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PRAE

PRAE interviews Alessio Elia

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Radio Vaticana

Alessio Elia: Portrait-interview

15.12.2021

Marco Di Battista interviews Alessio Elia

Listen to the podcast here

NMZ – Neue Musikzeitung

Review of Sayings of the Seers

Solo violin piece

Edition Impronta

04.2021

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Mannheimer Morgen

About the première of Incantesimi di Merseburg

Kammerchor Stuttgart

Frieder Bernius, conductor

25.02.2020

Alessio Elia's "Incantesimi di Merseburg" goes back to pre-Christian Germanic-Pagan magic spells and develop from a simple "d" into a metamorphic 16-part sound surface piece. Elia rarely highlights specific events but with fantastic sound mixes he creates almost non-choir sounds that - literally enchanting - pull you into completely different spheres. Fifths, seconds, thirds - a leisurely and filigree flowing work of voices sometimes moves in wide spreads between bass and soprano like a stream of power and light. This creates high tension. Elia does not care about the prohibitions of a supposed avant-garde of the past. A fascinating sound characteristic that grows out of masterly design.

© Stefan M. Dettlinger - Mannheimer Morgen

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Eßlinger Zeitung

About the première of Incantesimi di Merseburg
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius, conductor

25.02.2020

And when else do you hear clusters of such density, sensuality and precision? In Alessio Elia's premiered "Incantesimi di Merseburg" - settings of two late pagan spells - everything is required together in the almost absurd extreme. Elia combines up to seven different tuning systems (such as well-tempered, pure or meantone tuning), even for the highly trained soloists this can only be managed with special tuning forks. The result is iridescent complexes of sound, persistent agglomerations, evocative and surreal: truly a magic of the inner transformation of the sounds.

© Martin Mezger - Esslinger Zeitung

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Die Rheinpfalz

About the première of Incantesimi di Merseburg

Kammerchor Stuttgart

Frieder Bernius, conductor

24.02.2020

Alessio Elia, a thrilling composer

Elias's two-part piece, written for the Mannheim Society for New Music and dedicated to the Stuttgart Chamber Choir and Frieder Bernius, actually identifies him as a particularly exciting tone-creator. The sensitive and refined choir sound with its intermittent friction in the smallest particles of spaces, the dynamic process and the dramaturgy of the structure pointed out a pronounced creative imagination. Incidentally, Elias "magic spells" are a bravura piece for the solo soprano, who brilliantly realized the tricky passages.

© Die Rheinpfalz

© Gabor Halasz

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Review of Implicate Inklings on Magyar Narancs

09.05.2019

Review by Szábolcs Molnár

"The premiere of Alessio Elia's Clarinet Concerto"

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Review of Octet on Il Corriere Musicale

10.10.2018

Review by Stefano Cascioli

"The very original writing of Alessio Elia is an unicum

in the compositional landscape of our times"

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© Il Corriere Musicale 2018

© Stefano Cascioli 2018

Interview for RAI Radio 3
about Octet, recorded by I Solisti della Scala
conducted by Andrea Vitello and released in Cd
by Warner Classics

Roma
30.08.2018

Speaking about the work "Octet".
Interview lead by Guido Barbieri.
With the contribution of Fabrizio Meloni, first clarinet of La Scala
and Andrea Vitello, conductor of I Solisti della Scala.

Listen to it at RAI RADIO 3 podcast

Interview for Magyar Televízió (M5)

about the Human Machine Project

CAFe - Contemporary Arts Festival

BMC - Budapest Music Center

Budapest

19.10.2017

Speaking about the project performed at BMC during the

CAFe Festival and the years the composer spent living in Budapest.

For watching the interview click here (from minutes 7:17 to 9:10)

Review of Octet for Classic Voice

Paolo Petazzi

"Elia gode della stima del collega Peter Eötvös.
Sono molto diversi, ma in comune hanno la saldezza della costruzione e la ricchezza delle aperture di ricerca.
E' molto attraente la differenziazzione della scrittura nei due tempi del pezzo di Elia."

"Elia enjoys the esteem of the colleague Peter Eötvös.
They are very different, but in common they have the solidity of the construction and the richness of the research.
The differentiation of writing in the two-movement of Elia's piece is very appealing."

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CAFe - Contemporary Arts Festival

"Listen to the iPod of the award-winning composer!"

("Hallgass bele a díjnyertes zeneszerző iPodjába!")

Playlist of Alessio's favourite pieces

with comments of the composer

published on the CAFe Festival website

September 2017

Budapest

Original text in Hungarian

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© CAFe - Contemporary Arts Festival Budapest

© Müpa

Night Italia
"Alessio Elia - A certain glance"
Article by Elena Abbado

February 2017
Rome

Article-Interview with Alessio Elia realized by Elena Abbado.
Click here to read it
(English)

© Elena Abbado
© Night Italia
© Andrea Félvegi (photo)

Bartók Radio

"Új Zenei Újság" (New Music News)

Szabolcs Molnár about

Voynich Lied - Ai Prigionieri

5 June 2016

Budapest

click here to listen to the review on the Bartók Radio (in Hungarian)

(at 18:36:24 of the player)

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

"For me the most interesting vocal piece of the concert was the Voynich Lied by Alessio Elia, for piano, trumpet and soprano. This piece by Elia is based on the famous, mysterious, insoluble and enigmatic Voynich manuscript, of the XIV-XV century, whose language is still unknown. An English scholar has identified the sound of some phonemes, on which Alessio Elia has based his work.

It was really sensational for me, also because this work is different from other pieces I know of Alessio Elia.

He cleverly refers to medieval music with a great refinement and an excellent taste.

In a very particular way he transposes and enriches the fourteenth century techniques, and actually he makes them new in a composition whose dimension is the one of XXI century"

© Bartók Radio

© Szabolcs Molnár

Musica +
Interview with Alessio Elia
realized by Carla Di Lena

10 January 2016
L'Aquila

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© Musica +
© Carla Di Lena

Muzsika

The most important Hungarian review of Classical Music

June 2015

Budapest

Interview with Alessio Elia

realized by Máté Hollós.

Within the series "Szerzők bontakozóban" (Composers arriving on the scene)

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© Máté Hollós

© Andrea Félvegi (photo)

© Muzsika 2015

Cité de la Musique
Cdmc - Centre de documentation de la Musique contemporaine
Conference about Elia's "Polysystemism"

28 November 2014
Paris

Symposium "L'influence des théories scientifiques sur le renouvellement des formes dans la musique contemporaine"
Coordinator: Márta Grabócz
Presentation by: Laure Marcel-Berlioz and Marta Grabocz
Among the Lectureres:
Alessio Elia
Jean-Pierre Luminet
Hector Parra
Jean-Claude Risset

click on the first image for listening to the lecture of Alessio Elia:
"Polysystemism: A simultaneous employment of different tuning systems emerging from String Theory, M-Theory and Supersymmetry" by (English)

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click here to download the complete programme of the Symposium (French / English)

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Canal C2 - Université de Strasbourg

Conference about Elia's "Polysystemism"

28 November 2014

Paris

Symposium "L'influence des théories scientifiques sur le renouvellement des formes dans la musique contemporaine"

Coordinator: Márta Grabócz

Presentation by: Laure Marcel-Berlioz and Marta Grabocz

Among the Lectureres:

Alessio Elia

Jean-Pierre Luminet

Hector Parra

Jean-Claude Risset

Elia: "Polysystemism: A simultaneous employment of different tuning systems emerging from String Theory, M-Theory and Supersymmetry" by (English)

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Muzsika
The most important Hungarian review of Classical Music

July 2014
Budapest

Critic and review by Szabolcs Molnár
about "Trasparenze"
orchestral piece commissioned by Rádio Bartók
and performed at Studio 6 of the National Hungarian Radio by
The National Hungarian Radio Orchestra with
László Tihanyi as a conductor

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© Szabolcs Molnár
© Andrea Félvegi (photo)
© Muzsika 2014

Guido Barbieri

about "Trasparenze" the portrait concert that She Lives dedicated to Alessio Elia

within the concert series "She Lives meets Hungary",

a three-concert festival dedicate to Péter Eötvös, Zoltán Jeney and Alessio Elia

2 July 2014

Rome

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(Italian)

Péter Eötvös - La Repubblica
about Alessio Elia's music and the awarding of the first prize to him at the UMZF 2013 competition
where Eötvös was chief of the jury

2 June 2014
Rome

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© Péter Eötvös
© Klaus Rudolph (photo)
© La Repubblica

(Italian)