A concert with Maurizio Barbetti (viola) and Fancesco Cuoghi (guitar)
“OMAGGIO”Maurizio Barbetti-viola
Francesco Cuoghi-guitar
MAURIZIO BARBETTI attended advanced training courses with Aldo Bennici and studied in Darmstadt with Stefan Gheorghiu and Irvine Arditti, who awarded him the International Darmstadt Prize in 1992. That year he also won the “Iannis Xenakis International Prize for Interpretation” in Paris. Since 1992 he has performed as a soloist in the most important concert halls and radios of the world, including the Berlin Radio (playing Stockhausen’s Mixtur in the presence of the composer), as well as for Austrian, German, French, Swiss, English, Irish, Israeli, Italian, Mexican and Romanian radio and television. He has been a soloist with prestigious ensembles including the Ensemble Köln (where he was principal viola from 1992 to 1996), the Ensemble Recherche, the Concorde Ensemble Dublin, the Icarus Ensemble, the Monesis Ensemble, Roma Sinfonietta and with important orchestras including the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Nice, the RTE Concert Orchestra; the Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, and the Euroasian Philharmonic Orchestra of Seoul. He performed the Irish premiere of Berio’s Chemins II for viola and orchestra with the RTE Concert Orchestra of Dublin conducted by Friedrich Goldmann. His vast repertoire ranges from baroque to contemporary composers, with a specialty in “new” music. Many composers have dedicated works to him, including Luis de Pablo and Ennio Morricone, recording the world premiere of Morricone’s Viola concerto, and de Pablo’s Anatomias. He also collaborates with the “Living Theater” of New York. Barbetti has given master classes in important institutions worldwide and has recorded on the Col Legno, Mode, Stradivarius and Subrosa labels.
FRANCESCO CUOGHI graduated from the Conservatory S. Pietro a Majella of Naples and attended specialization courses at the Academy Musicale Chigiana of Siena, the Atelier de Recherche Instrumetale of the IRCAM in Paris and the Ferienkurse in Darmstadt. He completed further private studies in composition with Nazario Carlo Bellandi and Aldo Clementi and in electronic music (Max/MSP) at the F.P.A. of the Ottava of Rome. Since 1984 he has taught guitar at Gioachino Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro and in 2007 he also began teaching guitar at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Florence. He plays on reconstructions of early instruments and modern instruments: ten string guitars, electric guitars and midi guitars. In 1985 he began performing with Live Electronics featuring various electric acoustic devices. He uses specialist audio-video software such as Max5, Csound, and Native Instruments, etc. He performs as a soloist and also as a member of camera formations. He has played in Italy and Europe at such events as the Festival delle Accademie Estere (Roma), Fabrikomposition (Zurigo), Concert de Ville (Ginevra), La chiesa di Vivaldi a Venezia (Venezia), Contemporanea-Musica nel nostro tempo (Teramo), ecc. He has been particularly prominent in contemporary music and ensembles including the Ex Novo Ensemble (Venice) and the Gruppo di Roma (direttore G. Sinopoli). In 1986 he was among the founders of the Associazione Musicale Orphée of Pesaro dedicated to the promotion of plucked instruments (guitar, harp, harpsichord, lute) and he is the artistic director of the “Ensemble Orphée”. In the context of the association’s activities he has held numerous concerts and taken part in multiple seminars and master classes (Gradara, Orta S. Giulio). He has written various compositions for solo guitar and for accompaniment with electronic instruments. In terms of seventeenth century music, as well as performing the repertoire on copies of early instruments, he has promoted the Convegno di Pesaro (1995) dedicated to baroque guitar.
PROGRAMME
Gian Francesco Malipiero (1882-1973)
Il canto della lontananza (1919)
for viola and guitar
Preludio (1958)
for guitar
Raymond Deane (1953)
Brève (2003)
for viola
Epilogue (1973)
version for viola and guitar (premiere)Excursus (1996)
for violaBruno Maderna (1920-1973)
Y después (1971)
for guitar
Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Naturale (1985)
Mario Castelnuovo (1895-1968)
The Divan of Moses-Ibn-Ezra
Cycle songs op. 207 (1966)
Songs of wandering
The dove that nests the tree-top…
Wrung with anguish…
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
from Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas (1965-70)
Verano Porteño
Programme notes
The musical itinerary of the concert presents some of the most important Italian composers of the twentieth century, as well as the Argentinean composer of Italian extraction Astor Piazzolla.
The guitar repertoire is represented by works of distinctive forcefulness- consider Malipiero’s Preludio and Maderna’s Y después.
Musical scores of particular expressive effect, such as those of Berio and Piazzolla, are destined for the viola with two of Deane’s pieces dedicated to solo viola. The concert is a homage to Raymond Deane, without doubt the most important contemporary Irish composer.
Cuoghi and Barbetti place the accent on the guitar and the viola as solo instruments and as complementary forces, and through their alternation they create a continuous musical synergy.
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