In 1993 he took part in the composition of the musical fairy tale Notte by Jean-Michel Arevalos. In 1994 he wins the first prize at the National Piano Competition Agorà in Rome. In 1995 he obtains a diploma in piano with full marks and honours at Conservatorio Bruno Maderna in Cesena; soon afterwards, he improves himself with Rudolf Kehrer in Vienna and Oxana Yablonskaya in New York. Between 2000 and 2006 he studies composition in Rome with Francesco Telli, in Lugano with Paul Glass and in Paris with Narcis Bonet. He publishes two compositions for piano of his own for the music publishing house College Music: Vivo Marcia Fantasia (2002) and Nocturne 1996 (2006). From 2003 to 2006 he cooperates as a pianist with the theatre company Fanny & Alexander on the project Ada, a family chronicle, performing music by O. Messiaen, G. Ligeti and M. Feldman and taking part in the recordings for the dvd Rebus per Ada, Luca Sossella Editore (2006).
Between 2006 and 2007, in duo with ondist Bruno Perrault, he specializes in a repertoire of contemporary classical music. In 2008 he performs the Rothko Chapel by M. Feldman with the Ensemble Giacinto Scelsi directed by Roberto Gabbiani and, in duo with ondist Nadia Ratsimandresy, he gives life to a monographic project under the title of Messiaen et autour de Messiaen on the occasion of the centenary of Olivier Messiaen's birth, which achieved the cd release for the english label ReR Megacorp. He is a member of the musical research group Synusonde with composer Paolo F. Bragaglia, recently published by Minus Habens Records on cd entitled Yug. In 2010 he took part of the dynamic performance Variazioni sull’Angolo Diedro, recently published the book for the SBC Edizioni.
He recently worked with film director Elisabetta Sgarbi composing and performing the original soundtrack of her movies La Stanza della Segnatura and Sono rimasto senza parole.
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Opening concert at Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture
Metaxata of Livatho, Kefalonia
saturday 6 August / 9 p.m.
IONIAN LAPSUS
Rituals of the dark and the light for piano and video projections
Metaxata of Livatho, Kefalonia
saturday 6 August / 9 p.m.
IONIAN LAPSUS
Rituals of the dark and the light for piano and video projections
with video projections by artist Chiara Zenzani
Rituals of light
Loutra Photos (2004), for piano
Loutra Photos (from greek: light source) divided into two movements, the first Lento:Recitativo with predominantly detached high notes, like flashes of light. The second movement Allegro is a syncopated ostinato bass which originates from a fast moving melodic fugal, like the light that escapes and moves magically at the same time all things.
Caretta Caretta (2011), for piano
The tiny Rusalka (2011), video 17'30''
The Piano Sonata is divided into three movements, composed and dedicated to the Caretta caretta turtles and all the mothers. A tribute also to Katelios Group, association of Katelios which protects and defends this rare animal species threatened with extinction. The first movement in C major, Allegro - is the moment when the turtle comes from the sea and traveled thousands of miles to find his own geographical point where spawn. The second movement in Db major, Lento (unusual modulation to the shape of the sonata) - is the time when the turtle passes from aquatic to the terrestrial world (from C to Db) to go to spawn their eggs. The first part is a real melismatic singing, characterized by continuous trills throughout the melodic contour. The timing of spawning is instead characterized by an hypnotic trend with clinched, just as the trance state, which assumes the turtle in her most important action. A lullaby, a song of good luck for her future children. The third movement in D, Prestissimo volando - is the time when the turtle returns to the water world and when, after a few weeks, the young hatch from eggs, following their natural call in search of the sea, risking their lives, using at night a reflection of the stars in the water.
The tiny Rusalka resumes the music trend divided into three stages, the arrival, the stay, the return. The images that accompany the music are inspired by the greek myth of the nymph Chelone, transformed into a turtle for her laziness, and by the Russian fairy tale Rusalka. Both stories are set in the space between land and sea, telling of metamorphosis and the need to belong to two worlds. Both focus on marriage, birth and loss at the same time, as the turtle sees life on earth but is destined to drag her slowly body towards the sea.
[shooting and editing: Mauro Corti
stylist: Luca Bertoni]Vivo Marcia Fantasia (2002), for piano
Vivo Marcia Fantasia, concludes the rituals of light, the music is divided into three movements, the first - Vivo - in Doric style leads to the main theme - Marcia - intense as a dialogue for two voices and conclude triumphantly with the resumption of the third movement - Vivo - with a character developed and bright.
Rituals of dark
Nocturne 1996 (1996/2006), for piano
A nocturne divided into five movements. The first movement Grave, introduces the first theme, a first figure that dialogue between A minor and D minor. The second Andantino is the infinite path of life, a walk in D major, that lands to the meeting with the second character. In the third movement Maestoso the second character reflects in between D minor and F major, telling to the first character which abandons in listening. The fourth movement Andantino is resuming the journey of the two characters which rise together in the fifth and last movement Grave.
Looking in the dark there is always something (2011)
video 5'20'' with original music for prepared piano
From a fairy tale written in childhood, Chiara Zenzani continues in the narrative sixteen year later: taking the clothes of Troll, the protagonist of the story, she reinterprets some of its elements. Place for the actions is a Swedish forest called Trolls Forest that, viewed through the filter of the tale, it settled on the border between reality and fantasy, taking form of an imaginary world where everything seems possible. In translating the tale in movements and actions is called those symbolism which belongs to the world of fairy tales and that takes us to its origins. The Troll is part of the iconography of the monster, and generally of all the creatures based on a perversion of nature, it reflects our primary fears, first of all the separation from the natural order by rational virtue. In the balance between being part of nature and our ability to awareness, assessment, reflection, the Troll is the ambivalence of human existence. The photographs that give life to the video appeal to our primary emotions, that animal part who lives in us.
[photography: Michele Tamburini
stylist: Maria Letizia Carta]Rituel (2010), for piano
Rituel concludes the rituals of the dark, is written in the scale Kalyan of the Indian classical music, scale used for playing during the evening. The music is divided into three movements Slow - Moderate - Fast, and presents a thematic cell, the Raga, rhythmically developed in the three movements. In this music the piano, an instrument of Western classical music is embodied in the main instrument of Indian classical music: the sitar.
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Concerts at Katelios, Kefalonia
monday 8 and friday 12 August / 10-11 p.m.
RHYTHM OF THE PIANO
Concert for piano solo
GYÖRGY LIGETI Musica Ricercata
BÉLA BARTÓK For Children (Hungarian and Slovakian Folk Tunes)
MIKIS THEODORAKIS Theme of “Zorba the Greek” and other works
A varied program of music for piano solo, very rhythmic, with works by contemporary composers and ending with the most famous theme songs of Theodorakis. A concert to be make at night in the most passing place of Kato Katelios, who tries to entice the audience to dance!
Concert for piano solo
GYÖRGY LIGETI Musica Ricercata
BÉLA BARTÓK For Children (Hungarian and Slovakian Folk Tunes)
MIKIS THEODORAKIS Theme of “Zorba the Greek” and other works
A varied program of music for piano solo, very rhythmic, with works by contemporary composers and ending with the most famous theme songs of Theodorakis. A concert to be make at night in the most passing place of Kato Katelios, who tries to entice the audience to dance!
tuesday 9 and saturday 13 August / 10-11 p.m.
NOCTURNAL WIND
NOCTURNAL WIND
Concert for piano solo
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Nocturne Op 9 No. 1 in B-flat minor
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Nocturne Op 27 No. 1 in C-sharp minor
ERIK SATIE Gnossienne No. 1
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Sonata No. 2 Op 35 in B-flat minor
ERIK SATIE Gnossienne No. 3
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Nocturne Opera postuma in C-sharp minor
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Nocturne Op 72 No. In E-minor
Concert for piano solo with a music program dedicated to the night (concert lasting about an hour), to play late in the evening, with the audience seated on the ground in the sand around the pianist. Every spectator will be given a candle to illuminate.
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Nocturne Op 9 No. 1 in B-flat minor
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Nocturne Op 27 No. 1 in C-sharp minor
ERIK SATIE Gnossienne No. 1
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Sonata No. 2 Op 35 in B-flat minor
ERIK SATIE Gnossienne No. 3
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Nocturne Opera postuma in C-sharp minor
FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN Nocturne Op 72 No. In E-minor
Concert for piano solo with a music program dedicated to the night (concert lasting about an hour), to play late in the evening, with the audience seated on the ground in the sand around the pianist. Every spectator will be given a candle to illuminate.
wednesday 10 August / 10-11 p.m.
RITUALS, for piano
music by Matteo Ramon Arevalos
Loutra Photos
– Lento recitativo
– Allegro, Lento recitativo
Sonata Caretta caretta
– Allegro (from the sea…..)
– Lento (Spawning)
– Prestissimo volando (…..in the sea)
Vivo Marcia Fantasia
– Vivo – Poco meno mosso – Meno mosso – Marcia Fantasia: Lento – Vivo – Poco meno mosso – Meno mosso – Lento
Nocturne 1996
– Grave – Andantino – Maestoso – Andantino – Grave
Kite
– Allegro
Rituel (Raga Kalyan)
– Alap (Lento)
– Jod (Moderato)
– Drut (Presto)
sunday 7, thursday 11, sunday 14 August / 8-8.30 p.m.
CARETTA CARETTA
Sonata for piano wrote and dedicated to sea turtle Caretta caretta
music by Matteo Ramon Arevalos
– Allegro (from the sea…..)
– Lento (Spawning)
– Prestissimo volando (…..in the sea)
