The ‘Organo Della Pace’ (Peace Organ) Festival at Sant’Anna di Stazzema reaches its eleventh year and, thanks to the collaboration between Italy and Germany, this year hosts international musicians. There are seven concerts, every Sunday from 16 July to 27 August and a conference. The festival, which is now one of the top quality musical events in Versilia, is a concrete expression of the capacity of music to foster dialogue, knowledge and collaboration between people.
During the festival there will be fundraising for the extension of the organ with a pedal sub bass register, which will be inaugurated in 2018.
At Sant’Anna di Stazzema, during the Nazi massacre that, on August 12, 1944, cost the lives of 560 people the church organ was destroyed by SS machine-gun fire. Between 2002 and 2007, the “An Organ for Sant’Anna” initiative, founded in Essen with the patronage of the Presidents of the Italian and German Republics, collected through 67 concerts funds for the reconstruction of the organ. The instrument was inaugurated in 2007 and since then, through the Italian-German Association “Friends of the Peace organ”, on summer Sundays, the small but charming church of Sant’Anna lives again thanks to the presence of internationally renowned musicians.
DANIELE BOCCACCIO CONCERT
Sunday, July 16 (6 pm – free admission)
Recital by Daniele Boccaccio (Lucca), organ
Organ Professor at the Conservatory of Alexandria
VICTOR CONTRERAS CONCERT
Sunday, July 23 (6 pm – free admission)
Recital by Victor Contreras (Mexico City), organ
President of the Accademia Organistas de México
“AD LIBITUM” DUO CONCERT
Sunday, July 30 (6 pm – free admission)
Recital by the “Ad libitum” duo (Pinerolo, Turin)
Elena Saccomandi, viola – Walter Gatti, organ
ENRICO VICCARDI CONCERT
Sunday, August 6 (6 pm – free admission)
Recital by Enrico Viccardi (Lodi), organ
Professor at the Conservatory of Como
TOMASZ ADAM NOWAK CONCERT
Sunday, August 13 (6 pm – free admission)
Recital by Tomasz Adam Nowak (Münster, Germany), organ
Professor at the Conservatory of Detmold (Germany)
FRANCESCO DI LERNIA CONCERT
Sunday 20 August (6 pm – free admission)
Recital by Francesco Di Lernia (Foggia), organ
Professor of Organ and Director of the Conservatory of Foggia
ELISABETH ZAWADKE CONCERT
Sunday, August 27 (6 pm – free admission)
Recital by Elisabeth Zawadke (Munich, Germany), organ
Professor at the Conservatory of Lucerne (Switzerland)
CELEBRATING THE TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PEACE ORGAN
Sunday 16 July – 5 pm
Celebratory ceremony of the ten years of the Peace Corps
LUTHER AND THE REFORMATION’S FIVE HUNDRED YEARS
Sunday 30 July – 4 pm
Conference “Luther and 500 Years of Reformation”
Speakers: prof. Nino Campagna and Prof.ssa Concetta Giuffrè (Pescia)