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Composers Forum: Luciano Chessa

Friday, October 19, 2018 at 4:00pm

Johnson Museum of Art, Wing lecture room
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

Visiting artist, composer, performer, and musicologist Luciano Chessa and his Orchestra of Futurist Noise Intoners join CAGE on Oct. 20 for a performance with experimental instruments, old and newly constructed. In advance of that performance, Chessa gives a talk at the Composers’ Forum on Oct. 19.

Chessa’s work draws heavy influence from experimentation, blending unorthodox ideas with classical form. Imaginative in its embrace of the avant-garde, Chessa’s music quickly reveals the promise of the timbral and conceptual possibilities afforded by his innovative approach. Chessa’s music has featured prominently on programs across Europe, Australia and the United States. Recent premieres include Come un’infanzia, for guitar and string quartet (2011) premiered by the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, and A Heavenly Act (2011), an opera on libretto by Gertrude Stein commissioned by SFMOMA to compliment Virgil Thompson’s 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts. The work premiered on August 19, 2011, at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, in a staged production by the Ensemble Parallèle, conducted by Nicole Paiement and featuring video by Kalup Linzy.

Luciano Chessa attended the Conservatory of Bologna where he earned a DMA in piano and an MA in music composition. Arriving in California in 1998, Chessa continued his studies in musicology at the University of California, Davis where he earned his Ph.D. in 2004. He has lectured at St. John’s College of Oxford, UK, Columbia University, Harvard University, Sydney’s and Melbourne’s Conservatories and Universities, the Conservatory of Music in Bologna, UC Davis, UC Berkeley, Stanford University, and EMPAC in the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He currently serves on the composition faculty of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

After the Forum, attendees are invited to hear Annie Lewandowski's new work for Chimes at McGraw Tower.

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Lecture, Music

Departments

Department of Music

Website

http://music.cornell.edu

Cost

Free and open to the public; no tickets required

Contact E-Mail

lag277@cornell.edu

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