Festival Musica Antica a Magnano 2025: »The Festival of the Keyboards«

24. 8. 2025
Sunday | 9 p. m. | Chiesa S. Giovanni Battista
Via Castello, 8
13887 Magnano (Biella, I)

Free entry!

Silva Manfrè
organ (Giovanni Bruna, 1794)

Programme:

»balli et bassedançe … fabricati per sale signorile«
The Triumph of Dance in Renaissance and Baroque Music

Danze antiche (Area tedesca, XVI sec.)
– Intrada (Anonyme Tabulatur, 1593)
– Alemando novelle. Proportz darauf (Bernhard Schmid d. Ä., Orgeltabulatur, 1577)
– Ballo Milanese (Jakob Paix, 1583)
– Ein schöner Englischer Dantz (Anonym)
– La corante du Roy (Bernhard Schmid d. Ä., Orgeltabulatur, 1577)

Louis Couperin (ca. 1626 – 1661)
– Chaconne

Giovanni Battista Ferrini (ca. 1601 – 1674)
– Ballo di Mantova (Intavolatura di Ancona, 1644 – AN Ms. Mus. 41)

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583 – 1643)
– Capriccio sopra la Spagnoletta (Il primo libro di Capricci …, 1624)
– La Bergamasca (Fiori Musicali, 1635)

Johann Caspar Kerll (1627 – 1693)
– Passacaglia

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562 – 1621)
– Ballo del Granduca SwWV 319

Juan Cabanilles (1644 – 1712)
– Xacara del 1° tono
– Corrente italiana

Bernardo Storace (ca. 1620/40 – nach 1664)
– Capriccio sopra il passo e mezzo
– Ballo della battaglia

 

As part of the festive concert »La festa delle tastiere« 
Walking concert
17:30 Uhr | Chiesa romanica di S. Secondo | Albert Mühlböck, clavichordo, forgepiano
19:30 Uhr | Chiesa di Santa Marta | Georges Kiss, clavicembalo
21:00 Uhr | Chiesa S. Giovanni Battista | Silva Manfrè, organo

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Foto: Organ Giovanni Bruna, 1794 (Parrocchiale di Magnano) © Silva Manfrè

Concert for the Patronal Feast Day

21.9.2025
Sunday | 7:30 p.m. | Church of St. Thekla
Wiedner Hauptstraße 82
1040 Vienna

Suggested Donation:
Euro 15,– (Students: Euro 10 | Children and youth up to 18 years: free)


Performers:
Tanja Ruždjak soprano
Pia Ernstbrunner alto
Silva Manfrè organ

Programme:

Louis Vierne (1870–1937)
Prélude (from: 24 Pièces en style libre, op. 31)

Jean Langlais (1907–1991)
Ave mundi gloria

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710–1736)
Stabat Mater in F minor for alto, soprano and organ

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924)
Ave verum corpus, Op. 65 No. 1

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835–1921)
Ave Maria in A major for two female voices

Léon Boëllmann (1862–1897)
Sortie (from: Heures Mystiques – Messe No. 7)

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Photo: Felix Ivo Lechner, Saint Thecla. Altarpiece (detail) of St. Thekla’s Church (Vienna 4) © Silva Manfrè

45° Antichi Organi Patrimonio d’Europa 2025 (Varese, I)

28. 9. 2025
Sunday | 4 p.m. | Church of Saints Peter and Paul
Piazza Enrico Riziero Galvaligi
21030 Brinzio (Varese, I)

Free entry!

Silva Manfrè
Organ

Organ:
Eugenio Biroldi, 1876
Restoration: Casa Mascioni, 2023


Programme:

Ferdinando Bertoni (1725 – 1813)
Sinfonia in B-flat major
Sonata in F major

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791)
Andante KV 616

Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757)
3 Sonatas:
K. 255 in C major
K. 415 in D major “Pastorale”
K. 159 in C major

Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809)
Andante (from the Concert Nr. 4 Hob. VII:h2)

Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 – 1837)
Theme with Three Variations

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834 – 1886)
Facile Marcia for organ

Giambattista Ignazio Grazioli (1746 – 1820)
Pastorale

Andrea Lucchesi (1741 – 1801)
Sonata n. 7 in A major (Allegro)

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Photo: 45° Antichi Organi Patrimonio d’Europa 2025 (© Antichi Organi Patrimonio d’Europa)

   

Profile

Born in Verona (Italy), Silva Manfrè studied piano, organ and composition at the conservatory of her hometown as well as at the University of Music and Performing Arts of Vienna under Michael Radulescu. She also studied musicology at the Universities of Pavia (I) and Vienna (A). She completed her degree with a thesis on the organ compositions of Arnold Schönberg, Olivier Messiaen und Paul Hindemith. Silva Manfrè attended numerous masterclasses, particularly in historical performance practice, with renowned musicians such as Gaston Litaize, Guy Bovet, Bernard Brauchli, Esteban Elizondo, Harald Vogel, Lorenzo Ghielmi, and Paolo Crivellaro.

Her international concert activities as a soloist and chamber musician have taken her to Italy (including among others the Asiago Festival Internazionale, Festival di Musica Antica di Magnano, Organfestival of Alessandria, Venice, Mantua, Festival Serassi), Austria (such as Wiener Orgelkonzerte, Orgelkonzerte von Jeunesse und ORF / Radio Ö1, „Music for a while. Alte Musik in Bludenz“, »donauFESTWOCHEN im Strudengau«), France (Festival International Orgues d’Été de Bordeaux), Hungary, the Czech Republic, Switzerland (Festival Antegnati – Bellinzona, Rassegna Organistica Valmaggese), Spain, the Principality of Andorra, and Slovenia.

Silva Manfrè has recorded for the Austrian Broadcasting (ORF), radio klassik Stephansdom and the European Broadcasting Union. In 2022, she released Ricercate per sonar d’Organo (1585) by Ottavio Bariolla under Brilliant Classics. This was followed in 2023 by Prototypon longo-breve organicum (1703–1707) by Franz Xaver Anton Murschhauser, which was nominated for the German Record Critics’ Award (Longlist 03/2023).

Silva Manfrè has collaborated with contemporary composers such as Michael Radulescu, Wolfgang Sauseng, Karl Schnürl, Paul Koutnik, Victor Estapé, and Pier Damiano Peretti. Since 2018, Silva Manfrè has been teaching master classes in organ, chamber music, and basso continuo at the Festival Musica Antica Magnano in Piedmont (Italy).

Previously serving as organist for the Cappella musicale of Padua Cathedral (Italy), Silva Manfrè has been the organist at St. Thekla Church of the Piarists in Vienna since 1998.

05/2025

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Foto: Silva Manfrè (© Julia Wesely)