I wrote this piece between september 2021 and april 2022. It has been performed by professional musicians the first day of the Estonian Music Days in Tallinn. Me and other fellow students from the composition class of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre participated to this project where our pieces where played. Despite the imperfections of the performance and of the piece itself I still think that has been one of the best musical experience I've had in a long time. I hope you will enjoy the piece.

Conductor: Toomas Vavilov
Performers: EMTA Sinfonietta

Sinfonietta

I wrote this piece in 2018 as part of my Bachelor Piano Thesis in the Conservatory of Bologna G. B. Martini. This work was born after the analyzing the two Rapsodies of Brahms Op. 79. This piece won the European Music Contest in Moncalieri and prize was its publication from Zedde Editori (Turin). The recording is a bit raw, but it's the only good one I have for now, hope you like it.

Piano: Leonardo Tommasini

Gesto

I wrote this piece in 2015 and It has been performed at the Rocca di Vignola. This particular project was about Dante Alighieri. I took a verse from the "Inferno" of "Divina Commedia" and I wrote music out of it. It was the first time that I felt satisfied about a composition and I always think of it as the starting point of the development of my style (which it's still a work in progress). Althought it's raw and incomplete I couldn't work on it more that I already did. Too much time passed, I'm not that person anymore. Perhaps is a way to preserve the memories of that moment... would you modify an old photo?
I hope you enjoy the piece

Verse from Dante Alighieri: "Considerate la vostra semenza: fatti non foste a viver come bruti ma per seguir virtute e canoscenza"

Soprano: Xinzhu Li
Cello: Enrico Mignani
Piano: Leonardo Tommasini

Ulisse

I wrote this piece in March 2022. The concert took place in the Organ Hall of the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre and the main theme was Bach. The piece contains variuos elements from the first works of Bach, where the composer was still attached to the style of Buxtehude. I hope you will enjoy the piece.

Organ: Leonardo Tommasini

Fantasia

This piece was born thanks to wonderful cooperation with Maurice Vaccari and Stefano Adda. Before the first quarantine in Italy we started to make music together and this was one of the very first ideas that we started to develop. When Covid came everything stopped and for me as for everybody else started a very tough moment. It took me exactly one year to establish the form of the piece and to complete this very rough production. A special thank is due to Giacomo Carrera who gave a huge hand in this production since he has been in charge of mixing the track a year ago and in the version I am sharing now. In my opinion the piece is not finished yet, but I couldn't hold my self to share this work with you at least as demo. More over I care to share this side of my compositional style which I'm still struggling to conjoin with the academic type of composition I'm used to do since more than 10 years. I presented this piece in a seminar of Laboratory of Composition in the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Lyrics:
In this night I suppose I have to watch your dark eyes
In this night I suppose I have to breath your sweet heart
Softly come with me to that intricate labyrinth
hold my hand tight and please don't let me fly away
I pray every day and night not to lose you

Now inside the sea the shark is feeling fear

He's swimming in the sea depths
alone with his fears 
Trying to reach a labyrinth of caves
full of his sad dreams
She's taking him there swimming along his side holding his hand
A sweet illusion to help him lighten the burden of his loneliness
    
Oh twilight is coming
I see the surface pierced by its light
It paints your trembling figure reaching out to me
But with all this pain your too far to reach
I'll keep sinking
without you

We reached the caves
Full of our sad dreams
We feed them with faint lights
Just enough to keep them alive
But I already know this
And my void becomes bigger   
As you look at me with fear
A shiver forces me to look up and wonder

How it could be to see you 
outside this cold sea
you're still upthere looking down for me
while I've been chasing the shadow of this illusion 
but now I'm tired I need to emerge

In this night I will not watch your dark eyes
In this night I will not breath your sweet heart
And I'll pray every day and night to never seeing you
Because you're just the worst part of me
And I want to change
She's trying to bring him down away from her
Trying to suffocate his need of light
Blood is spilled from both of them
But he won't stop he doesn't have nothing to lose 

Here I am coming up to you
Barely alive but I will use 
all I have to rise
to see you with my own eyes 
Coming up to you 
Struggling to not let go
I won't let go
Sunbeams are getting warmer
As you're becoming more real 
I'm afraid you could be just another illusion
Coming up to you
To see you with my own eyes
I'm not letting you go not now that
I can see your beautiful face 
I will hold your hand 
I won't let go you again  

Lyrics: Maurice Vaccari, Leonardo Tommasini
Lead and Choirs: Maurice Vaccari, Leonardo Tommasini
Guitars and Additional Guitars: Stefano Adda, Leonardo Tommasini
Mix: Giacomo Carrera (Gorilla Village Music Group)
Music: Maurice Vaccari, Stefano Adda, Leonardo Tommasini

Case Study n.1: Submarine Solipsism

"Rapture of Joy" is the first piece for full Orchestra that I have written so far. With this work I graduated in Master Degree of Classical Composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre.  After the analysis of the First Symphony of Lepo Sumera I had the idea to think music and form mainly from a sound and timbre point of view. This idea would generate harmonies and form by consequence. Some features of electroacoustic music are also present, although the piece remains strictly classical and tonal. Hope you enjoy it.

Conductor: Toomas Vavilov
Perfomers: EMTA students orchestra

Rapture Of Joy

This piece was the result of a very happy collaboration with the elctroacoutic Composer Giuseppe de Benedittis and the contemporary ensamble Azione Improvvisa. We created this piece in the frames of the Commute Festival held by the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. This project was based on Claudio Monteverdi's music and the task consisted in reinventing his music with new compositions. The main supervisor of the project was Einike Leppik. Personally it was one of the most satisfying experience I had so far, amazing people and musicians. Enjoy the piece.

Composed by: Leonardo Tommasini & Giuseppe de Benedittis
Performed by Azione Improvvisa Ensamble
Electric Guitar: Pierpaolo Dinapoli
Tiorba: Andrea Antonel
Accordion: Margherita Berlanda
Live electronics: Daniela Fantechi

I singer: Tuiki Järvensivu
II singer: Nora Kalnina
III singer: Victora Oftestad
III singer

Aria D'Umore

There is a shorter version of this piece that I wrote last summer. It was born out of the necessity to express the malinconic feeling that I have during summer when I have almost nothing and I'm forced to confront my inner self without any external distractions. In this version I tried to enlarge the piece to add different sound panles together. There will be a third version in the future. For now enjoy the piece

Piano: Jordi López Jové
Trumpet: Sebu Rysä
Viola: Kristijan Kannukene

Trio 0.5

This piece was born as a homework for the class of Compositional techniques of the 14th century held by Fabrizio Nastari. The title Hoquetus consists in a specific tecnique were the same long melody goes from an instrument to the other in such a way that you might not understand who's playing what. It was played in the Graduation Concert of the Composition class of the Estonina Academy of Music and Theatre. Enjoy the piece

Clarinet: Isabella Runge
Clarinet: Selina Lauha

Hoquetus 0.5

This piece goes pretty back in time. I wrote it in 2015 in  Bologna. It was performed in the frames of a project where the classes of composition and electroacoustic music had to re-elaborate the music of Franz Schubert. It was one of the first experiment of a developping form without a real recapitulation of the beginning material. It has been performed again this year the 12th of May in the Suur Saal of the Eesti Muusika ja Teatriakadeemia. I had finally the chance to change the ending which I never liked. I hope you'll enjoy the piece

Piano: Olga Kreiter
Violin: Yumiko Almuth Matsuyama

Hommage

Leonardo Tommasini is a versatile musician from Bologna (Italy) who has has established himself as a composer, pianist, and organist. Born on November 6, 1994, Leonardo began piano lessons under Cristina Righi in Sant’Agata Bolognese in 2006. His formal education in Composition started in 2009 at the Conservatory Giovanni Battista Martini in Bologna, where he studied under Prof. Gian Paolo Luppi until 2020. Concurrently, he pursued Organ studies with Prof. Marco Arlotti within the "Vecchio Ordinamento" study system.
Leonardo completed his Bachelor's degree in Classical Piano Performance under Prof. Carlo Mazzoli, graduating in 2018. During his studies, Leonardo's composition "Gesto" won first prize at the European Music Competition in Moncalieri, Italy.
In 2017, Leonardo participated in Erasmus studies at the I.J. Paderewski Academy of Music in Poznan (Poland) studying composition under Prof. Zbigniew Kozub. In 2021, he began his Master's degree in Composition at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre under the guidance of Prof. Toivo Tulev.
Leonardo has actively contributed to the contemporary music scene, participating as a composer in festivals such as the Sound Plasma Festival, Commute Festival, and müriaad Festival, where his compositions were performed. He has also attended masterclasses with distinguished musicians including the composers Ziv Cojocar and Claudia Montero.
As a performer, Leonardo has participated in numerous concerts and events. In Estonia, he performed solo organ recitals in Tallinn's main churches and participated as organist in the concert series "Laupäevad barokkoreliga" at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. In Italy, he performed in events such as the "Bach at Servi" series during the organ week at the Conservatory of Bologna and the "San Giacomo Festival" in St. James Church in San Giovanni in Persiceto.  His piano performances were highlighted in concert series like "Yuri una vita che continua, concerto su otto route" in San Lazzaro di Savena and the "Rassegna di Musica Contemporanea" organized by the Conservatory of Bologna and the Castle of Vignola. Additionally, he collaborated with Fabio Luppi in a piano duo for various concerts in the Bologna area.
Beyond classical music, Leonardo's versatility is evident in his involvement with bands like "The Whim" and "Marble House”. "The Whim" a funk band he joined from 2013 to 2016, released an EP and achieved second place at the Veneto Music Contest in 2014. His ongoing collaboration with Marble House has led to the release of albums in 2018 and 2020, alongside winning the Energie Music Contest in Zola Predosa (Italy) in 2019 and 2021.
Leonardo also brings his expertise to music education, having worked as a piano teacher at the Musicaper Association for a year. Leonardo Tommasini's commitment to music, spanning composition, performance and education, underscores his significant contributions to the contemporary musical landscape.

Leonardo Tommasini

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