The Duo Alterno is an Italian voice-piano

chamber ensemble Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numbe ...

specializing in 20th century and

contemporary classical music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included seria ...

. The Duo made up of

soprano A soprano () is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types. The soprano's vocal range (using scientific pitch notation) is from approximately middle C (C4) = 261 Hz to "high A" (A5) = 880&n ...

Tiziana Scandaletti Tiziana Scandaletti, born in Padua, is an Italian soprano particularly active in chamber music and contemporary classical music. Biography After receiving her music diploma in vocal performance from the Vicenza Conservatory and her advanced deg ...

and

composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

pianist A pianist ( , ) is an individual musician who plays the piano. Since most forms of Western music can make use of the piano, pianists have a wide repertoire and a wide variety of styles to choose from, among them traditional classical music, ja ...

Riccardo Piacentini Riccardo Piacentini (born 3 July 1958, in Moncalieri, Province of Turin) is an Italian composer and pianist, professor of Composition at the Milan Conservatory. Biography He graduated in 1980 in Composition and Piano at Turin and Alessandria Co ...

. Duo Alterno's made its debut in February 1997 at the

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Italian Contemporary Music Festival, where it held concerts and masterclasses for the

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, the

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and the

Vancouver Academy of Music The Vancouver Academy of Music (VAM) is a Canadian music conservatory located in Vancouver, British Columbia. The school was founded as the Community Music School of Greater Vancouver in 1969 through efforts made by the Vancouver Community Arts C ...

. Since then they have performed in the major Italian festivals and in more than forty countries, including

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and Australia, through concerts, masterclasses and CDs.

Recent performances

Recent international performances include: *

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* Lincoln Performance Hall of Portland-Oregon * Gasteig of

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* Xinghai Concert Hall of Canton *

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Grand Theatre of

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* Opera Ballet Theatre of

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* BKA Theater of

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* SoundaXis Festival of

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* MITO Festival of

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and

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* Mozart Festival of

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Conservatorium * Federation Hall in

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* IIC in

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Moscow Conservatory The Moscow Conservatory, also officially Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory (russian: Московская государственная консерватория им. П. И. Чайковского, link=no) is a musical educational inst ...

* Janácek Academy in

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* the University Theaters of

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and

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Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko ( uk, Тарас Григорович Шевченко , pronounced without the middle name; – ), also known as Kobzar Taras, or simply Kobzar (a kobzar is a bard in Ukrainian culture), was a Ukraine, Ukrainian p ...

University) * Nuova Consonanza Festival of

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where

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particularly appreciated their "fine sense of comedic timing" *

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in Los Angeles * the Pyatt Hall of the

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* the Mugham Center in

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* the

Saint Petersburg Conservatory The N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Saint Petersburg State Conservatory (russian: Санкт-Петербургская государственная консерватория имени Н. А. Римского-Корсакова) (formerly known as th ...

CDs

* 1999 - ''

Giacomo Manzoni Giacomo Manzoni (born Milan 26 September 1932) is an Italian composer. He studied composition from 1948 in Messina with Gino Contilli, and continued his studies from 1950 to 1956 at the Milan Conservatory. In 1955 he obtained a doctorate in ...

. Du Dunkelheit'' (

, Curci E. 11326 C.) * 1999 - ''Musiche dell'aurora'' (

, Italian Foundation of Photography - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00005) * 1999 - ''Shahar'' (Milan, Curci E. 11351 C.) * 2000 - ''

Giorgio Federico Ghedini Giorgio Federico Ghedini (11 July 189225 March 1965) was an Italian composer. In addition to orchestral works, in 1949 he premiered a one-act opera based on the American novella '' Billy Budd'' by Herman Melville. Life Ghedini was born in Cuneo ...

. Sacred Music'' (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7354) * 2001 - ''Arie condizionate'' (Turin, Italian Foundation of Photography - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00009) * 2001 - ''Giorgio Federico Ghedini. Canti e strambotti'' (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7365) * 2002 - ''

Alfredo Casella Alfredo Casella (25 July 18835 March 1947) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor. Life and career Casella was born in Turin, the son of Maria (née Bordino) and Carlo Casella. His family included many musicians: his grandfather, a f ...

. Liriche'' (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7371) * 2003 - ''Treni persi'' (Province of Turin - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00012) * 2004 - ''

Franco Alfano Franco Alfano (8 March 1875 – 27 October 1954) was an Italian composer and pianist, best known today for his opera ''Risurrezione'' (1904) and for having completed Puccini's opera ''Turandot'' in 1926. He had considerable success with several o ...

. Liriche da

Tagore Rabindranath Tagore (; bn, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter ...

'' (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7388) * 2004 - ''Mina miniera mia'' (Province of Turin - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00014) * 2004 - ''Musiche della Reggia di Venaria Reale'' (

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Region - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00015) * 2005 - ''La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 1'' (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33708) * 2006 - ''La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 2'' (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33743) * 2007 - ''La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 3'' (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33769) * 2007 - ''Italienischer Gesangsabend mit dem Duo Alterno'' (

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, Steirischer Tonkünstler Bund STB 07/07) * 2009 - ''La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 4'' (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33833) * 2010 - ''La voce crepuscolare - Notturni e Serenate del '900'' (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33839) * 2011 - ''La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 5'' (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33895) * 2013 - ''La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 6'' (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33976)

Tours abroad Italy

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(1998, 2004) *Australia (2004, 2008, 2010) *Austria (2009, 2015) *

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(2014, 2015) *Belgium (2002, 2005) *

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(2012, 2016) *Canada (1997, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014) *China (2002, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015) *

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(2001) *

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(2015) *

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(2009, 2010, 2012, 2013) *Denmark (1999, 2008, 2016) *

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(2010) *

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(1998, 1999, 2010, 2015) *France (2001, 2010, 2015) *Germany (2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2016) *

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(2016) *

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(2005, 2014) *

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(2011, 2015) *Hungary (2010, 2014) *Japan (2006, 2007) *

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(2001) *India (2004) *

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(2001, 2004, 2015) *

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(2009) *

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(2009) * Macedonia (2003) *

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(2011) *

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(2007, 2010) *Norway (1999, 2002) *

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(2012) *Russia (2005, 2009, 2014) *

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(2001, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2015) *Sweden (1999, 2008, 2015) *United Kingdom (2001) *United States (2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014) *

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(2005, 2016) *

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(2009) *

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(1998, 1999) *

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(2012, 2016)

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* ''Carlo Pinelli'' * ''Piera Pistono'' * ''Biagio Putignano'' *

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* Aurelio Samorì *

Giacinto Scelsi Giacinto Francesco Maria Scelsi (; 8 January 1905 – 9 August 1988, sometimes cited as 8 August 1988) was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French. He is best known for having composed music based around only one pitch, ...

Arnold Schönberg Arnold Schoenberg or Schönberg (, ; ; 13 September 187413 July 1951) was an Austrian-American composer, music theorist, teacher, writer, and painter. He is widely considered one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. He was as ...

Salvatore Sciarrino Salvatore Sciarrino (born 4 April 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include ''Quaderno di strada'' (2003) and ''La porta d ...

* Christopher Shultis * Leone Sinigaglia *

Antonio Smareglia Antonio Smareglia (5 May 1854 – 15 April 1929) was an Italian opera composer. Life Antonio Smareglia was born in Pola (in the Istrian peninsula, under the Austria-Hungarian Empire, now in Croatia). In the house where he was born in Via Nettuno ...

Alessandro Solbiati Alessandro Solbiati (born 9 September 1956) is an Italian composer of classical music, who composed instrumental music for chamber ensembles and orchestra, art songs and operas. He received international commissions and awards, and many of his wor ...

* ''Daniela Terranova'' *

Francesco Paolo Tosti Sir Francesco Paolo Tosti KCVO (9 April 1846, Ortona, Abruzzo2 December 1916, Rome) was an Italian composer and music teacher. Life Francesco Paolo Tosti received most of his music education in his native Ortona, Italy, as well as the cons ...

Fabio Vacchi Fabio Vacchi (; born February 19, 1949), is an Italian composer. Biography Training and debut Fabio Vacchi studied at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini of Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and Tito Gotti. In 1974 he participated in the cou ...

Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...

* ''Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky'' * ''Vittorio Zago'' (Composers who have dedicated works to the Duo Alterno are in italics)

External links

Official website

CEMAT website

CIDIM website
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