Biography
Born in Italy in 1969, Andrea Cera studied piano and composition at the Padua Conservatory, and philosophy at that city’s university. In 1990, he began a period working in the field of commercial music. After this “learning period”, he returned to the world of “intellectual” music in 1994-95, with the intention of synthesising his knowledge of different disciplines. At that time, his works began to be played at the Edvard Grieg International Composition Competition in Oslo, at the National Contemporary Music Review in Udine, and at the music week held at the Olympic Theatre in Vicenza.
Like ten or so other composers, Andrea Cera has written for the CENTQUATRE a piece lasting precisely 104 seconds, a commission involving a fascinating combination of figures and constraints. These compositions will be accessible on line to enable you to discover different and distant universes in the field of contemporary music, all too often reserved for initiates only. They will then be performed in the CENTQUATRE after it opens.
For the opening, he realizes "They are here". This installation, which can be seen and heard in studio 6, mixes several techniques of gestures and sounds' capture.
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