Asclepios Ensemble
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“Music is the best medicine for the soul,” Plato taught.
The orchestra of the Padua Hospital-University Company "Asclepio Ensemble" testifies that these words are still alive today, a couple of millennia later, in a world where medicine is increasingly technological but, unfortunately, perhaps also further from the soul .
The adventure of the Asclepio Ensemble began at Christmas 2012, when a group of medical musicians found themselves playing for the sick in a hospital ward in Padua. In March 2013, a small orchestra, composed of doctors from the Padua hospital and some medical students, conducted by the Maestro, participated for the first time in the traditional concert organized by the Order of Doctors of Padua ("Doctors in concert"). /Dr. Saller.
The idea of the latter is simple but ambitious: to give life to a structured musical reality, drawing from the mine of musical talents of the medical world.
As often happens, “fortuna audacis iuvat”: the initiative is an immense success, both among the organizers and among the public. The then General Director of the hospital, Dr. Claudio Dario decides to sponsor the initiative by offering the chapel of Santa Maria delle Nevi, inside the Giustinianeo hospital, as a rehearsal room.
Since that moment the Asclepio Ensemble has grown, becoming a real orchestral formation that has held numerous charity concerts in prestigious venues in Padua and its province, Treviso, Rome, alongside musical moments in the various departments dedicated to patients. Above all thanks to these initiatives, which are more important from a human than media point of view, the Asclepio Ensemble presents itself as a new tool for "doing health" and the symbol of a medicine that is not afraid of recovering its humanistic roots.
