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dal nostro cupo sempreverde

for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, harp, piano, percussion

Commissioned by Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte (Montepulciano, ITALY - 2021) 10 min.

This work plays with the 10th Duino Elegie by Rilke: 
"Let my streaming face make me more radiant: let my secret weeping bear flower. O, how dear you will be to me, then, Nights of anguish. . . We, squanderers of pain. How we gaze beyond them into duration's sadness, to see if they have an end. Through they are nothing but our winter-suffering foliage, our dark evergreen, one of the seasons of our inner year."

 

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SHADES OF ABULIA

for ensemble

(Baltimore, MD – 2020) 5 min.

This work is inspired by Andrej Tarkovsky’s Stalker (1979). In the movie, Stalkers have the role of guiding people into the Zone, a surrealist place where men can discover themselves and potentially fulfill their innermost desires. Conversations on the meaning of existence reveal Tarkovsky’s metaphysical sensitivity, with scriptural and poetic references throughout the journey.

 

d    o    m

for voice, percussion, violoncello

Commissioned by DUOroboros (Pistoia, ITALY - 2020) 10 min.

This work is shaped as a ritual, a personal tribute to the Via Crucis with fragments of texts characterized by eloquent visual power.

On a Shore of Cries

[Lei, piangente]

for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, violoncello, piano, (optional) live electronics

Commissioned by Camere Contemporanee at Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte (Montepulciano, ITALY - 2017, rev.2019) 8 min.

This work is a dialogue with Picasso's Nude Woman with Necklace (1968 - Tate Modern, London). When I first saw that portrait of Jacqueline Roque, I felt overwhelmed by its exuding energy. Driven by that vivid memory, I envisioned a musical flux in which mellow sonorities and propulsive gestures are intertwined within a transparent texture, often oscillating between nebulosity and assertiveness.

Movenza sospesa

for clarinet, vibraphone, violin, violoncello

Written for Altre Voci Ensemble (Modena, ITALY - 2017) 4 min.

Inspired by the Premio Veretti dance theme of 2016, I composed an etude that is made of a series of sketches of varying pace and tone, ending with an elusive - and illusive - equilibrium.

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