Solo Instrument Music
PIANO
Sonata per pianoforte n°1
- A Guillaume Apollinaire -
(Piano Sonata no. 1 - To Guillame Apollinaire -)
for: piano
Date of Composition: November 2001 - February 2003 (revised: November 2004)
Duration: 14'
Oblio della Volontà
(Oblivion of the Will)
for: piano
Date of Composition: January – March 2009
Duration: 6'
Première: 24 February 2010. Levinsalen, Norges Musikkhøgskole. Oslo.
Third Monographic Concert dedicated to the works of Alessio Elia.
Promoter: Norges Musikkhøgskole (Norwegian Academy of Music). Oslo
Alessio Elia, piano
L’altrove
(Elsewhere)
for: piano
Date of Composition: 2009
Duration: 6'
Première: 24 February 2010. Levinsalen, Norges Musikkhøgskole. Oslo.
Third Monographic Concert dedicated to the works of Alessio Elia.
Promoter: Norges Musikkhøgskole (Norwegian Academy of Music). Oslo
Alessio Elia, piano
Italian Première: 27 November 2011. Piano Festival "Eufonia". Rome.
Within the Fifth Portrait Concert.
Alessio Elia, piano
German Première: 11 January 2012. Palais Prinz Carl - Heidelberg.
Alessio Elia, piano
L’ultimo Canto di Saffo (dall'omonima poesia di Giacomo Leopardi)
(The last Song of Sappho - after the Giacomo Leopardi’s poem with the same title)
for: piano
Date of Composition: 2010
Duration: 8'
Première: 25 May 2010. Lindemansalen. Norges Musikkhøgskole (Norwegian Academy of Music). Oslo
Fourth Monographic Concert dedicated to the works of Alessio Elia.
Promoter: Norges Musikkhøgskole (Norwegian Academy of Music). Oslo
Alessio Elia, piano
Italian Première: 27 November 2011. Piano Festival "Eufonia". Rome.
Within the Fifth Portrait Concert.
Alessio Elia, piano
Outrage
Piano etude no. 1
for: piano
Date of Composition: 2007-2009
Duration: 4'
Première: 25 February 2010. Levinsalen, Norwegian Academy of Music, Oslo.
Alessio Elia, piano.
Hungarian Première: 5 September 2010. Promenade at Andrássy út - Stage of the Operaház (Opera House).
Alessio Elia, piano
German Première: 16 October 2011. Mannheimer Kunstverain.
Alessio Elia, piano.
The Temptress - after a Jack Vettriano’s painting with the same title
Piano etude no. 2
for: piano
Date of composition: 2010
Duration: 8'
First Performance: 25 May 2010. Lindemansalen. Norges Musikkhøgskole (Norwegian Academy of Music),
Within the 4th Portrait Concert dedicated to Alessio Elia’s music
Name of the event: "A Seductive Forgetfulness"
Organizer: Norwegian Academy of Music
Alessio Elia, piano
German Première: 16 October 2011. Mannheimer Kunstverain.
Alessio Elia, piano.
Italian Première: 27 November 2011. Piano Festival "Eufonia". Rome. Within the Fifth Portrait concert.
Alessio Elia, piano.
Merging Spaces
Piano etude no. 3
for: piano
Date of composition: 2014
Duration: 3'
Première: 14 September 2014. Festival "Piano surrounding 2014". Düsseldorf.
Jan Gerdes, piano.
Hungarian Première: 15 December 2016. Sala Verdi of the Italian Institute of Culture - Budapest.
Within the "Tenth Portrait Concert- Ten years of musical activity in Hungary" dedicated to Elia's works.
Organizer: Italian Institute of Culture - Budapest
Krisztina Fejes, piano
for: piano
Date of composition: 2025
Duration: 4'
Première: 26 April 2025. Danzi Saal, Musikschule Schwetzingen. Alessio Elia, piano. On the occasion of the celebration for the 65th birthday of the American composer Sidney Corbett.
Written for Sidney Corbett's 65th birthday and dedicated to him.
VIOLIN
Sayings of the Seers
for: violin
Dedicated to Jeanne Lefèvre.
Date of composition: 2014
Duration: 8'
Première: 2 October 2015. Festival Chor.com. Dortmund
Hungarian Première: 15 December 2016. Sala Verdi of the Italian Institute of Culture - Budapest.
Within the "Tenth Portrait Concert- Ten years of musical activity in Hungary" dedicated to Elia's works.
Organizer: Italian Institute of Culture - Budapest
Aaron Berofsky, violin
for: solo violin
Date of composition: 2025
Duration: 8'
Dedicated to Mikola Roman
GUITAR
Extended moment
for: guitar
Commission of Angelo Colone
Date of composition: 2015
Duration: 3'
Caducae resonantiae
for: guitar with scordatura
Date of composition: 2020
Duration: 3'
Written for and dedicated to Katalin Koltai for the Bloomsday in Budapest 2021
Première: 6 February 2022 - The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. Within Ulysses Journery 2022. Katalin Koltai, guitar.
