A dark wind from the deserted waters (2023) for txistu and ensemble
Donostia City Hall, 19/11/2024
Leire Retegi (txistu) and EHTE ensemble
Sergio Barranco, clarinet
Maria Zubimendi, accordeon
Gorka Catediano, percussion
Alazne Quintanilla, violin
Pedro Ribeiro, cello

A dark wind from the deserted waters - Leire Retegi and EHTE ensemble

Andrea Mattevi, viola

Contrasti Festival 2017, MotoContrario Ensemble call for scores
Trento, Italy

March 5, 2017

...aux lisières lointaines (2015/16) version for viola

Primitive root modules (2016)
Recorded at Museo La Neomudéjar (Madrid, Spain)
April 2017

Ensemble Colmena
Flute(s): Rosa Soler
Bass clarinet: Josu Izco
Saxo(s): Diego García-Pliego
Percussion: Manu Alcaraz
Violin: Jacobo Hernández
Conductor: Javier Quislant

Primitive root modules (I) - Ensemble Colmena

Javier Quislant García
A su sinuoso paso (2018), after Enrique Banchs 'Tornasolando el flanco'
Performed by the IEMA 2018 & Ulysses Ensemble 2018 
Conductor:  Lautaro Mura.
10. 9. 2018, Großer Saal der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt

A su sinuoso paso (2018)- Ensemble Modern Akademie (IEMA) + Ulysses Ensemble

Andrea Mattevi is composer and violist. His music has been performed by Mivos quartet, Basel Sinfonietta, Orchestra Haydn, Cracovia Sinfonietta, MDI ensemble, Alterego ensemble, Dédalo ensemble, Appassionato ensemble, Windkraft quintet, Interensemble, ADMSoundscape ensemble, L’arsenale ensemble and others. He carries out an articulated artistic performance activity with the viola either as soloist and either in chamber formations (founder of the MotoContrario ensemble) and in the orchestral context, collaborating with important orchestral groups and foundations such as the RAI Orchestra of Turin, Orchestra Haydn, the Petruzzelli Theater Orchestra and many others.
His music is characterized by the emergence of different coexisting temporal layers and by a structured juxtaposition of sonorities and texture that seek an expressive brightness.
COMPOSITION
	Finalist o the Basel Composition Competition (with the piece Respiro sul lato dell’abisso for Symphonic orchestra), he has been winner, awarded or recognized in several international competition such as the Concours de composition Ensemble Écoute (Paris), Royal Krakow Sinfonietta Competition, Styrian Tone Art Competition (Graz), Competition “Città di Udine”, Donatoni International Competition (Milan), “Impronta” Competition (Mannheim-Budapest), Competition “Appassionato ensemble” (Como), AN Artistry (Athens) and others and selected and performed in several call for scores as MDI ensemble (Milan), “Sulle ali del ‘900” (Brescia) and other.
He has received commissions from the Haydn Orchestra Foundation (Trento and Bolzano), the Rovereto Philharmonic, the JFutura orchestra and the Province of Trento. His original works have been published by various publishers UT Orpheus (Bologna), Impronta edition (Mannheim), TEM (Udine) and performed, among others, by Marco Angius, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Ben Omar, the Mivos quartet, MDI ensemble, the AlterEgo ensemble, L’arsenale ensemble, ADMSoundscape ensemble, Dèdalo ensemble, Appassionato ensemble, Impronta ensemble, Windkraft quintet.
Actually he is perfecting in composition at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome with Ivan Fedele. He perfected with Azio Corghi and Mauro Bonifacio with the merit diploma at the Accademia Chigiana (Siena) and the three-year merit diploma at the “Romanini” Foundation (Brescia) and he followed courses with Salvatore Sciarrino, Lei Liang, Alessandro Solbiati, Stefano Gervasoni and others, VIPA (Valencia), Corsi di alto perfezionamento in Monterubbiano and at the Conservatory of Milan.
VIOLA
He has played in various festivals as a soloist and in chamber performances at CIM (Udine), Espacios Sonoros (Sevilla), Festival Cluster (Lucca), Festival Il Suono (Città di Castello), In_Contemporanea (Piacenza), Festival Contrasti (Trento), Mondi Sonori (Trento) and others and in orchestral formations such as the Symphonic Season of the RAI National Orchestra (Turin), Venice Biennale Music, Symphonic Season of the “Petruzzelli” Theater (Bari), Season of the Olympic Theater (Rome), Season of the Teatro Comunale di Treviso, Due Mondi Festival (Spoleto), Audi-Mozart and others.
He perfected in viola with Simonide Braconi, Luca Ranieri, Davide Zaltron at the  “Romanini” Foundation (Brescia), at the Scuola di Musica of Milan, at the Santa Cecilia Foundation (Portogruaro) and at the Accademia di alto perfezionamento della Serenissima (Sacile) and she attended violin, viola and chamber music courses with Carlo Costalbano, Pavel Berman, Ilya Grubert, Massimo Quarta, Enzo Porta, Dimitrios Polisoidis, Aldo Campagnari and Francesco Dillon (Prometeo Quartet) and others, attending courses at IMPULS (Graz), CODARTS (Rotterdam) and Italian conservatories.

A dark wind from the deserted waters - Leire Retegi and EHTE ensemble

Mattevi Andrea

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