Text by Cesare Pavese

Abagael Cheng, Sandrine Schau, soprano
Louis Tiemann, tenor
Lovisa Ehrenkrona, Minchae Kim, violin
Rebecca Miller, Nicholas Algot Swensen, viola
Lexie Krakowski, Tom Pickles, cello
Anssi Karttunen, conductor

Live recording, CREATIVE DIALOGUE FRANCE 2023
Saint Florent le Vieil 27.8.2023
Editing and mastering, Roberto Terelle

Sfoghi incendi di nubi, for vocal trio and string sextet (2023)

Monographic CD:
https://davinci-edition.com/product/c00404/

Theoretical essay on composition:
http://www.aracneeditrice.it/index.php/pubblicazione.html?item=9788825539615


Luca Ricci (*1992) studied flute, musicology, and composition in Italy. Moving beyond 20th Century European post-avant-garde, he looks for a synthesis between pitch-based composition and sound sculpture: his technique of “sonic shaping” rethinks the Italian poly- vocal heritage (from Monteverdi to Federico Incardona), turning the expressive power of linear “polyphony” into “multiphony”. Half academic and half self-taught, he developed his syncretic approach by confronting with many different personalities: Riccardo Dapelo, Carlo Alessandro Landini, Aureliano Cattaneo, Alessandro Solbiati, Gabriele Manca, Dario Buccino, Ivan Fedele and Michelangelo Lupone. His works are performed by festivals and institutions like Festival Pontino, Milano Musica Festival, Teatro La Fenice of Venezia, Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Academy of Santa Cecilia (Rome), Accademia Filarmonica Romana, GMEM-CNCM Marseille, Italian Cultural Institute of Berlin, HMDK Stuttgart, WDR-Funkhaus Köln, Mozarteum Salzburg, Philharmonie de Paris, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, University of Haifa, Creative Dialogue France 2023, NYCEMF 2024 (New York). He has worked with instrumental ensembles and musicians such as Ex Novo Ensemble, Divertimento Ensemble, Mdi Ensemble, Ensemble ÉRMA, Collettivo_21, Quatuor Tana, Ensemble Multilatérale, Trio SEV, Anssi Karttunen, Marco Fusi, Alberto Mesirca, Andrea Monarda, Anna D'Errico, Yoichi Sugiyama, Giovanni De Luca, Enzo Filippetti. Finalist in the competitions "Unique Forms of Continuity in Space" (Kyoto) and "Donald Aird" (USA), he won the XXV International Competition "2 August" of Bologna, the "Breaking Music Composition Competition 2020", the first prize at III International Composers Competition "New Music Generation 2021" (Kazakhstan) and the third prize at "International ACHT BRÜCKEN Composition Competition" (Köln).
contact: 
luke.ricci92@libero.it 
luke.ricci92@gmail.com

Sfoghi incendi di nubi, for vocal trio and string sextet (2023)

Luca Ricci - Composer