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Raffaele Grimaldi - composer

Born 1980, Italy

Raffaele Grimaldi, Italian composer
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Education

2008 -Selected by the Reading Panel 2008- IRCAM (Paris - France) for the Cursus 1 in Composition and Computer Music 2008/2009, and obtaining the residence at the Citè Internationale des Arts.
 Following the courses of Ivan Fedele at the National Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome.
 Selected to attend the composition workshop at the Centre Acanthes, where has studied with Salvatore Sciarrino and has written a new orchestral piece performed by Zsolt Nagy and the Soloists of the Orchestre National de Lorraine.
2007 -Studying Orchestra Conduction, choral music and choir direction, and is following the courses of Ivan Fedele at the academy Scuola superiore di Musica Pescarese (Pescara, Italy)
2007Selected for the Atelier de composition held by Michael Jarrell, Marco Stroppa and Yan Maresz at the Centre Acanthes (Metz, France) a new orchestral piece was performed by the Orchestre National de Lorraine.
1994 -2007Studied and graduated in Piano and Composition with highest honors from G. Martucci Conservatory of Salerno (Italy)
2005Developed musicology activity at the San Carlo theatre of Naples, obtaining a scholarship.
1986 - 1994Studied piano at the Scalabrini - Gmür Italian College, St. Gallen (Switzerland).

Awards, Grants

  • From September 2008, thanks to the European Placement Scholarship, he will be researcher at the Mèdiathéque Mahler in Paris, developing a project of research on the music of I. Xenakis.
  • Selected by the ensemble Aleph for the V International Forum of Young Composers 2008 (France);
  • In June 2008 the POGAS (Office for the juvenile politics and sporting activity), the GAI (Association for the circuit of the Young Italian Artists) and the PARC (general Direction for the architecture and contemporary arts of the Office for the cultural Activities) confer him the scholarship MOVIN'UP 2008, to support of his composer activity for the foreign countries;
  • Finalist, International composition competition Ton de Leeuw 2008 (Tirana – Albany)
  • Finalist, International composition prize R. Toscano, Pescara, 2007;
  • Progetto giovani compositori, Forlì - 2007, 1st prize; (chairman Giacomo Manzoni)
  • Call for scores, Treviso, 2006, 1st prize;
  • Finalist, Humaniter Competition Milano, 2006;
  • Finalist, International competition Taukay, Udine, 2006;
  • Finalist, Biennial prize S. Ciani Siena, 2006 (Chigiana, founded by Luciano Berio);
  • Città di Pompei, National competition 2005 - 1st prize;
  • Città di Napoli, National competition 2005 - 1st prize;
  • Valentino Bucchi, International competition Roma 2005 - 2nd prize (first not assigned);
  • StefanoFerrari, International competition Piacenza 2005 - 2nd prize (first not assigned);
  • Città di Caserta, National competition 1999 -2001 - 1st prize;
  • Selected for the What's next of Nuova consonanza (Roma), 2003;

Recent works

ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL COMPOSITIONS
  • Creatura temporale (2007) for orchestra
  • Astrattismi (2006) for orchestra
  • ... il leggero canto del vento (2006 - 07) for piano and orchestra
  • Arundo (2004) (philosophical opera) for soli, choir and orchestra
  • Farbenmusik (2004) (3 movements) for orchestra
  • Demissio (2005) for mixed choir a cappella SATB
INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC
  • L'equilibrio immobile (2008) for 9 instrumentalist
  • Inflessioni sospese (2008) for string quartet
  • Gegenscheine (2008) for 13 instrumentalist
  • La favola del principe e il racconto della favola del principe (2006) (fable in music) for voices and ensemble
  • Acrostici (2005 - 06) cyclical compositions for voices and piano
  • Essenza (2004 - 05) for small ensemble
  • Visioni primitive (2005) for ensemble
  • Percezioni (2005 - 06) for ensemble
  • Malleus (2005) for string quartet
  • Concetti sonori (2005) for ensemble
  • Sliriques (2004) for soprano voice and ensemble
  • Reminescenze... come nebbia nei giorni azzurri (2006) (poetry in music) for contralto-mezzosoprano voice and piano
  • I respiri assolati (2006) for baritone voice and piano
  • Il flusso delle albe perpetue (2005) for soprano voice and piano
  • Forse un mattino andando in un aria di vetro... (2005) for tenor voice and piano
  • L'occaso (2005) for tenor voice and piano
  • Asyncronous (2004) for clarinet and piano
  • Cantìca (2003) for mezzo-soprano voice and ensemble
  • SON@t@ (2003 ) for solo piano
  • Microsuite (2002) for solo piano
  • Arabesco (2001) for ensemble
  • Breathes (2001) for solo flute
ELECTRONIC MUSIC
  • Novembre (2007) for tape

Performances

His compositions have been performed in Europe (Italy, France, Albany, Switzerland, Germany) and USA (New York, Boston, Des Moines), and broadcasted by Taukay Radio and Rai Radio 3.

He regularly plays the piano both as soloist and with various formations, performing works of both classical and contemporary composers in Rome, Milan, Naples, Paris, Barcelona, Wien and Budapest.

 
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