Music that Moves

Friday, December 19th, 2025, at 8:30 PM, the Musicians of Officina Filarmonica will perform in the historic Church of Santa Maria in Via, at Largo Chigi, in the center of Rome — with a concert entitled “Music that Moves”.

The concert will mark the beginning of the collaboration with Maestro Luca Quaranta, a talented flutist and Officina Filarmonica’s artist-in-residence for the 2025–2026 season, already winner of the First Prize and the Special Award for Contemporary Music at the IX Flute International Competition in Varna, and the First Prize at the XXXII International ANEMOS Competition (May 2025).
Luca Quaranta plays a handcrafted Powell Aurumite® 9K Conservatory flute.

Programme

The concert will be conducted by Maestro Rocco Sbardella, with the following program:

• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Concerto for Flute and Strings in G major – H.445, Wq.169
• Felix Mendelssohn, Symphony No. 1 in C minor – Op. 11

Between the 18th and 19th centuries, music went through a major shift: tastes changed, sensibilities evolved, and composers started looking for new, more personal and direct ways to express the world around them.

“Music that Moves” invites the audience to take a journey — to feel the transition of an era and to discover new emotions and new ways of listening through fresh sounds and colors. The program connects two works that may seem far apart, yet share the same drive for change: C.P.E. Bach reshapes the 18th-century concerto, making it more expressive, unexpected, and personal than the Baroque style, while the very young Mendelssohn gives new life to the classical symphony, filling it with Romantic energy and emotional tension.

This concert is meant to guide listeners through that transformation. It shows how musical forms evolve, how ideas open up, and how every era finds its own voice. But above all, it reminds us that music doesn’t just change on the page — it also changes us. It can surprise us, move us, and reshape the way we feel, understand, and live.

Free admission, from 8:20 pm.

Find out how to reach the concert venue. For any questions or further information, feel free to contact us.