The TIM Foundation makes a total of 400.000 euros available to three important institutions to contribute to its diffusion in a delicate moment like the present one.
Salvatore Rossi, President of the TIM Foundation: “We are proud to be able to announce this important donation on the very day that the International Piano Festival of Brescia and Bergamo, one of the Italian cities most affected by the epidemic, restarts. Fondazione TIM has decided to support these projects with the aim of encouraging the widest possible participation in the cultural and musical life of our country. Classical music represents a universal message of hope and for this reason we want to start from the areas that have suffered the most in recent months".
The Associazione Ente Festival Pianistico Internazionale di Brescia e Bergamo on the occasion of the 57th edition, suspended due to the lockdown, has devised an extraordinary post-Covid programming to give great music back to the community with the indispensable live show. "Parallel lives" is the title of the Festival held in the two cities from 24 September to 12 October: a musical juxtaposition between Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Schubert which will also represent the basis of an original audiovisual dissemination project signed by the musicologist Piero Rattalino .
The Donizetti Theater Foundation is based in Bergamo – one of the cities that symbolize the health emergency – and also wants to become a symbol of Italy's restart through musical culture. The Theater intends to create a WebTV that will allow national and international audiences to follow the titles on the bill in streaming; a program of special informative/educational contents will also be created, also designed for the younger audience, by the artistic director of the Donizetti Opera festival, Francesco Micheli.
The System Association of Youth and Infantile Orchestras and Choirs in Italy Onlus has planned for the next few months an articulated series of local and national activities in order to promote musical education for the fight against child and youth discomfort, as well as to affirm the force of change that music brings into the lives of many children and young people who grew up in socially or culturally disadvantaged environments.
