Daniele Di Virgilio - Smorfie di bambini (2025) for prepared wind trio (Flute, Clarinet and Bassoon)
performed by Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (MCME) - live recording
Konstantin Efimov, flute
Oleg Tantsov, clarinet
Sergei Khvorostianov, bassoon

The composition is part of the cycle Kindergarten, a microcosmos where I aim to investigate and transfigure archetypes and cultural references of the children’s world (songs, games, fairy tales, etc.), designing the music with a colour palette modelled primarily on the sounds of toys and the intonation of children's voices. 
Smorfie di bambini (children grimaces) is inspired by the gestures, expressions, and noises with which children communicate in their first months of life. Unpredictability, vehemence and playfulness characterise the piece, exploring a timbral palette marked by the use of plastic reeds taken out from children's toys (squeaky toys, groan tubes, etc.), with which all the instruments are prepared.

Smorfie di bambini (2025) for prepared wind trio (Flute, Clarinet, Bassoon)

Daniele Di Virgilio is an Italian Berlin-based composer and perpetual researcher. Conceiving composition as a multi-disciplinary and social-oriented expression, his music is inspired by a theatrical imagination and by the interest in psychoanalysis.