Choir conductors and choir conducting students from public or private academies can participate in the course.

“500 Years of Palestrina”
Italian music has sought—or been compelled—to engage with the Princeps Musicae, whom we celebrate with a program of sacred and secular a cappella works.
The program is completed with a tribute to Arvo Pärt, in celebration of his 90th birthday.

The Course will be organized as follows:

• morning: practical lessons, theory, and exercises with the choir;
• afternoon: practical lessons with the choir.

At the end of the afternoon lessons, all students (active and auditors) will attend rehearsals of the following works:

Luigi Dallapiccola, Canti di Prigionia
Opere di Filippo Perocco, Salvatore Sciarrino, Joaquin Des Prez

The admission exam will take place through the submission of a video audition. The video, lasting 3-6 minutes, should present a performance or a concert of a piece for a cappella choir.

The lessons will cover the following repertoire:

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Missa Papae Marcelli, Missa brevis, Tu es Petrus (first and second part), Sicut cervus (first and second part).
Francesco Soriano, Missa Papae Marcelli (for two choirs)
Antonio Lotti, Crucifixus
Alessandro Scarlatti, Exaltabo te Domine, Exultate Deo
Gioachino Rossini, O salutaris Hostia, Cantemus Domino
Giuseppe Verdi, Ave Maria, Laudi alla Vergine
Ildebrando Pizzetti, Requiem
Luigi Dallapiccola, Coro Malammogliati, Coro Malmaritate
Luciano Berio, Canticum novissimi
Renato Dionisi, Missa brevis
Lorenzo Donati, Sicut cervus, around Palestrina (for 4 choirs)
Arvo Pärt, Missa sillabica, Magnificat, Nunc dimittis, Morning Star, Deer’s Cry