DANIELE GASPARINI
Daniele Gasparini started his studies in composition under Aurelio Samorì’s guidance very young, graduating at the age of twenty in composition and in orchestral conducting at Conservatorio Rossini in Pesaro. He improved himself at Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, under Azio Corghi’s guidance. He attended also Franco Donatoni’s and Fabio Vacchi’s courses.
After his success at Masterprize (third prize) in 1998, his works got awards at several important international competitions.
His compositions have been performed even by renowned players such as the London Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding’s conducting, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Radiotelevisión Española under Adrian Leaper, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Ulf Schirmer, the Polish National Radio Orchestra under Christopher Lyndon-Gee, the BBC Orchestra, the Netherlands National Radio Choir under Simon Halsey, Salvatore Accardo, Tzimon Barto, the Trio di Parma, the Ensemble Calliopée, etc. and broadcast in more than forty countries all over the world.
After his classical studies he took a degree in Philosophy at Università degli Studi Carlo Bo in Urbino.
Always interested in the relations among music, literature and figurative arts, he regularly gives lectures on such themes.
MAIN WORKS
ORCHESTRA WITH
AND WITHOUT SOLOISTS
Once beyond a
time, for symphony orchestra
first performance: 2020 January 27-28, Katowice,
Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra Concert Hall, Polish National Radio
Symphony Orchestra, José Maria Florêncio
Invisible Cities, concert for piano and orchestra
commissioned by Croatian Composers’ Society and
Music Biennale Zagreb
first performance: 2019 April 11, XXX Music
Biennale, Zagreb, Vatroslav Lisinski Hall, Filip Fak, Croatian National
Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Ari Rasilainen
Trans Europe
Express, melologue for speaker, piano solo and wind
orchestra; texts by Raul Montanari
commissioned by Orchestra Fiati di Ancona
first performance: 2015 April 25, Ancona, Teatro
delle Muse, Luca Violini, Mariachiara Grilli, Orchestra Fiati di Ancona, Mirco
Barani
Snowise, snoway,
snowhere. Snowsense.
commissioned by Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana
first performance: 2013 February 14, Ancona, Teatro
delle Muse, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Giampaolo Maria Bisanti
Dove la rosa
scorda i suoi fantasmi, for symphony orchestra
commissioned by Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana
first performance: 2005 April 28, Ancona, Teatro
delle Muse, Trio di Parma, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Anton Nanut
Myselves
Passacaglia, for symphomy orchestra
first performance: 2005 October 20, Madrid, Teatro
Monumental, Orquesta Sinfónica de Radiotelevisión Española, Adrian Leaper
Il violino
invisibile, for violin and orchestra
first performance: 2002 August 2, Bologna, Piazza
Maggiore, Salvatore Accardo, Orchestra Sinfonica della Fondazione Arturo
Toscanini, Antonino Pierpaolo Fogliani
Through the
Looking Glass, for symphony orchestra
first performance: 1998 April 7, London, Barbican
Hall, London Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding
EMI Music Publishing
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CHAMBER MUSIC
Day and Night, for string quartet
first performance: 2018 November 15, Rome,
Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Sala Casella, Noûs Quartet
City of water, for piano and chamber ensemble
first performance: 2017 April 26, XXIX Music
Biennale, Zagreb, Museum of Arts and Crafts, Croatian National Radio-Television
Chamber Ensemble, Aleksandar Kalajdžić
La parola
mancante, for speaker and piano, texts by Michael Ende
first performance: 2012 May 5, Ancona Teatro delle
Muse, Mauro Pierfederici, Mariachiara Grilli
Quando il vento
sognava, quintet for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and
piano
first performance: 2009 April 18, Prades, Salle de
l’Abbaye Saint-Michel de Cuxa, Ensemble Calliopée
Come acqua dei
fiumi, for double brass quartet (4 horns, 2 trumpets, 2
trombones)
commissioned by Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana
first performance: 2007 November 1, Ancona, Teatro
delle Muse, Ensemble di ottoni dell’Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Donato
Renzetti
È l’ora delle
fate, melologue for speaker and wind octet (2 oboes, 2
clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns), text by William Shakespeare
Commissioned by Sagra Musicale Malatestiana
first performance: Rimini, Teatro di Montefiore
Conca, Nicoletta Maragno, Ensemble Festival Notti Malatestiane – Sagra Musicale
Malatestiana, Luisella Chiarini
La lente d’Oiram, for flute quartet
commissioned by: Quartetto Italiana di Flauti
first performance: 2004 November 11, Senigallia,
Auditorium San Rocco, Quartetto Italiano di Flauti Les Flûtes Joyeuses
La mort rose, for violin and piano
commissioned by Münchner Gesellschaft für Neue Musik
first performance: 2004 November 11, Senigallia,
Auditorium San Rocco, Quartetto Italiano di Flauti Les Flûtes Joyeuses
Casa Musicale Sonzogno
Dialogo d’un
venditore d’almanacchi e di un passeggere, for four
reciting flutists, text by Giacomo Leopardi
commissioned by Centro Nazionale di Studi
Leopardiani and Quartetto Italiano di Flauti
first performance: 1999 July 4, Senigallia,
Auditorium San Rocco, Quartetto Italiano di Flauti Les Flûtes Joyeuses
Agenda Edizioni Musicali
Quattro pezzi
facili, for wind quartet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon)
commissioned by Fondazione Arena di Verona
first performance: 1999 May 23, Verona, Teatro
Filarmonico, Solisti dell’Orchestra della commissioned by Fondazione Arena di
Verona
Agenda Edizioni Musicali
Enigma, for clarinet quartet
commissioned by Namaste Clarinet Quartet
first performance: 1998 May 16, Faenza, Teatro dei
Filodrammatici, Namaste Clarinet Quartet
Pizzicato Verlag Helvetia
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CHOIR AND
VOCAL MUSIC
Why east wind
chills, for mixed choir, text by Dylan Thomas
first performance:2007 June 28, Harlem,
Philharmonie, Netherland National Radio Choir, Simon Halsey
In taberna, fantasia di canoni su una poesia goliardica, for mixed choir, text from
Carmina Burana,
first performance: 1995 September 25, Faenza,
Teatro Comunale Masini, Coro Jubilate, Piero Monti
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SOLO INSTRUMENT
Calma e strana è
quest’ora, for flute
first performance: 2015 June 5, Bologna, Oratorio
Santa Cecilia, Fulvio Fiorio
Tres recuerdos
del cielo, for piano
first performance: 2014 March 29, Eustis (Florida),
The State Theatre, Tzimon Barto
Pensieri di
cristallo, for piano
commissioned by Concorso Pianistico Internazionale
Città di Senigallia
first performance: 2000 September 23, München,
Kulturzentrum Einstein, Stephanie Knauer
Casa Musicale Sonzogno
Elegia, for violin
first performance: 2000 October 25, Bologna,
Accademia Filarmonica, Valentino Corvino
Agenda Edizioni Musicali
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MUSIC THEATRE
Incubi e amore, monodrama for soprano, speaker and chamber ensemble, libretto by Raul
Montanari
first performance: 2013 December 7, Desenzano del
Garda, Auditorium Celesti, Brigitte Canins, Dario Giorgelé, NED Ensemble,
Andrea Mannucci
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni
Le mummie di
Federico Ruysch, operetta morale in musica for tenor, baritone,
speaker, choir (SAB) and chamber ensemble (flute, oboe, clariet, bassoon, horn,
percussion, strings)first performance: 1999 August 7, Recanati, Centro
Nazionale di studi Leopardiani, Festival Notturni Leopardiani, Ensemble, coro e
solisti del Festival
Bèrben Edizioni Musicali
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NEXT WORKS
His next works include a piece for soli, choirs and
orchestra commissioned by Gruppo Strumentale Ciampi on the occasion of 900
years of the foundation of Piacenza Cathedral (to be performed in
2022), and some music for the sound accompaniment of an exhibition by the
painter Enzo Fabbrucci.
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AWARDS
2020 – She Lives Budapest Prize, awarded by Associazione
She Lives, for Tres recuerdos del cielo
2018 – Karol Szymanowski International Music Competition, 3rd prize awarded by Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, for Once beyond a
time
2017 – 5 Minutes Piano Concerto Composition Competition awarded by Music Biennale Zagreb, Croatian Composers’ Society
for City of Water
2015 – Karol Szymanowski Composition Prize awarded by
Karol Szymanowski Music Society, Karol Szymanowski Music Academy, Polish
National Symphony Radio Orchestra for Snowise, snowhere, snoway. Snowsense
2014 – Barto Prize awarded by Lake Eustis Institute (Florida)
for Tres recuerdos del cielo
2013 – Premio Monodramma awarded by Verona
Opera Academy, NED Ensemble, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, for Incubi e amore
2009 – Premio Pablo Casals awarded by
Festival Pablo Casals (Prades), for Quando il vento sognava
2007 – Groot Omroepkoor Prijs awarded by
the Netherlands Nation Radio Choir for Why east wind chills
2006 – Premio Internazionale Guido d’Arezzo, second prize
(first not awarded), awarded by Fondazione Guido d’Arezzo, for Why east wind
chills (version for 16 solo singers)
2004 – Premio Reina Sofia awarded by Fundació de
Musica Ferrer Salat (Barcelona) with the high patronage of Queen Sofia,
for Myselves Passacaglia
2002 – Premio Internazionale 2 agosto, awarded by
“Associazione tra i familiari delle vittime della strage alla Stazione di
Bologna del 2 Agosto 1980” (Bologna) with the high patronage of the President
of the Italian Republic, for Il violino invisibile
2000 – Premio Internazionale Valentino Bucchi awarded by Fondazione Valentino Bucchi (Rome) for La mort rose
1998/2000 – Premio Internazionale Giacomo Leopardi awarded by Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani (Recanati),
for Le mummie di Federico Ruysch
1997/98 – Masterprize, third prize, awarded by Masterprize, BBC, EMI,
London Symphony Orchestra, for Through the Looking Glass
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WEBSITE
http://www.danielegasparini.net/
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AUDIO AND VIDEO
https://soundcloud.com/search?q=DanieleGasparini
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYmxtQ-hrLs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u-aDPCdGWU