Piano Concert
6th October 2016 - 19h30 | Casa da Música: sala 2
Santi Calabrò |
Born in Messina, he studied at the Conservatory “A. Corelli” of his city, graduating under the guidance of Vittorio Trovato; he attended courses and master classes with Giuseppe La Licata, Daniel Rivera, Pierluigi Camicia, Todor Petrov, Maria Regina Seidlhofer, Sonia Pahor. He followed composition studies and he has also graduated in Music Education. He graduated in Modern Literature at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Messina. During his studies he started an early concert activity, performing for prestigious institutions in piano recitals and in chamber ensembles, always receiving unanimous acclaim. He won prizes in national and international piano competitions. In recent seasons he has successfully performed several concerts for piano and orchestra in Italy, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, and has given recitals in various Italian cities (Naples, Cagliari, Taranto, Sassari, Messina, Fasano, Lecce, Noto, Bologna, Rome, Trapani, Milazzo, Reggio Calabria, Venice). He holds conference-concerts for concert Institutions and Universities and is invited to musicological conferences in Italy and abroad. He is a musical critic, publishes musicological articles and essays in specialized magazines and books. His publications range from the analysis of music, the musical dramaturgy, history and analysis of interpretation, the methodology of piano technique. National competition winner, he currently teaches at the Conservatory of Messina.
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Musical Performance: MusicExperiment21 Collective
5th October 2016 - 19h30 | Casa da Música: sala 2
ME21 Collective is composed of artist researchers involved in the project MusicExperiment21, coordinated and directed by Paulo de Assis. The collective includes musicians, performers, composers, dancers, actors, and philosophers without having any standard or even stable formation. ME21 Collective’s modes of communication include conventional formats such as concerts and installations but also lectures, publications, and web expositions.
Paulo Assis is the coordinator and principal researcher of the European Research Council Starting Grant "Experimentation versus Interpretation: Exploring New Paths in Music Performance in the 21st Century" (2013-2018), a project based on the Orpheus Institut (Ghent, Belgium), which involves fifteen artists-researchers, including performers, composers, philosophers, choreographers and instrumental ensembles, proposing new ways of thinking and making music. Between 2009 and 2012 he was Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music (CESEM) at Lisbon’s Universidade Nova where he coordinated the area of "interpretation-composition-Experimentation". Paulo Assis studied piano, musicology, composition and instrumental direction in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Austria, giving regular courses and seminars in various European schools (Oslo, Gothenburg, Malmo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Toulouse, Madrid, Bern, Venice, Graz and Vienna). He is the author of two books and the editor of eight. His current musical projects include experimental practices applied to musical works such as Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, Schumann’s Kreisleriana, musical works of Nietzsche, reductions for piano from Schoenberg Orchestral pieces, and a double-orchestration ... sofferte where serene ... of Luigi Nono.
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Lucia D’Errico is an artist specialising in contemporary and experimental music, performing on acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar, oud, and several other plucked string instruments. As a performer and improviser, she has collaborated with contemporary music groups, and with theatre, dance, and visual art companies. She studied classical guitar at Conservatorio B. Marcello of Venice, and Modern Languages at Università Ca’ Foscari of Venice. Currently, she is working on a doctoral research (ME21 at Orpheus Institute Gent, docARTES programme at Leuven University). She is also active as a freelance graphic designer.
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Juan Parra Cancino is a composer, guitarist and computer performer. Founder of The Electronic Hammer, a Computer and Percussion trio and Wiregriot, (voice & electronics), he collaborates regularly with Ensemble KLANG (NL) and Hermes Ensemble (BE), among many others. Parra holds a PhD from Leiden University (NL) and is a fellow researcher at the Orpheus Institute (Ghent, BE), focused on performance practice in Computer Music
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Bobby Mitchell is a young American pianist whose interests are embedded in the here and now of music as performance art in combination with the more standard classical repertory of centuries past. His diverse interests in historical performance practice and in contemporary trends have brought him to venues across Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas. He records for the Alpha Music label (Haydn on an original pianoforte) and for Telos Music. Bobby holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague (Netherlands), and the Musikhochschule Freiburg (Germany), and is an ORCiM Doctoral Researcher (Orpheus Instituut in Ghent, Belgium) and enrolled in the University of Leiden's Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (Netherlands). Primary teachers include Nelita True, David Kuyken, Robert Hill, Stephen Perry, and Bart van Oort.
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