Genres Contemporary classical Years active 1997-present Origin Turin, Italy (1997) | Occupation(s) Chamber ensemble Website [1] Record label Stradivarius | |
Genre Contemporary classical music Members Riccardo Piacentini, Tiziana Scandaletti Albums La voce crepuscolare Similar Lorenzo Ferrero, Flavio Emilio Scogna, Sylvano Bussotti, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Accademia Filarmonica Romana | ||
Duo alterno in los angeles 2 10 2012 luca lombardi ophelia fragmente 1
The Duo Alterno is an Italian voice-piano chamber ensemble specializing in 20th century and contemporary classical music. The Duo made up of soprano Tiziana Scandaletti and composer-pianist Riccardo Piacentini.
Contents
- Duo alterno in los angeles 2 10 2012 luca lombardi ophelia fragmente 1
- Duo alterno in warsaw 23 7 2012 luciano berio ballo from quattro canzoni popolari
- CDs
- Tours abroad Italy
- Repertoire
- Songs
- References
Duo Alterno's made its debut in February 1997 at the Vancouver Italian Contemporary Music Festival, where it held concerts and masterclasses for the University of British Columbia, the Simon Fraser University and the Vancouver Academy of Music. Since then they have performed in the major Italian festivals and in more than forty countries, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia, through concerts, masterclasses and CDs.
Recent international performances include: University of California in Berkeley, Stanford University, Lincoln Performance Hall of Portland-Oregon, Gasteig of Munich, Xinghai Concert Hall of Canton, Liaoning Grand Theatre of Shenyang, Opera Ballet Theatre of Ulan Bator, BKA Theater of Berlin, University of New Mexico of Albuquerque, SoundaXis Festival of Toronto, MITO Festival of Turin and Milan, Mozart Festival of Rovereto, Sydney Conservatorium, Federation Hall in Melbourne, IIC in Beijing, Moscow Conservatory, Janáček Academy in Brno, the University Theaters of Vilnius, Riga and Kiev (Taras Shevchenko University), Nuova Consonanza Festival of Rome, Levine School of Music in Washington where The Washington Post particularly appreciated their "fine sense of comedic timing", Walt Disney Concert Hall / REDCAT in Los Angeles, the Pyatt Hall of the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, the Mugham Center in Baku, the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.
Duo alterno in warsaw 23 7 2012 luciano berio ballo from quattro canzoni popolari
CDs
Tours abroad Italy
Argentina (1998, 2004) Australia (2004, 2008, 2010) Austria (2009, 2015) Azerbaijan (2014, 2015) Belgium (2002, 2005) Brazil (2012, 2016) Canada (1997, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014) China (2002, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015) Chorea (2001) Croatia (2015) Czech Republic (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013) Denmark (1999, 2008, 2016) Ethiopia (2010) Finland (1998, 1999, 2010, 2015) France (2001, 2010, 2015) Germany (2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2016) Guatemala (2016) Netherlands (2005, 2014) Hong Kong (2011, 2015) Hungary (2010, 2014) Japan (2006, 2007) Kazakhstan (2001) India (2004) Indonesia (2001, 2004, 2015) Latvia (2009) Lithuania (2009) Macedonia (2003) Malta (2011) Mongolia (2007, 2010) Norway (1999, 2002) Peru (2012) Russia (2005, 2009, 2014) Singapore (2001, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2015) Sweden (1999, 2008, 2015) United Kingdom (2001) United States (2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014) Turkey (2005, 2016) Ukraine (2009) Uzbekistan (1998, 1999) Venezuela (2012, 2016)
Repertoire
Marcello Abbado, Franco Alfano, Davide Anzaghi, Victor Andrini, Marino Baratello, Andrea Basevi, Giorgio Battistelli, Umberto Bombardelli, Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio, Sonia Bo, Giovanni Bonato, Mauro Bortolotti, Aldo Brizzi, Gilberto Bosco, Valentino Bucchi, Sylvano Bussotti, Curt Cacioppo, Beatrice Campodonico, Mauro Cardi, Alfredo Casella, Pieralberto Cattaneo, Mario Cesa, Ernest Chausson, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Giovanni Cima, Aldo Clementi, Alberto Colla, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Azio Corghi, Luigi Dallapiccola, James Dashow, Fabrizio De Rossi Re, Leonid Desyatnikov, Franco Donatoni, Gaetano Donizetti, Luigi Esposito, Lorenzo Ferrero, Boris Filanovski, David Froom, Sandro Fuga, Stanislao Gastaldon, Ada Gentile, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Riccardo Giavina, Giuseppe Giuliano, Domenico Guaccero, Giovanni Guaccero, Adriano Guarnieri, Richard Hermann, Carlo Alessandro Landini, Martin Q. Larsson, Corrinne Lateur, Luca Leone, Antonello Lerda, Paola Livorsi, Luca Lombardi, Bruno Maderna, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Giacomo Manzoni, Giuseppe Martucci, Marco Molteni, Ennio Morricone, Carlo Mosso, Luigi Nono, Franco Oppo, Marcello Panni, Goffredo Petrassi, Riccardo Piacentini, Carlo Pinelli, Piera Pistono, Biagio Putignano, Maurice Ravel, Lodovico Rocca, Gioachino Rossini, Aurelio Samorì, Giacinto Scelsi, Arnold Schönberg, Salvatore Sciarrino, Christopher Shultis, Leone Sinigaglia, Antonio Smareglia, Alessandro Solbiati, Daniela Terranova, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Fabio Vacchi, Giuseppe Verdi, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, Vittorio Zago.
(Composers who have dedicated works to the Duo Alterno are in bold)
Songs
LachrimaeLa voce contemporanea in Italia - vol 4 · 2009
Mothers of HopeLa voce contemporanea in Italia - Vol 6 · 2014
Van gli effluvi: Van li effluvi de le roseLa voce crepuscolare · 2010