The 2017 New Music Festival is centred around the work of visiting prominent Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino and features several Italian guest performers including violinist Emmanuele Baldini and pianists Roberto Turrin and Erika Crinò. The festival also presents the results of an ongoing musical collaboration with Italy’s Conservatorio G. Tartini. With a wide spectrum of chamber, vocal, electroacoustic, opera, dance and orchestral music, and partnering with Toronto’s excellent New Music Concerts, the festival offers an insight into the rich Italian culture of contemporary music, side-by-side with the creativity emerging from Toronto and UofT.
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Born in Palermo in 1947, Salvatore Sciarrino started studying music at age 12 with Antonio Titone and Turi Belifore. He has received many prizes including the IGNM and Taormina (1971), Guido Monaco (1972), Cassadó, IGMN and Dallapiccola (1974), Anno discografico (1979), Psacaropoulos (1983), Abbiati (1983) and Premio Italia (1984). He was director of Bologna’s Teatro Communale from 1987 to 1990 and has has taught at the Milan, Perugia and Florence conservatories. The complete catalogue of his works, published by Ricordi in 1999, consists of 164 works, to which one must add opera librettos and a number of writings, including the book Le Figure della musica, da Beethoven a oggi (1998).
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Master Class with Salvatore Sciarrino, Roger D. Moore Distinguished Visitor in Composition
Walter Hall, 80 Queen's Park
Free
*Another Master Class will take place Friday, February 3, 10 am - 12 pm, Walter Hall