Villa_pesce-alta

About this project

(This project has tax exempt non-for-profit status -- your donations are tax-deductible)

Drawn from an international selection, one chef (Mona Talbott, Chez Panisse, Rome Sustainable Food Project) and one composer (Lucia Ronchetti) will collaborate on an evening of intersections between food, culture, and music. The evening of July 10th will feature a world premiere by the featured composer, Lucia, as well as a program of 21st century music. The featured musical ensemble will be the Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. Local organic producers, farmers, wine growers, and cultivators will participate and contribute to the event.

50 guests will be welcome to reserve for either (or both) parts of the evening, which will consist of a 6pm pre-dinner aperitivo-conversation with musicians, chefs, food, wine and music experts, followed by the 8pm main event, a celebration of food and music, beginning with the world premiere of a new work in the Pianciani Chapel, followed by an exquisite dinner in Villa Pianciani with 21st century music interludes carefully curated by the composer-chef team.

This summer will be the pilot episode and if we can get it off the ground, in future years more chefs, more composers and more cities all over the world will be involved.

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A few kilometers from the town of Spoleto, Umbria, Villa Pianciani is a house on a grand scale bathed in warm, gentle colors with a rich noble history dating back to the late 1700's.
Designed by the great architect Giuseppe Valadier, the Villa beckons from the top of a hill that dominates the landscape with a 360° view from Assisi to Spoleto.
Surrounded by olive groves overlooking the Spoleto Valley and the rolling green Umbrian countryside, the Villa is the heart of a spacious architectural complex that includes a stand-alone columned chapel, a few other buildings and a large monumental park.


Project location: Spoleto, Umbria

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Yotam Haber

Straightpin New York, NY

Yotam Haber, 33, was born in Holland and is a citizen of Israel and the United States. After attending Indiana University, studying with Eugene O’Brien and Claude Baker, he completed a doctorate in composition at Cornell University in 2004, studying with Roberto Sierra and Steven Stucky. He spent 2000 in Bologna, Italy, as part of the Course on Use of Live Electronics, taught by Alvise Vidolin (Luigi Nono’s sound engineer) and the composer Adriano Guarnieri. He received a 2002 ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Award for his chamber orchestra work, In Sleep a King, and one in 2004 for his double clarinet quintet, Blur. In 2004, he also won the second bi-annual ASCAP/CBDNA Frederick Fennell Prize for the wind ensemble work, Espresso, which was performed at Carnegie Hall by Rutgers Wind Ensemble, directed by William Berz, and consequently recorded for release in the fall of 2005. He has been a Fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center (studying with George Benjamin and Osvaldo Golijov), the Aspen Music Festival (studies with Chris Rouse and Nicholas Maw), and been in residence at the Aaron Copland House, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and MacDowell Colony. His music has been performed in prestigious halls throughout Germany, Italy, Ireland, Holland, and across the U.S. Haber resides in New York City and is a 2005 Guggenheim Fellow. Most recent performances include the Flux Quartet performing Torus in New York City’s Bargemusic, and the Knights Ensemble premiering A Wine-Dark Sea at the Brooklyn Lyceum, commissioned by Music At The Anthology (MATA), and hailed by the New Yorker magazine critic, Alex Ross as “deeply haunting.”

He was a 2007-2008 Rome Prize Fellow in Music at the American Academy in Rome where he researched the music of the Jewish community of Rome as well as collaborating in Berlin with Bulgarian-American artist Daniel Bozhkov on the 30th anniversary of the first German in space; in Holland with Dutch artist Maria Barnas on a Stendhal Syndrome project; and in Switzerland with Pritzker Prize-winning architect Peter Zumthor on two chamber music works.

Haber is currently working on two film scores; an independent surreal thriller set in New York, and a documentary about the Jews of Rome in WWII. Haber has received a 2009 Meet the Composer commission for a large-scale work for the NYC-based Knights Ensemble.

This summer, after a residency at the Rockefeller Bellagio Center, Haber directs the premier installation of a modern music+cuisine festival, TAVOLAMUSICA as part of the 2010 Spoleto Festival season.