samedi 15 mars 2014

Fabio Mengozzi - SPIRE



Biography


Fabio Mengozzi

FABIO MENGOZZI (born 1980 in Asti, Italy) is an Italian composer, pianist, and conductor.He graduated at the age of 19 as a pianist with top grades under Aldo Ciccolini's guidance at the “Turin Conservatory”. The following year he took part in the “IV Rassegna musicale dei migliori diplomati” in Castrocaro Terme. He won the first prize in the undermentioned Piano Competitions: “Comune di Terzo d’Acqui”, “Città di Alassio”, “Lorenzo Perosi” in Tortona, “Cortile Casa Lodigiani” in Alessandria, “Città di Genova”, “Concorso Musicale Europeo Città di Moncalieri”, “Concorso Naz. di Musica per borse di studio” in Tortona, “F.Schubert” in Tagliolo Monferrato, and the second prize in the “Città di Genova”, “G. Vidusso” in Milano, Concorso di Musica da camera “Città di Moncalieri”, “Concorso Naz. di Musica per giovani interpreti Città di Asti”, “Città di Cortemilia”.
He graduated in Conducting and Composition with maximum markes in 2004 at the Turin Consevatory. He obtained an Academic Degree in Composition together with Azio Corghi at the “Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia” in Rome. After that, he got the highest degree in Music Didactis. Besides he took part in many courses and masterclasses, and he has both conducted and played in many different concerts in Italy and abroad too. Some of the several performers who have played his compositions are: Freon ensemble, Monesis ensemble conducted by Flavio Emilio Scogna, Ars ludi ensemble conducted by Marco Angius, Sarabanda ensemble, Ensemble di clarinetti Càlamus, Duo Avalokitesvara, Trio Debussy, Naama Women's Choir, Coro Officina Vocis, Coro Estro Armonico, Orchestra e Coro di San Secondo, Orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali, Francesco Attesti, Riccardo Balbinutti, Marcello Bianchi, Assia Cunego, Tzenka Dianova, Nicolas Horvath, Cathrine Penderup.
He was winner of several Composition Contests, including: 2nd Prize at the “Composition Competition for Orchestra Premio Mozart Oggi” in Milano, 2nd Prize at the “International Composition Competition Giornate della Percussione” in Fermo, 3rd Prize at the “International Composition Competition Michele Pittaluga” in Alessandria, “Progetto Giovani Compositori Incontro con le musiche 2007” in Forlì, “Composition Competition F. Evangelisti” in Roma, “Composition Competition Rosolino Toscano” in Pescara.
His pieces, published by Bèrben Edizioni Musicali, Edizioni Musicali Sconfinarte and Taukay Edizioni Musicali, have been performed in various different places in Italy, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland, Ukraine, USA, e.g.: Aachen, Bad Liebenzell, Beit Hakshatot, Belfort, Bellinzona, Borchen, Binyamina, Bremen-Findorff, Cismar, Collioure, Córdoba, Daytona Beach, Gien, Göttingen, Hamborn, Jægerspris, Jerusalem, Karlsruhe, Kielce, Kiev, Lamballe, La Rochelle, Ljubljana, Lubeck, Marburg, Nieblum, Nürnberg, Ottersberg, Paladru, Pornichet, Postojna, Rada Tilly, Sanibel Captiva, Saint-Gaudens, Siegen, Stetten, Ulm, Vero Beach, Victoria, Villingen, Wüppels, Asti, Catania, Cervignano del Friuli, Chieri, Cremona, Forlì, Milano, Pescara, Roma, San Felice Circeo, Spilimbergo, Torino, Venezia, Vicenza.
The above mentioned compositions have been played in some of the most prestigious events, such as: Winchester Modern Gallery (Victoria, Canada), Ateliersalen (Jægerspris, Denmark), “La Nuit du Piano Minimaliste”(Collioure, France), “2nd Night of Minimal Piano” (Kiev, Ukraine), “Nuova Consonanza” (Sala Accademica Conservatorio Santa Cecilia - Roma), Unione Culturale “F. Antonicelli” (Torino), Teatro Piccolo Regio “G. Puccini” (Torino), Conservatorio “G. Verdi” (Torino), “MITO/SettembreMusica” (Torino), “Gli Amici di MUSICA/REALTÀ” (Palazzina Liberty - Milano), Stagione Sinfonica “I Pomeriggi Musicali” (Teatro Dal Verme – Milano), Liceo Musicale “A.Masini” (Forlì), “Liuteria in Festival” (Cremona), “I concerti alla Villa Bellini” (Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “Vincenzo Bellini” - Catania), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Roma), Sala Ciampi (Roma), “AGIMUS Venezia” (Centro Culturale Candiani), “I concerti dell'UTEA” (Asti), Conservatorio “A.Pedrollo” (Vicenza).
He is often asked to take part as a member of the Jury in musical competitions. Moreover he is the Artistic Director of the Italian Association “Audire Musica delle Sfere”. 

SPIRE

(by the composer himself)


“Spire” has been composed in 2013 as a hommage to Philip Glass for the "Palais de
Glass Marathon" taken by the French pianist Nicolas Horvath. The piece is arranged
starting off with the principle of numbers, as Fabio Mengozzi do in many other
compositions. The music material is made up of two alternanting ideas in contrasting
styles. “Spire” tends to be an expression of simplicity ruled over by order.

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