Procida 2022, the Centrum Award to trumpeter Paolo Fresu. “With music he was able to relaunch his native land.”
On Saturday 22nd October at the Cinema Hall in Procida the award ceremony will be held for the Sardinian musician, creator and director of the Time in Jazz Festival in Berchidda.
On the same day, the awarding of the “Carpenè-Malvolti” Degree Prize and a discussion between entrepreneurs who protect the ultra-centenary Made in Italy.
The famous trumpeter Paolo Fresu is the recipient of the second edition of the Centum Award, an award promoted by the Unione Imprese Centenarie Italiane (www.uicitalia.org) and linked to the celebrations of Procida Italian Capital of Culture 2022.
The award ceremony will be held on Saturday 22 October, starting at 10 am, at the Cinema Hall in Procida, in the presence of the winner, the highest representatives of the local institutions and the representatives of the Unione Imprese Centenarie Italiane, an association that embraces the longest-running Made in Italy brands with at least 100 years of activity.
Born in 1961 in Berchidda (Sassari), Paolo Fresu, winner of prestigious national and international awards, was the creator of the Time in Jazz Festival, an artistic event of which he has also been the director for over 30 years. The motivation for the Centum Award formulated by the jury wanted to reward precisely this initiative of his linked to the enhancement of the Sardinian territory.
“For having contributed, as an established trumpet player and jazz musician, to the relaunch of the Sardinian town of Berchidda, his homeland, through the Time in Jazz Festival that he conceived and presided over with boundless passion and an open gaze towards the community. The Festival, now in its 35th edition, has expanded its activities to other municipalities in the hinterland and on the coast of the island, positioning itself as an extraordinary vector for the promotion and cultural and social progress of the territory”.
“I see the recognition of the prestigious Centum Award as an attention to those artisan values that have made our country great in the world – says Paolo Fresu – For me it is an incentive to continue producing good culture by offering a possible response to the contemporary role of small towns and to the hospitable and human qualities of our communities”.
CARPENE' MALVOLTI DEGREE PRIZE – Also on Saturday 22 October at the Cinema Hall Procida, the “Carpenè Malvolti Degree Award” will be presented, established by the Unione Imprese Centenarie Italiane in collaboration with the CUR Comitato Universitario Regionale della Campania and sponsored by the famous sparkling wine house of Conegliano founded way back in 1868. The award, now in its second edition, was assigned to Andrea Barone, a student of the Faculty of Economics and Management of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, author of a thesis entitled “The business visit as a tool for heritage marketing and a tourist product. An exploratory investigation among companies in the food sector” (supervisor Prof. Antonella Garofano).
MEETING ON THE ROLE OF CENTURIES – An important insight into Italian corporate longevity will be offered by the meeting on the theme “Centennial Companies between culture, innovation and sustainability”. Moderated by Claudio Baccarani (Emeritus Professor of Economics and Business Management at the University of Verona), the meeting will bring together for the first time representatives of the three Italian associations that protect the values of Made in Italy over a century old: Unione Imprese Centenarie Italiane, I Centenari Associazione Aziende Storiche Familiari and AIDAF Associazione Italiana delle Aziende Famigliari. Taking part in the round table will be Mariangela Grosoli (President of Aceto Del Duca 1891 of Spilamberto and Vice President of the Unione Imprese Centenarie Italiane), Mauro Ascione (President of Ascione 1855 of Torre del Greco and Vice President of I Centenari Associazione Aziende Storiche Familiari) and Carlo Emanuele Bona (President of Industrie Grafiche Vincenzo Bona 1777 of Turin).
Entrance to the Cinema Hall Procida is free.
PAOLO FRESU
Paolo Fresu, born in Berchidda (Sassari) on February 10, 1961, is an Italian trumpet player, writer and flugelhorn player. He began studying the instrument at the age of 11 in the Band of his hometown and after various experiences of light music he discovered jazz in 1980. In 1984 he graduated in trumpet at the Conservatory of Cagliari. In 1990 he won the award announced by the magazine 'Musica jazz' as best Italian musician, best group (Paolo Fresu Quintet) and best album (award for the album 'Live in Montpellier'), in 1996 the award as best European musician through one of his works from the 'Académie du jazz' in Paris and the prestigious 'Django d'Or' as best European jazz musician and in the year 2000 the nomination as best international musician.
Teacher and director of several important national and international educational institutions, he has played in every continent and with the most important names in African-American music of the last 30 years.
He has recorded over four hundred and fifty albums, of which approximately ninety under his own name or as a leader and others with international collaborations.
He has directed the 'Time in Jazz' Festival in Berchidda for thirty years and was the artistic director and teacher of the Nuoro Jazz Seminars for a quarter of a century.
He is a testimonial for Amnesty International, Fondazione Francesca Rava and Asia and, in 2016 and 2017, he was UNESCO Youth Ambassador for Italy.
He lives between Paris, Bologna and Sardinia.
Article published on 14 October 2022 - 19:43
