Music as a language of hope, brotherhood and comfort: it is with this objective that the World Youth Orchestra Foundation, directed by Maestro Damiano Giuranna, has started the Wyo4Children project that brings musical training to the most vulnerable contexts in the world. After the success of the past years, this summer the initiative arrives in Thailand, at the Wangnoi Phanomyong Wittaya School in Bangkok, and in the autumn he returns to Morocco to the Amis des Orphelins in Fez, thanks to the support of the CDP Foundation.
Born in 2016, the project is a model of excellence in the context of high artistic training, capable of enhancing the creative potential of young talents from all over the world and promoting mobility and cultural exchange. Sounds of brotherhood is not only an educational path: it is an artistic laboratory of excellence which, through the involvement of local partners and with the support of the Italian ambassadors, represents a cultural bridge between countries.
Each stage of the project includes a large program of musical and theatrical training that culminates with the creation of original shows, the result of the collaboration between young artists and local partners: Princess Galyani Vadhana Institute of Music, Mahidol University, Silpakorn University, Chulalongkorn University, Ranongsit University, Asshonption University, Bangkok University.
In Thailand, from 24 July to 8 AugustOr, the high -formation musical training program is entrusted to prominent names such as Francesco Manara, the first solo violin of the Teatro alla Scala, and Maestro Damiano Giuranna, who will guide the orchestra direction workshops, the creation of a rock work and the symphonic ensemble. At the same time, the theater seminars, coordinated by Valeria Almerighi and conducted by Federico Brugnone and Carolina Lepotti, will explore the authenticity and personal expression on the stage of the young students of Bangkok University.
On August 1st the work will be staged Bring me to lovean original work made up of Damiano Giuranna, by Emiliano Manna, the students of 3 Thai universities and the Cosenza music conservatory. The work, with texts in Italian, English and Thai, explores the theme of war as a wound of humanity, contrasting brotherhood and love as tools of healing and transformation. On August 6, Bangkok’s Prince Mahidol Hall will host a symphonic concert, at the end of the period of Higher Education conducted by Damiano Giuranna with the soloist at the violin Francesco Manara Giuranna and with 90 young Thai musicians and from all over the world as elements of the World Youth Orchestra.
In the autumn, the project continues in Morocco, from 11 October to 30 Novemberwith a rich program of musical seminars held by Damiano Giranna, Simone Braconi, first Viola solo solo at the Teatro alla Scala and Francesco di Rosa, the first solo oboe at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. On 22 October it will be staged The two moonsa work of theater and music in Italian and Arabic, dedicated to the beauty of sounds and words. Training and concert activities will inaugurate the National Higher Institute for Music and Correct Art (Insmac) of Rabat, the new one pole of excellence in academic training and Moroccan musical research.
“In a time in which the civilization of the third millennium lives the madness of conflicts, wars and genocides, sounds of brotherhood wants to work with young people, with continuous formation, international mobility, with art that regenerates the emotional world and recognizes the other as a brother”, says Damiano Giuranna.
