The concert, organised by the Fondazione Merz in collaboration with the Biblioteca Civica Musicale “Andrea Della Corte”, will be held within the setting of the eighteenth-century Villa La Tesoriera and it will be conducted by Willy Merz

 

ANNACHIARA GEDDA Perspectives III

MAURO LANZA Tutto ciò che è solido si dissolve nell’aria

FILIPPO PEROCCO Come dura pietra

ROBERT HP PLATZ Wunderblock

JAY SCHWARTZ Music for Five Stringed Instruments II Ensemble

 

MUSICIANS: Niccolò Susanna, flute – Gianluca Calonghi, clarinet – Paolo Grappeggia, double bass – Andrea Rebaudengo, piano – Lorenzo Guidolin, percussions

Quartetto Maurice: Georgia Privitera, violin – Laura Bertolino, violin – Francesco Vernero, viola – Aline Privitera, cello

 

The finalists composers, Annachiara Gedda (Italy 1986), Mauro Lanza (France 1975), Filippo Perocco (Italy 1972), Robert HP Platz (Germany 1958), Jay Schwartz (Germany 1965), were selected by a jury composed of Giampaolo Pretto (flautist and main conductor of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino), Stefano Pierini (composer and lecturer at the Centro di Formazione Musicale in Turin) and Philip Samartzis (sound-designer and lecturer at the University of Melbourne).

The public can express its preference listening to the recording of the concert, available in a dedicated space in the Fondazione Merz, and on the Mario Merz Prize website.

The public vote will be added to the votes cast by Jury composed of Dieter Ammann (composer), Thomas Demenga (cellist and composer), Alexander Lonquich (pianist) and Willy Merz.

The composition will be performed in a concert in Italy and Switzerland.

 

With the support of Regione Piemonte, Compagnia di San Paolo

Thanks to Città di Torino, Kuhn & Bülow and Pianoforti Piatino