Set realized at Ju/'hoansi Village (Kalahari Desert, Namibia), January 2012

For Bushmen (Kalahari, Namibia)

Claudio Lugo, sax / Umberto Petrin, piano
Improvvisazione sui primi versi della poesia "E se il vento" di Velimir Chlebnikov (trad. Angelo Maria Ripellino

E Se Il Vento(..)riluce Come Un Corano

TOCAR CON MONO COMBO (playing with howler monkeys)
Reserva Natural Esperanza Verte, Río Frío (Nicaragua)

tocar con mono combo

Dialogo parlato e suonato.
Convegno "Peirce (1839-1914) cent'anni dopo"
Claudio Lugo, sax
Marco Vitali, violoncello

Vitali/Lugo al convegno "Peirce cent'anni dopo"

Playing for Mermaids (and waiting for..)
Palau Tiga (Tiga Island), Flores Sea, East Nusa Teggara (Indonesia)
Claudio Lugo: field sax impro, photo
Aug 2014


Playing For Mermaids

Claudio Lugo, "Händelectric" (per chitarra elettrica
ed ensemble barocco, 2009)
Nuova composizione dedicata ad Andrea Lanza e ai Solisti
della Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini in occasione
dell’anno handeliano.

Solisti della Cappella della Pieta’ de’ Turchini

Alessandro Ciccolini, violino
Marco Piantoni, violino
Rosario Di Meglio, violino/viola
Alberto Guerrero, violoncello
Giorgio Sanvito, contrabbasso
Patrizia Varone, clavicembalo
Ugo Di Giovanni, arciliuto
Andrea Lanza, chitarra elettrica
Claudio Lugo, direzione

Handelelectric

Ice Cave tune (Ledena pećina-2160mt, Durmitor, Montenegro)
Claudio Lugo, field sax impro, photo
Sept 2013

Ice Cave Tune

Fitz Roy, Laguna de los tres - El Chalten (Patagonia, Argentina)
Claudio Lugo: field sax impro, photo
Jan 2011

Fitz Roy Tune

Lughino  e il suo bel cappellino (Francesco Cusa, 2017)

Gianni Coscia, "Tanghesi" (versione per quartetto di sax di Claudio Lugo)
Claudio Lugo, sax soprano - Giulio Gianì, sax alto - Simone Rinaldi, sax tenore - Gloria Passoni, sax baritono
Classe di saxofono del Conservatorio A.Vivaldi di Alessandria (IT)

Gianni Coscia, "Tanghesi" (versione per quartetto di sax di Claudio Lugo)

Claudio Lugo - composer, conductor and performer studied music composition with Sylvano Bussotti at the School of Music of Fiesole (1980-1986).
Resident Professor at the Conservatory “A.Vivaldi” of Alessandria (courses of "Saxophone", "Improvisation Techniques” and “Music Semiology for Voice” - 1989-2021). 
Teacher of Ensemble Music and Musical training for dance at the StudioMusica and the StudioDanza of the BussottiOperaBallet School in Genazzano (Rome) - 1986-1992
Professor of Improvisation's Techniques for APIM Music Therapy Courses (Genova/Torino 1989-2021). 
Professor/Lecturer at University of Genova/Imperia campus D.A.M.S (“Elements of Music Langiage”  2001-2013).
Visitor professor of improvisation and contemporary music at New York University (Summer Programs Italy 2004/2005 - Main campus NYC 2006).

Awards
Bursary Domenico De Paoli (1986) by the Fiesole Music School (supported by the Maestros Goffredo Petrassi and Carlo Maria Giulini). First prize at the Jazz orchestra composition contest in Barga (1986). First prize as best work of art joining music and poetry at the Traiettorie Sonore Contest in Como (1995) with the solo performance "Sandro Penna: letture al saxofono" (Claudio Lugo author and performer). First prize at the International Composition Contest “Franco Evangelisti” (1999) established by Nuova Consonanza in Rome, with the work “Tamburi di latta”, for two percussions and orchestra.

Composer.
Music for solists, ensembles, symphonic and chamber orchestra, for musical theatre, dance and for multimedia performances. Lugo’s compositions have been performed in the main Italian and International contemporary music festivals, such as: The Venice Bienniale Musica (tharter, Festival Pontino, Latina Musica Oggi, Estate Fiesolana (Florence), York University Season (UK) and Birmingham University Season (UK), La Mama Theatre Season (NYC), Festival BussottiOperaBallet (Genazzano-Rome), Guggenheim Museum NYC, G.A.M.O. (Gruppo Aperto Musica Oggi - Florence), AterForum Ferrara, Festival Nuova Consonanza (Rome), Sonopolis - Spazio Candiani (Venice), Teatro Regio - Turin (Stagione Laboratorio), Unione Musicale (Turin), REC (Reggio Emilia Contemporanea), Teatrino di Corte - Maggio dei Monumenti (Naples), Premio Napoli, Stagione del Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de Turchini (Naples), Festival MozartBox (Naples), Amici della Musica di Modena, Associazione Musicale Etnea, Festival Sonora Merano.

Ensemble conductor.
Studio per la Nuova Musica (Genoa), Piccola Orchestra Merdiana (Roma), Orchestra Laboratorio del Conservatorio di Alessandria, Ensemble Dissonanzen Napoli, Impressive Ensemble (works by important composers of the XX century as Manuel De Falla, Louis De Pablo, John Cage, Elliot Carter, Luciano Berio, Louis Andriessen, Luigi Dallapiccola, Goffredo Petrassi, Sylvano Bussotti, Hans Werner Henze, Mauricio Kagel and more) taking part in important contemporary music events and recording notable productions for the important labels.

Claudio Lugo's works have been broadcasted  by RAI Radio 3 in several occasions, both live and recorded, with interviews by the main speakers of the national radio
He has also written articles and edited chapters for major musical and music therapy publications.
He has released CDs for Mode Records, Leo Records, Cuneiform Records, Felmay Records, Itinera, Amirani Records, Auditorium Milano, Dynamic Records.

Since 2010 Lugo is running a research project (Playing for the Elves) based on recording impromptu performance in some naturalistic places around the world.

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