Corrado Pasquale (1979) Second Year selection
Following his degrees in Piano, Vocal Music and Choral Conducting, he has graduated in Composition at the Conservatory of Milan under the guide of Alessandro Solbiati and in Orchestral Conducting under the guide of Daniele Agiman whom he worked as assistant in various symphonic and operatic productions. Since 2009 he is specializing in composition under the guide Ivan Fedele at the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. In 2010 he studied at the Conservatoire Supérieur de Paris with Stefano Gervasoni. In the same year he was selected at IRCAM for the Cursus 1, 2010-2011. He received commissions by:
International Festival of Contemporary Music Biennale di Venezia 2008, Fondazione Banna-Spinola per l’Arte, Rondò Divertimento Ensemble, MITO Milano Musica, Società dei Concerti Torino, Festival Pontino, Simphony Orchestra “Umberto Giordano”, Festival Koinè. He has been selected for the 15th Young Composers Meeting 2009 Apeldoorn, Netherland last February with Luis Andriessen. He is the winner of the Composition Competition for Symphonic Orchestra 2007 of the Conservatory of Milan. He composed musics for a joint project in collaboration with the architecture faculty of the Politecnico di Milano, leading to the publication of a book and a CD entitled “Architetture Sonore” (Sonorous Architecture).
He also composed music for the film “La terribile armata” (film by Gherard Lamprecht) which was performed for the first by Orchestra G. Verdi of Milan. He has followed masterclass of Composition with Luca Francesconi, Stefano Gervasoni, Luis De Pablo, Ivan Fedele, Luis Andriessen, Fredèric Durieux, Helmut Lachenmann. As conductor he worked with: Bayerisches Symphonieorchester Munchen, Orhcestra Sinfonica “I Pomeriggi Musicali” di Milano, Philarmonic Orchestra di Kharkov,
Orchestra Sinfonica “Giuseppe Verdi” dell’Auditorium di Milano, Divertimento Ensemble di Milano and others. He has conducted the Divertimento Ensemble in the production of the “Satyricon” of Bruno Maderna. He has debut with the Opera to
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SOVRINCISO
I have always been short-sighted but when I was a child, I didn’t know it. I used to stare at the gravel of my parents’ backyard as a grey blurred sea and, just by touching it, I was able to recognise the heaps of little stones.I didn’t really give importance to the uncertainty and to the imprecise shading of the material. The phenomenic reality around me was meaningful. Then, when I wore the glasses, things became autonomous and defined. In a way, I lost control on the definition of the objects.The subjectivity of my reality was substituted by the objectivity of the world.This is the image I use to build the piece. Sovrinciso is the subjective representation of a reality. It is the description of a single musical figure and the thousand variations conferring it an always diverse and changeable appearance. I started writing this piece as an investigation over the form that changes according to the prospective of sight. However, while writing it I dragged this idea to its limits. I tried not only to manipulate the form of the object, but I focused on its core, its inner part; so I have filled the figure with inexperienced and personal images, leaving the outlines recognizable and clear.