ORT | Easter Concert

Thursday, March 28, at 9 p.m., at the Verdi Theater in Florence, the concert featuring Otto Tausk (conductor) and Mario Brunello (cello).

Program:
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy / Märchen von der schönen Melusine, Op.32, Overture
Camille Saint-Saëns / Cello Concerto No.1, Op.33
Franz Schubert / Symphony No.3, D 200

The Dutch conductor Otto Tausk debut on the podium of the ORT for the Easter Concert. He is the musical director of the Vancouver Symphony orchestra and artistic consultant of the VSO School of Music, a reality similar to the Fiesole School of Music. With Tausk is Mario Brunello soloist on cello. Destined for a career that could have run along the usual tracks of international concertism (First Prize “Tchaikovsky” in Moscow in 1986), he does not like the beaten track. Mario takes his cello to play on the Dolomites, the Apuan Alps or in the desert; in an abandoned factory in his town Castelfranco Veneto, he created an artistic workshop to experiment with new forms of entertainment and cultural sharing. And it is because of his insatiable curiosity that he crosses into other musical genres and finds himself collaborating on stage with Vinicio Capossela, Uri Caine, Gianmaria Testa, with actor Marco Paolini, writer Alessandro Baricco, physicist Carlo Rovelli.