Press 2025 - 2023
ART-WAVES MAGAZINE30.04.2025Review of the album Celestial Keys"Celestial Keys: The Magical Sound of Alessio Elia.The latest album by Alessio Elia, Celestial Keys, published by Brilliant Classics in December 2024, offers an exemplary overview of the important milestones reached by the composer through his very personal musical language."© Art-Waves Magazine
PIZZICATO11.12.2024Review of the album Celestial Keys"From underwater to heavenly sounds.Italian composer Alessio Elia, born in 1979, has gained international recognition for his polysystemism, the simultaneous use of different tuning systems. This is reflected in his orchestral works, which are characterized by mysterious, shimmering sounds and acoustic references to underwater worlds or intergalactic vastness."© Pizzicato© Norbert Tischer
RADIO VATICANA11.12.2024Le chiavi celestiali di Alessio EliaAlessio Elia interviewed by Marco Di Battista about the album Celestial Keys© Radio Vaticana© Marco Di Battista© Alessio Elia
SCHWETZINGER ZEITUNGVoids of Inequality13.10.2024"In tension-filled dynamic developments and polyphonic patterns that dissolve and reassemble, both tonal and atonal principles appear suspended. The string instruments, tuned in varying temperaments, produce sounds that, in their elemental archaism, conjure an aesthetic chaos as much as they tame it. Interwoven with the shimmering harmonics of the violins and cello, the clarinet assumes a prominent role that ultimately merges into the collective".© Schwetzinger Zeitung© Uwe Rauschelbach
MUZSIKACelestial Keys by Alessio Elia07.11.2023"Visionary and Magical Music on a Cosmic Scale".© Muzsika
RADIO VATICANAIl Concerto di Amburgo di György LigetiL'impermanenza della memoria di Alessio Elia05.07.202313.09.2023Introduction to "Ligeti il Maestro" the series of Radio Vaticana created and presented by Marco Di Battista for the 100th anniversary of Ligeti's birth.Interview with Alessio Elia about his revision of the "Hamburgisches Konzert" by Ligeti, on the basis of which the first revised performance was realized, which took place at the Budapest Music Center on May 28, 2023 (the 100th anniversary of the Ligeti's birth) within the Ligeti 100 Festival.The revision is published in the Elia's book "The Hamburgisches Konzert by György Ligeti", published by Edition Impronta, together with the most exhaustive and complete analysis on this work,including all the sketches and two unpublished moviments.Within the same Festival, the first performance of "L'impermanenza della Memoria" by Alessio Elia, commissioned for the Festival and performed by Trio K (Manuel Zurria, Francesco Dillon, Emanuele Torquati).Interview realized by Marco Di Battista.© Marco Di Battista© Radio Vaticana© Alessio Elia
RAI CULTURALe infinite vibrazioni di György Ligeti27.05.2023Interview with Alessio Elia about his revision of the "Hamburgisches Konzert" by Ligeti, on the basis of which the first revised performance was realized, which took place at the Budapest Music Center on May 28, 2023 (the 100th anniversary of the Ligeti's birth) within the Ligeti 100 Festival.The revision is published in the Elia's book "The Hamburgisches Konzert by György Ligeti", published by Edition Impronta, together with the most exhaustive and complete analysis on this work, including all the sketches and two unpublished moviments.Within the same Festival, the first performance of "L'impermanenza della Memoria" by Alessio Elia, commissioned for the Festival and performed by Trio K (Manuel Zurria, Francesco Dillon, Emanuele Torquati).Interview realized by Sergio Macedone.Click here to listen to it (in Italian)© Alessio Elia© Sergio Macedone© RAI Cultura
BRAWOOGerman magazine for wind music05.03.2023Interview to Alessio Elia and the conductor Andrea Barizza, regarding the first performance of Elia's new piece "Wreiheit" written for the Dresdner Bläserphilharmonie and dedicated to its conductor Andrea Barizza.The premiere took place in the concert hall of the Kulturpalast Dresden on March 12th.Click here to read the interview (in German)