Dario Palermo

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Dario Palermo (2015)

Dario Palermo (born June 14, 1970 in Milan , Italy ) is an Italian composer.

biography

Dario Palermo began his musical studies in classical guitar at the age of nine; this was followed by percussion with Italo Savoia ( Teatro alla Scala in Milan) and shortly afterwards at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano with David Searcy and Jonathan Scully. In his early years as a performer, he played in several ensembles, chamber groups and orchestras under Václav Neumann , Christa Ludwig , Thomas Allen and Claudio Abbado .

During the years at the Civica Scuola di Musica, Dario Palermo studied composition with Massimiliano Carraro, Giorgio Taccani and Giovanni Verrando. Dario Palermo also attended seminars and classes with Pierre Boulez , Franco Donatoni , Emmanuel Nunes , Aldo Clementi and especially with Gérard Grisey .

From 2003 he commuted between France and Great Britain, where he did a PhD in composition and technology at the University of East Anglia under the direction of Simon Waters.

In 2011 he received support from the RPS Drummond Fund for the world premiere of the composition The Difference Engine .

Between 1993 and 1999 he worked at Agon, center for research and production on the use of electronic and computer technologies, with Luca Francesconi as artistic director. In Agon he was involved in the programming and implementation of concerts, installations, musical theater works and festivals.

Dario Palermo has composed works that vary from solo instruments to orchestras, largely involving the use of electroacoustic devices and new technologies. His compositions have been performed all over Europe, America and Asia. He has received commissions from many organizations, festivals, ensembles and chamber groups. His most recent works have premiered at Kings Place, London; Mediarte Festival, Monterrey; Sonority Festival, Belfast; Southbank Center and Southbank Centre's Purcell Room, London; Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City; Gare du Nord, Basel; Visiones Sonoras Festival, Morelia and Biennale di Venezia .

Since 1995 he has been teaching composition, theory and analysis, electroacoustic composition and new technologies.

Selected Works

Instrumental
  • Duo , for Horn and Marimba (2019)
  • Etude no. 1 , pour piano (2015)
  • Quatre Miniatures , pour deux violons (2015)
  • Trois Miniatures , pour Guitare Quartet (2014)
  • RO - Première danse de la Lune , for drum-set percussion and real time electronics (2011/12)
  • The Difference Engine , for string quartet, mezzo-soprano and real time electronics (2010/11)
  • Trance - Five Abstract Stations , for male Voice & real time electronics (2009)
  • Ritual , version for viola, real time composition & live electronics (2007–2008)
  • Ritual , for Viola d'Amore, Real Time composition & Live Electronics (2006–2007)
  • Exodus ... Lands , for horn, vibraphone, viola (2005–2006)
  • Following The White Rabbit , for Contrabass Flute, Two Contrabass Clarinets, Contrabassoon and Live Electronics (2000)
  • Move_On , for Piccolo & Live Electronics (2000)
  • Cilla_Pusut , for female vocal quartet, Mezzo-Soprano & Electronics (2000)
  • Latitudes I , for Contrabass Flute & Live Electronics (1998)
  • Lied II , for Bass Clarinet (1995)
  • Oltre La Tela - Beyond The Canvas , (1993)
  • Danza , for cello solo (1993)
Ensemble, orchestra, opera
  • II - for six voices (2018)
  • Khantor's lollipops & the conjecture of the Pompeiu problem , a miniature opera (2017)
  • sur l'excitation des corps , une miniature pour piano et ensemble (2016/17)
  • Still Life v. IV , a film opera - for mezzo-soprano, contralto, trumpet, film and real time electronics (2013/14)
  • Sill Life v. II , a film opera - responsive environment, for Drum-set Percussion, real time electronics audio & video (2013)
  • music for The Difference Engine , for string quartet, mezzo-soprano, two dancers, real time electronics audio & video (2010/11)
  • Latitudes Del Silencio , for ensemble (2004-2006)
Various, multimedia
  • Sill_Life , a sound-video-scape live environment installation, live responsive environment (2012/13)
  • Two Perspectives , For two performers and real-time electronic composition (2010)
  • DISCOMBOBULATOR , (2009)
  • Cyborg , for female Voice, Real Time Audio & Video (2002)

Discography

  • Dario Palermo Difference Engines
  • Monographic CD - Amirani Records - AMRN 040 - 04C - 2015
  • Arditti Quartet ; Catherine Carter, soprano; Milo Tamez, drum set percussion; Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg, tenor

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ RPS | Royal Philharmonic Society | Music and Dance commissions | Music for Dance | Composers. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 5, 2017 ; accessed on September 14, 2017 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / royalphilharmonicsociety.org.uk
  2. ↑ Donald Hutera: 'Making a Difference' Donald Hutera talks to the Duke brothers, Svendsen & Palermo. November 28, 2011, accessed November 28, 2011 .
  3. ↑ Still Life v.II - Excerpt. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
  4. ^ Queen's University of Belfast, Sonic Arts Research Center: Sonorities 2014 - Details for Sunday 27 April 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Alex Ross: A Dario Palermo moment . Alex Ross.
  6. ^ Avant Music
  7. ↑ mirkospino: Difference Engines . In: Amirani Records . May 18, 2016 ( amiranirecords.com [accessed September 14, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Palermo, Dario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian composer
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan , Italy