Autumn Music 2019: at the Capua Museum, a weekend with Chamber Music

Long weekend with Chamber Music at the Museo Campano in Capua. Three events starting from Friday to Sunday with classical music by authors as part of the Autunno Musicale festival. Sounds & Places of Art - XXV edition.
We start on Friday at 19,30 pm with the SOLEM QUARTET, (Amy Tress & William Newell – violins, Marsailidh Groat – viola, Stephanie Tress – cello) who will perform music by Franz Joseph Haydn, Bela Bartok and Ludwig van Beethoven.
Formed in 2011 at the University of Music in Manchester, the group's name derives from the institution's motto "Arduus ad solem". In 2014 they won the Royal Over-Seas League Ensemble Competition and have since performed at the UK's most prestigious venues including Wigmore Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Bridgewater Hall and Holywell Music Room, as well as internationally. Their repertoire ranges from Haydn to contemporary composers.
On Saturday at 19,30 pm the SOLEM QUARTET will be accompanied by the piano of MICHELLE SCHUMANN on music by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann.
Appreciated by the well-known Fanfare Magazine for her “… sensitive, flexible and stormy dexterity”, in 2016 at the Janice K. Hodges Contemporary Piano Competition of the University of Texas at Austin. She has participated in important international festivals. She teaches piano at the University of Mary Hardin – Baylor. She studied at the University of Texas at Austin, the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Vienna Conservatory.
While on Sunday at 17,30pm it will be the turn of the violin of CHARLES WETHERBEE, who together with MICHELLE SCHUMANN on the piano, will perform music by Ludwig van Beethoven, John Adams and Johannes Brahms.
Charles Wetherbee graduated from the Curtis Institute of Music with Aaron Rosand and has performed in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Canada, Mexico and the United States, and has appeared at major festivals. He has been called “an artist with impeccable technique” by the Washington Post and “… a first-rate artist…” by the Columbus Dispatch. He has been the first violinist of the Columbus Symphony for sixteen years and is currently the first violinist of the Carpe Diem Quartet. He plays a Widenhouse 44 – one of the rarest and most sought-after violins – and uses bows by Charles Espy and Bennoit Rolland.
The Capua Museum is housed in the historic Antignano palace, whose foundation dates back to the 9th century and incorporates the remains of San Lorenzo ad Crucem, a small Lombard-era church on the site of one of the three noble seats of the city. An important testimony of a particular pre-Roman indigenous cult, dedicated to fertility, the protection of the mother and her offspring, is the collection of the Matres Matutae, popularly known as the Mothers of Capua, preserved in rooms V and IX of the museum. The building boasts the splendid Durazzesco-Catalan portal which bears the Antignano and d'Alagno coats of arms embedded in it.
Until December 26, the Royal Palace of Caserta, the Museo Campano of Capua, the Archaeological Museum of Maddaloni, as well as the monumental churches of Sessa Aurunca, Carinola, Maddaloni and Piedimonte Matese will be the protagonists of varied musical proposals from Pianofestival, to Chamber Music, to A-Solo, to Orchestra Concerts, to Contemporary Estonia. In parallel, there will also be a rich carnet of "Other Events": Educational, Piano Lab, Sounds & Flavors, Electronics Lab, Baroque Itineraries/Classical Europe, L'atro Suono/Bosphorus Project.
The Musical Autumn is supported by the MIBACT – General Directorate of Entertainment and the Campania Region and benefits from the collaboration of various organizations: the Royal Palace of Caserta, the Province of Caserta and the Museo Campano of Capua, the Museum Center of Naples and the Archaeological Museum of Calatia, the Municipalities of Carinola, Maddaloni and Piedimonte Matese, the Caserta Unesco Center, the Associations, Byblos of Piedimonte Matese, Mozart of Sessa Aurunca, Pro Loco of Carinola, Lyons Club Aversa Normanna, Irem and Area Arte.