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Roberto Prosseda’s sensational discovery of new Mendelssohn works made headlines in Europe and lead to three Decca releases. His "Mendelssohn Discoveries" album (2005) has been included in the top 10 Mendelssohn piano recordings by the magazine "Piano". "Mendelssohn Rarities" (2006) received highest ratings in European and American music magazines.
He has collaborated with the most important orchestras in the world such as London Philharmonic, New Japan Philharmonic, Moscow State Philharmonic, Bruxelles Philharmonic, Calgary Philharmonic e Gewandhaus Orchester.

Festival Between the Seas
aims to promote the representation and understanding of Mediterranean identity and culture in North

America.
The 2012 Festival is one week long and includes performances in the fields of dance, music and theater.
Two Italian dance companies will be featuring their works:

Vanessa Tamburi / Flusso Dance: Lost Rights

(Italy/USA)
(Monday August 20th at 7pm ; Tuesday August 21st at 6.30pm . USA premiere)
Lost Rights was created by the FLUSSO dance project in collaboration with Visa2dance Festival and

Talea Ensemble

opens its 2012-2013 Season with free concert at Bohemian National Hall in New York

Concert on

September 21 features US premieres by James Dillon, Pierluigi Billone and Ondrej Adamek

Talea Ensemble, renowned for its adventurous programming and

contemporary musical performances, returns to Bohemian National Hall at 321 E. 73rd Street in New York City, for the first concert of

their 2012-2013 season. The performance is on Friday, September 21st, 2012 at 8:00 pm, and is free and open to the public.

Two internationally acclaimed director-playwrights, Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani, explore different styles of contemporary Italian and American dramaturgy. Each wrote a short act play about Family, and then directed the other’s piece

An international symposium and film screening on one of America’s most renown literary figures: poet, prose writer, essayist, translator. Then, who will solve this riddle of my day?Two languages, two lands, perhaps two souls... Am I a man or two strange halves of one?“Song of the Bicentennial”Saturday • September 29, 2012 •10AM to 4 PM Lang Recital Hall, North Building, Hunter College, East 68th St.(between Park and Lexington Avenues)This symposium takes its name from Sabrina Digregorio’s recent documentary on Joseph Tusiani.

Photografic Exhibit. Dr. Marie Rose Badaracco will exhibit a sampling of her work. She will also present a lecture and respond to audience questions. Date of lecture TBA

A comprehensive retrospective of the work of visionary architect and artist Massimo ScolariMassimo Scolari: The Representation of Architecture, 1967-2012 marks the first retrospective of Scolari’s work in the United States since 1986, at The Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union, East 7 E. 7th St. (b/w 3rd and 4th Aves.), 2nd floor, NYC, 10003.The exhibition will start on October 2nd and will go on until November 21st, 2012, from 12am to 7pm, Tuesday-Saturday, and it will closed Sunday and Monday.

To visualize life-size or colossal marbles, the great Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680) began by rapidly modeling small clay sketches. Fired as terracotta, these studies are bold, expressive works in their own right. Together with related drawings, they preserve the first traces of Bernini’s fervid imagination and unique creative process that evolved into some of the most famous and spectacular statuary in Rome, including the fountains in the Piazza Navona and the angels on the Ponte Sant’ Angelo.

Generation Gallery will host the opening of Iconopedia, the very first US exhibition of the work of Milan based illustrator and artist Lorenzo Petrantoni.Lorenzo's very personal, iconic style of illustration gives life back to printed words, characters and symbols that would otherwise be forgotten, left hidden away in old books.

A new electronic music series, Friday amp; Saturday, October 5 amp; 6First series installment features electronic music pioneers Musica Elettronica Viva, and emerging artist Oneohtrix Point Never with Nate Boyce.New York, NY, September 18, 2012—On Friday and Saturday, October 5 and 6, The Kitchen launches Synth Nights, a new concert series of live electronic music, which brings together composers of different eras and genres within the form.