Musician guitar, sax, composer, remixer, human being


Ensemble Lemniscate is a group of international soloists deeply engaged with the music of our time. Since it's foundation in 2012, the Basel based Ensemble has kept it's ears and eyes close to the present and has been developing a strong dialogue with the young new music scene. 

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 Ensemble Lemniscate ist eine internationale Gruppe hoch talentierter Solisten, die sich aktiv für die Musik unserer Zeit engagiert. Seit seiner Gründung im Jahr 2012 richtete das in Basel beheimatete Ensemble seinen Fokus auf die Gegenwart und förderte einen intensiven künstlerischen Austausch mit der jungen Neue Musik Szene.

Conductor: Daniel Moreira
Flutes: Micaela Grau Durán
Clarinets: Azra Ramie
Piano: Gilles Grimaître
Violin: Andreas Kunz
Cello: Ellen Fallowfield

Artistic Director: Ricardo Eizirik

Composer Mexico/Austria visit: www.arturofuentes.com

Vittorio Montalti (Rome, 1984) obtained his Composition Master degree with Alessandro Solbiati at the Conservatory G. Verdi in Milan and in Piano under the guidance of Aldo Tramma at the Conservatory S. Cecilia in Rome. Then he studied composition with Ivan Fedele at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and electronic music at the IRCAM-Centre Pompidou in Paris.

In 2010 during the Venice Biennale – 54th International Festival of Contemporary Music he was awarded the “Silver Lion”.

In 2016 he was awarded the “Una Vita nella Musica” prize by Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

His works have been performed at various festivals such as New York Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall, Gran Teatro La Fenice, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, La Biennale di Venezia, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Roma Europa Festival, I Teatri di Reggio Emilia/Festival Aperto, Teatro Regio di Parma/Festival Verdi, Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Orchestra Regionale della Toscana, Milano Musica, Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Ex Novo Musica, Bergamo Musica Festival, Divertimento Ensemble – Rondò, Festival Pontino, Festival Traiettorie, Sinfonieorchester Orchesterzentrum|NRW, Italian Cultural Institute of Sidney, Melbourne, London, Paris, Strasbourg and many others.

He has been composer in residence at Italian Cultural Institute in Paris (2013), at American Academy in Rome – Marcello Lotti Italian Fellowship (2014), Civitella Ranieri (2017), FortissimissimoFirenzeFestival – Amici della musica di Firenze (2017), Divertimento Ensemble (2018), La Società dei Concerti di Milano (2018-2019).

He is a member of Nuova Consonanza and he also works as a curator for the MA/IN Festival.

Particularly interested in music theater, he has written four operas on librettos by Giuliano Compagno that have been staged in different productions. He has worked with stage directors such as Francesco Saponaro, Alessio Pizzech, Claudia Sorace/Muta Imago and Giancarlo Cauteruccio.

In recent years Vittorio is also active as electronic music performer. In particular with two projects: The smell of blue electricity, a 50 minutes project for percussions and electronics that involve Blow Up Percussion and Tempo Reale, and The great void, a work written for Gloria Campaner and commissioned by MAO – Museo d’arte orientale di Torino.

He teaches composition at the Conservatory “Alfredo Casella” of L'Aquila.

The works written until 2017 are published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni – SugarMusic S.p. A.
Since 2018 his music is published by Casa Ricordi – Universal Music Publishing.

PH: Simone Petracchi

Le Cercle des Musiques Disparues existe sous deux formes en alternance : 1) un atelier-concert bimenstriel et itinérant en Indre-et-Loire, 2) une émission radiophonique qui prolonge ce rendez-vous physique et le rend accessible partout sur la planète.
L'émission est diffusée tous les samedis à 14h10 sur Radio Campus Tours.
Avec le soutien du Conseil départemental d'Indre-et-Loire

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