February 2017: “Wagner and Philosophy” is held at La Sapienza University in Rome. Aurelio Canonici is invited to talk about Wagner and his use of the Leitmotiv. Other speech were given by some of the most important Italian musicologists, germanists and philosophers...
October 2016: At the Fondazione Marco Besso, Aurelio Canonici presents his book ” Uno alla volta per carità ” dedicated to the “Barber of Seville”. Also thanks to numerous examples played on the piano, Canonici explained to the audience the style and music of...
August 2016: Aurelio Canonici returns to Poland as guest of the “Jan Kiepura Opera Festival”. To him was dedicated the last of the “Meetings with the Artist”. During a long interview Aurelio Canonici talked about his experiences as an orchestra conductor, composer,...
November 2016: at the Feltrinelli Bookshop in Rome, the CD Between Earth and Heaven – entirely dedicated to Aurelio Canonici’s music – was presented. Aurelio’s music was live performed by the piano-duo Paola Biondi and Debora Brunialti.
July 2016: Auditorium Renzo Piano, L’Aquila. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the first performance, has been staged the Barber of Seville by Rossini. Aurelio Canonici conducted two applauded performances guiding the singers, the choir and the Youth Orchestra of...
July 2016: Continuo Records releases “Between Earth and Heaven”, a CD devoted entirely to the music of Aurelio Canonici performed by a cast of prestigious performers. The most active piano duo in Italy, Paola Biondi and Debora Brunialti, the Mascoulisse Quartet (an...
January 2016: Aurelio Canonici conducted a program of sacred music at the Vatican (Sala Nervi), receiving compliments from the Holy Father Pope Francis and warm applause from an audience of nearly 4,000 people. Together with the Orchestra, the Chorus and Soloists of...
August 2015: Invited for the second time to the Valley of the Temples, Canonici wrote for this place – so rich in history – a new piece entitled “For Xenocrates of Agrigento”, for chamber orchestra and narrator. Virginio Zoccatelli conducted the Soloists of the...
May 2015: Aurelio Canonici has been invited to explain classical music to the public of Santa Cecilia. In a series of acclaimed piano lessons Canonici analysed and illustrated masterpieces such as the Fifth Symphony of Shostakovich, the First and the Fourth Mahler’s...
April 2015: debut on the podium of the Sofia Philharmonic. Aurelio Canonici has proposed to the audience in Sofia a highly-regarded symphonic program, conducting Beethoven’s Overture to the Consecration of the House, the third piano concerto, and Brahms Symphony n. 3.