Children's Concert
SA 7. Sep. 2024 | 11:00-12:00
Square in front of the Servite Church
(in case of rain in the parish hall)
Listen, sing, dance and discover - with hurdy-gurdy, button accordion, Calabrian lyre and tamburello - all this can be experienced at the children's concerts in front of the Servite Church! Benedetta Amelio and Massimo Cialfi will introduce you to the exciting world of instruments and storytelling. And at the end you can even try them out for yourself!
free admission
Benedetta Amelio
Benedetta Amelio, Italian mother of three children, has lived in Vienna since 2014. She studied musicology, singing and composition in Milan and is currently completing her doctorate on Neapolitan opera from around 1700. Her passion for music was instilled in her from an early age. She recorded her first songs at the age of ten and began taking singing lessons at 16, both for modern music and opera. ​During her studies, Benedetta worked as a singer for private events and with children. As she could not find a suitable music course for her children in Vienna, she decided to offer her own courses in spring 2022. In March 2022, she started a basic course of music for children in Italian and in October 2022 she started "Musica, maestro!" at the Italian Cultural Institute Società Dante Alighieri and the Italian kindergarten "Girasole".
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In January 2023, Benedetta founded Amelio GmbH to expand the range of courses on offer. This was followed in April 2023 by "Spazio mamma-baby" (now "Crescendo"), a series of meetings for mothers and babies with a musical focus. In summer 2023, it offered excursions and workshops in Italian and German, and in September of the same year, it launched the "Tempo, bitte!" music course for children in German.
Massimo Cialfi
Massimo Cialfi is an experienced musician and teacher. He holds diplomas in classical trombone and baroque trombone and completed a master's degree in contemporary music. Cialfi has worked as a trombonist with renowned orchestras such as the Orchestra of the Teatro alla Scala and the RSI Orchestra in Lugano. Massimo is also intensively involved in jazz swing and jazz Dixieland and also plays diatonic accordion, hurdy-gurdy, bagpipes and tuba. He founded the Renaissance music group Theatrum instrumentorum Milano and has been involved in numerous concert, radio and record productions. He has also been involved in ancient organ studies since 1990 and rents out organ positives throughout Europe. From 2012 to 2017, he taught Renaissance and Baroque trombone at the Conservatorio di Musica V. Bellini in Palermo. He has been teaching as a state-certified music teacher at secondary and high schools since 1984.
