Private event, by invitation only. The Palazzo Strozzi High School Renaissance Award winners will be recognized by the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation USA . The mission of the foundation is to preserve the values of openness and creativity of the Renaissance, one of the foundations of the Enlightenment and of modern Western societies.
The winners of the competition travel to Italy the summer after their junior year for one month to learn about the Renaissance through the lenses of art, history, language, literature and science. The students and their chaperone/teachers are based in Florence for their classes and visit Milan, Rome and Venice as well as the regions surrounding Florence in order to experience first hand some of the roots of Western culture.
On the occasion of Make Music Day, the Institute will present during the official award ceremony a performance by the pianist Francesco Taskayali who will also be holding a concert the same evening at the IIC.
By invitation only.