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The Rome Chamber Music Festival

The Rome chamber music Fest has reached its sixth edition. This year once again it has taken place in the Gonfalone Oratory in the very heart of the Eternal City, presenting guests from different music genres. Robert McDuffie, its artistic director, is an internationally-renowned violinist born in Macon, Georgia who lives in New York City McDuffie has declared to the reporters to be greatly satisfied to celebrate the music by Mendelssohn and to present also the masterworks by Tchaikovsky and even American bluegrass that was performed by the duo of contrabassist Edgar Meyer and Mike Marshall who plays the mandolin. Among the artists: the pianists Elena Matteucci and Elizabeth Pridgen, Yoon Kwon, Hsin-Yun Huang and Julie Albers who play in the order the violin, the viola and the cello. McDuffie loves Italy and speaks the Italian language fluently and, in his opinion, the audience is a very important protagonist of the event. To those who wonder weather nowadays there is room left for chamber music or if it is a genre obsolete and for a small numbers of amateurs this bright event has given a very positive answer supported by the success received by the eclectic combination of pieces coming from different countries and different periods and pleasing different kinds of musical tastes. Among the others the Rome Chamber Music Festival has presented the music of one of the greatest composers of film music, the Italian Ennio Morricone and the Suite from Cinema Paradiso, written specifically by Andrea Morricone. The Italian public has been particularly intrigued and captured by the bluegrass music that belongs to the most typical American tradition and that has contributed remarkably to make the event livelier and more enjoyable. In a way, Italians have dedicated to it the same kind of interest and attention that McDuffie has reserved to chamber music and this, in the end, has contributed to determine the renewed success of this sixth edition of the Roman Festival.

 

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