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Duo Dillon-Torquati in France

Emanuele Torquati will come back in France with his chamber music partner, renowned cellist Francesco Dillon, after last year’s concerts in Paris, which received great critical acclaim.

The Duo will be on stage in Strasbourg on 25th and in Paris on 27th with two Recitals, featuring the rare Sonata written in 1888 by Francesco Cilea, famous for his opera “Adriana Lecouvreur”, and two milestone of 20th century cello and piano repertoire: Janàcek’s seminal “Pohadka” and highly demanding Sostakovic Sonata in D minor op. 40. Both concerts will take place at the local Italian Cultural Institutes.

Last venue of the Tour will be the prestigious Hotel de Galliffet on 2nd March, where the Duo will present a Portrait on Italian rising talent’s composer, Francesco Filidei. His chamber and solo works will be interspersed by some late Franz Liszt oeuvres, such as La lugubre gondola, part of one of the Duo last recordings. Violin virtuoso Saori Furukawa will join the Duo for Filidei’s “Corde vuote” and Liszt’s Tristia, a rarely performed version of “La Vallée d’Obermann” made by the composer himself.

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Argentina Tour

Emanuele Torquati will be back in Argentina at the end of November for 4 different concerts.

280The first one will take place on 25th November at Teatro General San Martin in Buenos Aires, where Emanuele will give the Argentinian premiere of “Transit” for piano, video and electronics by Dutch composer Michel Van der Aa.
The concert is part of the biggest New Music Festival in Latin America, the Ciclo de Conciertos de Musica Contemporanea. Listen to an excerpt HERE.

After this engagement, he will present his project “Natura degli Affetti” in two different Recitals, on 1st December at La Plata State Conservatory and on 7th December at Distat Terra Festival in Choele Choel. In this occasion, the programme will feature also a world premiere of a new piece commissioned for the occasion and written by Giuliano Bracci.

On 5th December, Emanuele will join renowned Argentinian baritone, Victor Torres, for a Lieder Recital, including works by Haydn, Dowland, Purcell, Schubert, Schumann, Skrjabin and new works by Daniele Ghisi and Mariano Etkin.

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Gala Concert for Fazioli@ IIC Paris

mitoDuo Dillon-Torquati recently performed at the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris for a Gala Concert. In fact, Marina Valensise, dynamic and vibrant director of the IIC, decided to provide a new Fazioli grand piano for the Hall and this was the opening event of the funding campaign. Here’s the link for supporting this important initiative!

The Duo proposed a journey in Fairy tales of the Romantic period, presenting important works by Ferruccio Busoni, Robert Schumann and Edvard Grieg. CLICK HERE FOR THE LIVE VIDEO!

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Sciarrino @ NDF ’14 Sweden

148863Emanuele Torquati has been invited to take part in NEW DIRECTIONS FESTIVAL 2014, that will take place in Lulea (Sweden) from 22nd till 24th May. The Festival is focused on Salvatore Sciarrino’s music, and the composer himself will be present and will teach during a workshop for young composers. Emanuele will perform on 23rd May with cellist Francesco Dillon, DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES project, featuring a.o. Sciarrino’s Melencolia 1, and on 24th May two Sciarrino’s seminal works, Perduto in una città d’acque (1990-91) and Due Notturni crudeli (2001).

“Perduto” was written straight after Luigi Nono’s death and the “città d’acque” of the title is Venice, where Nono lived his life. The first of 2 Notturni crudeli is based on an ecstatic repetition of very high chords interspersed  with extremely fast notes in other registers, and brings the listener to a timeless dimension; the second, “Furia, metallo”  is a relentless alternance between loud chords and fast figurations.
LISTEN HERE to Melencolia 1 performed by Duo Dillon-Torquati

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Piano Recitals in NYC, Kiev and Italy

Emanuele Torquati will perform six Piano Recitals from 1st May till 2nd June.

First concert will be on1st May in New York, Italian Academy at Columbia University, and follows the invitation to give a Recital for the E. Lorch Memorial. The program will feature Italian Music from Baroque to Contemporary, beside Beethoven’s Les Adieux.

After this thrilling program, Emanuele will present the cycle VOICES AND PIANO by Austrian composer Peter Ablinger, after successful performances in Argentina, for the Italian most prestigious Festival of New Music with Electronics, AngelicA Bologna on 16th May.

The week after (on 22nd) Emanuele will play for “Verso Traiettorie Festival”, which this year is completely devoted to music for piano solo, in the beautiful venue of Parma’s Casa della Musica.

Other two engagements (23rd and 30th), in Prato and Budrio, will follow before the one on 2nd June for ART ARSENAL Festival in Kiev (Ukraine), which will be the last of a very diverse and varied tour, including music by Michel Van der Aa, Jonathan Harvey, Ivan Fedele and Terry Riley.

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Duo Dillon-Torquati – Ravel Unravel Tour

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project28Emanuele Torquati with his duo partner, cellist Francesco Dillon, will premiere Lucia Ronchetti new work, RAVEL UNRAVEL, written for the duo and commissioned by several Italian Chamber Music Societies. The piece is a theatrical analysis of the encounter between pianist Paul Wittgenstein and Ravel on the occasion of the private performance in Vienna of what is known as the Left hand Concerto, in the version for 2 pianos on 30th 1932.

The pianist interprets the Left hand Concerto, passing from the orchestral part to the solo piano part as if in a private practice session, with repetitions and pauses, constant obsessive confrontation with the infinity of existing interpretations, exploration of most difficult virtuoso sections. He is the pianist Paul Wittgenstein himself, the amputee who attempts to enrich the spare cadenzas, who criticized Ravel and corrected him. The cellist listens and weaves in and out of pianist’s performance, using a private language, with suggestion of words, howls and monologues. He’s Ravel, at the beginning of his mental illness, the semantic privatist imagined by Wittgenstein, struggling witht the devastion of his mental lucidity and the uniqueness of his compositional quest. From time to time the cellist and the pianist talk to each other, using Ravel and Wittgenstein’s words reinvented by Russian poet Eugene Ostashevsky.

The work, as well as some masterworks from French repertoire such as Debussy Sonata, will be presented at Amici della Musica di Ancona on 11th April, at Accademia Filarmonica Romana on 9th May, at Villa Romana on 14th June, at MITO Settembre Musica on 17th September and in other venues on next concert season.

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Argentina Tour

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Emanuele Torquati has been invited to open the 18th edition of Ciclos de conciertos de musica contemporanea in Buenos Aires, with monumental Charles Ives’s 4th Symphony. The concert will take place on 28th October at legendary Teatro Colon with Argentinian Philarmonics conducted by Alejo Perez.
On 30th Torquati will give a lecture on Scelsi and Messiaen’s Piano Music at Teatro Argentino for La Plata University, then he will perform in Corrientes at Teatro de Vera Peter Ablinger’s extensive cycle “Voices and Piano” on 2nd November. His last concert in Argentina will be on the 4th November at Museo d’arte Hispanoamericana “Fernandez Blanco”, where he’ll give a solo Recital featuring music by D. Scarlatti, L. Janàcek, O. Messiaen, G. Scelsi and Argentinian composers G. Gandini, M. C. Villanueva and M. Etkin.
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Duo Dillon-Torquati on Tour

Duo Dillon-Torquati is going to perform extensively in the first two months of the year.

Their engagements include 3 concerts in Pescara, Rome and Campobasso, with a program devoted to Franz Liszt (recently released for Brilliant Classics), Busoni, Bartòk and Strauss, including a premiere of Italian composer Mauro Cardi especially written for them.

After this first round of concerts, they’re going to present a second version of last year successful project “DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES”, at Area Sismica, Villa Romana and NY Musikk in Oslo. This new edition will include beside Brahms and Schumann Lieder, a world premiere by Argentinian composer Martin Bauer and German composer Carola Bauckholt, a new piece by emerging talent Daniele Ghisi, plus Peter Ablinger Voices and piano and Jacob TV piece for cello, piano and electronic based on Chet Baker’s last interview.

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Emanuele Torquati in Buenos Aires @ CICLO DE CONCIERTOS de musica contemporanea

Emanuele Torquati will take part in South American biggest New Music Festival, CICLO DE CONCIERTOS DE MUSICA CONTEMPORANEA in Buenos Aires. The opening concert will be a Recital with a selection of Peter Ablinger’s extensive cycle VOICES AND PIANO (1998-). Special guest will be the composer himself, playing the electronics. Voices includes Hanna Schygulla, Jorge Luis Borges, Pierpaolo Pasolini and Marcel Duchamp, among others. The event will take place on 12th November at Teatro Colòn. READ CONCERT’S REVIEW HERE
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Torquati will perform three times more at the Festival, giving the Argentinian premiere of Feldman’s Piano and String Quartet on 23rd Nov. with Prometeo String Quartet, performing the project “DISTANT VOICES, STILL LIVES” with cellist Francesco Dillon on 27th Nov., and finally taking part in the 18th hours marathon performance of Erik Satie VEXATIONS between 29th and 30th Nov.

READ CONCERT REVIEW OF FELDMAN PIANO AND SQ

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Morton Feldman – Piano + String Quartet

Emanuele Torquati will perform one of Feldman’s last pieces, PIANO AND STRING QUARTET (1985) with Prometeo String Quartet. This fascinating 80 minutes long work will be presented with a new video made especially for this occasion by visual artist Luca Di Pierro.

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The performances will take place on 13th October at Villa Bassi in Abano Terme, on 15th October at Villa Romana in Florence and on 23rd November in Argentina, at Teatro San Martin Buenos Aires. This performance will be the Argentinian premiere of this work and will be part of the 15th Edition of CICLOS DE CONCIERTOS DE MUSICA CONTEMPORANEA.

READ BUENOS AIRES CONCERT’S REVIEW HERE