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A Choir on Stage in Bocconi's Aula Magna

, by Susanna Della Vedova, translated by Jenna Walker
The Choralia Musical Association choir will perform Thursday 3 December at 9pm. The group is led by conductor Michele Brescia and accompanied by pianist Sebastiano di Gioia

The choir of the Choralia Musical Association will take the stage on Thursday 3 December at 9pm in the Via Gobbi 5 Aula Magna, as part of the cultural activities promoted by ISU and Bocconi University, in collaboration with Furcht Pianoforti.

Led by Michele Brescia and accompanied on the piano by Sebastiano di Gioia, the choir has a varied program:

Anonymous, There Is No Rose, 1420
Anonymous / Johann Sebastian Bach, In Dulci Jubilo, 15th century
Anonymous, The Golden Carol, 15th century
Anonymous, Noel Nouvelet, 15th century
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana, Exultate Justi, 16th century
William Ballet, Lute-Book Lullaby, 17th century
Isaac Watts, Joy To The World, 1719
Anonymous, Adeste Fideles, 1743
Anonymous, Les Anges Dans Nos Campagnes, 18th century
Joseph Mohr, Franz Xaver Gruber, Stille Nacht, 1818
Anonymous, God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, 1823
James Pierpont, Jingle Bells 1857
Anonymous, Deck The Halls 1881
Irving Berlin, White Christmas, 1947

Admission is free but seats are limited.

Michele Brescia began conducting in 1990, in his early twenties. He was trained under the leadership of Emilio Pomarico and later with Aldo Ceccato.

He has composed pieces for flute quintets, chamber and symphonic orchestras, choirs and various formations from duets to octets. He is currently the director of the Civica Scuola di Musica di Cesano Boscone (MI) and since July 2013 he has been Artistic Director and Conductor of the choir of the Choralia Musical Association.

The choir of the Choralia Musical Association, founded in the spring of 2005, represents an ideal continuation of the Eikon choir, which disbanded in 2004 after a period of more than 10 years on the Milan musical scene. Interested in rediscovering pieces of musicological interest, the choir mixes classical pieces by composers such as Mozart, Bach, Pergolesi, Vivaldi, Boccherini, Tallis, Handel and Lotti with the study of unknown works or pieces that are not often performed such as Francesco Durante's Requiem and Psalms, Domenico Scarlatti's short mass La Stella, David Perez's Stabat Mater, Domenico Cimarosa's Litanies and Salve Regina, as well as the rediscovery of composers such as Tommaso Traetta. In January 2015, a delegation of the choir performed Misa a Buenos Aires at Carnegie Hall in New York. Since June 2014, it has participated in the Make Music Milan review and since 2015 it has participated in the "Segni di Bellezza" musical season at the Basilica di Sant'Eustorgio.

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