the sounds of the meteor: luca magariello in concert in casso, 12th of september

In Casso, Friday September the 12th, the exhibit meteor in the garden (meteor in ambient) is launched. The opening concert will involve the cellist luca magariello and willy merz.

Meteori in the Garden is an Exposition of visual arts and contemporary music which the Merz Foundation of Turin has been histing for seven years, by now. It is an important appointment, during which some of the best Italian visual artists meet contemporary composers and musicians with an international profile. The musical schedule is curated by Willy Merz, nephew of the great artist Mario Merz, and President of the Merz Foundation.
This year, the Meteor in the Garden changes and opens itself: other than Turin, the eposition moves to Casso and Palermo as well, thanks to a cultural “triangulation” between the Merz Foundation, Dolomiti Contemporanee and Palazzo Riso.

The Concert will take place in the area in front of the Spazio di Casso, opposite the Toc: in case of bad weather, it is going to be moved inside the Church of the Casso village (San Gervasio and Protasio Church).
In the program, the exectution of an alternating series of pieces by Bach and Kurtag. The Concert will end with a cello and live-electronics piece by Willy Merz.

Program:
Bach, Preludio from the suite n 1
Kurtag, Hommage a John Cage_ Elakado szavak
Bach, Allemande from the suite n 1
Kurtag, Nepdalfeleù Bach, Prelude from the suite n 2
Kurtag, Hommage a Job van Eck_ Szòkratesz bucsuja
Bach, Minuet 1 and 2 from the suite n 2
Kurtag, Schatten
Bach, Gigue from the suite n 3
Kurtag, Balatonboglari emlek 5/8-ban
Bach, Prelude from the suite n 6
Merz, The Fibonacci cave, Cello and live-electronics

luca magariello

Luca Magariello
Luca Magariello was born in 1989 , young talent, begin to study cello at the Suzuki School in Turin, and he’s graduated from Turin Conservatory, aged 16, with top marks and laude studying with Antonio Mosca. Since he was 6 years old he toured in Italy and abroad with the Suzuki Orchestra, playing for important human associations as Onu and Unicef, gaining reputation as soloist and orchestral cellist. After he’s graduation he continued his studies with some of the most important cellists as Mario Brunello, Giovanni Sollima, Philippe Muller; but determinant will be his encounter with Enrico Dindo and Enrico Bronzi, to whom he will entrust his artistic and musical growth. He’s finalist at 5th Antonio Janigro International Competition in Zagreb , and in June 2010 he won the Khachaturian International Cello Competition in Yerevan ( Armenia); this prestigious achievement will bring Luca to an International soloist career : He played as soloist in Slovenia, Romania, Albania, Japan, Macedonia, Armenia and Belgium, where he opened the season of Hulencourt Soloist Chamber Orchestra like soloist under the direction of Guy Braunstein ( Berliner Filarmoniker Konzertmaister ).He plays like soloist with Soloist of Zagreb, Philarmonie Orchestra of Zagreb, State Youth Orchestra of Armenia, Durres Chamber Orchestra. He plays in duo with pianist Cecilia Novarino, studying with Trio di Parma. They are often invited to play for important musical seasons (concerts of Lubiana University, Società della musica in Mantova, Unione Musicale and MITO in Torino,ecc) with succesfull critics. Luca Magariello, in duo or other ensemble, plays in the most important musical institutions and theaters like Teatro la Fenice of Venezia, Teatro Regio of Torino, Lingotto of Torino, Teatro Verdi of Trieste, Teatro Coccia of Novara. .Large parte of his repertoire is dedicated to the classical and romantic period, starting from Haydn cello concertos ( recorded in 2010 for FregoliMusic )to Khachaturian cello concerto , with particular attention also for Italian composer as Martucci, Casella and Fuga. His last recording is The complete work: Saint Saens’s Piano Quartets ( Brilliant, 2012 ), with Avos Quartet, with whom he played from 2011 to 2013. He regularly collaborates like Principal Cello with Camerata Salzburg and Orchesra Gran Teatro la Fenice of Venice and Orchestra del Teatro S. Carlo of Naples;  from 2011 he is the Principal Soloist Cello of Hulencourt Soloist Chamber Orchestra ( Bruxells). From 2008 Luca is supported by a scholarship ” Master of music’s talents” of CRT foundation. [from his site]

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The Fibonacci Cave (Willy Merz) is a ten minutes piece for cello and live-electronics. The cello structure alternated moments of intense lyricism and virtuosistic transitions (double chords, extension in the acute registry, very articulate string hits), the live-electronics part is on the other hand made up entirely by natural sounds obtained via action on stones, and subsequent elaboration on a computer. They are almost never, however, percussive sounds, but rather long bands obtained with the friction and moistering of the various rocks. The musical structure is characterized as a game between acustic stimulation of narrow spaces, dark and subterranean, and more ample and serena moments. As a hidden voice of the stone and the mountain, then, that finds in the peculiar “spazio di Casso”  an almost natural location from which to emerge.