Biography
Osvaldo Coluccino (1963) is a composer and poet. He composed vocal, instrumental and electroacoustic music.
His compositions have been commissioned by various institutions and festivals (Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Venice Biennale, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent, Transit Festival Leuven, Royal Conservatory of Brusselles, Milano Musica – Teatro alla Scala, Angelica Festival with Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra, Orchestra della Toscana, Florence, Gli Amici di Musica/Realtà, Milan, Compagnia per la Musica in Roma…) and have been performed in several locations around the world (examples include Festival de Royaumont in co-production with IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, RAI Nuova Musica, Turin, Bologna Festival, Romaeuropa Festival, Estate Fenice Festival, Venice, WØD-Weinberg Festival at Orchesterhaus Mozarteumorchester Salzburg, Tempo Reale Festival, Florence, Nuova Consonanza Festival, Rome, Festival International Cervantino, Mexico, and concerts in Seoul, San Francisco, Odessa, Malaga, Paris University, Ljubljana, Klagenfurt…) and in spaces of art (Egyptian Museum in Turin, Museo del Novecento in Milan, Manifesta – European Nomadic Biennial, Rivoli Castle – International Museum of Contemporary Art, Ateneo Veneto – Scuola Grande di San Fantin in Venice…).
His works have been performed by renowned ensembles (examples include Ensemble Recherche, Freiburg, Stadler Quartett, Salzburg, Nieuw Ensemble, Amsterdam, Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, London, Stump-Linshalm, Vienna…), orchestras (see above), conductors (Marco Angius, Tonino Battista, Fabio Maestri, Flavio Emilio Scogna…) and soloists (Roberto Fabbriciani, Jan Michiels, Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Alfonso Alberti…).
His discs have been released by the major labels for contemporary classical music (Kairos, Vienna, Neos, Munich, Col legno, Vienna, RAI Trade, Rome, Another Timbre, Sheffield, Die Schachtel, Milan …). His music has been broadcasted on national radios (SWR, ORF, Radio France, BR-Klassik, Kulturradio RBB, Concertzender, RAI, RTBF, VRT, RTP, RTV SLO…). RAI Trade music editions has published 14 scores.
As a composer he was discovered by Luigi Pestalozza, and important musicologists have written about his music (on Diapason with 5 diapasons, Gramophone, MusikText portrait, Takte-Bärenreiter portrait, MusicWeb International, NMZ, American Record Guide, Classic Voice 5 stars, Amadeus 5 stars…).
He also carried out an intense activity as a poet between 1987 and 2003, publishing monographic books and in prestigious literary magazines. As a poet he was discovered in 1990 by Stefano Agosti, one of the leading literary scholars in Europe. He has also created artist books born from the union between his poems and original works of art by important artists.
He dedicated his life to artistic creation but also to personally helping abandoned and desperate cats, and sometimes other creatures too.
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