Young Mozart Reporters Blog

Mozart goes OpenContent: the project MOZARTforALL.org tries to provide sheet music and other Mozart content under a Creative Commons License.

Mozart is the protagonist of the 43° edition of Arturo Benedetti’s international pianist festival of Brescia and Bergamo, a very famous meeting for musician of all over the word. As every year the program of this festival includes a competition for students and for this edition Mozart is at the top of the ideas for the writing works; students have to produce articles following the title proposed, like: “Do you know any Mozart’s composition? What do you think about it?
The aim of this project is promoting the knowledge of the great musician between students and celebrating in this way the 250° birthday of Mozart. As result of a recently research, students in Brescia e Bergamo don’t know Mozart very well; so, the organizers of Arturo Benedetti’s international pianist festival have decided to award a prize to the best writing composition about Mozart; in this way they think to approach young students to the unforgettable music of the Austrian musician.
The prize-giving day will be the 20th of April in Brescia, and the jury is composed from the director of the pianist festival Agostino D’Orizio, and from Marisa Andreoli, Renzo Baldo, Lina Baronchelli, Giacomo Comini, Fulvia Conter, Ottavio de Carli, Gabriella Effedri, Luigi Feronani, Roberto Gazich, Francesco Juliano, Cecilia Vigorelli.
Now the items of the writing works about Mozart, subdivided for the different kind of school:

Scuole Medie and Secondary schools
Do you know any Mozart’s composition? What impressions did you have?

University
We always speak about Mozart’s grandiosity because he is considered one of the best musicians in the word. Do you agree? Why?

What are the prizes of this competition? First of all books and records, but also some theatre subscriptions for the concerts at Teatro Grande of Brescia, where the program of 2006 includes a lot of Mozart’s works, like operas and famous concerts. Students have to send their works to the festival’s secretary  within the 11th march 2006. More information calling the secretary of the festival.

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World Youth Orchestra: IFYM 2005

The 5th edition of the International Festival of Young Musicians, has seen the World Youth Orchestra and other young musicians and ensembles all around Europe to spread a peace and brotherhood message through music.

The latest activity of the World Youth Orchestra was the International Festival of Young Musicians, a Dialogue in music to connect the North and South of Europe. Amisnet has followed the various events of the initiative aimed at promoting a culture of peace and dialogue for the younger generations through music. These short radio shows give an overview of the Festival activities and its spirit.

Here you can find a report on an international festival of young musicians in Italy. Many nice radio programmes to download…