Upcoming events with Berio’s music (May – October 2018)

From the end of May to October 2018 numerous events featuring Luciano Berio’s music are scheduled. Here follow the most outstanding concerts (for a complete list, please visit our Concert calendar).  Laborintus II is scheduled at the DR Koncerthuset of Copenhagen with Demian Vitanza as speaker, the vocal ensemble Theatre of Voices, the DR VokalEnsemblet […]

Upcoming events with Luciano Berio’s music (January – April 2019)

At the beginning of 2019 numerous events featuring Luciano Berio’s music are scheduled. Here follow the most outstanding concerts (for a complete list, please visit our Concert calendar). Folk Songs are performed in Costa Rica for the first time, featuring mezzo-soprano Marcela Alfaro and the Orquesta Sinfónica de Heredia conducted by Joan Pagès (Feb 22 […]

Berio dialogues with Domenico Scarlatti in the new album by Andrea Lucchesini

In September 2018 the album Dialogues by pianist Andrea Lucchesini was released by the German label Audite. On the album, Lucchesini puts in dialogue the Six Encores – six piano miniatures composed by Luciano Berio from 1965 to 1990 – with six Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti. Lucchesini explains: «The combination of Scarlatti’s Sonatas and Luciano […]

Luciano Berio International Composition Competition

We are happy to announce that the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, in collaboration with the Centro Studi Luciano Berio, has promoted an international composition competition dedicated to Luciano Berio. The competition, open to composers under 40, is the result of a partnership with SIAE, the Filarmonica della Scala, the Fondazione Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the […]

Interviste e colloqui – Copertina

Claudio Monteverdi and Luciano Berio

The year 2017 closed with three events dedicated to the relationship between Luciano Berio and Claudio Monteverdi, organized on the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the birth of the composer from Cremona. On November 23 and 24 the international study meeting Orphée Aujourd’hui. Lire, interpreter… was held in Paris, organized by the Université Paris […]

Upcoming events with Berio’s music (March – April 2018)

In the first months of 2018 numerous events with Luciano Berio’s music are scheduled. Following is a list of the main events until April (for a complete list, see the Concert calendar). From March 22 to 25 is scheduled the London Ear Festival, with performances of Sequenza I, Sequenza IV, Sequenza VI, Cries of London, […]

Berio-Monteverdi: tre appuntamenti a Parigi, New York e Milano

In occasione del 450° anniversario della nascita di Claudio Monteverdi, le città di Parigi, New York e Milano hanno ospitato, fra novembre e dicembre 2017, tre appuntamenti dedicati alla ricezione del compositore cremonese e della sua opera nel pensiero musicale del XX e XXI secolo che hanno visto quale protagonista l’opera di Luciano Berio. Il […]

Now, And Then

A ottobre 2017 è uscito per la ECM Records il disco Now, And Then con l’Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana e il chitarrista Pablo Márquez diretti da Dennis Russel Davies. L’album contiene trascrizioni orchestrali di opere di Frescobaldi, Legrenzi, Gabrieli, Viadana e Wassenaer realizzate da Bruno Maderna, e Chemins V per chitarra e orchestra da camera […]

Presentazione dei volumi di scritti e interviste di Berio al Museo Novecento di Milano

Mercoledì 28 marzo alle ore 18.00, presso il Museo del Novecento di Milano, Oreste Bossini (Rai) e Nicola Scaldaferri (Università degli Studi di Milano) presenteranno i volumi Scritti sulla musica e Interviste e colloqui di Luciano Berio, editi dalla casa editrice Einaudi nel 2013 e nel 2017, a cura di A.I. De Benedictis e V.C. […]

Weekend Berio in Paris

From February 1st to 3, at the Cité de la Musique / Philharmonie de Paris, is scheduled a Week-end Berio+, which in addition to the performance of some ‘classics’ of Berio’s catalog (including Sinfonia, Sequenza VIII and Opus Number Zoo), it will present two novelties of exceptional importance. Friday, February 1st (Salle des concerts, 8.30 […]

Risposte manoscritte di Luciano Berio al «Questionario Proust»

Handwritten answers by Luciano Berio to the «Proust Questionnaire», 1990 (by courtesy of Paul Sacher Stiftung and Berio heirs). See Luciano Berio. Interviste e colloqui, pp. 459-464.