Vivaldi Celebration at Planting Fields

Vivaldi Celebration at Planting Fields
Saturday, August 30, 2025
1 – 2:30pm
Tickets: Adults: $10 | Children under 7: Free
Parking: $8 per vehicle (paid when you park)
Reservations required. All tickets are final sale. Rain or shine.

Join us for an afternoon of classical music as Planting Fields Foundation and Chamber Players International present Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, performed by acclaimed Violinist Lorenzo Mazzamuto. Set against the lush and historic backdrop of Planting Fields, this live outdoor concert brings nature and music into perfect harmony.

Vivaldi’s timeless composition rich with the sounds of birdsong, summer storms, crisp autumn breezes, and frozen winter landscapes has inspired generations of composers and music lovers alike. This performance highlights the powerful connection between music and the natural world.

Program Schedule:
1 – 2:30pm Live Performance of The Four Seasons
Performed by Lorenzo Mazzamuto and Chamber Players International
Please note: The performance will last approximately 90 minutes with no intermission.

Bring a blanket, lawn chair, and picnic basket for a relaxing afternoon surrounded by beauty. Food trucks (Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream, Monarch Foods Catering, Angie’s Empanadas and Dom’s Deli of New Hyde Park) will be on site with delicious offerings, and restrooms are available at the Main Greenhouse.

For questions, contact Lilly McGurk, Stewardship Director, at lmcgurk@plantingfields.org.

By registering for this event, you consent to Planting Fields Foundation photographing and filming during the event. These images may be used for promotional purposes, including social media, on our website, newsletters, grant requests, reports. As it may not be feasible to identify individuals who may wish to opt out, your registration implies your consent to be photographed. If you have any concerns, please contact us at lmcgurk@plantingfields.org

The Vivaldi Celebration at Planting Fields is co-sponsored by Chamber Players International and Ron and Pam Phipps.

About Antonio Vivaldi and The Four Seasons
The Four Seasons, composed around 1720 and published in 1725 in Amsterdam, is widely considered Vivaldi’s most famous work and a groundbreaking achievement in musical expression. Remarkably ahead of its time, Vivaldi released the concertos alongside descriptive sonnets, which were likely written by him, that vividly illustrated the scenes and emotions each season was intended to evoke.

In this masterpiece, Vivaldi depicted flowing streams, singing birds, a shepherd with his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires. It serves as one of the earliest and most detailed examples of what would later be known as program music, music with a narrative element.

Antonio Vivaldi (born March 4, 1678, Venice, Republic of Vencie [Italy] died July 28, 1741, Vienna Austria) was an Italian composer and violinist who left a decisive mark on the form of the concerto and the style of late Baroque instrumental music. He made his first known appearance playing alongside his father, Giovanni Battista, in the basilica in 1696, at age eighteen.

Today there are over 500 concerti by Vivaldi that survive. More than 300 are concerti for solo instruments with string orchestra and continuo. Vivaldi perfected the form of what would become the classical three-movement concerto. The energy, passion, and lyricism of Vivaldi’s concerti their instrumental color and simple dramatic effects rapidly passed into the general language of music. His concerti were taken as models of form by many late Baroque composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, who transcribed ten of them for keyboard instruments. The highly virtuosic style of Vivaldi’s writing for the solo violin in concerti reflects his own renowned technical command of that instrument.

About Lorenzo Mazzamuto, Violinist
Born in Italy, Lorenzo Mazzamuto graduated in 2005 from the Vincenzo Bellini Musical Institute of Catania with the highest scores and honors as a student of Maestro Vito Imperato. In June 2013 he graduated from the Moscow State Conservatory “P. I. Tchaikovsky” with the highest scores in the class of the Russian “Artist of the People” Sergey Girshenko. He has played in White Hall, Conference Hall, Rachmaninov Hall, Small Hall and Big Hall of the Moscow “P.I. Tchaikovsky” Conservatory. In 2020 Lorenzo got his second master’s degree in String Pedagogy in the studio of Maestro E. Schmieder at Temple University, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania).

Lorenzo had his solo debut with an orchestra at the age of nine performing a Vivaldi Concerto and has taken part in over 30 national and international musical competitions, obtaining in all, either first prize or absolute first prize.

International competitions include: “Bernardo Santaniello” (Salerno), “Rovere D’Oro” (Imperia), “Vincenzo Scaramuzza” (Cosenza), “Aretusae” (Syracuse), “Valle del Barocco” (Ragusa), “Mario Fillioley” Siracusa finalist at the TIM International Music Tournament (Roma), and 3rd prize at the “Andrea Postacchini” (Ascoli Piceno).

National competitions include: “A.M.A. Calabria” (Cosenza), “Luca Campochiaro” (Catania), “Vanna Spadafora” (Messina), and “Benedetto Albanese” (Palermo) where he was awarded absolute first prize and the bursary in all categories and divisions, and it also is noteworthy one of the four finalists at the All-Italian Conservatory Competition in Rome. In December 2018 Lorenzo won the string section for “Concerto Competition” at Temple University, and most recently in April 2019, was awarded first prize for the adult division and was a recipient of all the special prizes at the International “Global Music Partnership Competition” (New Jersey).