ANAERESIS Piano Composition Meeting: 
Paolo Geminiani LA DIVINA INDIFFERENZA
Panayiotis Demopoulos pianist
Kozani (Grecia), 19 marzo 2022
The title of the piece is inspired by a fragment taken from the poem "Often the evil of living I met" (Spesso il male di vivere ho incontrato) by the Italian poet Eugenio Montale which I interpreted as "a serene and firm detachment from the things of the world".
I have transferred this attitude to elaborating the piece with a progressive development, even if in a non- linear way, of a motivic and harmonic cell from the point of view of durations, timbre, pitch-register and texture.

La Divina Indifferenza

The title it of the piece is recalled to lyric of the poet Eugenio Montale them In limine that resumes in metaphoric key the reduction in the hell, in the mazes of the conscience, already described from Dante Alighieri in the Divina Commedia.
This piece progressively takes apart every attempt of construction of melodic, rythmic and harmonic structures in order to drag the listener in the dissolution and the fixity: extremely low or high notes, very long sounds that disappear progressively, long repeat notes obstinate, circular harmonies that return on the start.
In this general fixity of the events and the parameters it is the timbre of the instruments that progressively evaporates to the term of the composition completing the “inner reduction”.

Qui Dove Affonda...

Paolo Geminiani - Il sogno sta per finire (2020) - for string quartet
Mauro Crocetta from: “THE DIALOGUES” 1973 DIALOGUE I - “Song of life”. The poetic text proposed, so rich in suggestions on various levels, inspired a narrative path created by emphasizing in particular some guiding lines, also reported on the score.
The reading focused in particular on the theme of waiting, full of hope, which the text returns through strongly plastic and expressive images, but also visual, sound and spatial, which I tried to render by structuring a series of small sound paintings.

Il Sogno Sta Per Finire

Paolo Geminiani – Epilogue
THE ORCHESTRA OF THE LVIV NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
WOLODYMYR SYVOKHIP – conductor
Kwidzyn International Music Festival
Organizer Phasma Music
Co-organizer Kwidzyn Cultural Center

II cycle of the Kwidzyn International Music Festival organised by the Phasma-Music Foundation and the Kwidzyn Cultural Center.
 On September 16, one of the best European orchestras, the Lviv National Philharmonic, visited the Municipal Theater in Kwidzyn. The importance of this concert and the cooperation with the Philharmonic Artists during the merciless war is an expression of support for the people of Ukraine and the popularization of Ukrainian culture. The inhabitants of Kwidzyn, directly and crowded in helping Ukrainian citizens, also show a great need to get to know the musicians of the Lviv National Philharmonic.
  ✔️ IWONA GLINKA - flute
  ✔️THE ORCHESTRA OF THE LVIV NATIONAL PHILHARMONIC
  ✔️WOLODYMYR SYVOKHIP – conductor

Epilogue

Preludes for Pierrot
Jean Park, piano
University of the Incarnate Word, Diane Bennack Concert Hall San Antonio (Texas)
I based this composition on the first eight measures of piece no. 4 of Pierrot Lunaire by Arnold Schönberg, Eine blasse Wäscherin.
The first part (measures 1-20) takes up the thematic elements closely by first adding a counterpoint to the lower derivative of the theme and proposing suito again after elaborations based on the transposition, decrease and increase of durations and on the opposite motion.

A Pale Night Music

Elegia for violin and piano

The composition is part of a collection of short pieces (impromptu) for solo piano.
Ohne Worte received the second prize at the 16th International Composition Competition
City of Barletta, Italy and the honorable mention at the 2nd Opus Dissonus Composition Competition, Brazil.
It was performed at Conservatorio Martini in Bologna in 2022 by Michele Serra.
The piece develops in its path a short cell of three sounds: D flat, E flat, D alternating contrasting sections from the agogical and dynamic point of view with increasing tension up
to the concluding coda. The E flat 5 is at the center of episodes of rapid transition characterized by the extensive use of repeated chords

Ohne Worte Impromptu #5 for piano

Echi riflessi
Paolo Geminiani composer
Leonardo De Marchi classical guitar
ECHI per Giacomo, Antologia di fogli d'album per chitarra. Accademia EdizioniMusicali 2022 Pescina Italy

Echi Riflessi

WINDY SPACES
(Opera finalista al3°Concorso“...a Camillo Togni”,Brescia)
Dedalo Ensemble: Daniela Cima flauto, Giovanna Polacco violino, Guido Boselli violoncello, Elena Pasotti pianoforte, Gian Maria Romanenghi vibrafono, Vittorio Parisi direttore, Tea-
tro Grande, Brescia, 29 novembre 2004

Windy Spaces

This work is inspired by Gesualdo da Venosa's madrigal «Io parto» e non più dissi (Libro Sesto - 1611) from which small fragments were selected and recorded the single voices from the viola.
The extracted fragments all recall the theme of pain and thus the title of the composition.
During the audio editing phase, the parts underwent various electronic treatments: time stretching, pitch shifting and other, in order to obtain dense and highly expressive compact sound bands that alternate and I superimpose the interventions of the viola solo that re-elaborates the single voices
of the fragments of the original madrigal.

Ch'io Non Languisca - Paolo Geminiani composer- Maurizio Barbetti violist

Studied in composition, electronic music, choral music and choral conducting, band instrumentation at the conservatoires of Bologna and Modena with Cristina Landuzzi and Lelio Camilleri, and finally advanced Master at Verona Opera Academy with Azio Corghi and ICONS Academy Novara with Alessandro Solbiati. Other courses with Franco Donatoni, Adriano Guarnieri, Alvise Vidolin, and masterclasses: Gyorgy Ligeti, Gerard Grisey, Goffredo Petrassi, Niccolò Castiglioni. He has won and received commendations at various competitions including: Gustav Mahler Klagenfurt, Volos International Guitar Composition Competition, Counterpoint International, SuonoSonda Genova, Daegu Contemporary Music Orchestra, Valentino Bucchi Prize Rome, Florence String Quartet, Pierre Schaeffer Pescara, Egidio Carella Val Tidone, Reggello International Festival, IBLA Grand Prize, Premio Romualdo Marenco, Assisi Suono Sacro, ISCM World Music Day and many others. His works performed in Slovenia, UK, South Corea, Japan, Canada, USA, Argentina, Brazil, Australia: Sydney International Composers Concert Verbrugghen Hall, Universidade de Évora, Museu Condes de Castro Guimaraes di Cascais, Auditório do Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, Universidade de Aveiro (Portugal), Sound Thought Festival Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow, Spectrum, Carnegie Hall, North/South Chamber Orchestra, Lefrak Hall Queens College, Steinway Hall and Legacy Hall, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival (NYC), Center for the Performing Arts of University of Wisconsin Green Bay, Columbus State University, Isaacs Auditorium Selingrove (USA), Sauble Beach Guitar Festival Canada, International Contemporary Music Festival di Deagu (South Corea)etc

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