Accademia degli Imperfetti

Accademia degli Imperfetti: The association Accademia degli Imperfetti has been giving performances and organising educational workshops and courses since 1996.

Its productions are characterised by their detailed exploration into how music relates to particular locations and narratives. Sometimes working as artists in residence, their projects have been hosted by civic and state museums in Genoa and Pescara and also by numerous artistic and cultural festivals in Italy and elsewhere. These include: Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto, Festival of the Saracens in Pamparato, Echoes of Cagliari, Giovine Genovese Orchestra, Cusiano Early Music Festival, Salerno Early Music Festival, Antiqua in Piedmont, RomaFestivalBarocco, Los Conciertos del Cervantes in Rome, Foligno’s Segni Barocchi Festival, and the Signes Festival in France.
The association has also collaborated with the France-based contemporary dance company Silenda in producing the soundtracks for their performances ‘Vuota dismisura’ and ‘Courants..Ponts..Courants’. This was a co-production involving the Centre Choréographique National de Caen/Basse Normandie and the Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication. In December 2003 Accademia degli Imperfetti established a series of early music workshops and concerts ‘Il Canto della Memoria’ at the Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo in Pescara. Since 2013 the association has been working on another project “Musica Antica a Palazzo”, organising concerts, seminars (with speakers including Pedro Estevan) and specialist workshops. One series of workshops, "PerCorsi di Musica Antica", is based in the educational department of the Palazzo Bianco Museum in Genoa, and has led to performances in some of the most significant of the city’s villas, palaces and convents.
Recent concert venues include Albergo dei Poveri and the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa. This Palazzo was the location for ‘Sound Frescoes’, a series of performances whose repertoire was designed to relate closely to the musical frescoes which decorate the walls of the Doge’s Chapel where the concerts were held.