Un Momento Di Felicita

CREATION 2022 as a tribute to Nino Rota

The evening will start with the piece "Rencontres" (without orchestra)
Choreography: Filipe Portugal
Dancers: PNSD Rosella Hightower
Music by : Olafur Arnalds, Alice Sara Ott (The Chopin Project) and Zoë Keating
Duration: 20 minutes

Followed by a medley of Nino Rota's greatest hits performed on piano by Lidija Bizjak
and the Concerto Soirée for piano and orchestra
"Un momento di Felicità
National Orchestra of Cannes
Conducted by Benjamin LEVY
Music : Nino Rota
Dancers: PNSD Rosella Hightower
Choreography: Renato ZANELLA
Soloist: Lidija BIZJAK, piano
Duration : 25 min

Creation 2022 in homage to Nino Rota

Two excellent artistic structures, intimately linked to the city of Cannes, join forces to offer this special evening in homage to Nino Rota, the famous Italian composer whose work is forever linked to some of the most emblematic films of the 7th art. For Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Henri Verneuil and many others. And it was for Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather that he received the Oscar for best film score! A dance evening with a special flavour, as Renato Zanella, a former graduate of the Pôle National Supérieur de Danse Rosella Hightower, will choreograph for the Jeune Ballet troupe. A successful choreographer for many renowned companies, he has directed several major international ballets since 1995 and returns to Cannes to present a creation with an ambitious purpose, between choreographic performance and artistic research for dancers at the dawn of their professional careers. As Renato Zanella points out: "Approaching the work of Nino Rota is a moment of great emotion and memory. How can dance approach this? Two voiceless arts that meet, to create new emotions. To take flight among his notes, that's what we're going to do, on tiptoe without adding a sound to create a new interpretation, I would say to have the impression of being taken by the hand by the great composer. Meeting with the artistic team after the performance.


Lidija BIZJAK
Born in 1976 in Belgrade, Lidija Bizjak studied at the CNSM in Paris with Jacques Rouvier and Maurice Bourgue and then went on to perfect her skills with Ferenc Rados, Murray Perahia, Léon Fleisher and Arie Vardi. Winner of the Dublin International Competition in 2000, she participated with oboist Alexeï Ogrintchouk in the "Rising stars" tour 2000/2001 and played on prestigious stages such as Carnegie Hall in New York, the Wigmore Hall in London, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cité de la Musique in Paris and the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Lidija is also a partner of Nemanja Radulović, Régis Pasquier, David Grimal, Marina Chiche, Geneviève Laurenceau, Chanteurs des oiseaux, Anne Queffélec, Emmanuel Strosser, Claire Désert, Marie-Josèphe Jude, Antoine Tamestit, Xavier Phillips, Michel Strauss, Philippe Muller, Romain Guyot, Ysaÿe Quartet, Terpsycordes and Parisii, Moraguès Quintet.

Lidija is regularly invited to the festivals of La Roque d'Anthéron and the Folles journées de Nantes and Tokyo, Lockenhaus, Annecy, Lille, Open Chamber Music in Prussia Cove and plays as a soloist with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra of Liège, the RTE of Ireland, the Orchestre de Picardie, the Orchestre du Pays de Savoie, the Orchestre de Nancy, the Orchestre de Mulhouse, the Orchestre Pelléas...

His first CD dedicated to the sonatas of Schubert and Schumann, released in 2006 by Lyrinx, was acclaimed by the critics and awarded a Diapason d'or "découverte".

After several years at the CRR of Caen and the CRR of Lille, Lidija currently teaches at the Conservatoire of the 18th arrondissement of Paris and is the artistic director of the SOMUS festival in Sombor, which has become one of the most influential in the region.
"Lidija Bizjak's piano sounds with a royal fullness, without harshness, with a length of tone that says enough about how careful this young artist is not to go against her instrument, and even more about how much she is in love with it at least as much as with the music she plays..." Alain Lompech (Diapason)

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