Conference about Claudio Abado in Roma, Italy

Conducting the future - Claudio Abbado between utopia and reality

3 February 2024 – 9.30 – 18
Auditorium Parco della Musica Ennio Morricone – Sala Petrassi
free entrance

on the tenth anniversary of his death,
a day dedicated to the great musician with previously unseen video contributions, testimonials and stories

with
Daniele Abbado, Ramzi Aburedwan, Eraldo Affinati, Sandro Cappelletto, Michele dall’Ongaro, Pietro del Soldà, Roberta De Monticelli, Angelo Foletto, Maria Majno, Marco Motta, Francesca Nesler, Nigel Osborne, Antonio Pappano, Armando Punzo, Andrea Zietzschmann

Ten years after the death of Claudio Abbado (Milan, 26 June 1933 – Bologna, 20 January 2014) and bearing witness to his long relationship with the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Institution is commemorating the Milanese Maestro with a conference entitled “Conducting the future. Claudio Abbado between utopia and reality” which will be held on Saturday, the 3rd of February at 9.30 a.m. in Sala Petrassi (Auditorium Parco della Musica – Rome). The conference is the concluding stage of a project – promoted by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Ceclia and the Fondazione Abbado – which saw the participation in 2023 of musicians and music historians, philosophers and teachers, along with personalities active in the field of music education, environmental protection, of music understood as a form of inclusion and aid in situations of discomfort and pain.

One of the best-loved and most celebrated conductors of the last fifty years, Claudio Abbado served as the Musical Director of La Scala in Milan, the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Staatsoper of Vienna and the London Symphony Orchestra. He founded youth orchestras, revived the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and was committed to supporting the network of children’s and youth orchestras created in Venezuela by José Antonio Abreu. He made his debut at Santa Cecilia on 10 June 1961 and was elected to the Academy in September 1978. In June 2019, five years after his death, the Auditorium Parco della Musica – designed by Renzo Piano – named the hanging gardens after the great Maestro. Moreover, a precious baton donated to the Academy by the Abbado family is kept at MUSA, the Academy’s Museum of Musical Instruments.