Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini

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Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini
Born1971 (age 52–53)
Basel, Switzerland
OccupationComposer
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Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini (born 1971) is a Swiss composer whose operas have been performed at leading European opera houses.

Career

Born in

Musikhochschule Basel, which he continued with Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe. In 1999/2000, he studied one semester at the Royal Academy of Music.[1]

He has worked as a composer, and in the beginning also as a music teacher. His works have been performed at major festivals such as the Salzburg Easter Festival, Lucerne Festival and Darmstädter Ferienkurse.[2] They have been played by ensembles such as Kammerorchester Basel, Collegium Novum Zürich [de], Ensemble Contrechamps, Ensemble intercontemporain and Ensemble Phoenix [de].[3] He composed in 2008 Siegel for the Basel Sinfonietta, who premiered it with Claudia Barainsky, conducted by Peter Hirsch.[4] The ensemble premiered in 2012 his Viaggiatori, composed for the centenary of the Basler Bach-Chor.[5]

He was in 2004/05 composer in residence at the

Frankfurt Opera in 2016, as the first in Germany.[2][7] His opera Edward II. premiered in February 2017 at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, conducted by Thomas Søndergård and staged again by Loy.[8]

Scartazzini received several awards, including the Jacob Burckhardt Prize [de] of the Goethe Foundation Basel (Johann-Wolfgang-von-Goethe-Stiftung), and the study prize (Förderpreis) of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize in 2000.[1][2]

Works (selection)

  • 2006: Wut [de], opera
  • 2008: Siegel for soprano and orchestra
  • 2011: Viaggiatori for soloists, choir and orchestra
  • 2016: Der Sandmann, opera
  • 2017: Edward II, opera[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini". Bärenreiter. 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini" (in German). Deutsche Oper Berlin. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 17 October 2017.
  3. ^ "Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini" (in German). adevantgarde.de. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  4. ^ "Siegel". Bärenreiter. 2017. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Konzert: 100 Jahre Bach Chor Basel: Werke von J.S. Bach und A.L. Scartazzini" (in German). SRF. 8 January 2012. Retrieved 19 October 2017.
  6. ^ "Christof Loy" (in German). Deutsche Oper Berlin. Archived from the original on 2017-10-10. Retrieved 10 October 2017.
  7. ^
    Der Neue Merker
    (in German). 8 October 2016. Retrieved 12 October 2017.
  8. ^ "Scartazzinis Oper Edward II. in Berlin / Uraufführung". Die Zeit (in German). 20 February 2017. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  9. ^ Financial Times Deutsche Oper Berlin's disjointed, one-dimensional Edward II – Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini's opera about the English monarch is dense and derivative (subscription required)

External links

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