Composition Competition 2019
Competition Composition 2020 and exciting news on composers seminars coming soon in February!
Prizes
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Performance during the Festival
(Fivizzano (Italy), July 18-28, 2019) - Performance in New York City in the 2019/2020 season
- Professional recording
Jury
Andrea Talmelli
President of the SIMC (Italian Society of Contemporary Music)
Girolamo Deraco
Artistic Director of CLUSTER Lucca – CONTEMPORARY MUSIC Association of Composers
Joao MacDowell
Artistic Director of the IBOC (International Brazilian Opera Company)
How to apply
Submit CV, score, and recording/midi (if any) to:
info@lunigianamusicfestival.com
Application Fee: 35 Euro
Deadline: June 23, 2019
Bank account:Associazione Amici del Lunigiana International Music Festival
Banca Credite Agricole (Fivizzano (MS), Italy, 54013)
IBAN: IT66 D060 3069 9120 0003 5667 579
BIC/SWIFT: CRFIIT2S
Pieces previously performed accepted
Pieces should be composed after January 1st, 2000
NO age limits
Winners
First prize winner
( concerts in Lunigiana, in New York and recording )
Michele Bernabei: Affinitá Ferrose
Winners
( performance in Lunigiana )
Paolo Geminiani: Trio IV
Paolo Porto: Lontananze
Special mention
Angelo Luciano Bruzzese: Redroom
Michele Bernabei
FIRST PRIZE WINNER
Michele Bernabei is a young polyhedral musician, accomplished jazz trumpet player and composer. He earned a BM in trumpet at the Conservatory N.Paganini” of Genoa and MM with full marks in Jazz Arranging and Composition at the Conservatory “G. Verdi” of Turin.
He studied Classical Composition at the Conservatory of Turin with Giorgio Colombo Taccani and in parallel at the “Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale” of Fiesole with Fabio Vacchi.
At the same time he received the ABRSM diploma in String Orchestra Direction under the guidance of Fabrizio Dorsi.
As a trumpet player and band leader he performs in several famous jazz-clubs and festivals and he studied with international renowned teachers such as Paolo Fresu, Marco Tamburini, Giampaolo Casati, Avishai Choen, Dave Duglas, Laurie Frink.
His compositional language
is influenced both by jazz and the improvised music’s gesture and the theater, art-form dear to him, through a research of “drama”.
