FS Italiane and the National Academy of Santa Cecilia unite for the 2021–2022 musical season
Luigi Ferraris, CEO of the FS Italiane Group, presents the FS Award for national and international musical excellence
Rome, 05 October 2021
Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane returns alongside the National Academy of Santa Cecilia also for the 2021–2022 musical season.
Again this year, the FS Italiane Group – as a founding member of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia – confirms its commitment to enhancing the national cultural heritage. For the occasion, Luigi Ferraris, as Group CEO, will present the FS Award to Maestro Jakub Hrůša, one of the most prestigious conductors on the international music scene, just appointed as Principal Guest Conductor of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia for a period of three years.
Maestro Hrůša will conduct the opening concert of the symphonic season, set for Thursday, 7 October. The FS Italiane Group is the sole partner of the event.
The collaboration between FS Italiane and the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, testifying to the synergy between the two institutions, continues with a special evening of high symbolic value, being dedicated to the restart. With this in mind, the Symphony no. 2 “Resurrection” by Gustav Mahler was chosen.
Supporting culture is an almost natural vocation for a company like FS Italiane, woven into the Italian civil and economic fabric for over a century and protagonist of the country’s infrastructural development, guaranteeing people’s mobility and thus the free circulation of ideas.
FS Italiane Group promotes and supports the cultural development of the country through agreements with important events, institutions and museums of international fame whilst guaranteeing people’s mobility and thus the free circulation of ideas – a natural vocation for a company that has been woven for over a century into the Italian civil, economic and social fabric and protagonist of the country’s infrastructural development.
Indeed, FS Italiane plays a key role in Italy’s relaunch, in the modernisation and enhancement of Italian territories and beauties through the development of the main rail and road axes, the speeding up and modernisation of the High Speed and regional transport network, being fundamental for the recovery of tourism as well as the creation of a modern, digitised and sustainable mobility system.