“ The aesthetic feeling as astonishment and desire" Personal website: http://www.micheletrenti.it Written and posted by Raffaella Saponaro Monti-Bragadin |
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On the 3rd of August 2012: at the hall of the Grand Kursaal Hotel Portofino Kulm, was held the meeting between "The two bays", Liguria in music ... and more. The event was organized by the Cultural Association A Coallina of Santa Margherita Ligure, Carroggio Drito of Rapallo, Due Torri of Zoagli, FIDAPA Sect. Genoa, The Ardiciocca of Recco, The Tower of Leivi, Radioclub Levante Lavagna, Spazio Aperto Via dell'Arco of Santa Margherita Ligure with the support of the relevant municipalities. The presidents of these associations are respectively: Alfredo Bertollo, Victor Mizzi, Gian Luigi Solari, Matilde Giletta, Andrea Ognio, Mirna Brignole, Marco Ferrini, Giulio Ciana. Guest of Honour for the evening, the Composer and Conductor Michael Trenti, which was awarded the Artists of Liguria, now in its eleventh edition. The varied landscape of contrasting colors, enhanced by the clear sky and the fiery sunset, has contributed to the success of the meeting: the chains of mountains on a cloudless background, the ancient village of Camogli, illuminated by a light grazing, have set up friendship and conversation, that has not missed a delightful taste of delicacies. |
After the show, hosted by presenter Marco Gotelli, the Governor of the Association A Coallina, dr Alfredo Bertollo delivered to Michele Trenti the traditional silver Caravella, original work by an artist from Liguria. Ing. Victor Mizzi, President of Carroggio Drito red the reasons for the award in front of a large audience in the great hall Kursaal. |
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The sound of the classical guitar has caught the attention of those present to the sensitivity with which the performer gave voice to emotions, feelings, thoughts expressed by the magical sounds of the instrument, which became tangible lives.
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Michele Trenti was born in Genoa, where he lives, when professional commitments do not absorb around the world. In fact he conducted in almost all the countries in Europe and in Japan, Northand South America, it is also Honorary Citizen of Baltimore and an Honorary Member of the Academy of Zoltan Kodaly Budapest-Chicago. In Genoa he studied guitar, piano, composition, conducting and bassoon; moved to the beautiful Austrian city of Graz, where he received his diploma at the Hochschule fur Musik und Kunst Darstellender with maximum grade and praise led by Milan Horvat . He studied composition with Ivan Erod. From that moment interesting and prestigious activities were innumerable. Of course, also the successes. Multiple compositions, to which he's still passionate and essays, publications, as well as numerous other commitments and universally recognized merit. |
Gardena pass |
Michele Trenti prefers the mountains, among the high and quiet peaks of Austria, surrounded by exuberant vegetation, which isolates from any convulsive context, hi finds the ideal condition to create the best as his inspiration suggests, developing personal compositions. A holiday, a short time or a long pause, turns into a deep and exciting processing.
The mountain landscape is congenial to him since childhood, and this predisposition is rooted in family traditions. His maternal grandfather, in fact, born in Santa Cristina in Val Gardena, expert mountain guide, he won twice the national competitions of cross-country skiing, also participated in the Olympics. The mother was born in a shelter to two thousand meters above sea level. Particularly significant and exciting, evocative of memorable events: on the occasion of a visit of the Royal Couple in Val Gardena, the grandfather of the Master, who had lit a bonfire on Sassolungo, received from the hands of the Regina Elena a pair of cuffs with the coat of arms. The year was 1928. |
Ing. Vittorio Izzo, Dr. Alfredo Bertollo with Master Michele Trenti |
The International Centre for Italian Studies, University of Genoa (CISI), has had more of an opportunity to participate in activities of the Master: in particular, on the evening of September 23, 2011 a group of students and young professionals arrived in Santa Margherita Ligure (seat of privileged CISI) from all over the world, attended a performance of the Ariel String Quartet, organized by the Friends of Paganini, of which he is Vice-President for about three years, at the Auditorium of Palazzo Rosso. The Ariel Quartet, made up of young people in their early twenties, was presented by him, and he himself pointed out, with expertise and empathic communication, the pieces of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Paganini, Johannes Brahms, whose he has placed on the fold the essential features of the authors associated with their production. |
In 2012, in Villa San Giacomo, which is Director Professor Dino Cofrancesco, where the CISI, organizes seminars with illustrious personages of the University of Genoa, Trenti gave some lectures to students of the Summer Courses 2012: the audience was literally fascinated by the interpretative sensibility of the guitar of the Master who alternate explanations of culture and regularly applauded each performance. Very nice attention on his part towards the participants he joined their colleagues in the convivial organized for the Centre to Villa Durazzo by the Municipal Authorities of Santa Margherita Ligure. During the execution of the piano of one of the boys, friendly has taken place among young people, sitting in the midst of them on the staircase inside the old house. Constantly available, each time in which commitments have allowed him, Michele Trenti held conversations on highest subjects, performed with clarity, always spacing out musical parts to personal reflections, aimed to enlighten an audience of fans, but non-specialists. Memorable the musical meetings on the musical world of the Risorgimento, held at the Institute of Bioethics for the Genoese Delegation Guard of the Pantheon in the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, some of Chopin's life and works, others alternate to listening musical pieces, at the Spazio Aperto in via dell'Arco, on Beethoven and on Liszt for FIDAPA Sect. Genoa, as well as many other circumstances. |
Prof. Raffaella Saponaro Monti-Bragadin with the Master Michele Trenti |
President of the Rotary Club of Genoa "Golfo Paradiso" in the social year 2007-2008, has brought his expertise, the knowledge, the lecturers to give the best of himself in this forum. Genoa: panoramics |
The Music Essays by Michele Trenti commentati da Raffaella Saponaro Monti- Bragadin |
Michele Trenti: "APPUNTI - Pensieri sulla Musica e sull’Arte"
Chi rende un libro interessante, oltre il contenuto, è l’Autore. Nell’esuberanza di testi prodotti e consumati, nonostante l’ingresso di internet nella quotidianità, si pone un’opera singolare, il cui artefice è il noto Direttore d’Orchestra Michele Trenti, un vero Maestro, nell’accezione più completa del termine, personalità eminente nel suo ambito; inoltre egli nutre una spiccata sensibilità verso ogni forma artistica, percepisce l’influenza nella storia del pensiero dei vari generi nell’ambito del sapere, il significato talvolta catartico talvolta sociale dell’Arte stessa sia nell’Antichità sia nella Contemporaneità.
Michele Trenti: "Parlando di Musica"
Ritorna a rivolgersi a coloro che amano la musica il Direttore d’Orchestra, Maestro Michele Trenti. Dopo il libro Appunti edito l’anno scorso, è uscito il testo Parlando di musica, Status Srl, Genova 2011. |