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There will be 13 premieres in the 2022/2023 concert season.
Consult the events page to stay updated.
5 June 2023
Lübeck
Octet
Philharmonische Orchester der Hansestadt Lübeck
German première
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28 May 2023
Mannheim
Alessio Elia: The “Hamburgisches Konzert” by György Ligeti
EDITION IMPRONTA
The book is out!
Available at the publisher website
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Hamburgisches Konzert by Ligeti
28 May 2023
Budapest Music Center
Festival Ligeti 100
Hamburgisches Konzert by Ligeti
Premiere of the version revised by Alessio Elia
on the basis of Ligeti's manuscript and notes (Paul Sacher Foundation - Basel)
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27 May 2023
Mattatotio
Atlante Sonoro 2023
Rome
Voynich Lied
Italian premiere
Keiko Morikawa, soprano
Massimo Bartoletti, trumpet
Anna Bellagamba, piano
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24 May 2023
BMC - Budapest Music Center
Péter Eötvös Foundation
The Hamburgisches Konzert by György Ligeti
Lecture by Alessio Elia
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23 May 2023
BMC - Budapest Music Center
Festival Ligeti 100
L'impermanenza della memoria
for flute, cello and piano
Première
Alter ego ensemble
Manuel Zurria, flute
Francesco Dillon, cello
Emanuele Torquati, piano
Commissioned by and dedicated to Manuel Zurria, Francesco Dillon and Emanuele Torquati
for the Ligeti 100 Festival Budapest
Organized by The Italian Institute of Culture - Budapest
in collaboration with BMC
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18 March 2023
Stadthalle
Krone Bautzen
Wreiheit
for wind orchestra
Dresdner Bläserphilharmonie
Andrea Barizza, conductor
Commissioned by Dresdner Bläserphilharmonie
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12 March 2023
Kulturpalast
Dresden
Wreiheit
for wind orchestra
Première
Dresdner Bläserphilharmonie
Andrea Barizza, conductor
Commissioned by Dresdner Bläserphilharmonie
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11 March 2023
St. Petri Kirche
Chemnitz
Wreiheit
for wind orchestra
Dresdner Bläserphilharmonie
Andrea Barizza, conductor
Commissioned by Dresdner Bläserphilharmonie
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2022
10 December 2022
Ex Mattatoio
Rome
Il Canto segreto
for three accordions
Première
Umberto Turchi, Riccardo Pugliese, Stefano Di Loreto, accordions
Commission of the 59th Festival "Nuova Consonanza"
Dedicated to Giovanni Piazza, beloved Maestro, in memoriam
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23 November 2022
K11
Budapest
Etude for string quartet
Première
Dedicated to Roman quartet
Roman quartet
Alessio Elia, conductor
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19 November 2022
BMC - Budapest Music Center
Crypto-lounge of a dark left
for large ensemble
Premiére
Concerto Budapest Ligeti Ensemble
Peter Eötvös, conductor
Within the Festival "The day of listening" 2022 (A Hallgatás Napja Fesztivál 2022)
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13 November 2022
Ex convento di S. Francesco
Pordenone
Conifold transitions
for clarinet soloist and ensemble
Impronta ensemble
Andreas Luca Beraldo, conductor
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13 November 2022
Ex convento di S. Francesco
Pordenone
Out of the magic circle
for flute soloist and ensemble
Première
Impronta ensemble
Andreas Luca Beraldo, conductor
Commission of Associazione Musica Pura
Dedicated to Andrea Salvi
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Singapore, 11 November 2022
Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music
Octet
Asian première
Boon Hua Lien, conductor
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Budapest, 15 June 2022
BMC - Budapest Music Center
Caduacae resonantiae
for solo guitar
Hungarian première
within Ulysses Journey 2022
Katalink Koltai, guitar
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Paris, 18 February 2022
Hungarian Institute of Culture
Nocturnal awakened
Quintetto Anemos
Commissioned by Quintetto Anemos
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Dublin, 6 February 2022
The Hugh Lane Gallery
Dublin
Caducae resonantiae
for solo guitar
Katalin Koltai, guitar
Commissioned by and dedicated to Katalin Koltai
Première within Ulysses Journey 2022
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Città del Vaticano, 15 December 2021
Interview for Radio Vaticana
Alessio Elia: Portrait-interview for Radio Vaticana
Listen to the podcast here _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Milano, 30 November 2021
Museo del Novecento
Ultra septimam lunam
for ensemble
NED Ensemble
Andrea Mannucci, conductor
Première
Commission of SIMC - Società Italiana Musica Contemporanea
for the 700th commemoration of Dante's death.
Dedicated to NED Ensemble
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Detmold, 12 October 2021 - 24 January 2022
Vom Spektralismus Griseys zum Polysystemismus von Alessio Elia
(From the Spectralism by Grisey to the Polysystemism by Alessio Elia)
Seminar in Music Analysys at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold.
Andreas Luca Beraldo, professor
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Vienna, 22 December 2020
Arnold Schönberg Center
Outskirts of matter
for counter-tenor/baritone and ensemble
Alois Mühlbacher, counter-tenor/baritone
Ensemble Wiener Collage (soloists and members of the Wiener Philharmoniker)
René Staar, conductor
Commissioned by Wiener Collage
Dedicated to Cecily Brown
Première
View the concer on youtube (free of charge) here _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Paris, 4 December 2020
Hungarian Institute of Culture
Nocturnal awakened
Quintetto Anemos
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Prague, 16 October 2020
MicroFest Prague 2020
Alessio Elia
Conference
Polysystemism: a tool to shape music in connection with acoustical phenomena.
An investigation of the immaterial aspects of sound.
Watch the conference for free at the following link:
Videos available for free online to registered participants.
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Mannheim, 21 February 2020
Gesellschaft für Neue Musik
Première of Incantesimi di Merseburg
for 16-part soloist mixed choir
Frieder Bernius, conductor
Commissioned by Stuttgart Kammerchor
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Musée national Marc Chagall
Première of Octet (Warner Classics / Universal Music Publishing EMB)
Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice
Andrea Vitello, conductor
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Budapest, 26 September 2019
Italian Institute of Culture
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Italian Institute of Culture
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Budapest, 6-10 August 2019
Master Class in Composition
Alessio Elia / Sidney Corbett
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In the jury of Impronta Ensemble Composition Competition
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Première of Implicate Inklings
Composition supported by NKA - Hungarian National Cultural Fund
Concerto Budapest Orchestra
Featuring: Csaba Klenyán, solo clarinet
For info and tickets click here _______________________________________________________________________________________________
BMC - Budapest Music Center
Première of Ekpyrotic suicide
László Tihanyi, conductor
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Première of Fading into colors
Mihail Jora Philarmonic Orchestra Bacau
Andrea Barizza, conductor
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Budapest, 12 November 2018
Distimement for large orchestra
Compulsory piece for the Final of the Antal Doráti International Conducting Competition _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Interview with the composer about his Octet, recorded by I Solisti della Scala
and released on Cd by Warner Classics.
Broadcast lead by Guido Barbieri with the contribution of
Fabrizio Meloni, first clarinet of La Scala and
Andrea Vitello, conductor of I Solisti della Scala
For listening it in the Radio podcast click here (in Italian) _______________________________________________________________________________________________
It is released the CD "Octets" by Warner Classics
including the Octet by Alessio Elia
performed by I Solisti della Scala di Milano
conducted by Andrea Vitello
Buy it on Ibs (Distributed worldwide - Italian speaking customers) - click here Buy it on Amazon (Distributed worldwide - English speaking customers) - click here _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Budapest, 25 - 29 August 2018
Master Class in Composition
Alessio Elia / Sidney Corbett
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Accademia d'Ungheria in Roma
Performance of Three Piano Etudes:
Outrage, The Temptress, Merging Spaces
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It is released the recording of
for clarinet and ensemble.
For watching and listening to click here _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Budapest, 21 October 2017
Performance of "Disappearing rainbows" for orchestra
Concerto Budapest Orchestra
info and tickets click here _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Austrian première of "Traces from Nowhere" for Disklavier and ensemble
Andreas Luca Beraldo, conductor
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Budapest, 19 October 2017
Hungarian première of "Traces from Nowhere" for Disklavier and ensemble
Andreas Luca Beraldo, conductor
BMC - Budapest Music Center
CAFe - Contemporary Arts Festival Budapest
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Budapest, 11-14 September 2017
Master class in Composition
Master class held by Alessio Elia
First Chairs of National Hungarian Radio Orchestra,
Budapest Opera House and Concerto Armonico
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Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana
Master thesis disputation in conducting
"Il polisistemismo di Alessio Elia come scrittura
musicale basata sulla fisica contemporanea,
sulla realizzazione di fenomeni fisico-acustici,
e conseguenti aspetti nell’approccio interpretativo"
(The polysystemism of Alessio Elia.
A musical writing based on contemporary physics,
the realization of physical-acoustic phenomena,
and consequent aspects in the interpretative approach)
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Studio recording of Octet
Andrea Vitello, conductor
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It is released the recording of
"Heisenberg Suite" (vers. 2016)
Within the "10th Portrait Concert"
click here for listening to it _______________________________________________________________________________________________
It is released the recording of
for Disklavier and ensemble
click here for listen to it. _______________________________________________________________________________________________
It is released the interview-article
"Alessio Elia - A certain glance"
Night Italia - March 2017
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Première of "Traces from Nowhere"
for disklavier and ensemble
Within the project "Human machine"
with the contribution of Pro Helvetia
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Budapest, 15 December 2016
Italian Institute of Culture of Budapest
dedicated to Alessio Elia's music
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Budapest, 11 October 2016
Conference at Pesti Vigado
Within the Symposium "Bartók and Járdányi: two compared arts"
Alessio Elia: "Polysystemism and extra dimensions: my approach
to composition and to a multidimensional way to shape sound
in relationship with the music of Bartók, Ligeti and quantum physics".
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Alessio Elia - Sidney Corbett
at Accademia Musicale all'Esquilino
Organizer: Scatola Sonora
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Accademia Musicale Chigiana
The role of the composer today
The music of Kurtág and Tihanyi
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Per un Teatro delle ombre
Stefano Jacoviello, László Tihanyi, Alessio Elia
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Live broadcasted by Bartók Radio
World Première of "Voynich Lied - Ai Prigionieri"
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L'Aquila, 10 February 2016
It is released the interview that Carla Di Lena has done with Alessio Elia for the Italian review "Musica +"
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It is released the recording of "Sayings of the Seers"
Jeanne Lefèvre, violin and dedicatee
Impronta-Edition UG, Mannheim
click here to listen to the recording
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Two première in October 2015
Première of Eltűnő szivárványok
Hungarian Radio Orchestra
For info and tickets click here
Première of "Sayings of the Seers" for solo violin
at the Festival Chor.com.
For info and tickets click here
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Alessio Elia will be a guest of the Italian "Radio Cemat", live from S. Cecilia Academy of Music.
During the programme he will play his Piano etude no. 2 "The Temptress"
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An interview with Alessio Elia realized by Máté Hollós has been released
in the number of June of MUZSIKA, the greatest Hungarian magazine for classical music.
Find it since now in each newsstand in Hungary and since July on internet on the website of the magazine.
click here for reading it in Hungarian, English or Italian (Press page of the website)
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Now available the State National Hungarian Television broadcast
of Elia's orchestral piece "Dimensioni nascoste" with which he won the first prize
in the orchestral category of the UMZF competition, with Péter Eötvös as president of the jury.
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It is released the complete catalogue of Alessio Elia's pieces on the website
of BMC (Budapest Music Centre)
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Heilig-Geist-Kirche Mannheim
for two choruses and string orchestra
Alexander Niehues, conductor
For info visit the page "Events" in this website.
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Performance of "Merging Spaces" (Piano Etude no. 3)
For info visit the page "Events" in this website.
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Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine
Conference: Polysystemism: A simultaneous employment of different tuning systems emerging from String Theory,
M- Theory and Supersymmetry
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Mannheim, 31 October 2014
Project Alessio Elia/Hans Werner Henze
For info visit the page "Events" in this website.
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Düsseldorf, 14 September 2014
Festival "Piano surrounding 2014"
Première of "Merging Spaces" (Piano Etude no. 3)
For info visit the page "Events" in this website.
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Eighth Monographic concert: ALESSIO ELIA
(within the concert series "SHE LIVES meets Hungary" dedicated to Péter Eötvös, Zoltán Jeney and Alessio Elia)
Accademia Filarmonica Romana
For info visit the page "Events" in this website.
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Première of "Trasparenze", commission of Radio Bartók.
For info visit the page "Events" in this website.
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Interview at Klubrádió in the program "Felütés".
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Portrait concert at the Italian Institute of Culture.
For info visit the page "Events" in this website.
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It is released the interview with Alessio Elia in "Dal+szerző", the official review of Hungarian Bureau for the
Protection of Authors' Rights.
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Budapest, 26 September 2013
Alessio Elia won the first prize in the Orchestral category of the UMZF 2013 Competition
(Forum of New Hungarian Music) with the piece "Rejtett dimenziók".
President of jury: Péter Eötvös
