Auditorium Paganini featuring concert with Wii Music live

Machine translated press release below…

Thursday, February 19th 2009 at 21.00, in the splendid setting of Auditorium Paganini in Parma, the concert will be held by Guido Ponzini: Plug-in contemporary music, with the sponsorship Department of Culture and Youth of the city of Parma.

Together the young Italian composer and virtuoso on stage will be among others the Chinese flautist Guo Yue (formerly with Peter Garbiel, Joe Cocker, David Byrne), the oud virtuoso Adel Salameh (Real World, Enja), the percussionist Fulvio Maras (Trovesi , Fresu, etc. ..), musicians of Rome Sinfonietta (E. Morricone), producer Giovanni Amighetti (Terem Quartet, Ayub Ogada, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Shan Qi, Wu Fei - Fred Frith, etc. ..). They will also present music from dvd “Shan Qi” and some arrangements on music by Japanese composer Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy).

In this context, it will include a prestigious live performance software Wii Music, which will be used to achieve some of the compositions of the show.
Given the high degree of accessibility Wii Music will allow musicians and non-professional musicians to play together on stage compositions chosen from the original creations of the users of Nintendo games. Wii Music is a software for Nintendo Wii that allows you to create a simple and intuitive arrangements and compositions by choosing between 60 virtual musical instruments. Production City of Parma and arvmusic (www.arvmusic.org) in collaboration with Nintendo Italy and Banca Monte Parma.

Thanks to Giovanni for the heads up!