“Simple Space”
New Music for cello and piano
Emanuele Torquati, piano
Francesco Dillon, cello
Program:
G. Scelsi: To the Master for cello and piano
M. Van der Aa: Oog for cello solo and electronics
S. Sciarrino: Melancolia 1 for cello and piano
M. Srnka: Simple Space
J. Harvey: Tombeau de Messiaen for piano and DAT
Silvestrov: Postludium 3 for cello and piano
Cellist Francesco Dillon was born in Torino in 1973.He graduated with the maximum of degrees at the Conservatorio “L.Cherubini” in Firenze under the inspirational guidance of Andrea Nannoni. Other very influential teachers where David Geringas, Mario Brunello and Amedeo Baldovino and for the composition studies Salvatore Sciarrino. Beside his solo activity (with Orchestra nazionale della RAI, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana,Orchestra Haydn among the others) he’s very active as cellist of the Quartetto Prometeo (wich tours regularly in Europe, Japan and South America). His deep interest in contemporary music led him to collaborate closely and regularly with some of the most important composers of today such as Gavin Bryars,Philip Glass,Vinko Globokar,Jonathan Harvey,Toshio Hosokawa,Giya Kancheli,David Lang,Henri Pousseur, Kaja Saariaho,Salvatore Sciarrino and with well renowned electronic musicians such as Matmos, Pan Sonic, Scanner, Midaircondo.
As a member of the internationally acclaimed group AlterEgo he has performed in all the major contemporary music festivals (Stockholm New Music, MaerzMusik, Festival Archipel, Ircam, Romaeuropa Festival, Ultima Festival Oslo, Wien Modern, Gaida Festival, Huddersfield Festival, Nous Sons Barcellona, Taktlos Berna, Musica Electronica Nova Wroclaw,Temporada Buenos Aires,Milano Musica,Biennale Venezia among others). He regularly plays chamber music with partners such as I.Arditti,G.Carmignola,M.Campanella,P.Farulli,V.Hagen,A.Lonquich,A.Lucchesini,E.Pace,R.Schmidt (Hagen string quartet),P.Vernikov. He won several competitions and with the quartet prizes at Prague spring (1st prize 1998), ARD Munich, Bordeaux. His performances were broadcasted by the German ARD, Saarländischer Rundfunk and Bayerische Rundfunk, the English BBC, Radio France, the Austrian ORF, Australian ABC and regularly for the Italian RAI Radio 3. He recorded for the labels Aulos,Dynamic,Ricordi,Stradivarius and Touch. His next releases will be the first world recordings of Variazioni for cello and orchestra by Salvatore Sciarrino and the Ballata by Giacinto Scelsi with the Italian National Radio Orchestra. He teaches at the Scuola di musica di Fiesole.