
- L'ARANCIO Via Romana, 57 Arancio - Tel. 0583496517
- SAINTE JUSTINE Via S.Giustina, 30 - Tel. 0583587964 Cell 3473127405
- LA TORRE 2 Via della Colombaia, 14 - Tel. 0583957044
- CENTRO STORICO Corte Portici, 16 - Tel. 0583490748
- LISCHI SILVANO Via S.Marco, 479 - Tel. 0583950690
- NARDIELLO G.BATTISTAViale Castracani, 94 - Tel. 0583496187
- LOCANDA BUATINO Borgo Giannotti, 508 - Tel. 0583343207
- OSTELLO DELLA GIOVENTU' Via del Brennero, 673 - Tel. 0583341811
- SOGNI D'ORO DI MENCARONI DAVID - VIA CANTORE 169 Tel. 0583467768
SELF CATERING, and OTHER ACCOMMODATIONS
- TURENDO Viale Europa 1231/C 55100 Lucca (LU)
Tel. +39 0583583149 FAX +39 0583-550692
- ABITARE Via Pisana 37 S.Anna Tel. 0583418565
- ALFA STUDIO Via Elisa 51 Tel. 058348146
- AUDERO Via della Chiesa T.XXI, 286/A S.Filippo Tel.0583406458
OTHER USEFUL LANDMARKS :
OIFD Headquarters
As previously mentioned, to come to our place, get first of all to
Porta S. Anna, which is a well-known
gate of the City. Then walk along Via S. Paolino, heading towards Piazza
S. Michele ( S. Michele Square,
where one of the main Cathedrals in Lucca is visited). Piazza
Malcontenti is found about midway be-
tween Porta S. Anna and Piazza S. Michele. Ring the doorbell labelled
"Dionisi - Topazzini". There we
are, looking forward to meeting you !
Casermetta S. Croce
The Casermetta S. Croce is found near Lucca Walls' walk , and more
exactly, by Piazza S. Donato . It is
easily accessible from Lucca's main Ring Road (Circonvallazione), and
is within walking distance from
Lucca's main Railway Station . Needless to say, as Lucca's Walls' walk
is another almost complete ring
road, you can reach the Casermetta by getting first into this ring
road from any nearby point, and by
subsequently taking a walk to it, which is usually short, and also very
scenic !
Sightseeing ( and more ...)
You may have perceived that what we are planning is something rather
different from so many other residential
Courses. It is in fact our great luck to be based in Lucca, in the
very heart of Tuscany.
We chose Lucca as the Venue of the Course for many reasons. This fine
Tuscan city is very easily accessible and is
situated in a lovely valley, close to many well-loved resorts of the
Tuscan Riviera.
The city itself is a miniature gem, and at the moment is largely
unspoilt by mass tourist business. Therefore it is
much quieter than many other better-known Tuscan cities, and is also
moderately priced, and with a wide range of
accommodations to suit most budgets and purses. Food in Lucca is
incredibly nice, and very addictive. Florence,
Pisa and other charming places are very easily reached from Lucca, even
on a day-trip basis, and due to gentle hills
and slopes, the place is a paradise for those having a bicycle with
them, or hiring one locally.
Such a huge range of tourist attractions at hand might also encourage
members to combine their Course with a rather
inexpensive way of visiting Tuscany, and perhaps to bring someone from
their families too....
We will be pleased to provide all Members with a City Map, free of
charge, as a quick reference to Lucca, and to its
main places of interest. For further information about trips in
Tuscany, and on exploring Lucca and nearby areas,
please contact the local Tourist Authority, i.e.:
Agenzia per il Turismo (APT) Lucca :
-- Headquarters - Piazza Guidiccioni, 2 - 55100 Lucca (LU) Tel.
0583.91991
-- Enquiries - Piazza S. Maria, 35 - 55100 Lucca (LU) Tel.
0583.919931
or your own Travel Agent. There are of course several guidebooks about
Lucca and Tuscany, in many languages. If
you have some knowledge of Italian, we warmly recommend the book
"Toscana" from the collection
"Guide d' Italia", which is compiled, edited and published by Touring
Club Italiano.
Bicycle Rentals
Servizio noleggio biciclette del Comune di Lucca
Casermetta S.Donato - Mura Urbane
Piazzale Verdi
Enquiries: Tel. 05834422 (switchboard) - Fax. 0583442505
Barbetti Cicli - Via Anfiteatro, 23 - Tel. 0583954444
Cicli Bizzarri - P.zza S.Maria, 32 - Tel. 0583496031
Poli Antonio Biciclette - P.zza S.Maria, 42 - Tel. e Fax. 0583493787
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