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Ballestrero Franciscone Pala Trio (Turin, Italy)

“Italian melodies”

02. 11. 2008 – Sunday
9pm
Creative Communities’ Church, ul. Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie 22

About Christian Culture Festival

Christian Culture Festival was organized for the first time in 1997 on 10th Anniversary of the Logos Theatre. In a sense, it extends the idea of Christian Culture Weeks organized in Poland in 70s and 80s of the last century, which were to become counterpoise to lay media model promoted by the State. Lodz Christian Culture Days were organized in churches all around the city, so as to accommodate the artists, spectacles, exhibitions and projections.

One of such places was the John Paul lecture theatre in the vault of the Assumption of Holy Mother Church in Kościelna Street. This is where the Logos Theatre started, before it was moved to the church in Maria Skłodowska-Curie. It was this church that Archbishop Władysław Ziółek gave to the Lodz artists in 1993, and in which the Centre of Creative Communities’ of Lodz Archdiocese was appointed. It is here that the ‘logistic’ centre of the Festival is located, and where some of the Festival events take place.

Traditionally, the Festival takes place in November, on the first Sunday after All Soul’s Day. It usually lasts for two weeks, during which various event take place – spectacle premiers, other theatres come to Lodz, there are exhibitions of invited artists, performances of choirs and musicians, very often not to be seen anywhere else in Poland at any other time. The Festival programme is the result of the whole year’s work of rev. Waldemar Sondka, the Festival Director, who – using his contacts – invites artists who are interesting, out of the ordinary, noteworthy and creating art perhaps not always religious, but always searching and at the highest level. Care for the level of the Festival offers is a permanent rule, the Logos environment has always wished to provide the Lodz citizens with the possibility of contact with art deprived of parochialism, open to the man and as perfect formally as possible.

The Festival is not an activity that brings profit. Any entrance cards are issued as invitations that are free of charge, and the team of the Logos Theatre and all the people engaged in the Festival organization, act as volunteers. This does not mean that Christian Culture Festival costs nothing. On the contrary, to organize such a cultural event at appropriate level is always connected with costs. Rev. Waldemar Sondka deals with organizing means to secure the Festival events all year round. He manages to gain sponsors (without whom the Festival would not exist) and subsidies from institutions that deal with funding culture (without which the Festival could not develop). All that in order to realize the basic idea of the event that derived from the Lodz Christian Culture Days – to enable anyone who wishes and needs that, to live the Mystery through art. This idea assumes a free of charge participation in all the artistic events, which has been the case since the very beginning of the Festival until today, the only condition is that on the day of the Festival opening, one must queue as long as it takes to get invitations. The only limit to the number of invitations is the capacity of rooms in which the events are organized every day throughout the two weeks of the Festival.


 

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Italian melody - programme for concert

Pietro Ballestrero — classical guitar
Danilo Pala — alto sax
Paolo Franciscone — drums

After last year’s beautiful meeting with Waldemar Sondka and with the warm audience of the ECK festival, the trio comes back presenting a completely new programme. In this occasion the selection will be various, drawing from different sources: italian jazz music, old popular songs from the “Sanremo Song Festival”, italian cinema soundtracks, sacred music, Pietro Ballestrero’s compositions. As the guitar player himself explains: “we can find a point of balance between these worlds by searching for their deep roots inside mediterranean culture and folklore, looking for the intense melodic and lyrical content which is the common element through all of this music, and finally exposing it with our own personal approach”.

A journey through a part of the musical world of Italy, read with the sound and the energy of this great trio: three instruments, like the three essential elements in music, melody, harmony, rhythm, blending together the strong emotional character of what they play with the powerful language of jazz music and improvisation, in a way that always results to be the most involving for the listener.

Program koncertu:
1. Luna di mezzogiorno (Bebo Ferra)
2. Ave Maria (traditional, from Sardinia)
3. Cerchio (Pietro Ballestrero)
4. Lester (Antonello Salis)
5. Pelle (Pietro Ballestrero)
6. Celeste (Paolino Dalla Porta)
7. Theme from “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso” (Ennio Morricone)
8. Festa (Pietro Ballestrero)
9. Estate (Bruno Martino)
10. I cani di Delphine (Pietro Ballestrero)

Trio - Concerts

The trio also works together with the italian theatre company “STALKER” in an action performance entitled “Tripodi”. Besides an intense live activity in the jazz clubs in the area of Turin, the group partecipated to some important festivals.

As a trio:
—  XI Christian Culture festival, Lodz (Poland), novemer 4th 2007;
—  Pino Torinese jazz festival, june 2008;
—  Festival “Armonie in collina”, june 2008;
—  Festival “Perinaldo in Musica”, Perinaldo (Imperia), august 2007;
—  Festival “Piemonte in Musica”, Unione Musicale, Brandizzo (Turin), october 2007, with special guest Aldo Mella on bass.

Together with Stalker Teatro, “Tripodi”, under the auspices of Regione Piemonte — “Piemonte dal vivo”:
— Biella, Italy, ex Lanificio Pria, september 8th and 9th, 2006;
— La Cavallerizza reale, Turin, Italy, june ‘07;
— Forte di Finestrelle, near Turin, Italy, june 30th ‘07;
— International festival “Miasto”, Legnica (Poland), september 14th and 15th, 2007;
—  Festival “Chalon sur la route” (France), july 17 through 20, 2008.

Pietro Ballestrero

Pietro Ballestrero, guitar player and composer, was born in 1973 in Turin, Italy. He began studying music when he was ten years old, taking classical and jazz classes with different teachers in Italy and abroad. He attended four editions of the Siena Jazz summer courses, and master classes with Ralph Towner, John Abercrombie, Dave Liebman and others. He lived one year in the US in 1990-91; he attended the high school senior year in Portsmouth, R.I., where he took the diploma in 1991. Back to Italy, in 1997 he graduated in Mathematics at the University of Turin.

PROJECTS AND DISCOGRAPHY
From 1998 Pietro Ballestrero worked in a large number of groups, as a leader or as a sideman, mostly in jazz or contemporary music. He carried on a personal research in the field of improvisation, also through experiences such as the “Permanent workshop of musical research” leaded by Stefano Battaglia, which he attended for three years, or working together with the “Lab Dance Orchestra”, a workshop band under the direction of Furio di Castri and Gianluca Petrella. Always active as a composer and arranger, he played many concerts in jazz clubs and participated to important festivals such as for example “Linguaggi jazz” (2006), “Jazz & press” (2006), “Legnica International Theatre Festival” (Poland, September 2007), Lodz Christian Culture Festival (Poland, November 2007).

MAIN RECORDINGS
QFWFQ quintet, “SCARABORECCHI” (Panastudio Productions, 1999).
PIETRO BALLESTRERO quartet, “LA CASA DEGLI SPECCHI”, (Velut Luna 2003).
LUCIA MINETTI, “LUZ” (Velut Luna, 2004).
PIETRO BALLESTRERO, FRANCESCO SAIU group, “LINNAS” (Enthropya, 2006).
MARCO TARDITO, Oiseaux quintet (to be published).
RISSO BALLESTRERO, Kibalcic quartet (to be published).

TEACHING ACTIVITY
Pietro Ballestrero teaches guitar and improvisation technique at “Centro Jazz Torino” since 1999. He also works in the summer musical courses in Perinaldo (IM, Italy).