Academic Year 2023-24

Live version - Mantua 21/02/2024

Carlo Sampaolesi - Accordion

Signs For The Unknown (2024), for accordion

I am never anywhere / anywhere I go (2024)
for spatialized trio and special instruments (big barrel and aluminium cans)

Premiered on 04.2024 in the Foyer of the Conservatory of Mantua, Italy

Performers: 
mdi ensemble
Giorgio Casati (Cello)
Paolo Casiraghi (Bb Clarinet)
Sonia Formenti (Piccolo flute)

"I am never anywhere, anywhere I go" is a piece for spatialized trio and sound object. Clarinet, piccolo and cello are disposed at the vertices of a triangle, in the center of which a special instrument is placed: a barrel that acts as a resonator to a metal grid, which the musicians gradually approach to play through bows and cans.
The spectral and timbral properties of this 'new instrument,' as well as the visual and gestural implications it brings to the performance, are the object of research in this work. The attempt at an organic homogeneity of sound, despite the different sources from which it comes, together with the extremely resonant acoustic environment of the foyer help to accentuate the concept that gives the piece its title: "wherever I go, I am nowhere."

I am never anywhere / anywhere I go (2024), for spatialized trio and special instruments

Grani (2024) for ensemble.

Premiered on 17.05.2024 by Ensemble Suono Giallo

Flute - Andrea Biagini
Sax - Michele Bianchini
Percussion - Laura Mancini
Piano - Simone Nocchi 
D.Bass - Giacomo Piermatti

Pasquale Lauro - Grani [use headphones]

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

Im lus (2024), for trio

for Ensemble
Ensemble Suono Giallo
Michele Bianchini    Sassofono
Andrea Biagini        Flauto
Laura Mancini        Percussioni
Simone Nocchi        Pianoforte
Giacomo Piermatti  Contrabbasso

Come impeto qui ed all'interno, dove altrove solitudine

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