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Luciano Berio International Composition Competition: the results

The Chinese composer Yikeshan Abudushalamu won the first and successful edition of the Luciano Berio International Composition Competition. The competition was promoted by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the Centro Studi Luciano Berio, in collaboration with the SIAE – Italian Society of Authors and Publishers, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino […]

Homage to Bruno Maderna (1920-2020)

On the centenary of his birth, Centro Studi Luciano Berio wants to pay homage to Bruno Maderna through a small collection of archival documents, partly unpublished, which convey the intensity of a unique human and artistic friendship. Juxtaposed like pieces of a colorful mosaic, images, words and music indicate unequivocally – and at times moving […]

Luciano Berio and Radicondoli

On the occasion of the event Sounds and Occasions: Radicondoli Remembers Luciano Berio (Radicondoli, SI, May 27-29, 2022), organized by Radicondoli Arte in collaboration with the Centro Studi Luciano Berio, we have gathered on this page excerpts from texts and interviews where the composer speaks about the Tuscan village. [From Chad Hardin, An Interview with Luciano Berio, […]

Upcoming events with Luciano Berio’s music (October 2019 – March 2020)

Many concerts featuring Luciano Berio’s music are scheduled in the last months of 2019 and the first part of 2020. Here follow the most outstanding events (for a complete list, see our Concert calendar). Folk Songs is one of the most performed works during Fall 2019: it is scheduled in Vancouver, with mezzo-soprano Dawn Upshaw […]

Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna

Luciano Berio and Bruno Maderna © Gisela Bauknecht [Sammlung Bruno Maderna, Paul Sacher Stiftung Basel]

New record releases

The elegant box featuring the nine Chemins by Luciano Berio was released by Sebastian Solte’s label Bastille Musique. Composed between 1965 and 1996 as a sort of “citation, translation, expansion and transcription of the Sequenzas for solo instrument” – to paraphrase the words of the composer – these Chemins are also the best analyzes of […]

Upcoming events with Luciano Berio’s music

The concerts with music by Luciano Berio continue until summer 2020. Here follows a list of the most relevant events (for the complete list, see the Concert Calendar). Folk Songs is scheduled in Innsbruck, with mezzo-soprano Elisabeth de Roo and the Windkraft ensemble conducted by Kasper de Roo (March 18), in Birmingham, featuring Charlotte Sleet […]

Via Luciano Berio in Florence

The Centro Studi Luciano Berio is pleased to announce that on October 24, 2019, on the occasion of the 94th anniversary of the composer’s birth, a street in Florence was named in his honor. Via Luciano Berio joins other streets and public spaces dedicated to Berio in the years following his death in 2003: in […]

Luciano Berio Festival, Radicondoli 2023: Dialogues

Dialogue: declined in the plural, this is the key word of a three-day music festival where different realities and attitudes of making and thinking music, even apparently far apart, are placed in continuous dialogue. The first of the dialogues is that between a town, Radicondoli (where Luciano Berio chose to dwell from the first half […]

Prossimi appuntamenti con la musica di Luciano Berio

I concerti con musiche di Luciano Berio proseguono fino all’estate 2020. Qui di seguito segnaliamo gli eventi più rilevanti (per l’elenco completo, cfr. il Calendario delle esecuzioni). Folk Songs è in programma a Innsbruck, con il mezzosoprano Elisabeth de Roo e il Windkraft ensemble diretti da Kasper de Roo (18 marzo), a Birmingham, con Charlotte […]

Ultime uscite discografiche

È uscito l’elegante cofanetto dell’etichetta tedesca Bastille Musique di Sebastian Solte con i nove Chemins di Luciano Berio. Composti tra il 1965 e il 1996 come sorta di “citazione, traduzione, espansione e trascrizione delle sequenze per strumento solista” – per parafrasare le parole dello stesso compositore – questi Chemins ne sono anche le migliori analisi. […]