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FOCUS AUSTRIA

On 28th September at Austrian Forum Rome (8 pm, free admission), Duo Dillon-Torquati will premiere FOCUS AUSTRIA. The project is solely devoted to Austrian music and includes a varied selection of both unknown Romantic pieces, eg. Heinrich von Herzongeberg Drei Legenden op. 62 and Alexander von Zemlinsky Drei Stuecke, and New music.

Emanuele Torquati will perform Beat Furrer’s Voicelessness – The snow has no voice and Francesco Dillon In freier Lust….verbunden by Georg Friedrich Haas. Last piece on the program will be the Duo “Mumien” by pianist and composer Thomas Larcher.

WATCH ZEMLINSKY DREI STUECKE.

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Paris Recital + Janacek Video Release

Emanuele Torquati will give his Solo Debut in Paris on 9th November 8 pm at Czech Centre with his project “Intimate Sketches – Visions on Leos Janacek”, premiered in February in San Francisco.
This European premiere will be followed by several performances in Italy, namely in Venice, Udine and Treviso.
A full-length video of the project is available on www.limenmusic.com

Emanuele Torquati terrà il suo debutto solistico parigino il prossimo 9 novembre alle 20 presso il Centre Culturel Tcheque, con il progetto “Intimate Sketches – Visions on Leos Janacek”, inaugurato lo scorso febbraio a San Francisco.
Il concerto verrà replicato nel tour italiano, con date a Venezia, Udine e Treviso.
Sul sito www.limenmusic.com è ora disponibile il video completo del progetto.

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“Intimate Sketches” Project US and Canada Premiere

Emanuele Torquati is going to perform the Premiere of his new project “Intimate Sketches – Visions on Leos Janacek“ on 25th February in San Francisco, at the Italian Institute of Culture. The project, sponsored by CEMAT Rome, will be also presented in avant-premiere at The Banff Centre, where Torquati will be artist in residence from 15th until 23rd February.
Beside Janacek’s major works, 1-X-1905 and In the mist, a wide selection of his recently published sketches is related to 4 new commissions.
Australian leading composer Brett Dean and Canadian Inouk Demers will take part in this effort, together with Italians Riccardo Vaglini and Paolo Aralla.

Emanuele Torquati presentera’ in prima assoluta il suo nuovo progetto “Appunti Intimi – Visioni su Leos Janacek“ il 25 febbraio prossimo a San Francisco, presso l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura. Il progetto, sostenuto dalla Federazione CEMAT nell’ambito del Progetto Sonora, verra’ preparato e presentato in anteprima al Banff Centre, dove Torquati sara’ artist in residence dal 15 al 23 febbraio. Accanto ai due maggiori lavori pianistici del compositore ceco, la Sonata 1-X-1905 ed il ciclo Nella nebbia, un’ampia scelta dei suoi schizzi, recentemente pubblicati, sara’ messa in relazione a 4 nuove opere commissionate per l’occasione. L’australiano Brett Dean e il canadese Inouk Demers affiancati dagli italiani Riccardo Vaglini e Paolo Aralla in questo sforzo creativo.

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US Tour reviews

The Boston concerts of Duo Dillon-Torquati at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, were highly praised, both from the audience and the critics. In the article “Elusive music”, Mrs. Marshall wrote this about the first evening, which included various works by leading composers Giacinto Scelsi, Salvatore Sciarrino and Alessandro Solbiati: “the Duo played with minimal, slowly developing materials and a beautiful control of silence and sound”.

The second concert, devoted to Jonathan Harvey, SICPP composer in residence, was reviewed by The Boston Musical Intelligencer: “Cellist Francesco Dillon held every bit of attention with his playing. He brought absolute involvement and reverence to the demanding instrumental techniques and strange sonic stances called for in Harvey’s scores. A surprising, weird whistling came out of his amplified instrument in Curve with Plateaux. Pianist Emanuele Torquati brought unflagging commitment to Harvey’s Tombeau de Messiaen, whose surface was sparsely sprinkled with Messiaen’s very personal musical language. Advaya had moments where Dillon and Torquati tangentially emoted; some of these moments were mysteriously reminiscent of expression found in traditional folk music from the Middle East”.