Giovanni Verrando

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    • Multimedia works
      • Camera Music (2022 – 2026)
      • Instrumental freak show (2017-2020)
    • Orchestral works
      • Multiplicity (2013)
      • The Sinopia of Dulle Griet (2010-11)
      • Polyptych (2007)
      • Triptych (2005-06)
      • Agile (2004)
      • Sottile (1996-97)
    • Chamber works 2005 – today
      • Keekee Bouba (2015-17)
      • Krummholz (2013-14)
      • Travelling icon on rabbit-skin glue (2013)
      • Grammatica dell’inarmonico (2012)
      • Dulle Griet (2009-10)
      • Triptych#2 (2008)
      • Memorial art show (2005)
    • Chamber works 1989 – 2005
      • Quartetto n° 3 (2003)
      • Il ruvido dettaglio celebrato da Aby Warburg (2002)
      • Evanescente Orchestra Meccanica II (1999)
      • Quartetto n° 2 (1998-99)
      • 4 invenzioni sull’Offerta Musicale (1995)
      • Accanto alla quiete (1993)
      • Animismus (1992)
    • Solo
      • The Unicorn cycle
      • Seventh Born Unicorn (2019)
      • Sixth Born Unicorn (2018 – rev. 2025)
      • Fifth Born Unicorn (2016)
      • Fourth Born Unicorn, angular version (2016)
      • Fourth Born Unicorn, rounded version (2015)
      • Third Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for (2009)
      • Second Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for (2002)
      • First Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for (2001)
      • Discanto (2000)
      • 3 opere misurate (1994-95)
    • Choir
      • The 4 delights of Jeroen Anthoniszoon (2007)
    • Opera
      • Alex Brücke Langer (2002-03)
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  • senza famiglia – lutherie & composition
    • One work, one sound
    • Un’opera, un suono
    • Striving for an unheard sound
    • Tendere ad un suono inedito
    • Musica da camera con la nuova liuteria
    • Helsinki lectures – Why research into lutherie?
    • Le conferenze di Helsinki – Perché una ricerca sulla liuteria?
    • Instruments as apparatus
    • Gli strumenti come apparati
    • On new lutherie
    • Sulla nuova liuteria
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past news

concerto-Piccolo


• 2017-18: Conservatory of Lugano, Switzerland
course of Chamber music with new lutherie
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• 19.12.17: Università Dipartimento di Musicologia, Cremona,
“La nuova liuteria e la composizione”,
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• 19-22.06.17: Fondazione Cini, Venezia, “La creazione del timbro”,
international workshop for string instruments players
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• 20.05.17: Pinerolo, Teatro del Lavoro, “Animismus”, for 4 musicians
Ensemble Soundinitiative
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• 23.04.17: New York, Spectrum
“Fourth Born Unicorn, rounded version” for prepared viola d’amore,
& “Fourth Born Unicorn, angular version” for prepared viola
Marco Fusi, viola & viola d’amore
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• 21.04.17: Berkeley, CNMAT
“Fourth Born Unicorn, rounded version” for prepared viola d’amore,
Marco Fusi, viola d’amore
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• 30.12.16: Torri dell’acqua, Budrio, Dialoghi sul comporre 2016 –
G. Verrando & F. Dillon
“Su Fifth Born Unicorn, per violoncello trasformato, smontato ed elettronica”
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• 21.11.16: Orpheus Instituut, Ghent, Belgium
Orpheus Research Seminar 2016 – Composition as Critical Technical Practice
“Composition and lutherie”
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• 28.09.16: Sveriges Radio P2, “Multiplicity”
Kroumata, NorrlandsOperan’s Symphony Orchestra, cond. R. Gamba
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• 2016-17: Conservatory of Lugano, Switzerland
1st course of Chamber music with new lutherie
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• 09.06.16: Strasbourg, Institut Culturel Italien, “Fourth Born Unicorn, rounded version” for prepared viola d’amore,
& “Fourth Born Unicorn, angular version” for prepared viola
Marco Fusi, viola & viola d’amore
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• 25.05.16: Paris, Institut Culturel Italien, “Fourth Born Unicorn, rounded version” for prepared viola d’amore,
& “Fourth Born Unicorn, angular version” for prepared viola
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Marco Fusi, viola & viola d’amore
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• 19.05.16: Paris, Infuse–Espace des arts sans frontières, “Animismus”, for 4 musicians
Ensemble Soundinitiative
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• 17.03.16: Genève, Festival Archipel, “Krummholz”, for string(less) trio, percussion & electronics
RepertorioZero
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• 03.03.16: Helsinki, Music Centre, lecture on “Prepared and transformed instruments”
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• 14.02.16: France Musique, Le cri du patchwork,“Second Born Unicorn”, Luca Ieracitano pf, from cd ÆON 1328
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• 21.01.16: Milano, video shooting of “Fourth Born Unicorn, rounded version”,
Marco Fusi – viola d’amore

• 12.01.16: Berlin, Unerhörte Musik, “Second Born Unicorn”, Luca Ieracitano – pf
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• 04.12.15: New Made Week, Lovere (Bg), “First Born Unicorn”, Laura Faoro – fl
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• Review on “Krummholz” and beforeZero concert, Gaida Festival, by lrytas.lt
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• 21.11.15: “Keekee Bouba”, for voice & 4 musicians
Commissioned by Ensemble L’arsenale, world premiere
L’arsenale 2015
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• 29.10.15: Helsinki, Music Centre, lecture on “New lutherie music”
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• 24.10.15: Vilnius, Gaida Festival, “Krummholz”, for string(less) trio, percussion & electronics
RepertorioZero

• 2015-16, appointed visiting professor to the Sibelius Academy, Helsinki,
academic year 2015-16
Sibelius-Academy
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• 07.05.15: Rai RadioTre, “Krummholz”, live recording of beforezero concert
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• 16.05.15: France Musique, Le cri du Patchwork, “Third Born Unicorn”, cd ÆON 1328
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• Review on “Krummholz” and beforeZero concert, by James Imam, Bachtrack
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• Review on “Krummholz” and beforeZero concert, by Susanna Sinigaglia
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• Video on “Krummholz”, for string(less) trio, percussion & electronics
RepertorioZero, Festival Milano Musica
Krummholz-video
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• 17.01.15: France Musique, Le cri du Patchwork, “Triptich #2”, cd ÆON 1328
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• 15.11.14: Milano, Festival Milano Musica, “Krummholz”, for string(less) trio, percussion & electronics
RepertorioZero, world premiere
Commissioned by Milano Musica Festival, co-production with Fondazione Cariplo, Ernst Von Siemens Musikstiftung, CIRM-Nice

• 14.11.14: Milano, Festival Milano Musica, “Around Zero”
Introduction to “Krummholz”, for string(less) trio, percussion & electronics

• “Anamorphoses”
études sur l’oeuvre de Fausto Romitelli
sous la direction de Alessandro Arbo
Giovanni Verrando “Au-delà de l’imaginare de la music écrite”
Hermann Editeurs, Paris
Anamorphoses
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• 27.09.14: Lausanne, Ensemble Vide, “First Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for”
Paolo Vignaroli – flute

• “New lutherie: orchestration, grammar, aesthetics”
English version
Preface by Pierre Albert Castanet, Translation by Laura Davey
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni – Milano
The-New-Lutherie4
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• Review on cd ÆON “Dulle Griet”, by Neue Zeitschrift für Musik
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• Video on “Multiplicity”, for 4 percussion players and orchestra
Kroumata and NorrlandsOperan’s Symphony Orchestra, cond. R. Gamba
Multiplicity
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• 15-19.07.14: Nice, CIRM, work in studios, producing electronics for “Krummholz”, for string(less) trio, percussion & electronics
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• 29.04.14: Como, Conservatorio “G. Verdi”
Masterclass on: La nuova liuteria, orchestrazione, grammatica, estetica.
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• 28.03.14: Firenze, Festival Play It!
“Travelling icon on rabbit-skin glue”, for chamber ensemble.
ORT, cond. T. Battista, First performance
Commissioned by Fondazione ORT – Festival PlayIt

• Review on cd ÆON “Dulle Griet”, by Anaclase
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• 13-18.03.14: Nice, CIRM, work in studios producing electronics for new piece, for string(less) trio, percussion & electronics
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• 05.12.13: Umeå, NorrlandsOperan
“Multiplicity”, for 4 percussion players and orchestra
Kroumata and NorrlandsOperan’s Symphony Orchestra, cond. R. Gamba
First performance
Commissioned by Kroumata and Symphony Orchestra of Norrlands Opera

• Review on cd ÆON “Dulle Griet”
by Amadeus magazine
Amadeus-January-2014

• ArTribune magazine selected cd ÆON “Dulle Griet” among the best CDs of 2013

• Review on cd ÆON “Dulle Griet”, by Kwadratuur
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• 04.10.13: Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg-Festival Musica
“Au-delà de l’imaginaire de la musique écrite”, intervention dans “Anamorphoses”, journée d’étude sur l’oeuvre de Fausto Romitelli

• 19.06.13: New York, Chelsea Music Festival, “Quartetto n. 3”, mdi ensemble

• 19.06.13: L’Aquila, Cantieri dell’Immaginario, “Dulle Griet”, Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi, choreography I. Bourguet-Kalbusch, cond. C. Boccadoro

• 17.06.13: New York, Jack Space Brooklyn, “Second Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for”
Luca Ieracitano – piano

•“La nuova liuteria: orchestrazione, grammatica, estetica”
prefazione di Pierre Albert Castanet
Edizioni Suvini Zerboni – Milano

La-nuova-liuteria
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• Review on cd ÆON “Dulle Griet”, by I care if you listen
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• Review on cd ÆON “Dulle Griet”, by Chicago Reader
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• 12.05.13: Los Angeles, Italian Cultural Institute
“Second Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for”
Richard Valitutto – piano

• 11.04.13: Paris, Centre Culturel Italien
“First Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for”
Paolo Vignaroli – flute

• 07.03.2013: Radio SRF 2, Musik unserer Zeit, on Dulle Griet, cd ÆON 1328
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• 28.01.2013: France Musique, “coup de coeur” to Dulle Griet, cd ÆON 1328

• Review on cd ÆON “Dulle Griet”, by ResMusica
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• Review on cd ÆON “Dulle Griet”, by Altremusiche
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• Review on cd ÆON “Dulle Griet”, by Percorsi Musicali
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• new CD
“Dulle Griet”

Mdi Ensemble, RepertorioZero, cond. Pierre-André Valade
CD ÆON 1328
DulleGriet-Cover-intera
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• Review on “La nuova liuteria: orchestrazione, grammatica, estetica”, by Il Corriere Musicale
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• Video on “Alex Brücke Langer”
produced by History Lab – Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino
Abl-HistoryLab
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• 13.12.2012
new CD
with “The sinopia of Dulle Griet”
Philharmonisches Orchester des Staatstheaters Cottbus, cond. Evan Christ
CD Telos Music Label
Impulse
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• 12.10.12: Venezia, 56th Biennale Musica
“Grammatica dell’inarmonico”, for amplified ensemble
Ensemble Risognanze, cond. T. Ceccherini

• 11.10.12: Milano, Conservatorio G. Verdi
“Grammatica dell’inarmonico”, for amplified ensemble
Ensemble Risognanze, cond. T. Ceccherini

• 12.09.12: interview on
“La nuova liuteria: orchestrazione, grammatica, estetica”
Rai-Radio 3 Suite

• 11.03.12: Messina, Filarmonica Laudamo
“New piece” for amplified voice & piano
A. Caiello – voice & M.G. Bellocchio – piano

• 28.01.12: Milano, Teatro alla Scala – Ridotto dei palchi “A. Toscanini”
“Il ruvido dettaglio celebrato da Aby Warburg”
Ensemble da camera dell’Accademia della Scala, cond. F. Angelico

• 23.01.12: Lausanne, Société de Musique Contemporaine
“Quattro invenzioni sull’Offerta Musicale”
mdi ensemble

• video: interview on “Dulle Griet”
by La Biennale di Venezia
Dulle-Griet-interview2
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• 08.10.11: Madrid, Teatro de Tres Cantos
“Animismus”
Grupo Sax-Ensemble

• interview: “Dettagli per l’orecchio. Una composizione dedicata ad Aby Warburg”
by A. Sbrilli, on Engramma n. 92, august 2011
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• new CD Milano Musica Festival CD series
“Quartetto n. 2” (1998)
performed by Quartetto di Torino
Stradivarius Label
Milano_Musica-Cd
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• video
RepertorioZero receives ‘Il Leone d’argento’, 55th Biennale Musica di Venezia
Leone-argento
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• 28.09.11: Venezia, Biennale Musica
“Dulle Griet”
Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi, cond. C. Boccadoro

• 06.09.11: Milano, Festival MITO
“New piece for amplified voice & piano
A. Caiello – voice & M.G. Bellocchio – piano

• 05.09.11: Torino, Festival MITO
“New piece” for amplified voice & piano
A. Caiello – voice & M.G. Bellocchio – piano

• video on
“Il ruvido dettaglio celebrato da Aby Warburg”
performed by Divertimento Ensemble, cond. S. Gorli
http://www.limenmusic.com

• 24-27.05.11: Paris, Conservatoire national supérieur de musique
Jury du Prix de Orchestration

• 19.05.11: Firenze, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
“New piece” for amplified voice & piano
A. Caiello – voice & M.G. Bellocchio – piano

• 6-8.05.11: Cottbus, Staatstheater
“The sinopia of Dulle Griet”, new piece for orchestra,
Philarmonisches Orchester, cond. M. Niemann
First Performance
Commissioned by Staatstheater Cottbus

• 16.04.11: Cottbus, Kunstmuseum Dieselkraftwerk Cottbus
“Dulle Griet”
Ensemble Mosaik, cond. E. Christ

• 23.02.11: Milano, Palazzina Liberty
“Il ruvido dettaglio celebrato da Aby Warburg”
Divertimento Ensemble, cond. S. Gorli

• 11.02.11: Milano, Festival Koinè – Teatro Dal Verme
“Dulle Griet”
Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi, cond. C. Boccadoro

• 20.01.11: Lugano, Lanterna Rossa- Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana
“Third born unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for” for e-violin & electronics

• december 2010 – may 2011: masterclass on composition for the new lutherie with RepertorioZero, Scuola Civica di Musica, Milano

• video on
“Alex Brücke Langer”
produced by Bolzano Stadttheater

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• 30.07.10: Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano
“Second Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for”
piano: C. Longobardi

• video on RepertorioZero Tonhalle Concert in Zürich

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• 18.05.10: Milano, Festival Sentieri Selvaggi
“Dulle Griet”
Ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi, cond. C. Boccadoro

• 16.05.10: RSI Rete Due, Radio Svizzera Italiana
live from Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino, interview

• 11-13.05.10: Montréal, Conservatoire de musique du Québec
Jury du Prix de Composition

• 19-20-21-23.02.10: Bolzano, Stadttheater, “Alex Brücke Langer”
Text: V. Calabretta
Director: Y. Oida
Designs & video: T. Schenk
Perfomers: M. Bennett, A. Caiello, M. Miesenberger, S. Abbondi
Ensemble Accademia Neue Musik Bolzano
Conductor: P. A. Valade

• 05.02.10: Torino, Rai Nuova Musica
“Agile”
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, cond. M. Angius

• 27.01.10: DRS 2, Schweizer Radio
Musik unserer Zeit, Portrait

• 07.11.09: Zürich, Tonhalle, Festival Tage für Neue Musik
“Triptych #2”
RepertorioZero

• 06.11.09: Maastricht, AEC Annual Congress
presentation of the artistic research on New Lutherie: Orchestration, Grammar, Aesthetics

• 03.10.09: Göteborg, ISCM World New Music Day
“Memorial Art Show”
Kroumata Ensemble

• 01.10.09: Lugano, Festival Oggimusica
“Triptych #2”
RepertorioZero

• 28.09.09: Venezia, Biennale
“Sottile”
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai

• interview on ‘Blow up’ magazine, #132-May 2009

• 25.04.09: RAI RadioTre, Piazza Verdi
“Third Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for”
e-violin: J. Bigi

• “Memorial Art Show” has been selected by ISCM for the World New Music Days 2009, Sweden

• 04.04.09: Bruxelles, Ars Musica
“Triptych”
Orchestre Philarmonique du Luxembourg, cond. P. A. Valade

• 15.03.09: Berkeley-California, CNMAT
“Third Born Unicorn, remind me what we’re fighting for”
e-violin: J. Bigi

• 21.11.08: Radio France – France Musique
Spéciale Palmarès 2008 de l’Académie Charles Cros
“Triptych” from CD Stradivarius

• the conductor Pierre-André Valade has received the ‘Grand Prix de l’Académie Charles Cros’ for three of his recent CDs.
Among them “Orchestral Works”, Stradivarius
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• 26.10.08: Milano, Festival Milano Musica
“The four delights of Jeroen Anthoniszoon”, for children choir
Commissioned by Milano Musica
First Performance
Hungarian Radio’s Children Choir, cond. G. Thész

• new CD “Orchestral Works”,
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, cond. P. A. Valade
Stradivarius Label
Orchestral-Works-Cover
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