Luca Francesconi: Music Project 2009

Maestro Luca Francesconi, the prestigious Italian composer, has been invited to programme and coordinate the third edition of the music workshop. Following project’s objectives, he called Christian Cassinelli and Pasquale Corrado to work on compositions for wind quintet (flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon).

At the Foundation, the two composers will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with the musicians of the Quintetto Bibiena (Giampaolo Pretto flute, Paolo Grazia oboe, Alessandro Carbonare clarinet, Stefano Pignatelli horn, Roberto Giaccaglia basson), who will interpret new compositions in the concert hall of the Banna Estate.

The concert program, in which the two new works will be presented, will include a wind quintet Attesa by Luca Francesconi and a quintet from classic repertoir.

Saturday 23 May 2009 – 6pm
Music room of the Spinola Banna Foundation for Art

Luca Francesconi (1956)
Attesa (1990)

Christian Cassinelli (1979)
Eco loquace che incanti… (2008)

Pasquale Corrado (1979)
Quintessence (2008)
(al Quintetto Bibiena)

György Ligeti (1923-2006)
6 Bagatelle (1953)
Allegro con spirito
Rubato lamentoso
Allegro grazioso
Presto ruvido
Adagio mesto
Molto vivace – Capriccioso

Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Opus Number Zoo per quintetto di fiati recitante (1970)
Testo di Rhoda Levine
Ballo campestre (Barn Dance)
Il cavallo (The Fawn)
Il topo (The Grey Mouse)
I gattacci (Tom Cats)

QUINTETTO BIBIENA
Giampaolo Pretto flauto
Paolo Grazia oboe
Alessandro Carbonare clarinetto
Roberto Giaccaglia fagotto
Stefano Pignatelli corno

Luca Francesconi studied piano at the Conservatory of Milan and composition with Azio Corghi, Karlheinz Stockhausen (in Rome), Luciano Berio (at Tanglewood) and jazz in Boston; he also worked as an assistant of Berio beetwen 1981 and 1984. In 1990 he founded Agon Acustica Informatica Musica, a centre for production and musical research with new technologies based in Milan. Among the many prizes and international awards he has received the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis (Darmstadt 1990), the Förderpreis der Ernst-von-Siemens-Musikstiftung (Munich 1994) and the Prix Italia for Ballata del rovescio del mondo, a radio opera with texts by Umberto Fiori (1994). Many important international institutions have programmed concerts dedicated exclusively to his music. He regularly collaborates with the world’s leading musicians and international orchestras. He has so far written over seventy works for very different forces (ranging from soloist, large orchestra and opera to multimedia), many of these commissioned by leading musical institutions and radio corporations. He’s written five Radio-Operas for RAI Corporation and several stage or open air operas, frequently using multimedia technologies like the video-opera Striàz (with Studio Azzurro video makers), the Lips, Eyes, Bang for performer and ensemble with realtime audio and video transformations, commissioned by Nieuw Ensemble and STEIM Amsterdam, the Ballata for Théâtre de La Monnaie in Bruxelles. Recent works include Unexpected End of Formula for cello and ensemble performed by musikFabrik in Koln, Hard Pace, a trumpet concerto premiered in April 2008 by Håkan Hardenberger and Santa Cecilia Orchestra under Tony Pappano, in Rome (this work is co-commissioned by Accademia Santa Cecilia with the collaboration of Zaterdag Matinée at Concertgebouw, Göteborgs Symfoniker, Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and MITO SettembreMusica). He has important opera projects.

He has been teaching for 25 years both in Italian conservatory and in masterclasses all over the world. He also conducts.

At present he is professor and head of the department of composition at the Musikhögskolan of Malmö in Sweden.

Since February 2008 (until 2012) he has been the new Artistic Director of Biennale Venice.