Duo Dillon-Torquati on Tomas Transtromer

Sweden Nobel LiteratureDuo Dillon-Torquati’s upcoming project is about Swedish poet Tomas Transtromer, Noble Prize Winner in 2011. Very passionate into music, Transtromer devoted several poems to composers of the past, such as Edvard Grieg and Franz Schubert, took inspiration from specific works of the repertoire, such as Liszt “La lugubre gondola”, and used peculiar musical forms (a.o. Preludes and Nocturnes). “TRANCE-TROMER: Words and Sounds around Tomas Transtromer”, includes a varied selection of musical works from the Romantic repertoire (Grieg, Liszt, Schumann) and features two world premieres, by Silvia Borzelli and Laurent Durupt, especially written for this project. Verses, read by different voices in different languages, will be interspersed with music, and sometimes rielaborated with electronic treatments. The project will be presented on 3rd October (9,15 pm) at 5th Edition of music@villaromana Concert series in Florence.