The 2021 Festival

The Festival
The Italian Brass Week International Festival reaches its twenty-second edition this year and yes
will take place in Florence, from 1 to 8 August 2021. The Festival was born within the e
Italian Brass Network, in collaboration with the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino,
Florentine Chamber Orchestra, the Fiesole Music School Foundation onlus, the Conservatory of
Music Claudio Monteverdi of Bolzano, with the patronage of the Municipality and the Metropolitan City of
Florence, the Tuscany Region, the Consulates and international Embassies.

It is directed by Maestro Luca Benucci, first horn of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, teacher
of the Fiesole Music School Foundation onlus and the Claudio Monteverdi Conservatory of Music
of Bolzano.
The title of this new edition From the Brass Convivium to the Banquet of Knowledge wants
be a clear tribute to Dante Alighieri, on the 700th anniversary of his birth. From the
Brass Convivium to the Banquet of Knowledge lays its foundations in the two attributed Dante pillars
to the human soul, Strength and Love, as well as foundations of knowledge and knowledge
universal.
Love and Strength are immortal and eternal constants that find fulfillment in our Art, Music.
It is no coincidence that Dante, precisely in Book II, this banquet of knowledge, his Convivio, exalts the
figure of Orpheus, of that poet who, with the Love of the sounds of his magical lyre, bewitched man and
he enchanted nature, just as with the Force of passion he was able to move stones, to appease them
worries and to regenerate souls. Dante-Orfeo is for the Festival, the poet-prophet who invites us to the new
musical banquet, to share the universal knowledge of the world of brass.
As in the Convivio, the Festival focuses on the dissemination of knowledge, constantly at the center
search for the widest possible audience, that audience that, as for Dante, in all the previous ones
editions, and especially in the 21st undermined by the health emergency, concisely and coincides with
whole humanity.

The Festival, as per its twenty-year tradition, finds its foundation in the construction of Sapienza,
that Wisdom that allows thousands of young musicians, students and / or professionals, coming from
over 40 nations of the planet, to continue to search for the beauty of musical language, in all of its
multiple facets, in order to communicate it to all passionate listeners.
Like the Convivio, our Festival is a work in progress, a continuous evolution and transmission of
knowledge to the new generations, to young musicians from all over the world who attend the masterclasses of
best known professors of national, European and international lyric and symphonic institutions.
Our teachers, just like Dante, are the new musical prophets, those who carry out the mission
didactics and they sit with their students at the Convivio to graze knowledge together. As well as, in
concerts of the Festival calendar, we are declaring love for our Italian speech from the Force
and with universal expressive potential: Music.
Young performers, masters, international soloists have given life, every year, to a capillary work,
full of energy, leading us to live unforgettable experiences in our magnificent city that gives
Dante today is the fulcrum of contemporaneity. It is precisely in this perfect union of past and present
that we launch into rebirth, in the will to be reborn, continuing to open ourselves to the world too
through social media on Facebook, Instagram, Youtube.
Every day we have a detailed calendar of appointments that can be enjoyed live, if the
conditions relating to health emergency will allow us, or online from your home, from
your own living room, your own studio, your own garden. We launch a
very strong and new sign of resumption of musical life.