Vivaldi's The Four Seasons at the Ayala Museum

The Manila Symphony Orchestra and the Ayala Museum present Vivaldi's Four Seasons as their latest Rush Hour Concerts offering happening this March 14, 2019, 6:30 PM at the Ayala Musem.

Italian violinist and conductor Alessio Benvenuti join the Manila Symphony Junior Orchestra in performing pieces by Antonio Vivaldi including the perennial favorite Le quattro stagioni/The Four Seasons.

Benvenuti had studied with some of the icons of violin in the last century such as Henryk Szeryng, Ruggierro Ricio, Igor Oistrach and Dorothy DeLay.

An awardee of the prestigious Prix De Rome in 2003, Maestro Benvenuti had his training from prestigious artistic institutions such as the Mozarteum in Salzbug, The Juilliard School in New York and the Royal College of Music in London. As a violin soloist he had performed with various orchestras and worked with top conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Claudio Abbado and Yuri Temirkanov.

Maestro Benvenuti now resides with his family in the beautiful island of Siquijor in the Visayas. He currently has teaching and performance projects in Cebu City and is excited to collaborate with the MSJO and be introduced into Manila’s classical concert scene.

Aside from The Four Seasons, also in the program are a couple of other Vivaldi works namely the Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, Op. 3 No. 11, RV 565 and the Concerto in F major for Four Violins, Op. 3 No. 7, RV 567, L'esbro armonico with Benvenuti and a some members of the MSJO playing the various solo parts.