7th International Composers Competition "Citta' di Udine"Jury:
Bernardino Beggio
Michele Biasutti
Marek Choloniewski
Michele dall’Ongaro
John Yannelli
Bernardino Beggio
Composer - Pianist – Conductor
Bernardino Beggio has studied at the Padova Conservatory and afterwards at the Music Academy of Gdansk and Cracow. He has started to compose after many years’ experience of directing the Interensemble, as pianist and as music organizer. He is particularly interested in the relationship between the word and music, in the symmetry and similitudes between verbal and musical languages, other than in research of simplicity and intelligibility. He has composed for chamber music groups and solo instruments, for string orchestra and for wind instruments, for the theatre and for experimental cinema. His music has been performed in most european countries and USA and broadcast from the national radio networks of Belgium, Croatia, Rumenia, Spain as well as from Italian Rai. He has been requested for engagements from the Theatre Européen de Musique Vivante, Festival del Flauto and Antidogma Musica in Turin, Accademia San Felice in Florence,Festival Musica ‘900 and Musica Nuova Festival. He teaches Contemporary Music Semiography, Subsidiary Piano and Contemporary Music Lab at the Steffani Conservatory in Castelfranco Veneto, where he is also Adjunct Director.
Michele Biasutti
Composer and Psychologist, Michele Biasutti was awarded diplomas at the Padova Conservatory of music. A prize-winning composer (International Composer Competition L. Russolo, International Competition of Bourges, Concour International de Composition de la Societé de Musique Contemporaine du Québec, International Competition Pierre Schaeffer, ... ), his works were radio broadcast (rai, orf, rne 2, Radio Bratislava, rtsi, hrt, Radio Canada) and selected for International Festivals (isea 95 in Montreal, isea 96 in Rotterdam, vi bscm in Rio de Janeiro, jim99 in Paris, vii bscm in Curitiba). His music was performed in Festivals in Europe (Music Now in Dublin, Purcell Room in London, Musica Verticale in Rome, Aspekte in Salzburg, Society for new music in Prague, Musiques d’aujourd’hui in Marseille, Neue Musik in Freiburg; Encuentros mùsica europea in Madrid,...) in North and South America (m.i.t. in Boston, smcq in Montreal, San Francisco State University, New York University, III Bienal Internacional de Música Elettroacustica in San Paulo,...), in Japan, Korea (Seul International Computer Music Festival 2003) and Australia (Interfaces, ACMC 2000 in Brisbane). He was composer in residence at the University of Massachusetts. He collaborated with International Centers for electronic music. He is active as music organizer, currently scientific director of the Computer Art Festival in Padova. He is in the jury of international competitions of composition. His music was considered in PhD thesis in the USA.
As a researcher in psychology of music, he received a Ph.D. at Padova University. For reason of research and advanced study Biasutti spent time in USA Universities. He was visiting professor at New York University.
His writings have been published in international reviews. He is the author of sevral books such as Environmental Sound Education (La Nuova Italia) and Psycho Pedagogy of Music. He has taught at the Conservatories of Novara and Venice.
His music is recorded on Compact disc Artis-Cramps (arcd 062, Polygram distribution), Fondazione Russolo-Pratella (Ef. Er. P94), Rivo Alto (crr 2111, crr 2025, crr 9511, crr 9610, Electa and Ducale distribution), Intersound IS 01-7, Accademia Musicale Pescarese (mv001).
Michele Biasutti specializes in ecological music, music which seeks to return to the essential elements of human nature, re-evaluating the primary sphere of human auditory perception. He is interested in the relationship between scientific thought and the logic of music, applying the results to his composition and research.
Michele Biasutti is Associate Professor at Padova University.
Marek Choloniewski
Director of Electroacoustic Music Studio - Academy of Music - Cracow
Born 1953, in Krakow studied organ (with L.Werner), theory of music and composition (with B.Schaeffer) at the Krakow Academy of Music, since 2000 the director of the Electro-acoustic Music Studio.
In 1977 he founded Muzyka Centrum Art Society, largely engaged in concert work. Founder and co-founder of many groups: Freight Train (with P.Bikont and K.Knittel), Studio MCH, DoubleMark (with M.Polishook), CH&K&K (with K.Knittel and W.Kiniorski), mc2 duo (with M.Chyrzynski), Infinity Quartett (with K.Neuringer, R.Zawel and R.Mazur), Natural Plastic (with A.Knoles) and Kinetic Trio (with W.Kiniorski and R.Mazur), which deals with concert and recording activities. Since 1979 member of Cracovian Group Art Association.
Choloniewski writes instrumental and electroacoustic music for theater, film and radio, author of sond and video installations, audio-visual, outdoor and net projects. A world renown lecturer, composer, sound artist and live art performer. Since 1984 he has been giving concerts, workshops and lectures in Europe, North and South America as well as Asia.
Author, founder, artistic director, coordinator and cooperator of many international projects: „audio art“ series (1987), Audio Art Festival (1993), International Workshops for New Music Cracow/Stuttgart with Matthias Hermann (1993), International Academy for New Composition and Audio Art in Tirol with M.Penz van Stappershoef (1993 - 1999), Silent Films with Music Live (1994), Global Mix (1998), Art Boat (2000), GPS-Art (2000), Ensemble Spiel with S.Meier (2003), Bridges and European Modern Orchestra with K.Kwiatkowski (2003, 2005), Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music (Polish section of CIME/ICEM 2005), Polish Sound Art in China and Chinese Sound Art in Poland (with Dickson Dee and Palsecam in 2006, 2007), PAFME (with B.Boretz and D.Czerner 2006), European Course for Musical Composition and Technologies (coordinated by IRCAM 2007).
In 2006 he received Honorable Award of the Polish Composers Union, Award of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, as well as the Independent Project grant of the CEC ArtsLink in New York.
Michele dall’Ongaro
After receiving basics in music from his grandfather, the composer Giuseppe Savagnone, Michele dall’Ongaro studies at the Conservatoire of Santa Cecilia, having private piano tuitions with Eugenio De Rosa. In the Conservatoire of Rome, he later attends the courses of Composition (Armando Renzi, Domenico Guaccero), Electronic Music (Franco Evangelisti), Choir Music and Choir Conducting (Vieri Tosatti, Domenico Bartolucci), and Popular Song Theory and Techniques (Diego Carpitella). After graduating, in 1978, he specialises in advanced composition under the supervision of Aldo Clementi, and attends privately the Conducting courses of Franco Ferrara, Lev Markitz and Jaques Bodmer.
In 1978 dall’Ongaro co-founds the ensemble “Spettro Sonoro”, which is one of the first ensembles in Italy to promote and perform the new music; as a performer, he is involved in World and Italian premieres of authors such as Cage, Stockhausen, Evangelisti, Clementi, Scelsi and younger composers. Moreover, with “Spettro Sonoro” is among the performers of the first integral execution of F. Nietzsche’s musical oeuvre (1979, Teatro Argentina, Auditorium della Rai of Rome). For few years, since 1980, dall’Ongaro collaborates with the Rai Symphonic Orchestra of Rome, as a pianist. He realises television programmes dedicated to modern and contemporary music (“Che musica è?”, 1979; “Ritratto di Barbara Giuranna”, 1996, Raitre). In 1985 he starts collaborating with Radio2, then moves to Radio3 in 1991.
His compositions (presented in Italy, Mexico, China, Japan, United States, Holland, France, Germany and Switzerland) have been played by performers such as Lü Jia, Pierre-Ives Artaud, Arditti Quartet, Luisa Castellani, Giuseppe Scotese, Ex-Novo Ensemble, Ars-Ludi, Ciro Scarponi, Ensemble Alter Ego, Roberto Prosseda, and presented in important institutions, both in Italy and abroad (Academy of Santa Cecilia, Teatro dell’Opera of Rome, Philharmonic Academy of Rome, Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti of Rome, Festival “Milano-Musica”, Festival “Di nuovo” of Reggio Emilia, Festival Pontino, Nuova Consonanza, “RomaEuropa Festival”, Fabbrica Europa, Antidogma, Agon, Musica e Scienza). His works are currently published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni of Milan, and have been recorded on monographic CDs.
Dall’Ongaro has collaborated with Luciano Berio, Gianni Rodari, Vittorio Sermonti, Luca Ronconi, Stefano Benni, Michele Serra and Alessandro Baricco. He participated to the realisation of the videos Alexandr Nevskij (Orf) and La casa dei suoni (Sony) with Claudio and Daniele Abbado.
He is the author of numerous concert programme notes and CD programme sleeves, reviews and many articles and essays that have been published on specialised journals. His essay La musica tra suono e silenzio was included in the Atlante del Novecento (UTET, 3 vols., 2000) edited by L. Gallino, M. L. Salvadore e G. Vattimo. In 1986 he published an analysis of Giacomo Puccini’s operas (Pacini Editore, Pisa). In 1991 he created and coordinated the release of the first collection ever edited in Italian of analytical essays on Anton Webern’s works (Anton Webern - spunti analitici: interpretazioni e metodologie, Nuova Consonanza, Roma).
From 1993 to 1998 he works as a musical consultant of the “RomaEuropa Festival”.
From 1997 to 1999 he is the president of Nuova Consonanza.
From February 1999 to March 2001 he is the Artistic Organiser of “Attività Permanenti del Settore Musica” at the Biennale of Venice, later becoming an external collaborator (2003-2004).
He sits on the management committees of the Centre “Tempo Reale”, founded by Luciano Berio, and of the Philharmonic Academy of Rome.
Since 2000 is the manager in charge of the musical schedule of Rai Radio3.
John Yannelli
Composer of chamber, orchestral and mixed ensemble pieces, John Yannelli works in both traditional and experimental styles of music. His special interests are in the development of electronic music, improvisation and composing for theater, dance and film. He has written for and conducted ensembles ranging from solo flute to full orchestra with jazz/rock band. Some of his more unusual combinations have been; Music for Stones, where the entire ensemble played stones of varying sizes and shapes; and Water Harvest, in which the ensemble performed on tubs filled with water.
Mr. Yannelli has a diverse catalog including works for mixed ensemble, chorus, orchestra, unaccompanied solo and various mixed media productions. In 1974, he began writing for various unaccompanied instruments, to date his Solo Flight series, is currently at eleven and climbing. He has created over fifty scores for modern dance and has composed music and designed sound for as many theater productions.
He founded the Electronic Music Studio at Thomas Jefferson College and joined the music faculty there in 1976. In addition to his work with electronic music, he developed a collaborative program for musicians, dancers and actors to create work through improvisation.
It was there that he first introduced conducting with gestures, as a means of leading a group of performers to create a work spontaneously. He toured nationally as composer/accompanist with the professional theater company United Stage, and he conceived of and introduced the use of live electronic music in the productions.
Mr. Yannelli joined the music faculty at Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 where he currently holds the William Schumann Chair in Music. He is the Director of Electronic Music and Music Technology and teaches for the Music, Dance and Theater Programs. He has served as Chairman of the Music Program for two terms and has conducted the Sarah Lawrence College Chamber Improvisation Ensemble since 1993. In addition to Sarah Lawrence College, he is also an adjunct professor at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York.
In addition to composing and teaching, Mr. Yannelli is an active record producer/engineer, having worked on projects for such record labels as Serenus, Grenidilla, CRI, Atlantic and Soundspells Productions.
John Yannelli studied at Thomas Jefferson College, The University of Michigan, Sarah Lawrence College and New York University. His principle teachers include, Robert Schectman, William Doppmann, George Balch Wilson, Leslie Bassett and Meyer Kupferman.
John Yannelli’s music has been performed throughout the United States, Europe and the former Soviet Union; at Colleges and Universities such as New York University, Vassar, Hunter, Bard, Brown, University of Michigan, Harvard and Sarah Lawrence; concert halls and venues such as The Kennedy Center, Federal Hall, Beacon Theater, The Kitchen, Dance Theater Workshop, St. Marks, Danspace, Brooklyn Museum, Darnell Library, Theater of the Open Eye, Carnegie Recital Hall, including a solo concert at Carnegie Recital Hall which received critical acclaim.
Recent works and commissions include Solo Flight 11 for violin, Muted Fantasy for Piano and Cello, Grazed by a Comet for Disklaver, percussion and live electronics, Suite for Organ, Concerto for Electric Guitar and Entangled for flute, bass clarinet, electronic guitar and muted piano which was premiered at the Interensemble Computer Music Festival in Padua, Italy.
John Yannelli's music is published by Soundspells Productions and John Yannelli Music (ASCAP).
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Settimo Concorso Internazionale di Composizione
International Competition for Composers - Seventh edition
Città di Udine
Edizione 2008 Edition
REGOLAMENTO
sabato 15 alle ore 22, concerto della Electro Groove Orchestra, 
formazione nata nel 2005 dall'incontro di cinque musicisti provenienti da esperienze in ambiti musicali diversi, dal rock elettronico al jazz. A priori, nessun genere musicale viene escluso dalla produzione, e l'unico punto fisso è il groove. Il repertorio completamente originale, incorpora sfumature di generi diversi, dal dub al jazz, con spiccate sensazioni funky.
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