Activities
Commonwealth Artists
19 & 20 June
From one of our former Chairmen
Dear International Friends & Music Lovers,
The Rome Chamber Music Festival (RCMF) is delighted to create two very special evenings for the international community of Rome during the Festival 2026 to be held at the Teatro Argentina (click on the RCMF link for program and artists details).
Various international clubs in Rome have agreed to participate and we hope Commonwealth Club of Rome will be joining us too.
For the concerts on Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20 members of Rome’s international community organizations will be able to obtain discounted tickets and at the same time support the restoration of a Baroque musical instrument at the National Museum of Musical Instruments.
Both evenings start at 6:30 PM:
Welcome Cocktails in the piazza at Antica Enoteca, Via di S. Nicola de’ Cesarini 5 in Largo di Torre Argentina.
Then walk across the square to Teatro Argentina for the concert, with all our seats reserved together in a special block in the theater boxes.
June 19
Program Highlights
Villa-Lobos • Bruch String Octet • Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2
(An evening of passionate strings and rich Romantic masterpieces)
Program & tickets for Friday night here
June 20
Program Highlights
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras • Ravel • Gershwin • Bartok
(A breathtaking evening of Brazilian soul and Bach-inspired beauty)
Program & tickets for Saturday night here
Price: €22 per person
(includes a discounted concert ticket and a €5 donation for restoration of a historic musical instrument.
Wine and Prosecco, not included in the price, are offered at the discounted price of €8 when showing concert ticket receipt).
Upon booking, you will receive a payment confirmation from Loveitaly.
Subsequently, your ticket will be issued directly to you by the Rome Chamber Music Festival.
Your participation helps preserve Rome’s rich musical heritage for future generations while you enjoy an exceptional evening.
For any further information or questions, please don't hesitate to contact me directly.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Mary B.Handley
Board Member FRCMF
[email protected]
From one of our former Chairmen
Dear International Friends & Music Lovers,
The Rome Chamber Music Festival (RCMF) is delighted to create two very special evenings for the international community of Rome during the Festival 2026 to be held at the Teatro Argentina (click on the RCMF link for program and artists details).
Various international clubs in Rome have agreed to participate and we hope Commonwealth Club of Rome will be joining us too.
For the concerts on Friday, June 19 and Saturday, June 20 members of Rome’s international community organizations will be able to obtain discounted tickets and at the same time support the restoration of a Baroque musical instrument at the National Museum of Musical Instruments.
Both evenings start at 6:30 PM:
Welcome Cocktails in the piazza at Antica Enoteca, Via di S. Nicola de’ Cesarini 5 in Largo di Torre Argentina.
Then walk across the square to Teatro Argentina for the concert, with all our seats reserved together in a special block in the theater boxes.
June 19
Program Highlights
Villa-Lobos • Bruch String Octet • Brahms Piano Quartet No. 2
(An evening of passionate strings and rich Romantic masterpieces)
Program & tickets for Friday night here
June 20
Program Highlights
Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras • Ravel • Gershwin • Bartok
(A breathtaking evening of Brazilian soul and Bach-inspired beauty)
Program & tickets for Saturday night here
Price: €22 per person
(includes a discounted concert ticket and a €5 donation for restoration of a historic musical instrument.
Wine and Prosecco, not included in the price, are offered at the discounted price of €8 when showing concert ticket receipt).
Upon booking, you will receive a payment confirmation from Loveitaly.
Subsequently, your ticket will be issued directly to you by the Rome Chamber Music Festival.
Your participation helps preserve Rome’s rich musical heritage for future generations while you enjoy an exceptional evening.
For any further information or questions, please don't hesitate to contact me directly.
Looking forward to seeing you there!
Mary B.Handley
Board Member FRCMF
[email protected]
8-14 September
Operaffinity
Festival di Todi 2025
Autumn 2025
Keats & Shelley House
2022/3
21 October 2022 to 31 January 2023
Kevin Murray
Retrospective Exhibition
Australian Catholic University, Rome
Le Ottobrate Romane
The Exhibition's Patrons are:
H.E. Chiara Porro, Australian Ambassador to the Holy See and
Dr Barbara Jatta. Director of the Vatican Museums.
The Vatican Museums will produce the Catalogue of the Retrospective Exhibition in colaboration with the Australian Embassy to the Holy See.
Sydney-born painter and resident of Rome for 62 years.
Kevin Murray, considers himself as a descendent of the SCUOLA ROMANA. The Scuola Romana began in the Studio of Mario Maffai and his Estonian wife, Raphael, in Via Cavour in 1924 and lasted up until the 1970s. It included such painters as Guttuso, Pirendello, Trombadore, Cagli, Donghi, Scipione, Macari, Gentilini and many more. These painters, despite their indivual personalities and styles, had two things in common that united them into the Roman School: they were all figurative artists rather than abstract and their Muse was the Eternal City of Rome herself with her warm ochre and russet coloured buildings and roof-tops, her Renaissance and Baroque church facades. towers and domes, her imposing Imperial monuments. her beautiful piazzas, fountains and River Tiber, her colourful fruit and vege markets, her ceramic platters and jugs, her blooming young men and women, her clergy, her workmen and housewives and pensioners. In sum, the whole life style of a people and the cityscape and countryside in which they lived and moved was the subject of the Scuola Romana Painters. It wasn't until Murray saw an important Retrospective of La Scuola Romana Painters that he fully realized that the subjects that enthused them also enthused him and that therefore he was their descendent without knowing it. ROMA, MUSA MIA!
2018
Shussurus
Climate Change Conference
Villa Wolkonsky
www.commonwealthclubrome.org/climate-change-conf.html
