A concert combining music, circus and theatre, video mapping, choreography and fashion design. Energy and calm, harmony and disorder, passion and technicality. Marquis Noir are an eclectic fusion of extremes, in which the freedom of improvisation and the adrenaline of rock combine with classical music, film music and funk. As the five musicians write, “music is universal, but musical fusion is even more so”. A Marquis Noir concert means either calm in the chaos of the universe or chaos in the stillness of life. 

Winner Mittelyoung 2024

Marquis Noir, chosen for its dense and engaging energy, conveyed through a chaotic, yet decisive and sincere sound.

Curatores Mittelyoung2024

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MITTELYOUNG AWARDS 2024

SHOW

A concert in which the dialogue between musicians from different backgrounds is
transformed into a dynamic, fluid show, with a radiant impact on the audience.
An energetic show

MARQUIS NOIR

The Jury
Alberto Bevilacqua, Veronika Brvar, Roberto Canziani, Elisa Marcon

Two violins and a grand piano? Pay attention: three classical musicians turn every expectation upside down, bursting into a whirlwind of dance, circus and pantomime. An irrepressible blend of Mozart and rock’n’roll, improvisation and tango, soundtracks and pop hits. A violinist juggling, a tuba player on the piano, a pianist playing the flute, and again a violinist moonwalking and dancing in a tutu: with The ThreeX nothing is as it seems. Music of all times is transformed into an astonishing show where it is impossible to keep a straight face.

Italian premiere

For all ages

Milan, 1841. Giuseppe Verdi is so sad and contemplates retiring from the stage. Two modern-day musicians, the Pizz’n’Zipp, decide to teleport themselves to his house thanks to a wacky time machine. Will they manage to restore his lost inspiration and save his musical career? Knowing the composer’s happy destiny, the girls will do their best to present the Maestro with some of the most iconic pieces from his future works, playing, dancing and singing with the help of the children in the room.

Family Project
Suitable for ages 5+

Programme  

Giuseppe Verdi 

Dov’è l’astro che nel cielo da Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio 
Marcia trionfale from Aida 
Possente Fthà from Aida 
Danza Sacra delle sacerdotesse from Aida 
Bella figlia dell’amore from Rigoletto 
La donna è mobile from Rigoletto 
Va’ pensiero from Nabucco 
Coro degli zingari from Il trovatore 
Libiamo ne’ lieti calici from La traviata 

The journalist-narrator, the instrumental ensemble and the disordered multitude of voices and faces that tell, denounce, and shout out the recurring tragedies of our time return to the scene in a 2.0 version. From earthquakes to white deaths, from the problem of waste to climate change: the voices of a world that reacts, rebels and pursues its desire for freedom, merge with the music by Fabio Cifariello Ciardi. Journalist Luciana Coluccello leads the audience in and out of the narrated events.

World premiere

Show moved to Teatro Ristori

“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, […] saying: “There should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished””. With a passage from the Revelation, one of the most famous quartets of the 20th century opens. Composed in the Görlitz concentration camp where Messiaen was imprisoned, it was first performed in 1941 before an audience of prisoners and guards. An inexhaustible work, which in the face of the turmoil of war opens up a mystical glimpse and questions the problem of time itself.

Programme 

Olivier Messiaen 
Quatuor pour la fin du temps for violin, clarinet, cello, piano
Composed in Görlitz concentration camp in 1940-41
 

1. Liturgie de cristal 
2. Vocalise, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps 
3. Abîmes des oiseaux 
4. Intermède 
5. Louange à l’éternité de Jésus 
6. Danse de la fureur pour les sept trompettes 
7. Fouillis d’arcs-en-ciel, pour l’Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps 
8. Louange à l’immortalité de Jésus  

 

Bazylek is a funny dragon, the protagonist of many Warsaw legends. As a child, it is always very curious about everything, but music is its greatest passion. Brave and sensitive, Bazylek easily make friends with musicians and audiences. This time, together with the wind quintet of Sinfonia Varsovia, Bazylek wants to recall the memories of its many trips around the world. When the orchestra was on tour, it secretly followed them around in an instrument case: it saw legendary creatures, collected mysterious objects and, above all, musical souvenirs. Now it is time to share them with the young Mittelfest audience!

Italian premiere

Family Project
Suitable for ages +3
Musical and mimed show, with fragments in English and Italian

Music by
Claude Debussy 
Kaspar Kummer  
Stanisław Moniuszko 
Jacques Ibert  
Ronaldo Miranda 
Malcolm Arnold 
Gioachino Rossini 

The Wind Quintet of the famous Sinfonia Varsovia brings to Mittelfest a programme combining works by Polish composers and some of the most interesting pieces written and arranged for this type of ensemble.Like a ‘nutshell’, the sounds of the quintet encapsulate the melting pot of cultures and languages of European music. From Rossini to Dvořák, from the Polish composer Bacewicz to the historic conductor Penderecki: a journey through time between Poland and the rest of Europe. Chaos is transformed into order, into a pattern, enclosed in a musical shell.

Italian premiere

Programme

Stanisław Moniuszko, Highlanders’ Dances dall’opera Halka (arr. Piotr Kamiński) 
Alexander Zemlinsky, Humoreske (Rondo) 
Antonín Dvořák, Slavonic Dances op. 72 No. 2 (arr. Ulf Guido Schafer) 
Jacques Ibert, Trois pièces brèves
Tadeusz Szeligowski, Allegro con brio
Krzysztof Penderecki, Aria da Three Pieces in Old Style (arr. Piotr Kamiński)
Grażyna Bacewicz, Allegretto e Vivo da Quintetto per strumenti a fiato 
Gioacchino Rossini, Overture dall’opera L’Italiana in Algeri (arr. Bill Holcombe and Bill Holombe Jr)
Georges Bizet, Carmen Suite (arr. David Walter)

Young pianists from all corners of the world, led in a masterclass by multiple award-winning pianist Alexander Gadjiev, an artist-in-residence at Mittelfest: a musical journey through the leaps and bounds of Romanticism. It is an era shaken by sublime terror and the cult of genius; it is a restless and mobile musical period that conceals piano intuitions beyond the fixed stereotypes with which we have often labelled it. The young talents immerse the audience in an atmosphere of poignant conflicts with nature, unexpected suddenness, sentimental storms and orderly chaos.

Programme
Schumann, Sonata n.1 op.11, primo movimento (Daisuke Yagi)
Rachmaninov, Preludi op.23 nn. 1,7 (Paola Possamai)
Improvvisazione romantica
Liszt, Studio trascendentale n.10 (Maor Sivan)
Ravel, Alborada del gracioso, da “Miroirs” (Oksana Oposhnian)
Debussy, dai Preludi, “Voiles”, “Général Lavine: eccentric” (David Irimescu)
Ligeti, due studi “Cordes à vide”, “L’escalier du diable” (Mattia Fusi)
Ravel, Scarbo, da “Gaspard de la Nuit” (Sergio Scibilia)
Messiaen, Le baiser de l’Enfant-Jèsus, dai “Vingt Regards sur l’Enfant-Jèsus” (Mattia Fusi)

A musical nuclear fusion, a source of disruptive energy that spreads across the audience: this is Kernfusion. Burning unison lines, hip-hop rhythms and sharp melodies fill the air and take the listener on an interstellar journey. Together since their school days, Austria’s Kernfusion present their first album at Mittelfest. Don’t be surprised when swing music, 1980s fusion and electronic landscapes mingle and an irresistible urge to move begins to run through your body. 

Italian premiere  

Programme

All tracks are composed by Kernfusion 
Johnny New di Jonas Kočnik  
When You See Bachi di Jakob Gönitzer 
Fragments di Timon Grohs  
Bliss di Timon Grohs 
Tree Of Life di Timon Grohs  
Cool Chaos di Thomas Quendler 
5th Survivor di Jonas Kočnik

An irrepressible dancing whirlwind blows in from the Balkans. A brass and percussion revelry that is rooted in the Gypsy origins of leader and trumpeter Džambo Agušev – nicknamed the ‘funky tiger’ – travels through Macedonia’s melting pot of Orthodox and Ottoman culture, and soars into the modern sounds American and soul. From the small town of Strumica to the conquest of the world: Džambo Aguševi Orchestra brings the irrepressible euphoria of Balkan music to the stage of Mittelfest.

Italian premiere

In case of bad weather, the show will be held in Teatro Ristori

Don’t you find a seat for the shows in Piazza Duomo? Contact the ticket office!

Programme

album Brasses For the Masses 
composer Djambo Ozden & some others
record company Asphalt Tango Records