Concert June 27 and 28, 2026 - 5:00 PM

The concerts next weekend, June 27th and 28th, performed by the Rotondi-Di Rita cello and piano duo in the Recital Hall of the La Mortella Gardens, will conclude the William Walton Foundation's spring-summer chamber music season. Youth orchestra concerts will continue every Thursday until the end of July in the open-air Greek Theatre.

The 2026 Chamber Music season concerts will resume, after the short summer break, on the weekend of September 5-6, continuing through the end of October on a weekly basis.

Rebecca Rotondi began studying cello with A. Conti at the Frosinone Conservatory, graduating with honors. She then earned a degree in Chamber Music from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and attended postgraduate courses in Chamber Music at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome and currently at the Fiesole Music School. She has attended cello masterclasses in Italy and abroad and has performed in various chamber music groups, performing in important venues such as the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, the Sala della Protomoteca del Campidoglio in Rome, the Beethoven Festival in Verona, and Trento, among others. She has been a member of numerous youth orchestras, including the OGR (Rome Youth Orchestra), the Archi Accademia Nova string orchestra, the ONCI (National Orchestra of Italian Conservatories), and the OGI (Italian Youth Orchestra), performing in concerts and festivals at prestigious venues in Italy and abroad (the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Teatro Argentina in Rome, the Senate of the Republic, the Alicante Festival, the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, and the Dobbiaco Festival) and recording for Vatican Radio.

Viviana Di Rita, born in 2004, studied piano at the Giordano Conservatory in Foggia and the L. D'Annunzio Conservatory in Pescara, under the guidance of G. De Berardinis. She currently attends chamber music courses at the Fiesole School of Music. She has attended piano masterclasses with E. Fadini, A. Kravtchenko, A. Kobrin, C. Höfer-Teutsch, and Jin Ju. Particularly active in chamber music, she has performed with various ensembles in important Italian concert halls and theaters. In 2021, she participated in the research and recording project of J.B. Cramer's 21 Etudes, released by the Da Vinci Classics label, and in 2023, she participated in the world premiere of Georg Friedrich Haas's 11,000 Saiten, commissioned by the Busoni Foundation for 50 pianos and chamber orchestra. She also served as accompanying pianist in the saxophone masterclasses of J. Keem (France) and H. Arakelyan (China).

The program that Rebecca and Viviana will present to the audience at La Mortella is entirely focused on music by 20th-century French composers: in particular, Claude Debussy's Sonata in D minor will be performed. for cello and piano, written in 1915. A mature composition by the great musician, much loved by virtuosos of this instrument, it explores all the technical, timbral, and expressive resources of the cello.

Fondazione William Walton e La Mortella
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tel.: 081-986220, 081-986237