Take an intriguing musical journey around the Mediterranean, with the brilliant Israeli mandolist Avi Avital and the spectacular Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima as your guides!

Touring for Musica Viva Australia, this concert is your passport to a rich musical landscape, covering four centuries of culture from opposite sides of the sea, using words and music to share traditional Salento, Bulgarian, Turkish, Sephardic and Macedonian works.

Artists:

AVI AVITAL Mandolin

GIOVANNI SOLLIMA Cello

Programs:

'Mediterranean'

TRADITIONAL SEPHARDIC Yo en la prison

TRADITIONAL TURKISH Nacyem Nacyem

TRADITIONAL MACEDONIAN Ako umran il zaginam

SCARLATTI Sonata in D Minor, K89

SOLLIMA Improvisation

SOLLIMA ‘Federico II’ from Il viaggio in Italia

SOLLIMA ‘Alep Pesce’ from Il bestiario di Leonardo

CASTELLO Sonata No. 4

SOLLIMA Tarantella orientale (1939)

FRESCOBALDI Canzona No. 3

TRADITIONAL SEPHARDIC Una ora

TRADITIONAL SALENTO Fronni d’alia