07:00 pm
Teresa Satalino Conductor
Domenico Turi Composer
WILLIAM WALTON · „Scapino. A Comedy Overture” (1940, rev. 1949)
DOMENICO TURI · „Ritual” (2026, German Premiere)
GIUSEPPE MARTUCCI · Notturno Nr. 1 D♭ major op. 70 (1891)
PIOTR. I. TCHAIKOVSKY · „Capriccio italien” op. 45 (1880)
OTTORINO RESPIGHI · “Pini di Roma” P. 141 (1923-1924)
The Italian youth orchestra AYSO introduces itself to the Young Euro Classic audience for the first time – and Italy is the red thread that ties the very different works on the programme together. The Englishman William Walton – who lived on the island of Ischia – had close connections with his adopted home country; his concert overture Scapino was clearly inspired by Commedia dell’arte. Giuseppe Martucci’s Notturno is one of the few symphonic works that managed to win a following in opera-crazy Italy during the 19th century – among these, it is one of the best-known. Ottorino Respighi, on the other hand, won world fame with his four-part orchestral suite Pini di Roma, a colourful, vibrant homage to the trees that are so characteristic of the Italian capital. And then there is one of the innumerable works by non-Italian composers inspired by the country: AYSO has chosen the most popular among them, the Capriccio italien by the Russian Piotr Tchaikovsky, another fan of Italy.
European Composition Prize
Award ceremony for the best premiere or German premiere of the festival 2026.
The Accademia Youth Symphony Orchestra (AYSO), the flagship of the “OrchestrAcademy” in Bari, consists of approximately 70 young musicians studying at Italian conservatories, but originally from countries such as Portugal, Ukraine, Albania, Estonia, Latvia, Chile, Venezuela, China and Japan. It considers its mission to bridge the gap between academic training and professional orchestral life. In Italy, AYSO has been invited to the Walton Foundation’s festival on the island of Ischia, by the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, the Festival Como Città Classica, the Naples Theatre Festival and the Maggio Musicale in Florence. The orchestra won special awards at the World Orchestra Festival in 2025 and first prizes in the youth orchestra category in 2022 and 2023 at the Summa cum Laude Youth Orchestra Festival in Vienna. Further performances have taken AYSO to the Smetana Hall in Prague and the Haydn Hall at Esterházy Castle in Austria.
The Italian Teresa Satalino is a conductor, composer and pedagogue. She has been the director of the Accademia Youth Symphony Orchestra (AYSO) since its founding. Early on, she received comprehensive music training, complemented by conducting courses with Jorma Panula, Bruno Bartoletti, Alain Lombard and Piero Bellugi. Satalino gathered additional experience with film music at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, where she studied with Ennio Morricone. She has worked with the Orchestra Sinfônica de Porto Alegre, the CMS Orchestra in New York and the Istanbul Chamber Orchestra; she also conducted the Italian premiere of the song cycle Ayre by the Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov.
Born in Noci in Apulia in 1986, Domenico Turi studied composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome. The Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, the Paolo Grassi Foundation, the Camerata Italica, the Festival Nuova Consonanza and the International Percussion Festival in Hallein, Austria, have all commissioned works from him. His compositions have been played at festivals and concerts in Germany, France, the Netherlands and Austria, but also in China and Japan. Turi composed his first children’s opera, Onde (Waves), in 2012 for the Festival Nuova Consonanza, followed by the one-act comedy Non è un paese per Veggy (This is not a country for Veggy) for the Palladium Theatre in Rome in 2017. Turi currently teaches harmony and analysis at the Conservatory Nino Rota in Monopoli. Since July 2024, he has been the artistic director of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana.