The one hour acoustic concert will take place on 15th February and will once again be performed in darkness with just a single candle for illumination. The event is sponsored by La Dante, a not-for-profit, bilingual, cultural association in Cambridge.
Alessandra Caggiano, Festival Director and Curator, said; “The Dark Concert is a stripped back and unique event that focuses on the absence of light and enables attendees to experience the music with no visual distractions and perhaps generate some further reflections on what Light means to us.”
Taking place at Great St Mary’s Church in Cambridge, the Dark Concert is an international project stemmed from the collaboration of Italian composer and pianist, Andrea Manzoni, and Armenian American Soprano, Rosy Anoush Svazlian.
Alessandra Caggiano continues; “We are delighted to be marking The United Nations International Year of Light with our third Festival in Cambridge. We will reveal the city in a new Light between 11th and 15th February and this event should be the perfect way to bring the festival to a close.”
The Festival’s many light installations are free to the public whilst there is a small charge for the events; any profit goes to the e-Luminate Foundation to continue to raise awareness of Light and Light related technologies in Cambridgeshire. Plan your visit via the e-Luminate website.
The e-Luminate Cambridge Festival is being sponsored by a host of companies including gold sponsors Balfour Beatty, Panasonic, Hawthorn, and creative agency Mobas, and is comprised of a series of collaborations between lighting technology innovators and visual artists.
About e-Luminate
The e-Luminate Cambridge Festival shows the city in a new Light. The 2015 Festival programme (11-15 February) includes a range of Light installations, family activities, talks and concerts.
This is a unique opportunity for residents and visitors to re-discover, and perhaps notice for the first time, the richness and diversity of our iconic buildings and public spaces.
It was in 2012 when Co-Founders Alessandra Caggiano and Hugh Parnell came up with the idea of a light festival with a twist. The innovative concept relies on creating a dialogue between technologies, many of them invented and produced in Cambridge, and the Arts. This dialogue is centred on light as a fundamental resource to our life on the planet.
We started with a pilot event in 2013 which was a small but great success and gave us the confidence to continue. So, in February 2014 we held our second Festival, three times larger than the first one.
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