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Giuseppe Gavazza, born on the 8th of October 1957, live in Turin
- 1983 : Degree in Pharmacology, Turin University;
- 1985 : Diploma in Composition, Music Conservatory, Milan;
- 1986 : Diploma in Electronic Music, EMIT, Milan.
Collaboration and invitation as composer and researcher:
- 1985-1986 with CSC (Centro di Sonologia Computazionale) of Padua University;
- 1986-1988 with LIM (Laboratorio d'Informatica Musicale) of Milan University;
- 1991-1996 with Experimental Studio der Sudwestfunk, H.Strobel Stiftung, Freiburg;
- 1993, 1994 and 1996 grants as composer and researcher of De Sono, Turin
- from October 1996 to January 1997 at IRCAM-Centre George Pompidou, Paris;
- from spring 1997 to actual time composer in residence at ACROE-Politechnique de Grenoble;
- Spring 2000, artist in residence at Chateau de La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu, France
- May 2002 invited at META Museum Gathering, Black Mountain College, NC, USA
- Summer-autumn 2002, artist in Residence at Kukturhuse USF, Bergen, Norway
- Spring 2003, artist in residence at Chateau de La Napoule Art Foundation, Mandelieu, France
- Winter 2004, artist in residence, Le cheminement des sculptures, Gigondas, France
- Summer 2005, artist in Residence at Kukturhuse USF, Bergen, Norway
- Winter 2006, artist in residence at Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, Bogliasco, Italy
- Invitation for spring and summer 2006, artist in residence, La Charbonniere, Chalon sur Saöne, France
- Invitation for summer 2006, artist in residence, Asilo Bianco, Ameno, Italy
Prize and nomination in composition competition:
- 1990 Premio Valentino Bucchi, Roma with string quartet Tre stanze d'ascolto;
- 1991 Ensemblia Moenchengladbach, with Knoot for bass clarinet, flute and piano;
- 1992 Irino Prize, Tokyo, with Il silenzio che si rinnova for soprano and ensemble;
- 1993 Irino Prize, Tokyo with string quartet Memoria occidentale;
- 1993 Accademia Briccialdi, Terni with Nodi for violin, bass clarinet and piano.
Performances of his compositions:
Festivals and concert seasons: Antidogma Musica, Artifex, ArsNova Ravensburg, Bacau Music Festival, Bartok Festival Budapest, Cabaret Voltaire, Camerata Strumentale Alfredo Casella, Castello di Manta, Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano, Deal Festival, Ensems Valencia, Ensemblia Moenchengladbach, Eté musicale Geneve, Experimental Studio SWF Freiburg, Festival Aix Musique, Folkestone Fringe Festival, Fondazione Arkad Seravezza, Il Sogno Di Cocteau GAM Torino, Ircam Paris, Meta Black Mountain College, Music Biennale Berlin, Neue Musik Leipzig, Nuova Consonanza Roma, Phonurgia Nova Sonoscope, Pomeriggi di musica nuova Torino, Pulse Field Atlanta, Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea, Risonanze Mestre, Rive Gauche Concerti, Semaine de lāart et de science Grenoble, Settembre Musica Torino, Traiettorie Sonore Como, Unione Culturale Torino, USF Bergen Norway, Vocemusica Faenza, Vor-echo Freiburg, Zagreb Festival, ZKM Kahrlruhe
Where: Auditorium Rai Torino, Centro Candiani Mestre, Conservatorio G.Verdi Torino, Black Mountain College NC-USA, Caffé¸ Procope, Centre Culturel Franç¨ais de Turin, Chateau de La Napoule Cannes, Circolo degli Artisti Torino, Concert Hall Bacau, Conservatorio di Torino, Deal-Kent, Espace Projection Ircam Paris, Experimental Studio SWF Freiburg, Folkestone, Galleria Persano Torino, GAM Torino, Gazi Atene, Goethe Institut Turin, MAMAC Nice, Museo d'arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Sala dei Notari Perugia, Schauspielhaus Berlin, Schworsaal im Waaghaus Ravensburg, Teatro Carignano Torino, Teatro Comunale Faenza, Teatro Goldoni Venezia, Teatro Toselli Cuneo, Teatro Juvarra, Teatergarasjet Bergen Norway, Woodruff Park Atlanta, ZKM Kahrlsruhe
Who: Antidogma Ensemble, Alain Lafuente, Alessandro Commellato, Ancuza Aprodu, Annamaria Morini, Barbara Lazotti, Camerata Strumentale Casella, Coro Magnificat, Dario Vagliengo, Dolci Aure Consort, Donatienne Michel-Dansac, Edmondo Tedesco, Elisabet Baudry, Enzo Porta, Francesco Dillon, Francoise Rivalland, Freon Ensemble, Gabriella Bosio, Het Trio, J.F. Cottet, Linda Campanella, Luisa Castellani, Manuel Zigante, Maria Elena Bovio, Mathiis Bunschoten, Quartetto d'archi di Torino, Rheinisches Bach Collegium, Solisti dei Compositori Associati, SvenThomas Kiebler, Rocco Parisi, Thierry Miroglio, Zagreb String Quartet
Collaboration with other artists:
Sergio Liberovici in many projects of music theater for children, 1983-1991
Mauro Chessa, painter, 1985
Giulio Castagnoli, composer, 1985-1995
Walter Malosti, theater director, dramaturgist, 1993
Luciano Berio, orchestration of unachieved Liberovici opera Maelzel o delle macchinazioni 1992-96
Roberto Piumini, writer, 1990 and 1995
Alfredo Romano, sculptor and painter, different sound installationās project, 1998-2005
Dan Perjovski, drawer, writer, 2000
Licia Lucchese, Maria Cristina Madau, Jean-Fran¨ois Barotte, 2001-2002
Daniel Firman, visual artist, performer, 2002
Magali Claude, video artist, 2001-2002
MAP3 (Music Architecture, Painting) Monica Trevisan and Deanna Sirlin, 2002-2006
Johannes Pfeiffer, visual artist, 2004-2009
Jennifer Wofford, Kayla Allen,Sandra Bermudez, drawer, film director, painter, 2003
Folkert de Jong, painter, sculptor, 2003
Emmanuelle Delle Piane, dramatist, 2003-2004
Christine Sefolosha, painter, drawer, 2004
Gayle Tustin, sculptor, 2004
Vittorio Messina, painter, visual artist, film director, 2004
Fran¨çoise Murcia, coreographer, dancer, 2003-2005
Giuseppe Armenia, painter, concept artist, 2006
Marguerite Kahrl, painter, visual artist, 2006-2009
Walter Macovaz, visual artist
Scores published by:
Ricordi, BMG Ariola, Semar, Edipan
Writing in review:
Musica Domani, Musica Realtà, Quaderni di Musica Nuova, Il Giornale della Musica, Interlinea, The Art Section, Terpress
Paper and intervention:
at International meetings and conferences in Italy, France, Germany, Hungary, Austria, Roumania, Switzerland, USA, Norway
CD recording:
with labels: Happy New Ears, DDT, 2E2M, Datum, Folkestone Fringe
Radio and TV broadcast:
Italy: RAI RadioDue, RadioTre, RAI Due TV; France: France Culture, Radio France
Other radio and TV national networks in Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Rumania, Hungary, Croatia, Slovenja
Teaching:
Teacher of composition, analysis, pedagogics music theory in National Music Conservatory from 1985 to actual time in Milan, Turin, Vicenza and Cuneo.
Organizing:
Collaborator to artistic direction Camerata Strumentale Alfredo Casella, 1980-1995;
Member of administrative board Cooperativa Insieme Musica, L’Opera dei
Bambini, 1985-1988;
Artistic Director Compositori Associati Torino, 1988-1995
Member of artistic committee Antidogma Musica, several times from 1996;
Composer in residence at ACROE. Institu National Polytechnique Grenoble, from
1998 till now;
Head of department MNT (Music and New Technologies) Cuneo Music conservatory,
2001-2006
Address and links:
Giuseppe Gavazza
via Galliari 32
I-10125 Torino Italia
email: gigav(at)iol.it
tel: +39 011 6687435
Skype: gigav57
SMS: +39 349 5835347
iChat: gigav(at)mac.com (not for email)