ELENA BUTTIERO & ANITA FRUMENTO - piano four hands - present: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (in music, of course!) by Cesare San Fiorenzo and his friendship with Giuseppe Verdi. The two New York concerts will have different meanings and modes.

On July 7, the recital will take place in Queens for the Friends of Maple Grove in the Celebration Hall at the Center (6pm,127-15 Kew Gardens Road, Kew Gardens, NY 11415). Two days later, on July 9, they will be in Manhattan at Saint John's In the Village, (3pm, 218 West 11th Street), with the collaboration of the "Ligurians in the World - New York Chapter" and the Allegro con Moto Association of Savona, Italy.

The concert of July 7 is dedicated to opera singer Demetrio "Danny" Meduri who rests in Maple Grove Cemetery. Born in Italy in 1890, who emigrated to the U.S. in the early 1900s, tenor Meduri went on to performed in many opera houses and in touring companies and was a friend of Enrico Caruso. The concert of July 9 can be watched in attendance and streamed. Info and tickets here.

A research study in the musicological field led the pianists Buttiero and Frumento to discover the score "The Divine Comedy for piano four hands" by Cesare San Fiorenzo, original for piano four hands. The score, forgotten for more than 100 years, offers extraordinary and evocative melodies very close to the operatic world of the great composer Giuseppe Verdi. The two musicians developed a strong bond of friendship and often met in the city of Genoa. The program includes a transcription of Opera aria by Verdi taken from Rigoletto and a Sonatina by Manzino, a composer from Savona, the city where the two pianists live.

Elena Buttiero graduated in piano at the Turin’s Conservatoire ‘G. Verdi’, she held concerts in several Italian cities, Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, France, Romania, Czech Republic, Serbia, United States, Canada, Tanzania, Argentine and Uruguay. She published two CD’s as harpist with Birkin Tree: Continental Reel and A Cheap presen’. With Carlo Aonzo, she published Il mandolino italiano nel Settecento and Fantasia poetica. During 2009, the Duo was awarded with the Ligurian Region Price, Cultural section, from Liguria Region. In 2012, she recorded the CD Arethusa Consortium for two Celtic harps repertoire and plectrums, Saluti dall’Italia in 2013 and Lontano nel mondo in 2015 devoted to Luigi Tenco’s songs. In 2021 she published the CD The Baroque Hurdy-Gurdy at the French Royal Court with Francesco Giusta. In the didactic field she published for Carisch/Hal Leonard editor the solfege method Il Centone, the piano method Primo Piano, the Piano Antologia and the Antologia pianistica a 4 mani. She is the artistic director of the Mozart Savona Association and
of the Allegro con Moto Association.

Anita Frumento graduated from the Conservatory of Cuneo and obtained a Level II Academic Diploma in Piano and Chamber Music with full marks and honors, studying with Sergio Lattes and Massimiliano Damerini at the Conservatory of Genoa and with Massimo Cottica at the Conservatory of Piacenza. At the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana she completed a Master of Arts in Music Pedagogy tutored by Sandro D'Onofrio and Andrea Conenna and attended the Elementary Music Education seminars held by Silvia Klemm. She has deepened the chamber and contemporary repertoire with L. Bartelloni, M. Caroli, L. Castellani, the Debussy Trio at
the Academy of Music in Pinerolo, R. Gubler and F. Thouand; as well as the ancient repertoire with D. Fratelli, S. Molardi, B. Petrucci, M. Valli, B. Zanichelli and O. Zoboli. She has participated in important festivals in Italy and abroad, collaborating with the Ensemble Nuove Musiche of Savona, the Savona Symphony Orchestra, the '900presente Ensemble and the Research and Development Division of the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland, premiering some works by emerging contemporary composers. From 2015 to 2023 she has been a teacher at the MAT Artistic Center in Lugano (Switzerland) and the Teaching Director of the Classical Music Section. Winner of the 2016 MIUR national competition, she has been a tenured piano teacher at the Liceo Musicale "P. Bausch" in Busto Arsizio (Va) since September 2017. Since September 2023 he has been teaching piano at the Liceo Musicale “Giordano Bruno” di Albenga (Sv). She performs regularly in Italy and abroad in various chamber ensembles and she is a managing member of the APS Nuovi Contesti Sonori in Clusone (Bg).