Accoglienze Oltremusica presents the Peterborough School Choir in concert Basilica di San Paolino at 9pm. FREE ENTRY.
The appointments continue for the Accoglienze Festival organized by the Musicalia Aps association. Next Tuesday (8 July) at 9pm, the Peterborough School Choir under the direction of the head of the Music department, Richard Brain, will be guests of the Basilica of San Paolino.
The concert promoted and organized by the Musicalia Aps association is part of the new Oltremusica artistic project. This is the third appointment of the Accoglienze festival, an event which, through the presence of numerous youth orchestras from various parts of the world, aims to contribute to giving an image of Lucca as open and welcoming towards projects of great educational value. It also wants to promote an increasingly open connection and dialogue with the community, and for this reason the association's staff will be happy to talk, meet and discuss with anyone who wants it, before or after the event. The concert has free admission.
The Peterborough School excels among the English colleges present in Berkshire, for the attention and care dedicated especially to the music department. Boys between 11 and 18 years old experiment every year with various musical genres, instruments and chamber ensembles ranging across all genres, from classical to jazz. The choir, an active part in the school life of the children, is of fundamental importance in their educational life. Through their choral experience they have had the opportunity to perform in Norwich and Edmundsbury and to take part in numerous choral festivals in England and abroad.
The program that the boys will propose to the public of San Paolino reflects their multifaceted and curious nature. From Baroque to classical, between texts in Latin and English, the choir will demonstrate its skill and talent. Facing authors such as Haydn, Schubert, Fauré, Bruckner, the audience will be catapulted between different eras thanks to the evocative power of the English choir.
The boys will be directed by Maestro Richard Brain, head of the music department from 2022. Constantly involved in choral conducting, Brain, has worked with the most renowned choirs in North London and Hertfordshire, having obtained an MA in choral conducting in the most famous and coveted Music Academy in London, the Royal Academy of Music.
Under his direction the choir had the honor in 2017 of being part of the 1000 Voices choir within the Woodard Schools project in Birmingham Symphony Hall and, as part of the children's choir, of performing Roderick Williams' Per Ardua ad Astra for the Royal Air Force Centenary Concert at the Barbican Hall London in 2018.
