Davide Tammaro - Aphorisms for String Quartet is a work made up of 7 miniature movements that include everything from energetic, playful, serious, and tranquil characters. 

The work was virtually premiered by Beo String Quartet at the 2021 Charlotte New Music Festival.

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Modern Times - Aphorisms for String Quartet

Threefold, for string trio - Davide Tammaro 

Threefold is a collection of 3 pieces for string trio to be played in no particular order:

Eternal Flux
Oh, the madness!
Kataru (語る)

Live premiere at Suoni Oltre Confine Festival - Minturno, Italy (May 2025)

Valerio Capilli - violin
Michela Marchiana - viola
Giacomo Landi - violoncello

Threefold, for string trio

Modern Times - Aphorisms for String Quartet V

Modern Times - Aphorisms for String Quartet IV

Modern Times - Aphorisms for String Quartet III

Modern Times - Aphorisms for String Quartet II

Modern Times - Aphorisms for String Quartet I

Some years Ago - Live strings and jazz quartet

Live recording in Novara on September 4th 2022
Tempus was the winner of the call for scores for the XII Premio Cantelli in Italy.

Orchestra of the Teatro Regio of Turin, Italy

Conductor: Maurice Cohn

Tempus_for orchestra

Cityscape II_for Chamber orchestra by Davide Tammaro

Mostly Modern Orchestra, Robert Paterson

Middelburg, The Netherlands - April 2023

*This version was adapted for chamber orchestra. The original work, named Cityscape, is for full orchestra*

Cityscape II_for Chamber Orchestra

Cityscape - for Orchestra

Music by Davide Tammaro

Orchestra of the Santa Cecilia Music Conservatory, Rome - January 28th 2024

Conductor: Biagio Micciulla

Cityscape_for Orchestra

Veni Sancte Spiritus_for choir, solos and orchestra by Davide Tammaro

Commissioned by Fondazione Teatro Coccia of Novara

Premiered on April 23rd 2024 at the Novara Cathedral, Italy

Conductor: Alberto Zanardi

Xiaonsen Su - Tenor
Ranji Yang - Baritone
Zhang Yiudo - Bass

Orchestra Classica di Alessandria

Maestri del coro: Alberto Sala and Mauro Trombetta
Schola Cantorum San Gregorio Magno

Veni Sancte Spiritus_for choir, solos and orchestra

Eternal Flux_from Threefold

Oh, The Madness!_from Threefold

Kataru_from Threefold

Davide Tammaro is an Italian composer and guitarist whose work blends innovation and tradition. His music is diverse, ranging from classical orchestral and chamber pieces to jazz and contemporary compositions.

In 2022, his orchestral work Tempus was chosen as mandatory contemporary piece for the renown conducting competition Premio Cantelli. The work, published by Edizioni Sconfinarte, was premiered during the XII Premio Cantelli in Italy by the Orchestra of Teatro Regio of Turin with Maurice Cohn as a conductor.
Winner of the 2019 Premio Musica Nova - International composition competition with his String Quartet No.1, Davide’s works have been performed and/or selected as finalist at several international competitions and calls for scores such the 2019 HighScore Festival, the XIII International composition competition citta’ di Udine and Sinestesia tra le arti competition, in Italy, the STB composition competition 2020, in Austria, the KLK musica per archi composition competition 2020 in Ukraine and the 2021/22 Iceberg New Music in New York. 

Davide’s music has been performed in Europe and the USA by Orchestra of Teatro Regio of Turin, Hub New Music, BEO String Quartet, Quartetto Indaco, the North South Chamber Orchestra of New York, the Mostly Modern Orchestra and Ensemble and the KLK String Orchestra of Lviv, among others.
A fellowship recipient from the 2023 Mostly Modern Festival, Davide’s music has been performed at the Connecticut Summer Fest, Charlotte New Music Festival, The Festival 5 giornate in Milan, High Score Festival, to name a few. His music appears on records by Cosimo Carovani (Ad Antiqua) and Giovanni Albini (A Contemporary Ukulele) both published by Da Vinci Publishing.

Experience as a guitarist include the release of a jazz-rock album, Ghosts, recorded in New York in 2014 with his own quartet as well as touring with indie rock artists across the U.S and performing at venues such as The House of Blues, SXSW festival in Austin, TX and Americanafest in Nashville, TN, among others.

Before pursuing a master in Composition at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, Davide studied Classical Guitar at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples. From 2008 to 2021 Davide lived in the USA where he first graduated from Berklee College of Music and then moved to New York, where he studied composition with American composer Justin Dello Joio.
Additionally, Davide participated in many festivals and masterclasses meeting and learning from some of the most respected composers in the USA and Europe.

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