Duo Dillon-Torquati, after last week’s Recitals in Parma, Bari and Munich, will perform again Gyorgy Kurtàg’s Double Concerto op. 27 n. 2 after giving the Italian Premiere in Torino on last February. This time is the turn of the opening of GAIDA Festival Vilnius, with the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jonathan Berman.

Kurtàg is one of the greatest living composers and this year he will turn 90. His Double Concerto is considered among his best works and explores spatial horizons, with a peculiar orchestral setting. It was written in 1989 for Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Intercontemporain and the first performance was conducted by Peter Eotvos, with Miklos Perenyi (cello) and Zoltan Kocsis (piano).

The first will take place on 20th September in Strasbourg, at Italian Cultural Institute, and will be an Hommage to great pianist and composer Ferruccio Busoni, whom this year is 150th Anniversary, and will include music by his friend Edvard Grieg, with his most important piece for solo piano, “Ballade op. 24″. More, Emanuele will perform Etudes Boreales (1990) by Ivan Fedele, recently awarded with the Honegger Prize, and the World Premiere of “Quatre Etudes pour piano” written for him by rising talent Maurilio Cacciatore.

The second Recital is scheduled in Ljubljana and will feature a set of Peter Ablinger’s Voices and Piano, including a World Premiere of a new piece based on Slovenian Philosopher Alenka Zupancic’s voice. The concert will be in the frame of Ear Zoom Sonic Arts Festival, at Cankarjev Dom on 8th October.

The third Recital is going to be in the beautiful Hall of Brno Philarmonic, for the prestigious 29th Edition of “Exposition of New Music Festival”, on 23rd October. The program will be devoted to New Music, with important works by Matthias Pintscher, Thomas Larcher, Ivan Fedele, Francesco Filidei, and two demanding pieces written by Petr Bakla..

On 20th August at prestigious Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena, Emanuele Torquati will give the premiere of one of his main projects this year: Constellation Kurtàg. A Journey into György Kurtág’s Music in 5 Planets, with Francesco Dillon, cello and Manuel Zurria, flute, under the supervision of Pietro Babina, stage director.

Constellation K. intends to chart a path in his poetry articulating it in 5 different points of light, ideal planets of a fantastic cosmology, each one corresponding to an intimate sphere of his biography and his sensitivity. On the occasion of the ninetieth birthday, 5 great contemporary composers, related to Kurtág by friendship and spiritual community, contributed to the definition of this path. By his great friend and companion of musical adventures, Peter Eötvös, his compatriot László Sáry, his alter ego Howard Skempton, the eclectic Lukas Ligeti, up to the Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa. They each wrote a piece linked to one of the many sources of inspiration of the Hungarian composer.

A fundamental part of the project, therefore, will also dialogue with the music of the past, of which Kurtág is an expert and passionate connoisseur, from Machaut to Bach, Schumann to Schubert, through Beethoven’s Bagatellen, right up to the great twentieth-century references Janácek and Bartók, but also Olivier Messiaen and Ligeti . So Music, but also Literature and Poetry: Franz Kafka and Attila Jozséf, Goethe, Rimbaud, Beckett.

The project will be also presented in Kiev on 5th November at UKHO Festival, and on 9th April 2017 at Auditorium Renzo Piano in L’Aquila for Società dei Concerti Barattelli.

On 17th and 18th June, Music@VillaRomana, curated by Francesco Dillon and Emanuele Torquati, will take place in Florence. The 7th Edition of the Festival will include some of the most original and adventurous New Music interpreters, performing Repertoire’s milestones but also Impro and electronic sets. Click here for the FULL PROGRAM!

Fidelio Piano Trio from Ireland, recently shortlisted for the RPS Awards, will present a varied program, with the rare Transcription of Schoenberg’s Verklaerte Nacht, juxstaposed with recent works by Luke Bedford, Donnacha Dennehy and Mexican composer Arturo Fuentes.
Saxophone virtuoso David Brutti will perform two different sets, with some new pieces by talented Italian composers Marco Momi and Michele Sanna paired with iconic figures of American Music such as John Cage, Terry Riley and Steve Reich.

On Saturday 18th, eclectic Nadia Ratsymandresy, will be on stage for a program devoted to Ondes Martenot, an early electronic musical instrument invented in 1928 by Maurice Martenot. Musical selection will include the first version of Messiaen’s 5th Movement from Quatuor pour la Fin du Temps, originally written for Ondes Martenot and piano, and pieces by Tristan Murail, Konstantin Koukias and Alain Louvier.
On the very same evening, Music@VillaRomana pay homage to a great Argentinian composer, Mariano Etkin, recently passed away, with the perfomance of his last Piano piece, “Lagrimas sobre Lagrimas” by Emanuele Torquati.
Closing event of the Festival will be the turntablist and sound artist Maria Chavez, Peruvian based in New York City, who will animate with her scratching sounds the last part of the evening.

On 1st May at 10,30 pm, RADIO3 will broadcast the Recital given by Duo Dillon-Torquati at 59th Edition of Venice Biennale on 9th October 2015 at Sala delle Colonne di Ca’ Giustinian.

The exciting program featured the world premiere of two new works especially written for the Duo, “Memorie di Tempesta” by Federico Gardella and “Regarding cracked peace of stones, earth and flowers” by Milica Djordjevic. The Recital included also important works by major figures such as Thomas Larcher and Salvatore Sciarrino, as well as “Further In” by Silvia Borzelli, commissioned by Duo Dillon-Torquati and recently selected for the International Rostrum of Composers 2016!

Emanuele Torquati will give a concert at the prestigious Louis Vuitton Foundation, with cellist Francesco Dillon and violinist Saori Furukawa (L’Instant Donné). The program includes different works written by Francesco Filidei, recipient of DAAD Prize for Composition. Click here to LISTEN

The event will take place on 2nd April at 11 am and will be broadcasted LIVE for the Program RADIO conceived by Anne-James Chaton and organized by the FLV, which will last 24hrs non stop from 6 pm of 1st April till 6 pm of 2nd April.

Emanuele Torquati will give the Italian premiere of Kurtàg Double Concerto op. 27 n. 2 for cello, piano and orchestra on 19th February with Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, conducted by Olari Elts and Francesco Dillon at the cello.

Kurtàg is one of the greatest living composers and this year he will turn 90. His Double Concerto is considered among his best works and explores spatial horizons, with a peculiar orchestral setting. It was written in 1989 for Ensemble Modern and Ensemble Intercontemporain and the first performance was conducted by Peter Eotvos, with Miklos Perenyi (cello) and Zoltan Kocsis (piano).

On 7th December, Emanuele will play a Recital at prestigious Turner Sims Concert Hall in Southampton. The program “Correspondences”, will feature Italian and English music from the past and today, featuring Scarlatti Sonatas, as well as a World Premiere written by Benjamin Oliver for piano and video, and Jonathan Harvey’s masterwork Tombeau de Messiaen, for piano and CD. After his performance, Emanuele will give a masterclass at Southampton University, opened to pianists and composers of the Music Faculty. You can LISTEN HERE to his live performance of Harvey’s Tombeau de Messiaen at New England Conservatory Boston.