European Festival Association
Fondazione Gioventù Musicale d’Italia
Fondazione Stauffer Cremona
http://www.european-festivals.eu info@european-festivals.eu
www.jeunesse.it info@jeunesse.it
stauffer.org/ angelica.suanno@stauffer.org
The European Festivals Association (EFA) is a community dedicated to the arts, the artists and the audiences. EFA’s main role in the permanently developing world of digitisation and globalisation is to connect festival makers so to inform, inspire and enrich the festival landscape. In this perspective, EFA is a festivals’ service, knowledge and training provider; the oldest cultural network of European festivals set up in 1952. EFA is a “We” story, linking people and organisations active in the arts management field. The EFA community including at its core its members as well as cities and regions holding the EFFE Seal, The Festival Academy Alumni, EFFE Labels and more take the joint responsibility to offer arts to audiences. It is a story that is reaching beyond Europe as it strives to consolidate interaction between continents, countries and cultures so that there can be mutual inspiration, influence and confrontation. EFA guides the discourse on the value of arts festivals. A sector that is so unique and that shares a myriad of concerns on intellectual, artistic, material and organisational level deserves a strong umbrella organisation that supports local initiatives and gives arts festivals a unified voice.
Founded in Milan by Baroness Dorothy Lanny della Quara in 1952, it is the Italian branch of JM International (Jeunesses Musicales International), an international organization created in Brussels in 1945. This organization includes around 50 countries worldwide with the common goal of promoting music, especially among young people, regardless of culture, race, or language. JMI’s activities are vast and range from classical music, which is its foundation, to jazz, folk, ethnic music, and the most recent musical expressions. Gioventù Musicale operates nationwide through its branches and is among the major Italian musical organizations in terms of outreach and the number of initiatives realized (over 160 concerts every year). The primary aims of the Institution are to spread music and musical culture, especially among young people; to promote and support young musicians; and to cultivate the audience of both the present and the future.
The Stauffer Foundation is a private Italian institution devoted to the promotion and preservation of musical and cultural heritage. It was established in 1970 by Walter Stauffer, a visionary Swiss-Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist deeply connected with Cremona. The mission of the Foundation is to foster the teaching of string instruments, to support musicological research and to safeguard the violin- making tradition that has made Cremona world-famous. It also supports some of the most important musical institutions in Cremona, including the International School of Violin Making, the “Museo del Violino Antonio Stradivari” Foundation and the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage of the University of Pavia. The core activity of the Foundation is the Stauffer Academy, founded in 1985 on the initiative of Andrea Mosconi, former artistic director of the Monteverdi Festival and curator of Cremona’s collection of string instruments, and Salvatore Accardo, one of the greatest Italian violinists of all time, the first Italian to win the Paganini Competition, a tireless musician and teacher. At the heart of the project lay the desire to preserve and promote the Italian school of string instruments by providing the highest level of artistic and professional training for talented young musicians coming from Italy and around the world.
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