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Founded in 1980, the Orchestra della Toscana (= ORT) is based in Florence and is now considered one of the best chamber orchestras in Italy. It consists of 45 musicians, all excellent professionals who have been applauded in the most important Italian opera houses as La Scala Theatre, the Auditorium at the Lingotto in Turin, the Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome and in the most important venues in Europe and overseas, from Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid at Carnegie Hall in New York.
The ORT collaborates with illustrious musicians by Salvatore Accardo, Martha Argerich, Rudolf Barshai, Yuri Bashmet, Giorgio Battistelli, Luciano Berio, Frans Brüggen, Myung-Whun Chung, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Daniel Harding, Eliahu Inbal, Yo-Yo Ma and Uto Ughi. They perform a wide repertoire reaches from Baroque music to contemporary composers. The Orchestra reserves a special place in the music search beyond the barriers between different genres, experimenting with new possibilities of making music and verifying the relationship between writing and improvisation. In this direction the orchestra has met musicians like Franco Battiato, Stefano Bollani, Richard Galliano, Heiner Goebbels, Butch Morris, Enrico Rava, Ryuichi Sakamoto. |
