Alessandro Grego (born 18 March 1969,
Trieste
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) is an Italian
contemporary classical
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composer, theater and
film score
A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...
author.
Biography
He studied composition with
Giorgio Gaslini
Giorgio Gaslini (; 22 October 1929 – 29 July 2014) was an Italian jazz pianist, composer and conductor.
He began performing aged 13 and recorded with his jazz trio at 16. In the 1950s and 1960s, Gaslini performed with his own quartet. He was ...
,
electronic music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...
with
Curtis Roads
Curtis Roads (born May 9, 1951) is an American composer, author and computer programmer. He composes electronic and electroacoustic music, specializing in granular and pulsar synthesis.
Career and music
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Roads studied comp ...
,
musicology
Musicology (from Greek μουσική ''mousikē'' 'music' and -λογια ''-logia'', 'domain of study') is the scholarly analysis and research-based study of music. Musicology departments traditionally belong to the humanities, although some mu ...
at the School of Paleography, Musical Philology of
Cremona
Cremona (, also ; ; lmo, label= Cremunés, Cremùna; egl, Carmona) is a city and ''comune'' in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left bank of the Po river in the middle of the ''Pianura Padana'' ( Po Valley). It is the capital of th ...
and Music for Films at the
Experimental Film Centre in Rome.
In 2023, in
Radom, Poland, he won the first prize at the international composition competition "Arboretum," conceived by the Polish composer
Krzysztof Penderecki, with a violin concerto with string orchestra titled "The Eternal Sea," inspired by a collection of poems by
Biagio Marin
Biagio Marin (1891–1985) was a Venetian
poet, best known from his poems in the Venetian language, which had no literary tradition until then. In his writings he never obeyed rhetoric or poetics. He only employed a few hundred words for his po ...
and dedicated to the memory of
Edda Serra, a literary critic and scholar of his work. Additionally, the composer received a special prize created by
Elżbieta Penderecka, Penderecki's wife.
Theater
In 2008 he composed the original music for the show ''
Senza vincitori né vinti'' (Without winners or losers). The play, starring Francesco Niccolini and
Arnoldo Foà, is inspired by the novel ''
Storia di Tönle'' by the Italian writer andveteran
Mario Rigoni Stern. It deals with the absurdity of war, seen through the experience of an elderly farmer of the
Asiago Plateau
Asiago (; Venetian: ''Axiago'', Cimbrian: ''Slege'', German: ''Schlägen'' ) is a minor township (population roughly 6,500) in the surrounding plateau region (the ''Altopiano di Asiago'' or '' Altopiano dei Sette Comuni'', Asiago plateau) in ...
in the Italian
Alps
The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Sw ...
; the location of battles between
Austrians
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and Italians during
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
.
In 2010 he wrote the music for the show ''
Fuejs'' that was directed by Luciano Roman. Texts and lyrics in
Friulian were provided by the Italian director, poet and writer
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of ...
. The show was inspired by Pasolini's youthful experience in the
Friuli region.
In 2013 he collaborated with the Giorgio Barberio Corsetti's "Fattore K" company on the show ''
In flagrante delicto - Il principe, la sposa, il musico e l'assassino''. The show was written by Francesco Niccolini and inspired by the figure of the
madrigal
A madrigal is a form of secular vocal music most typical of the Renaissance (15th–16th c.) and early Baroque (1600–1750) periods, although revisited by some later European composers. The polyphonic madrigal is unaccompanied, and the number o ...
ist
Gesualdo da Venosa who killed his wife and her lover.
He also collaborated in other theatrical productions with
Alessio Boni,
Paolo Bonacelli,
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (26 February 1921 – 15 December 2005) was an Italian playwright, screenwriter, director, and author.
He was born in Naples in an aristocratic family and moved to Rome immediately after the end of World War II and spent ...
and
Vittorio Caprioli
Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions.
Biography
Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated fr ...
,
Simone Cristicchi,
Marco Paolini
Marco Paolini (born March 5, 1956) is an Italian stage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author.
Personal background
Paolini is the son of a railroad engineer and a housewife from Belluno, Italy. In the 1970s, he moved to Treviso and s ...
,
David Riondino
David Riondino (born 10 June 1952) is an Italian actor, singer-songwriter, comedian, writer, playwright, screenwriter, director and composer.
Life and career
Born in Florence, the son of a teacher, Riondino started his career in the mid-1970s ...
, Manuela Kustermann and
Vito Zagarrio.
Other works
In 1999 he composed the electronic opera ''
L'aura
Laura Abela (born 13 August 1984), known by the pseudonym L'Aura, is an Italian singer, songwriter, composer, pianist and violinist.
Career Early years
L'Aura spent two years in San Francisco in preparation for recording her first record titled ...
'' which was selected for preservation by the
electroacoustic music
Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instrumen ...
phonotheque of the
National Library of France.
In 2003 he dedicated himself to ''
Heliossea'', a live show with music, images and interactions with the audience. The performance with flutes (
Roberto Fabbriciani
Roberto Fabbriciani (born 13 June 1949 in Arezzo) is an Italian flautist and composer, best known for having invented the hyperbass flute. Since 1976, he has appeared on the recordings of composers Luigi Nono, Claudio Abbado, Luciano Berio, Ric ...
) and
electronic music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...
has the peculiarity of taking place in the early morning, at dawn, and being regulated by environmental parameters such as the sunrise and surrounding environmental sounds thanks to an
algorithm
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developed by Grego at the Institute of Computer Music and Sound Technology in
Zurich. The work was carried out in collaboration with the
Italian National Institute of Astrophysics and the
astrophysicist Massimo Ramella of the
Astronomical Observatory of Trieste. The performance is reprised in 2023, twenty years after the first edition, in the park of
Miramare Castle in Trieste under the title "Heliossea XX," still featuring Fabbriciani but this time with
Alvise Vidolin directing the sound.
In 2006 he wrote the song ''
Le corps e(s)t l'histoire'' for clarinet and live electronics, dedicated to the memory of
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Pier Paolo Pasolini (; 5 March 1922 – 2 November 1975) was an Italian poet, filmmaker, writer and intellectual who also distinguished himself as a journalist, novelist, translator, playwright, visual artist and actor. He is considered one of ...
and commissioned by the Institut International de Musique Électroacoustique in Bourges (IMEB).
In 2004 he published a monographic anthology ''
Un mar deserto'' with the participation of
Arnoldo Foà, produced by the Municipality of
Trieste
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with the scientific support of the
Biagio Marin
Biagio Marin (1891–1985) was a Venetian
poet, best known from his poems in the Venetian language, which had no literary tradition until then. In his writings he never obeyed rhetoric or poetics. He only employed a few hundred words for his po ...
Study Center.
In 2011 he worked on the song ''
Persistenza della memoria'', originated from a research on sound carried out at
WDR Cologne
The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne (German: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln) is a German radio orchestra based in Cologne, where the orchestra mainly performs at two concert halls: the WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz and the Kölner Philharmonie.
Histor ...
together with Nicola Sani. The song is the very first composition ever to use the
hyperbass flute
The hyperbass flute is conceptually the largest and lowest-pitched instrument in the flute family, although it is extremely rare. It first appeared at the turn of the 21st century, and only two are known to exist. With tubing reaching over in le ...
, the largest and lowest pitched instrument in the flute family designed by Roberto Fabbriciani.
In the 90s he collaborated in
RAI (the Italian national public broadcasting company) radio dramas. He composed music for documentaries such as ''
Galois. The story of a revolutionary mathematician'' dedicated to
Evariste Galois and produced, among others, for the International Higher School of Advanced Studies, ICTP of
Trieste
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and the
L. Bocconi Commercial University of Milan and ''
Binari'', broadcast by
RAI.
In 2022, he creates "SARS-CoV-2: The Complete Genome," the sonification of the
nucleic acid sequence
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of the complete
genome
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of the
SARS-CoV-2
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virus.
In 2023, he publishes "I Colori Di Rives," which acoustically represents the paintings of the
Perugian
Perugia (, , ; lat, Perusia) is the capital city of Umbria in central Italy, crossed by the River Tiber, and of the province of Perugia.
The city is located about north of Rome and southeast of Florence. It covers a high hilltop and part o ...
artist
Riccardo Veschini, known as Rives.
Artistic profile
Alessandro Grego composed works of
contemporary and
experimental music
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. He wrote several
soundtracks
A soundtrack is recorded music accompanying and synchronised to the images of a motion picture, drama, book, television program, radio program, or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of ...
and
incidental music
Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as t ...
for the theater and for movies and radio scripts produced by
RAI. He collaborated with the flute player Roberto Fabbriciani experimenting new sounds for this instrument and with other performers such as Guido Arbonelli, Massimiliano Damerini, Filippo Faes, Anna Serova, Giuseppe Fricelli, the quartet "Martinu", Serge Conte, Paolo Pollastri, Ciro Scarponi and Emanuele Segre.
Discography
Albums
* 1999 – ''L'aura'', Agorà AG 209.1
* 1999 – ''Return to the sea'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
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formerly
Awal
* 2003 – ''Un mar deserto,'' Urbania U −101
* 2012 – ''Senza vincitori né vinti'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
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formerly
Awal
* 2014 – ''Anima'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
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formerly
Awal
* 2014 – ''Constraints'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment ...
formerly
Awal
* 2018 – ''Heliossea 2'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment ...
formerly
Awal
* 2018 – ''El mar xe un'', CD Baby ruALB01241263
* 2018 – ''Galois: Storia di un matematico rivoluzionario'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment ...
formerly
Awal
* 2018 – ''Binari'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment ...
formerly
Awal
* 2019 – ''Sky Zoo Phrenia'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
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formerly
Awal
* 2019 – ''CO
2'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment ...
formerly
Awal
* 2020 – ''Pianonirico'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment ...
formerly
Awal
* 2020 – ''Strings'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment ...
formerly
Awal
* 2022 – ''SARS-CoV-2: The Complete Genome'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
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* 2023 – ''I Colori di Rives'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
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Singles
* 2017 – ''Indio'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
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formerly
Awal
* 2017 – ''Caronte'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment ...
formerly
Awal
* 2017 – ''Le corps e(st l'histoire'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment (SME), also known as simply Sony Music, is an American multinational music company. Being owned by the parent conglomerate Sony Group Corporation, it is part of the Sony Music Group, which is owned by Sony Entertainment ...
formerly
Awal
* 2017 – ''L'ascolto dello spazio… Gropina'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
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formerly
Awal
* 2017 – ''Ascolta i tuoi occhi'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
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formerly
Awal
* 2018 – ''Metamorli'',
The Orchard
The Orchard may refer to:
* The Orchard (company), American music and entertainment company
* The Orchard (band), Canadian country music duo
* ''The Orchard'' (Lizz Wright album), 2008
* ''The Orchard'' (Ra Ra Riot album), 2010
* The Orchard (t ...
/
Sony Music
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formerly
Awal
DVDs
* 2011 – ''Heliossea'', VDM Records VDM038-018
Collaborations
* 1998 – ''Astor Piazzolla: Histoire du tango''
with Roberto Fabbriciani and Stefano Cardi, Phoenix Classics PH 97319
* 2004 – ''Flute XX Volume Two''
with Roberto Fabbriciani, ARTS 47702-2
* 2010 – ''The flute in 21st century''
with Roberto Fabbriciani,
Tactus TC 950601
Musical Editions
Some scores are freely available on the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP) while others are edited by RAI Com.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Grego, Alessandro
Italian classical composers
Italian film score composers
Living people
1969 births