"Psychedelia" is a unique piano-music project, with an interdisciplinary and multi-perspective character, which, conceived and designed for state schools, primary and secondary schools not with a musical focus, aims at training the person in his artistic, aesthetic and bio-psychic-social globality.

It is proposed as an activity of orientation and strengthening, two facets in constant synergy and dialectic, which work together for the growth of the person, with the intent of naturally allowing one to glimpse, understand, choose and cultivate one's inclinations and passions.

The slogan of the "Psychedelia" project:

KNOWING ONESELF THROUGH MUSIC TO FACE THE WORLD, IN PARTICULAR THROUGH THE STUDY OF A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: THE PIANO.

“Revealing one’s soul”, that of the musician as well as that of the listener, is the goal to be achieved, in a continuous exploration and search for oneself.

Consequently, the concept will extend to art, to the “sign” that the pianist will impress first on himself and then on the audience that listens to him.

The “Psychedelia” path intends to improve learning through constant research in the field, welcoming different points of view, broadening perspectives and breaking down always the same visions, therefore the homologated thought and the teaching based on the “imitation of the master”.

The “Psychedelia” project began its concrete experimentation phase in 2018, at the Istituto Comprensivo Via Libertà in San Donato Milanese (MI), in the form of a musical enhancement project of the PTOF. It has been appreciated, presented, and therefore supported by the best artists, teachers and musicologists of the international artistic-musical scene, including Cristina Altamura, Piero Di Egidio, Mary Garret, Gianluca Luisi, Riccardo Risaliti, Remo Vinciguerra, Paolo Tortiglione.

Taking advantage of the support of various musical realities, the project has immediately been able to enhance the very young artistic excellence that emerged within the courses, assigning various scholarships to the most deserving students: from singing, to musical composition, to journalistic writing. We therefore mention the collaboration with the International Competition "Nuova Coppa Pianisti" of Osimo (AN), the International Piano Award "Remo Vinciguerra", the national music magazine "Rivista Musica", the recording studio "Filodistudio" and the record company "Filodinote" in the person of Filippo Bentivoglio.

Scholarships that translate with the term "opportunity": the opportunity to participate for free in high-level musical masterclasses (piano, singing, composition, journalism), the opportunity to record your own unpublished piece at a professional studio, the possibility to take part - at no cost - in events, competitions, talent-TV, presentations, even conduct interviews with famous Italian and foreign artists and personalities.

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This is a particular formula that becomes a corollary of a piano-musical project, currently being tested at the Istituto Comprensivo Via Libertà in San Donato Milanese (MI), from which it takes its name, Psychedelia ".

The Psychedelia Award refers to specific evaluation parameters (quality of performance, artist's hold on stage, communication skills and involvement of the wide audience, personality and look) and to a particular type of vote, divided into percentages: we have from a side the quality jury, with a weight of 50%; on the other, the jury of enthusiasts and connoisseurs (20%), the jury of very young people (20%) and the popular jury with the vote of approval on social media (10%). The finalists of the Prize, chosen from among the already excellent finalists who passed the first evaluation by the ordinary jury of the Cup, submitted to the opinion of a further quality jury that includes journalists, editors and / or critics of the sector, musicians and / or musicologists and other important professional figures / cultural operators in the artistic-musical and entertainment scene.

QUALITY JURY - 1st edition 2021

Enrico Girardi - musicologo, docente universitario, critico musicale del “Corriere della Sera”;

Luigi Maiello - compositore Rai, musicologo, docente universitario, blogger de “Il Fatto Quotidiano”;

Alan Palmieri - direttore artistico e conduttore “Radionorba” e “Battiti Live”(mediaset);

Paolo Zecchini - cofondatore Zecchini Editore, Rivista “Musica”;

Gianluca Luisi - direttore artistico “Nuova Coppa Pianisti”, presidente della “Polo Music” management;

Cristina Altamura - impresaria, fondatrice di “Legacy Arts International”, direttrice associata USA “Osimo International Piano Competition”;

Pamela Pinto - musicista, docente e giornalista, fondatrice del “Progetto pianistico-musicale Psychedelia” e del “Premio Psychedelia”, vicedirettrice artistica “Nuova Coppa Pianisti”.

SPIGOLI ROTONDI

Istituto Comprensivo “Galateo-Frigole” – Lecce a.s. 2017-2018

"Spigoli rotondi" was born with the intention of creating an original artistic-musical work that comes to life from an introspective and social journey through slow thinking: a journey into the mind to look at the world from another perspective; a journey into the world of bicycles to immerse yourself in a slower vision of reality and spontaneously induce the observer to reflect on the surrounding world with a "different lens"; a journey into one's own ideas to realize how one can contribute to improving the world while standing still; a journey into oneself where to look in the imagination to widen the weight of the imagination by stimulating divergent thinking; a journey in which knowledge becomes competence, living history, therefore culture, realization and fulfillment of one's being, personal success, sharing, lifestyle.

COVID-19, FASE 1: NOI LO ABBIAMO VISSUTO COSÌ

Istituto Comprensivo "Via Libertà" - San Donato Milanese (MI) a.s. 2019-2020

COVID-19, PHASE 1. The students of the "Psychedelia" piano-musical project recount, through art, the days spent at home and the particularly difficult period experienced all over the world: feeling "part of the whole", each of them expressed their feelings with music , words, interpretation.