Live Recording in Villafranca di Verona, 2013
Guitar: Ruben Mattia Santorsa
Music by Hans Werner Henze

"Drei Tentos" by Hans Werner Henze

Live Recording in Budapest, 2015
Guitar: Ruben Mattia Santorsa
Music by Ferdinando Carulli

"Andante n. 2" by Ferdinando Carulli

Live Recording in Bern, 2015
Guitar: Ruben Mattia Santorsa
Music by Maurizio Pisati

Studies n. 1, 2, 5, 6 from the "Sette studi" by Maurizio Pisati

Live Recording in Bern, 2015
Guitar: Ruben Mattia Santorsa
Music by Rocco De Cia

Rocco De Cia writes about his piece: "It’s my first work for guitar. Ruben Mattia, to whom the piece is dedicated, suggested to me to draw inspiration from the art of Paul Klee. I found in Hauptweg und Nebenwege (1929) a strange resemblance with the instrument: the Hauptweg – the main street – of the painting reminds me of the fret board of the guitar. The left hand of the guitarist crosses the highest positions of this street with a sort of restless
anxiety."

"Hauptweg" by Rocco De Cia

Live recording in Darmstadt, 05/08/2016.
Guitar: Ruben Mattia Santorsa
Music by Pietro Dossena

The six movements of “Haunted” for amplified guitar could be defined as a series of musical haikus inspired by the six stanzas of the poem “The Haunted Palace”, found in Edgar Allan Poe’s tale “The Fall of the House of Usher”. The narrative path of the tale as a whole, leading to corruption and dissolution, is also reflected in the poem. (Pietro Dossena)

"Haunted" for amplified guitar by Pietro Dossena

Guitar: Ruben Mattia Santorsa
Percussions: Lucio Miele
Music by Rosalba Quindici

"Intermezzo" for classical guitar and percussions by Rosalba Quindici

Classical guitar: Ruben Mattia Santorsa
Viola: Anne-Laure Dottrens

"Derscialet" is one of the tracks from the CD "Set7", published by Kairos.

More info:
https://www.rubenmattiasantorsa.com/cd-set7

Set7

Derscialet

Derscialet by Maurizio Pisati

Classical guitar: Ruben Mattia Santorsa

"Study n.3" is one of the tracks from the CD "Set7", published by Kairos.

More info:
www.rubenmattiasantorsa.com/cd-set7

Photo  ©Reisa H. Boksi

Study n.3

Study n.3 by Maurizio Pisati

Ruben Mattia Santorsa, electric guitar

Recorded in Paris on 24/02/2020

À fleur de peau

"À fleur de peau" by Giulia Lorusso

Ruben Mattia Santorsa (*1992) is an Italian classical and electric guitarist.
Contemporary music is currently at the heart of his work and his artistic manifesto. He firmly believes that through it we can convey a message of openness, acceptance and social, political and cultural renewal, much needed in today’s society.
He loves to travel and meet musicians, and his activity has led him to hold concerts and lectures in Europe, the United States and South America, in places such as the Northwestern University of Chicago, the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, the Elbphilarmonie in Hamburg, the KKL in Lucerne and the Italian Institute of Culture in Vienna.
Crucial to his artistic growth is his work with young composers such as Giulia Lorusso, Yesid Fonseca, Maurizio Azzan, and with figures such as Helmut Lachenmann, Rebecca Saunders, Salvatore Sciarrino, Luca Francesconi and Chaya Czernowin. In his various collaborations, he premiered more than 30 pieces.
He has played with conductors such as Sir Simon Rattle, Enno Poppe, Matthias Pintscher and Peter Eötvös, and among others with orchestras and ensembles such as the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra, the Mosaik Ensemble, the MDI Ensemble and the Contrechamps ensemble.
In autumn 2019 he will play with the Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien at the Wien Modern Fesival and with the Lucerne Festival Academy Orchestra conducted respectively by Marin Alsop and Sir George Benjamin, and as a soloist with the Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa conducted by Pedro Amaral. In November he will make his debut as a soloist at the prestigious festival "Milano Musica" with the Ensemble "Giorgio Bernasconi" of the Accademia Teatro alla Scala.
Committed to the project of recording contemporary music to create an accessible historical archive for the musicians of the future, he released a CD, "Set7", with the Austrian label Kairos on the music by Maurizio Pisati, which he recorded with seven friends and musicians. He has also collaborated on projects recorded for labels such as Stradivarius and Neos.
His musical education has been enriched and shaped by guitarists such as Yaron Deutsch, Walter Zanetti and Elena Càsoli, all mentors he met during his studies at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, the Conservatory of Bologna and the Hochschule in Bern, where he attended the Master Specialized in Soloism.

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