Pietro Borradori

Pietro Borradori (Milan, 1965) is an Italian composer and entrepreneur.

Biography

He began to play Piano at the age of 8 years-old. At 12, he started to compose his first short pieces for piano. He then studied Piano with Carlo Pestalozza in Milan, graduated in Musical Composition at the Conservatory of Milan with Giacomo Manzoni, and at Accademia Chigiana of Siena with Franco Donatoni. He subsequently studied in Freiburg with Emmanuel Nunes and in Paris with Gerard Grisey.^[1] In addition to his musical formation he studied Architecture at the Politecnico of Milan. From 1987 to 1992 he taught Composition at the Conservatory of Music of Trento. His pieces has been performed by the main european Ensembles and Orchestras. He received among others commissions from institutions like Radio France, French Ministere of Culture, West Deutscher Rundfunk, Radio Televisione Italiana, Nederlands Radio Symphonic Orchestra, Festival Milano Musica, Fondazione Roma Europa,^[2] Gulbenkian Foundation. He recorded monographic CDs for Fonit Cetra and BMG Ricordi labels. The works from 1987 to 1994 has been published by BMG Ricordi.^[3]

Besides his activity as a composer, he acted as music promoter and artistic director as well as entrepreneur in the information technology field. In 1989 he founded together with Riccardo Nova and Andreas Dohmen the Nuove Sincronie Festival of Contemporary Music; he was in charge of the artistic direction of that Festival for all the ten seasons of its life.^[4] He founded at the same time the Ensemble Nuove Sincronie, an Instrumental Ensemble dedicated to the new music repertoire.

In 1995 he founded Allegroassai, a Software House dedicated to the development of a new Music Notation Technology called Vivaldi, and the online Interactive Sheet Music Library project Vivaldistudio and in 2008 SimilarPages a Specialized Search Engine designed to easily find similar and alternatives websites.

Discography

1990 - Camera Obscura (Italy, Fonit Cetra)
1994 - Opus Incertum (Italy, BMG Ricordi)
1993 - Nuove Sincronie 92 (Italy, Sincronie)
1993 - Contemporanea Koine (Italy, Stile Libero)

Works

1985 - Epilogo, for Piano
1986 - Textualist textures I, for Trio
1986 - Textualist textures II, for Quintet
1987 - Dialogues entre Metopes, for Ensemble
1987 - Epigram for Morton Feldman, for Flute
1987 - Fragmenta Veneris, for Ensemble
1988 - Holzwege, for Ensemble
1989 - Camera Obscura, for Piano Quartett
1990 - Streichquartett N.1, for String Quartett
1990 - Zwei Orgelstucke, for Organ
1990 - Puer Senex, for Orchestra
1991 - Dialectical Landscapes, for Cello and Piano
1991 - Pan, for Orchestra
1992 - Opus Incertum, for Ensemble
1992 - Opus Quadratum, for Octet
1992 - Opus Alexandrinum, for Cello and Ensemble
1992 - Cantata Puer Aeternus, for Choir, Soloists, and Chamber Orchestra
1993 - Trame perdute, for 2 Pianos
1993 - Dialectical Landscapes III, for Trio
1993 - Obliquo, for Marimba
1993 - Family Dancing, for Viola
1994 - In Medias Res, for Large Ensemble
1994 - Opus Ligneum, for Ensemble
1994 - Drei Blicke in einem Opal I, for Piano and Ensemble
1994 - Trame perdute II, for Piano
1996 - Drei Blicke in einem Opal II, for Piano and Ensemble
1997 - Fabulae, for Horn and String Orchestra
1997 - Persistency of the objects I, for Ensemble
1998 - Persistency of the objects II, for Ensemble
1998 - Pan II, for Ensemble
2005 - Project B, for Electronics
2011 - Pan II remixed, for Electronics
2014 - Etude pour piano, for Piano
2015 - Deux etudes pour piano, for Piano
2015 - Mutual Aid, for 2 Amplified Pianos & Electronics

Main Prizes

1988 - 2nd Prize, RAI Radio Televisione Italiana 'Malipiero', Italy
1988 - 1st Prize, Kucyna Priza - ALEA III, USA
1989 - Finalist, Gaudeamus International Competition, Nederlands
1989 - 1st Prize, Forum Junger Komponist WDR, Germany
1990 - Finalist, Olympia Prize, Greece
1990 - Finalist, Gaudeamus International Competition, Nederlands
1991 - 1st Prize, Ensemblia International Competition WDR, Germany
1994 - 2nd Prize, Honour Mention Gaudeamus International Competition, Nederlands

In 1993 his Streichquartett N.1 has been selected from RAI Italian Radio Television, to represent Italy to the International Tribune of Contemporary Music 1993.

External Sources

References

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