(30 June 2017) The Bakura ensemble closed the Svaty Jur Festival (Slovakia) - the 10th Italian "Dolce Vitaj" festival with a long-awaited concert dedicated to the soundtracks of big screen classics and other pieces by contemporary authors. The event is on Friday June 30 at 7 pm at the Gothic Church. The Bakura ensemble, according to the Italian Institute of Culture of Bratislava, are a chamber music ensemble born in Como in 2005 as a string quartet. Over the last few years, they have regularly performed concerts both in Italy and in Europe - including in 2009 and 2010 at the prestigious Mito Fringe festival - performing compositions ranging from classical music to rock arrangements, pop and movie soundtracks Since 2010, the group has expanded to include other instrumentalists, taking on the "ensemble" identity. This gave them the opportunity to expand their repertoire and to transform. The current members, graduated from conservatories in Lombardy, regularly collaborate with renowned chamber music and orchestral ensembles, television and film productions and with great Italian and international musicians such as Giovanni Sollima, Nicola Piovani, David Garrett, and others. On July 1st, however, the Italian quartet will play in Bratislava, at the Sad Janka Kráľa park, in the concert that inaugurating the festival "Viva Musica!" part of "Hudba v sade"; during which they will perform the Four Seasons by Vivaldi and the Four Seasons of Piazzolla. The Bakura arrive in Slovakia with this formation: Stefano Sergeant (violin), Carmelo Emanuele Patti (violin), Matteo Lipari (violet) and Leonardo Catti (cello). (Red)

THE IIC

The Italian Cultural Institute of Bratislava was founded in 1922 with the name "Circolo Italiano" and re-baptised in 1924 as the "Italian Cultural Society" In the 1920s and 1930s figures such as Bonaventura Tecchi and Ettore Lo Gatto were pioneers. The institute remained closed between 1942 and 1946 and then reopened for three years with its current name and has been back in operation officially since May 3, 1999 when it was reopened after a nearly fifty-year break due to various historical events that involved the former Czechoslovakia. The Institute was re-activated thanks to the Italian Ambassador, Egone Ratzenberger.