Fiorenza de Donatis e Luca Pianca
BAROQUE PEARLS IN SORENGO
23 August 2026, 7.00 pm
Sorengo, Santa Maria Assunta
Fiorenza de Donatis, violin
Luca Pianca, lute
On 23 August at 7.00 pm, Ceresio Estate welcomes Fiorenza de Donatis and Luca Pianca to the Church of Santa Maria Assunta in Sorengo. Two Ticino interpreters of international standing meet in a programme devoted to the Baroque between free gesture and formal writing.
The music of Castello, Schmelzer, Böddecker, Pellegrini and Bonporti reveals a time when improvisation, rhetorical imagination and compositional structure were still closely connected.
The evening becomes an encounter between gesture and writing, improvisation and form, entrusted to two leading Ticino interpreters of the early music repertoire.
Free admission.
Music by:
Dario Castello
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
Philipp Friedrich Böddecker
Domenico Pellegrini
Francesco Antonio Bonporti
BIOGRAPHIES
Fiorenza de Donatis
Born in Locarno, Fiorenza de Donatis graduated from the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana in the class of Carlo Chiarappa and specialised in the Baroque repertoire on period instruments with Lucy van Dael in Amsterdam. Winner of First Prize at the International Competition for Early Music in Bruges in 2002, she is concertmaster of I Barocchisti under Diego Fasolis and collaborates with leading early music ensembles.
Luca Pianca
Born in Lugano, Luca Pianca is one of the most important lutenists on the international scene. Co-founder in 1985 of Il Giardino Armonico, he studied with Nikolaus Harnoncourt at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and has recorded an extensive repertoire, including the complete lute works of Johann Sebastian Bach.