Alenka
for quintet

performed by mdi ensemble

Sonia Formenti, flute
Paolo Casiraghi, bass clarinet
Corinna Canzian, violin
Giorgio Casati, cello
Luca Ieracitano, piano

Alenka (2023), for quintet

Akte II, for Violin, Cello, Piano, and Artistic Installation, is the second project in a cycle of pieces inspired by the artistic actions of the Austrian painter Hermann Nitsch, one of the most emblematic figures of Viennese Actionism. It is a collaboration between the composer João Moreira and the visual artist Maria Silveira, resulting in a sonic and visual installation where sound and image reflect each other.

The exploration of timbral and dynamic limits of different instruments, in dense layers of counterpoint, combining serialist techniques and typologies of saturated material, makes the sound an almost aggressive rupture that cannot be ignored. The intense sonic landscape is accompanied by a painting in motion and evolution, creating a complete, sensory narrative that extends in time and space. Sound and color spots increase and decrease in intensity, in improbable and challenging structures that build a territory of discomfort where nothing is predictable or secure.

In this way, Akte II becomes not only a musical approach but a total artistic experience, inviting the audience to explore the interconnections between artistic languages and to embark on a unique and provocative sensory journey.

João & Maria

AKTE II | for Violin, Cello, Piano & Artistic Installation

flute: Manuel Zurria
cello: Francesco Dillon
piano: Anna d'Errico

Im lus (2024), for trio

not a bit of sky left (il bianco e dolce cigno)
for vocal ensemble

text by dimitris yalamas
(with a quotation from Jacob Arcadelt «Il bianco e dolce cigno», Il primo libro di madrigali, Venecia 1539)

vocal ensemble n’caged :
arina zvereva
olga rossini
sergey malinin
ilya laptev

not a bit of sky left

for flute, saxophone, double bass and electronics
Performed by:
Andrea Biagini (flute)
Michele Bianchini (sax)
Giacomo Piermatti (double bass)
Ensemble Suono Giallo

Over the line (2024) for Ensemble Suono Giallo

Esos Ø for amplified ensemble (2024)

NAMES Ensemble
Conductor: Gregor Mayrhofer

Live Recording, Klangspuren Festival, 17 September 2024 - Schwaz 

Esos Ø

What we’ll always have is something we lost in the snow (2024) for viola, soprano and objects.

Premiered on 11.2024 at the Festival Trieste Prima
Performance of this recording on 12.2024 at the Festival UdineClassica
Recorded by Roberto Borin

Performers:  Paolo Fumagalli (Viola)  Giulia Zaniboni (Voice) 


“What we’ll always have is something we lost in the snow” is taken from a poem by Ocean Vuong, in which grief and memory take shape in the image of the snow. The title of this piece already contains all the textual and phonetic material of which it consists. The text, in fact, is not enunciated, but emerges and dissolves in the phonemes of the letters in which it is immersed, through a vocality that is sometimes ambiguous, muffled, mimetic, sometimes pure and crystalline. The listening oscillates between the perception of the meaning of the text and that of pure sound, in this constant exploration of which the voice becomes the medium.

What we'll always have is something we lost in the snow (2024), for viola and voice

Coda (2025) per pianoforte solo. Registrazione live della prima esecuzione avvenuta presso l'Auditorium Parco della Musica "Ennio Morricone" (Teatro Studio Borgna), Roma, il 5 giugno 2025. Pianista e dedicatario del brano: Jacopo Petrucci.

Coda (2025)

I Sing the Body Electric (2020)
by Claudia Jane Scroccaro
Florentin Ginot, double bass
Claudia Jane Scroccaro, live electronics
Arnaud De la Celle, sound engineer
Mikhail Malt, Encadrement Pédagogique

Recorded the 1st of July 2020 in the Grand Salle du Centre Pompidou
Manifeste Festival 2020 - IRCAM, Paris

I sing the body electric (2020) for Double Bass and Electronics - Florentin Ginot

Alessandro Gioria (b.1997) is an Italian composer. He studied clarinet and he’s currently studying Composition (MA) at the Conservatory of Mantua under the guidance of M. Azzan.

Alessandro's music has been performed by Mdi Ensemble, Francesco Dillon, Anna D’Errico, Alessandra Rombolá, Manuel Zurria, Carlo Sampaolesi and others. He has participated in numerous masterclasses led by notable figures such as F. Filidei, F. Bedrossian, F. Verunelli, S. Sciarrino, D. Kourliandsky, J. Janulyte, M. Momi, P. Billone, L. Streich and C. Iannotta, among others.

alessandrogioria@hotmail.it

Im lus (2024), for trio

Alessandro Gioria

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