Recital
with Prepared Piano of
Ricardo
Descalzo
(Spain)
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Featuring
GIULIA LORUSSO
(Italy/France)
Kyong Mee Choi (b. 1971, South Korea/USA):
To Unformed for piano and electronics (2009) *
Mobile for prepared piano (2012) *
Something like Images for piano and sine waves (2017) *
[dedicated to Ricardo Descalzo]
Pietro Dossena (b. 1979, Italy):
Then Sound, and Motion, and
Touch – a nocturne
for prepared piano and granular synthesis (2017) *
Moritz Eggert (b. 1965, Germany):
Jerusalem for prepared
piano (1995) *
Gravity II for piano (2018)
*
[dedicated to Ricardo Descalzo]
Giulia Lorusso (b. 1990, Italy/France):
Entr’ouvert for piano and
electronics (2016–17) *
featuring Giulia Lorusso –
electronics
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* Bulgarian
premiere
This concert has been made possible
thanks to the generous support of:
* * *
Ricardo Descalzo
(b. 1970) has studied piano with Margarita Sitjes in Alicante (Spain),
Alexander Hrisanide at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam's Sweelinck Academy,
Ana Guijarro at the Sevilla Conservatory and Josep Colom at the Alcalá de
Henares University (Spain). He has played at many of the music world's most
prestigious festivals, such as the International Festival in Ibiza, the Quincena Musical in San Sebastián
(Spain), the Forfest (Czech
Republic), the Ensems in Valencia,
the International Contemporary Music Festival in Alicante. He has played with
orchestras such as the Barcelona
Sinfonietta, the l'Empordá Chamber
Orchestra, the Symphony Orchestra of the City of Elche (Elx), the World
Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Chile and the New Orleans
Symphony Orchestra.
Much
of his time Ricardo Descalzo has spent studying contemporary piano literature. As
a performer, he is trying to discover ways of how he can share this fascination
and present it to maximum effect. This dedication has garnered him various prizes
at prestigious international music competitions, such as: first prize at the
“Xavier Montsalvatge” in Girona (Spain) and “Valentino Bucchi” in Rome, second
prize at the International Contemporary Music Competition in Sitges (Spain),
third prize at the “Ettore Pozzoli” in Milan, three special prizes at the New Orleans
Competition and special prize for contemporary music at the “José Iturbi”
Competition in Valencia and the International Piano Competition in Jaén
(Spain).
Over
the last years
he has been working intensively on an audiovisual project Contemporary Piano Video Library based around contemporary solo
piano repertoire recorded in HD video to be accessed freely: https://contemporarypianovideolibrary.wordpress.com/
Ricardo
Descalzo has given many piano lessons at the Conservatorio Superior de Música
de Murcia and the Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Alicante. He is
currently professor of contemporary piano repertoire at the Music Conservatory
in San Sebastián in the Basque Country.
www.ricardodescalzo.com
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