Wings To Talent is our Mission!

IBW CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN 2017 on KICKSTARTER!

Our Festival has decided to create a Crowdfunding campaign, entitled “Wings to Talent”

For the last 18 years our “Italian Brass Week” International Festival has enriched, promoted and sustained the lives of young musical talents, both domestic and international. Since its inception in 2000, Luca Benucci, Artistic Director of the Italian Brass Week, Solo Horn of the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and Horn Professor at the State Conservatory of Music “Bruno Maderna” in Cesena, established the foundations of the Festival and oversaw its growth in becoming one of the brightest beacons of the Brass world. It is an efficacious educational and formative system, though concentrated in one week, based on ‘know-how‘, a method that has met the favor of the youth and that has asserted itself as a bona-fide community of exchanging musical knowledge.

The mission of the Festival is to give wings to the most talented and deserving young musicians. Wings with which they can fly toward their highest ambitions of making music, from the Orchestra, to chamber music or to a solo career.

In this 18thedition, our Festival has decided to create a Crowdfunding campaign, entitled “Wings to Talent”.

Many young musicians who have attended the Masterclasses in previous editions of the Italian Brass Week, with internationally famed Soloists and Professors, have become the leading members of their respective sections in some of the world’s most prestigious orchestras.

Some of our success stories are: Omar Tomasoni, First Trumpet of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, previously First Trumpet of the Orchestra of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale of Santa Cecilia; Giuliano Sommerhalder, first trumpet of the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Marco Toro, First Trumpet of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; Daniele Morandini, First Trombone of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, previously First Trombone of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra; Andrea Cesari, First Horn of the Orchestra Haydn of Bolzano; Emanuele Urso, First Horn of the Orchestra of Teatro Petruzzelli of Bari; Giulia Montorsi, Second Horn of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala; Gianluca Grosso, Principal Tuba of the Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale of Santa Cecilia. All of who were recognized and given the necessary tools at the Italian Brass Week, permitting them to become outstanding professional musicians.

“Wings to Talent” looks to raise funds in order to offer 40 scholarships to young musicians.

This Crowdfunding campaign benefits from the collaboration with ANBIMA, who has made 4 scholarships available for young Brass players who are members in Italian Musical Bands, with the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, who offers 3 scholarships and 3 concert engagements to the respective winners of the Italian Brass Week International Video Competition for the Or.Ca.Fi, Toscana Classica and Mercoledi Musicali 2018 concert seasons, and with the Gioelleria Mossa, who has offered 1 scholarship.

In a show of solidarity and patronage of the Festival, Maestro Zubin Mehta has generously autographed and donated his baton to the Italian Brass Week as the main prize of our Crowdfunding campaign.

The World Brass Association, partners of the Italian Brass Week, is mobilizing European sponsors and International investors, so that they may support, partake in and spread the word about this noble cause.

This precious initiative seeks to create a veritable musical bridge between old and new generations, in that the masters keep tradition alive, performing and teaching, while the youth absorb and acquire the experience and knowledge so that they themselves become the custodians of our collective musical culture and history. Memory, technique, methods, concepts and performance practice all lead toward the future, to perpetuate development, comprehension and the desire to dream.

We want that the young musicians of this edition, coming from 45 countries in 5 continents, may make their dreams come true.

Help us to make their dreams come true. Help us to help these young talents, contribute and share our campaign with your friends!

Click HERE for more infos and to get one of our rewards on Kickstarter!

Thanks for your help!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1024250905/wings-to-talent