Emanuele Torquati has been invited to give a Recital at Columbia University for its Fall Concerts Series. He will present “Nordic Ballads”, a project recently performed in Berlin and in Italy, a collection of a very specific genre of Ballads, coming from Nordic legends and/or from Nordic tradition. Program will feature trascendental Ballads op. 10 by Johannes Brahms, as well as rare works by Zemlinsky and Grieg, plus a more recent piece by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.The event will take place on 28th October at 7 pm at the Teatro of the Italian Academy.

On 30th October at 7 pm, Emanuele will give another Recital in Toronto, at Heliconian Concert Hall, for the Italian Institute of Culture. For this occasion, he will present “Natura degli Affetti”, a journey between different characters, in ancient Italian “Affetti”, and musical epoques, the Baroque and the Contemporary one. The project is a costant justaxposition of landscapes and colours, from Domenico Scarlatti luminous Sonatas to rare Transcriptions made by Bela Bartòk of works by Zipoli and Frescobaldi, to the humourous Filastrocca by Francesco Filidei and the bright Sonatina by Niccolò Castiglioni.