Born in Venice in 1975, Mauro Lanza studied piano and composition at the B. Marcello conservatory, where he obtained his degree in 1997. While studying writing and musicology at the Ca’ Foscari University, he was involved in various work experience periods with the composers Brian Ferneyhough (Asolo, 1992), Salvatore Sciarrino (Città di Castello, 1995 & 1996), Gérard Grisey (Reggio Emilia, 1996) and Alessandro Solbiati (Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano, 1998). He won first prize at the Premio Valentino Bucchi International Composition Competition Festival (Roma, 1996) and first prize at the Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa Composition Competition (Potenza, 1998). In 1998-1999, following his selection by the Lecturing Committee of the Inter-Contemporary Ensemble and IRCAM, he played an active part in the composition and computerised music course.
He was of the finalist composers who competed for the realisation of an opera project as part of the Aix-en-Provence festival and part of the “Klangfiguren” festival in Frankfurt. His works were created during international festivals such as the Inter-Contemporary Ensemble season, the Presences Festival and the Venice Biennial.
He is currently working on a piece of chamber music for the Court-Circuit Ensemble (a State commission) and a piece for electronic and solo instrument (commission from the Europaïsche Musikmonat Festival 2001 in Basle). He works for IRCAM as a composer and researcher.
Like ten or so other composers, Mauro Lanza 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.
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