After (2015)

Composed during a course with Mauro Bonifacio at Scuola di musica di Sesto Fiorentino (Florence, Italy). The main theme is taken from Monteverdi's "Orfeo". Performed by Manuele Ciulli, Giulia Semerano, Caterina Gabriele

Io Pur... (alone?) (2012)

Photo @ Michele Gavazza 2009

Inspired by '70s musical experiences of Weather Report, King Crimson, Frank Zappa and Progressive Rock.

Performed by CHROMA
Saxophone - Christian Forshaw
Accordion - Ian Watson
Marimba - Steve Gibson
Double Bass - Ben Russell

http://www.chromaensemble.co.uk

Recorded at the Royal Academy of Music

Locomotive (2016)

Text from Mercutio's monologue in "Romeo and Juliet" by Shakespeare

Performed by
Blossom Street

Conductor: Hilary Campbell

...and Then Dreams... (2015) - [excerpt]

Text from different Pertini's speeches
Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Solo
Accordion - Giovanni Desiante
Conductor - Vito Clemente

Libertá (2015)

Photo @ Andrea Messana 2011 
Incidental Music for the play "Ni una mais" treating the sensitive subject of violence against women. 
Inoutput Association
sound design and mock up - Michele Busdraghi
actress - Giovanna Scardoni
costume and set designer: Giulia Pecorari
director - Nerina Cocchi


Ni una Más (2012) - [excerpt 1]

Ni una más (2012) [excerpt 2]

Ni una más (2012) - [excerpt 3]

Premiered by CoMA
David Josefowitz Recital Hall, Royal Academy of Music, London, UK, 19 April 2016

http://www.coma.org/

The original song "Tapum!" was written during the First World War by the Italian soldier Ardito Nino Piccinelli from Chiari. The title resembles the sound of the rifle Mennlicher M95, used by Austrian marksmen. First was heard the sound of the arrival of the bullet, "TA", and later  the sound of the detonation, "PUM". According to Ardito's letters, he and his compatriots in the trenches sang this song just before going out for an attack. My piece is in three parts, attempting to paint an emotional action. 
1) In the trenches
As if one soldier starts whistling the well known tune and then the others join in, in the different voice ranges, spreading the melody along the trenches until it merges in disquieting confusion with the normal chatting of the soldiers. At the end the powerful brass riffs, military-style, call the attention of the gathering soldiers and spur them to come out of the trenches and attack the enemy.
2) Attack!
This is war, and the tune leads and moves the soldiers, possessing their spirit until they become puppets. 
3) Desolation
The war has moved elsewhere. Just echoes on the battlefield. The living walk through the corpses, calling for the dead. The tune changes to an inconsolable lament, an unresolved carillon-like lullaby.


Tapum! - Little Oratorio for Orchestra (2016)

I have always loved horror stories about monsters, space, stars, constellations, particularly through my childhood. I spent lots of my summers on the mountains, at my grandma's home where, far from light pollution, I stayed hours with her or my friends looking at the immense and disturbing black sky, telling stories about aliens, often having the feeling of being swallowed by the firmament.
In Lovecraft's poem, the vividness of his imagination and its creeping anxiety, mirrored my childhood excitement. In addition the poet provided me with a structure A B A where the latter A had to be the "real" music and activity hidden in the former. The general atmosphere of the whole poem, like memories re-discovered and recollected together, gave me the suggestion to approach it as one of those stories we children frightened each other with.

Astrophobos (2016)

for choir and organ

Musicanova choir
Conductor M° Fabrizio Barchi
Recorded September 30, 2011 in Pisa Cathedral (Duomo di Pisa)

1st prize at "Anima Mundi" International Sacred Composing Competition, 4th edition 2011

Board of judges

M° Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Chariman
Mons. Aldo Armani
Prof. Sandro Cappelletto
M° Guido Corti
Mons. Marco Frisina

De Profundis (2011)

for ocarina, mandolin, accordion, clarinet and orchestra

Fabio Galliani, ocarina
Guido Arbonelli, clarinet
Michele Corcella, mandolin
Ivano Battiston, accordion

Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna
Conductor M° Riccardo Ceni

recorded on August,2011 in Piazza Maggiore, Bologna

3rd prize at "2 agosto" International Composing Competition, 17th edition 2011

Board of judges

Detlev Glanert (Germania) Chairman
Fabrizio Festa artistic Director
Silvia Colasanti (Italia)
Antonio Tinelli (Italia)
Davide Masarati (Italia)
Zaid Jabri (Siria)
Annelies  Van Parys (Belgio)

Davide Fensi

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