Nice review coming after A.A.Clementi, the concert with Anna Clementi in Udine for Salotto Musicale Fvg on May, 29. Paolo Carradori for Le Salon Musical succeeded in the not easy task of depicting in words the explosive energy of the singer. Indeed it was fun both to play together pieces for voice and piano by Aldo Clementi, Erik Satie, John Cage, Mieko Shiomi and listen to her solo sparkling performances of pieces by Cage, Morton Feldman, Emanuele Casale, Dieter Schnebel, Yoko Ono. You can find the full review here (in italian). Below some extracts translated in English and some nice pics here.
“Also of considerable interest are the two short works stimulated by the Joycian masterpiece Finnegan’s Wake. Toniutti flanks Clementi and on the closed piano used as an almost ancestral percussion she emphasizes, distributes interpunitions, accents behind the voice that, like a sound wave, flows legibly, detachedly, dreamily. […] Clementi […] gives us a pleasant and sparkling Je te veux on a text by the poet Henry Pacory. She is flanked by the piano with effective and engaging touch. In a few minutes we recall the singularity, the originality of the French composer. […] The evening closes with two Japanese composers Mieko Shiomi and Yoko Ono. Their works hark back to the art movement born in the 1960s and called Fluxus. Experimentalism, interdisciplinarity, improvisation, happenings, and performance aspects are its founding features. In an open vision where art is lived as a collective life experience against all conventions, the works presented by Clementi through actions, gestures, vocality, transport us to those years full of expectations and research. ” Paolo Carradori – Le Salon Musical
Two performances coming up soon, one in Italy and one in US, celebrating the centennial of two composers, Aldo Clementi and Lucia Dlugoszewski. I’ll have the pleasure to perform with great musicians and dancers.
On Thursday May 29, 9 pm in Tavagnacco, Udine, at Moroso Design Outlet, organized by Salotto Musicale Fvg, I will play some duo pieces in the show of singer and performer (or actress of the voice, as she properly says) Anna Clementi. A. A. Clementi is the title of the event. Anna in fact is the talentuos daughter of Aldo Clementi, one of the main Italian composer of the after-war generation, and the concert is dedicated to his centennial. We will play pieces for voice and piano by Aldo Clementi, John Cage, Mieko Shiomi, Erik Satie and she will perform solos for voice by Emanuele Casale, Morton Feldman, Yoko Ono, Dieter Schnebel. Info and bookings. [Edit: pics below]
Soon after I will fly again to US. On Tuesday June 3, 8 pm in Washington DC at the Thomas Jefferson Building I will perform in a celebrative event organized by the Library of Congress. The (effortless) now: Dances of Erick Hawkins and Lucia Dlugoszewski will celebrate Lucia Dlugoszewski’s centennial, and the Erick Hawkins Dance Company-New York will be dancing the original dances by Hawkins created in a very close collaboration with the music by Lucia Dlugoszewski. Katherine Duke, director of the company, and myself spent several months to reconstruct the works from the original documentation. We made a first performance in Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago where I already had the priviledge of following the beatiful duets of dancers Jason Hortin and Hayley Meier in Here and Now With Watchers and the sparkling quartets in Cantilever. In this program I will also play with Min-Young Kim, top first violin of Daedalus Quartet, an intricate and captivating piece for violin and piano by H. Meltzer. The event is in collaboration with Bowerbird-Philadelphia. Info and tickets [Edit: and pics below].
, ⬇️ Here are some pics from the performance with Anna Clementi, courtesy of Davide Maestrutti for Salotto Musicale Fvg, and below some from the performance at Library of Congress, Washington DC, for the centennial of Lucia Dlugoszewski with Min-Young Kim and Hawkins Dance Company, by Shawn Miller, Library of Congress.
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Min-Young Kim, on violin, and Agnese Toniutti, on piano, perform Harold Metzler’s “Kreisleriana” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Min-Young Kim, on violin, and Agnese Toniutti, on piano, perform Harold Metzler’s “Kreisleriana” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Min-Young Kim, on violin, and Agnese Toniutti, on piano, perform Harold Metzler’s “Kreisleriana” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Hayley Meier and Jason Hortin of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company perform excerpts of “Here and Now With Watchers” with Agnese Toniutti on piano in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Jason Hortin of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company performs excerpts of “Here and Now With Watchers” with Agnese Toniutti on piano in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Hayley Meier of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company performs excerpts of “Here and Now With Watchers” with Agnese Toniutti on piano in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Hayley Meier and Jason Hortin of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company perform excerpts of “Here and Now With Watchers” with Agnese Toniutti on piano in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Jason Hortin of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company performs excerpts of “Cantilever” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Members of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company perform excerpts of “Cantilever” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Members of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company perform excerpts of “Cantilever” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.Members of the Erick Hawkins Dance Company perform excerpts of “Cantilever” in the Coolidge Auditorium, June 3, 2025. Photo by Shawn Miller/Library of Congress.
Note: Privacy and publicity rights for individuals depicted may apply.
After last October concert for Festival Aperto in Reggio Emilia, here we go with an other show with Philip Corner’s piano music. On Saturday, June 1st, at Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Casa Cavazzini in Udine at 6.30 pm we will play together a choice from his 70 years repertoire for solo piano and piano four-hands. As a precious counterpoint, some original music papers by Corner from Caterina Gualco / Unimedia Modern collection, curated by Cristina Burelli. The concert is organized by Civici Musei Udine, in collaboration with Salotto Musicale Fvg. Needless to say I’m very happy and looking forward to the privilege of sharing again the stage (and the piano) with Philip!
An event dedicated to Giancarlo Cardini coming soon this Friday, 27th January, organized by Salotto Musicale Fvg in Udine. Cardini was the dedicatee of 2017/2018 season of Salotto, and visited the association listening to the concert and giving an interesting speech the day before. Together with the music by Cardini, the Cold Pieces by Erik Satie – Cardini recorded the opera omnia for solo piano by Satie – and the Solo from Passion selon Sade by Sylvano Bussotti, a friend of the composer and companion in many concerts and performances. A special moment, the interwaving of the music with Cardini’s voice, reading his short poems from Bolle di Sapone / Soap bubbles and performing Solfeggio Parlante by Paolo Castaldi from the concert for Demetrio Stratos in Milan. While preparing for this concert, several memories of Cardini’s collegues and friends were shared with me; a shining legacy silently scattered in the hearts of people who knew him. I am aware of how lucky I am to be able to witness all this. Journalist Paolo Carradori will be again with me introducing the concert, as for last November performance in Rome. Below some pics of the event
Delighted to take up the challenge of ERT/Piccoli Palchi and bring my experience of piano experimentation to the very young. After a workshop in classes with kids from 6 to 11 years old, and one with their teachers, I will play in concert for them. The program will include one of their compositions based on selected extended piano techniques along with pieces by some of the distinguished experimenters of their times: Debussy, Cowell, Bartok, Kurtag, Cage.
From kids to adults, very happy to have accepted a teaching position at Conservatorio“G.Tartini” in Trieste.
Here a new review of Subtle Matters by Paolo Carradori for Le Salon Musical: “I don’t know if courage can represent a useful category that can be spent in music criticism, but one thing is certain, this album is a courageous work. … Subtle Matters not only tells us how the piano not traditionally played, far from the bourgeois living rooms, can still give us surprising sound panoramas but also reminds us how the artist, whoever puts his hands inside the instrument, must necessarily put back into play, courageously re-discuss role and visions.”
Below some pics from the last colourful concert on March 26th at Moroso showroom – which in addition had an excellent acoustics. Music by John Cage, Tan Dun and Philip Corner for prepared piano, string piano and… regular one.
A double live Hauskonzert on December 11th with works for piano, prepared piano, voice and keyboard cover (and also many postcards, as you can see) by some exponents of the Fluxus movement: Mieko Shiomi, Philip Corner and La Monte Young. Always an emotion to share music in intimacy at the Salotto Musicale Fvg, but this time more than ever, after so many differently articulated months. Great change of scenario on the 23rd: performance with Piano Twelve, ensemble made by twelve pianists, at the Teatro Nuovo in Udine. A light program to wish you a (hopefully) light Christmas. (Below, our first performance back in 2011, in Udine, Loggia del Lionello)
Extraordinary opening of the year with Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia 6th concert series: on January 11th in Udine – Libreria Martincigh, presentation of the 2019/20 season with Gary Brackett – Living Theatre Europe, and on January 18th in Villa Aurora – Fagagna, concert with music by JohnCage and works of art by BobRauschenberg and MerceCunningham. A great start for a new season featuring also music by Lucia Dlugosewski, Alan Hovhaness, György Kurtág and many others. Below a TV news interview (in Italian) about the program.
In March two concerts focussed on the work of women composers. On the 10th of March the performance for Camino deGenere Festival at Camino al Tagliamento (Udine, Italy): music by Fanny Mendellsohn, Alina Piechowska, Giovanni Vannoni, Caterina Venturelli, Stathis Gyfthakis, Mieko Shiomi. On the 15th an other step in my research on connections between men and women composers at Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia: a first encounter with Lucia Dlugoszewski‘s music for timber piano, together with pieces by John Cage for prepared piano (and not).
A marzo due concerti a forte percentuale femminile: il 10 marzo ore 17.30 per il festival Camino deGenere (un nome, un programma…) a Camino al Tagliamento (Ud), con musiche di Fanny Mendellsohn, Alina Piechowska, Giovanni Vannoni, Caterina Venturelli, Stathis Gyfthakis, Mieko Shiomi. Il 15 marzo ore 21 una nuova tappa della ricerca di connessioni tra compositori e compositrici per il Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia: una serata dedicata ai newyorkesi Lucia Dlugoszewski e John Cage, inventori rispettivamente del timber piano e del pianoforte preparato (e non solo!).
Camino de Genere Festival, 8th-10th March 2019
Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia, 15th March 2019
The title of the 5th season of Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Hauskonzerte 4.0, is “…e le donne?” (…and what about women?). The leitmotiv is the artistic work of women composers, especially (but not only) those who have been or are professionally connected to the composers we focused on in our past seasons (Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, Giancarlo Cardini, Dick Higgins and Fluxus movement). An adventurous research in often hidden musical worlds and human connections. Works on the programme include the ones of Mieko Shiomi, Alina Piechowska, Caterina Venturelli, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Kaija Saariaho and many others, from the 60s to nowadays, featuring several world and Italian premieres. At this link a review of the project and of the April concert on the national journal Il Giornale della Musica (in italian).
With Paolo Cantarutti, Radio Onde Furlane (bilingual interview italian/furlan)
La 5^ stagione del Salotto Musicale del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Hauskonzert 4.0, si intitola “…e le donne?” ed è il nostro contributo musicale al riequilibrio “di genere” nelle programmazioni concertistiche. Ci siamo rivolti in particolare alle donne compositrici che hanno intrattenuto, o tutt’ora intrattengono, rapporti di stima professionale con i compositori protagonisti delle nostre passate stagioni. Una ricerca appassionante da cui è emerso il lavoro di Mieko Shiomi, Alina Piechowska, Caterina Venturelli, Lucia Dlugoszewski, Kaija Saariaho e molte altre, dagli anni ’60 ai giorni nostri. Non mancheranno diverse prime esecuzioni, italiane e assolute. Ne parlo qui sopra con Paolo Cantarutti di Radio Onde Furlane, mentre a questo link è possibile leggere l’articolo sul progetto e sul concerto di Aprile a firma di Paolo Carradori per la rivista nazionale Il Giornale della Musica.
