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The Piccola Accademia degli Specchi’s project was founded around the end of year 2000, to the occasion of the recording of the original sound track for the Ruggero Lancia’s movie “Candidamente” composed by Matteo Sommacal (the partecipant to that recording were Alessandra Amorino, Giovanni Rosati, Erika Mazzola e Giacomo Grandi). During the next two years, the band evolved, specializing in performing contemporay classical repertoire, with particular attention to the so-called minimal music.
The ensemble played in several live concerts and events in many italian cities (Roma, L’Aquila, Firenze, Trieste), and it partecipated to festivals and reviews: among the others, it’s worth remembering ''Les Refrains Oublies'' (CasaDellaMusica, March 2004, Trieste); ''L’Angolo Incolume'' (Palazzo Barberini, June 2004, Roma); ''Concerti dell’Orto Lapidario'' (Musei di Sera, August 2004, Trieste); ''V° Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea “Luigi Nono”'' (Teatro Miela, November 2004, Trieste); ''European Festival of Music'' (June 2005, Roma).
In the repertoire of the ensemble you can find authors like Simon Jeffes, Wim Mertens, Michael Nyman, Philip Glass, Louis Andriessen, Steve Reich, Yann Tiersen, David Lang, Erkki-Sven Tüür, Morton Feldman, John Cage, Anton von Webern, Gyorgy Ligeti. Not only their most famous compisitions are played (like “8 Lines” by Steve Reich, “Close Cover” by Wim Mertens, or “Opening” and “Fa..ades” by Philip Glass), but their less-known works as well, like “Volkslied” by Louis Andriessen, “Gentleman of Leisure” by Wim Mertens or “Yellow Beach” by Michael Nyman. The Piccola Accademia degli Specchi’s project has also the aim of diffusing the music of contemporary and living italian composers like Giovanni Sollima, Francesco Di Fiore, Matteo Sommacal, Franco Antonio Mirenzi, Ludovico Einaudi, Michele Biki Panitti. The ensemble presented, in world premiere, compositions by Sommacal, Mirenzi, and Panitti; and, in italian national premiere, compositions by Di Fiore and Andriessen.
BROADCASTING ALERT
A new "madeleine", available on Nuove Tendenze and prepared by Francesca Vitale, was dedicated to the French photographer Raphaël Blasselle and to the composer Matteo Sommacal. The interview to Raphaël Blasselle (here on Myspace) is accompanied by music performed by the Piccola Accademia degli Specchi.
Starting from this month, April 2008, music performed by the Piccola Accademia degli Specchi will be on the radio playlist of the web broadcasting station Radio TorVergata. On the 23rd of April 2008, during Federica Tambaro's program "Serrande Alzate" (14:30-16:00), music from "MinimaMachta" will be broadcasted.
A brand new profile of the Piccola Accademia degli Specchi is available on Radiophonica, in the musica/bands section. Click HERE to visit it.
Music by Matteo Sommacal, performed by the ensemble "Piccola Accademia degli Specchi", was submitted to the Talent Scout Chanel of the Italian newspaper "La Repubblica". Please, if you have time and if you like, click HERE to vote our music or to leave a comment.
Each saturday, a track from MinimaMachta, "Piccola Accademia degli Specchi"'s last CD release, is broadcasted during the program "Let Be More Light" - Radio Gagarin.
Echoes Top 25 for September 2007
MinimaMachta, "Piccola Accademia degli Specchi"'s last CD release, ranked 9th in Echoes Top 25 for September 2007. Give a look in our Blog section to see the whole list.
HOW TO BUY MUSIC AND CD
Copies of "Minima Machta", Piccola Accademia degli Specchi's last CD release, are going to be out of stock soon. To buy your copy you can:
1) "Send a message" from this MySpace page, asking for a copy of the CD. We can mail-send to your address a (signed) copy of the CD and you can pay upon receipt of the copy ("in contrassegno"). The service will be provided by the Italian national post system. For shipping costs (worldwide), please refer to their website;
2) Refer to our distributor in Italy, Giancarlo Zedde Editore. You can place your order here, specifying the name of the CD you want ("Minima Machta") among those distributed by Zedde.com, together with all your contacts. To have more information, you can directly ask here;
3) Wait after the winter. We will provide music shops in Rome (and in Italy) with other copies of "Minima Machta" (at the moment, all shops in Rome ran out of copies). A list of music shops in Rome (and in Italy) will be available on this page;
4) After the summer (beginning of year 2008), PADS's music may be available for selling on iTunes-shop on the web.
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