Riccardo Massari Spiritini (Verona - 1966) works as a musician and composer. His work is often related with the other arts. Many of his last works for different instruments are presented together with projected images, light and objects. He often works as a performer with piano and electronic means and as a creator of sound installations.
As a composer and/or performer he participated to : Festival de Música 2004 at Metrònom (Fundació Rafael Tous, Barcelona) Taktlos (Bern, Zurich), Angelica (Bologna, Itàlia), Big Torino Biennale Arte (Turin, Itàlia), Rumori Festival (Amsterdam), Terza Prattica (Amsterdam), Variazioni di Pressione (Verona, Itàlia), Bit Shift (Ljubljana, Galeria Kapelika, Slovenia), Painting Music (Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum), Lloc de Pas (MACBA, Barcelona), Festival Nueva Música (Ciudad de Mexico), Avuimúsica (Barcelona), Festival do Novas Musicas (Guarda, Portugal).
His compositions have been premiered worldwide by: per Jean Pierre Dupuy, Marcel Warm, Ric Sims, Cristin Wilbolz, Adriano Ambrosini, Saverio Tasca, Royal Ensemble, Trio Kandinsky, Fernando Dominguez (Ensemble Tres), Ensemble Barcelona Nova Música...
Spiritini also performed with Andrea Centazzo, John Russel, Butch Morris, Maarten Altena, Steve Heather, Peter Horowiz, Anne la Berge, Richard Barret, Cor Fuhler, Myra Melford, Daní Kouiaté, Zeena Parkins, Luisiana Red, Cleo Palacio, Marko Ciciliani, Xu Fengxia, Christaan de Jong, Harry Sparnaay, Wiek Hijmans, Luc Houtkamp, Gert Jan Prins, Cor Fuhler and many, many others.
He published some of his works with: Bérben (Italy), JDK-Creamgarden (Holland), Subliminaltape Club (Belgium), and Ars Harmonica (Spain).
ACTIVITIES
2008...
Premiere of the new version of CADENZE OBLIQUE at Foundation March, Amsterdam, pianist-performer: Sonsoles Alonso www.sonsolesalonso.com
2007
- Premiere of the new version of CADENZE OBLIQUE at Tag&Dance (29 december in Verona , Italy) in an extended full-concert version.
- Performance of the new transmedial project MUS IN PICE of the OBLI:K art-group (Spiritini, Juncà, Vilapuig) involving light-sculpture projection, multi-channel sound composition, and performance.
- Solo performance in Madrid at the Esperimentalclub Festival 2006
- The piece EPLUCARAS OREGA for Contrabass and electronic commisioned by Cristin WIldbolz has been published on a DVD intitled Collaboration. After premiere in Holland, it has been performed in Europe and Japan.
2006
– composition and preparation of Novecento, a theatre piece with the ONC, (Orquesta Nacional Caducada, indipendent theatre company with the Argentinian actor Horacio Ladron de Guevara, based in Barcelona) inspired by a monologue by Alessandro Baricco.
Premiere of the work at Teatre L'Estruch in Sabadell (Spain). Other dates in Spain programmed for 2008.
- Solo electronic performance in Madrid at the Esperimentalclub Festival (October 2006).
- The piece Eplucaras Orega for Contrabass and electronic commisioned by Cristin WIldbolz has been published on a DVD intitled Collaboration. After premiere in Holland, it has been performed in Europe and Japan.
– Acustic-Observatory : a one year project in Fort Pienc, Barcelona, dealing with enviromental sound, social observation and sound-installation development (in collaboration with the Ajuntament de Barcelona).
2005
- Performance of Tiro al Fantoccio at the LOGOS FOUNDATION in Gent (Belgium), in a
special transcription for automata orchestra.
2004-2005. The multimedial work Tiro al Fantoccio (performance, elettronica, piano
Disklavier and videoprojection), created in collaboration with Oriol Vilapuig and Mim Juncá,
has been succesfully premiered at Metrònom in Barcellona (festival: Musica a Mertonom, 13-17 january 2004).
The same work was programmed as an opening for the European Short Film Festival in Reus 2004. (Reus, Spain) and in may 2005 in the University of Valencia (Spain). The show has been broadcast by Radio Nacional España.
The sound-installation and/or musical instrument ESCALARPA has been exposed for six months at the MAS (Museu d’Art de Sabadell, febr.-july 2004) and in Museu Can Palauet
in Matarò (nov 2004 - febr. 2005). Collaboration with Alex Schaub’s Sonickitchen (www.sonickitchen.org), lectures and performances.
2003.
The piece Where the dead men lost their bones for Disklavier (a piece of the work Il Sogno ed il Martello) got the honorable mention at the “Concorso Internazionale di Composizione G.F.Malipiero” (Treviso, Italy).
The piece Movimento Infinito (Piano, Perc. ed electronics, 18’50’’), comissioned by the
Conservatorio Statale di Musica “E.F. Dall’Abaco” in Verona (Italy), has been premiered
succesfully in the same conservatory the 11 july 2003.
2002.
The work Nous esdeveniments, nous desastres (Diptic: Ka - Els Dies i Les Nits cat.) is a double composition in conjunction with a serie of picture of the catalan painter Oriol Vilapuig. This work was premiered in the “V Cicle Internacional d'Influències Musicals” at the CCCB (Centro de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona) and in the Netherlands at the Stedelijk Museum of Amsterdam (in collaboration with Gaudeamus. febr.2002) . The work Altri Oggetti smarriti for bass Clarinet and electronics got premiered on 30-5-2002 at Metrònom (Barcelona), in a concert organized by Phonos in collaboration with Gaudeamus Fondation (Amsterdam). Clarinet by H.Sparnaay.
The poetic work Ti ho incontrata a Barracão.Requiem Povero has been premiered in Lisboa (ZDB Gallery) with the voice of Américo Rodrigues and the live electronics and the minimal instrumentation played by the author.
2001.
Concerts and workshops of composition and improvvisation with electronics at the Festival do Novas Musicas (Guarda, Portugal). The mexican group ENSEMBLE 3 plays Concertino per l’Ensemble 3 in Mexico City.
Live Electronics and Turntablism.
2002. Spiritini played in Bologna at ANGELICA Festival with the trio
called Speechwater (Spiritini, live electronic - Cristin Wilbolz,
contrabas - Hester Boverhous, voice) . He also played at BIG TORINO
- Biennale Arti Giovani in a group of six musicians coordinated by Christian Marclay.June 2002. Concerts and workshops of composition and improvvisation with electronics in Zagreb and Lubijana (BIT SHIFT Fest, Galerija Kapelika), radio transmission and interview about Turnaroundthetable and Nous esdeveniments, nous desastres. During the spring 2002 the “Trio Oggetti Smarriti” (Luc Houtkamp-sax, Wiek Hijmans-el.guitar, R.M.Spiritini-turntables, elettronics, theremin, computer) performed in Rotterdam (Worm), Breda (Blue Loft), etc.
He participated at TAKTLOS Festival 2001 in Basel and Zürich (Switzerland), and at ANGELICA (Bologna 2002) with Speechwater (Wildbolz, Spiritini and Boverhuis).
2000. He performed with Maarten Altena Ensemble, in the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, works by Maarten Altena; and also in the Terza Prattica Festival of Amsterdam, in a duo with Cor Fuhler.
Not to forget his duo with John Russell (guitar), and his solo performance in an evening with Frances-Marie Uitti and Stephen Vitiello at STEIM , Amsterdam.
Spiritini also performed with Andrea Centazzo, Zeno de Rossi, Butch Morris, Steve Heather, Peter Horowiz, Anne la Berge, Richard Barret, Cor Fuhler, Myra Melford, Daní Kouiaté, Zeena Parkins, Luisiana Red, Cleo Palacio, Marko Ciciliani, Xu Fengxia, Christaan de Jong, Harry Sparnaay, Wiek Hijmans, Luc Houtkamp, Gert Jan Prins, Cor Fuhler and many, many others.
Spiritini's visual work Phísique du Role II has been on exposition MUSICA E NO together with works by Joan Brossa, Enrico Baj, Philip Corner, Giuseppe Chiari, Sarenco, William Xerra and other important international artists in Santa Maria della Scala in Siena and in the Palazzo Ducale di
Mantova.
STUDIES
Riccardo Massari Spiritini (1966, Verona Italy) studied architecture in Venice, Piano and Composition at the Conservatory of Verona (Italy).
He studied Sonology at the Koninklijk Conservatorium of The Hague (Holland),
as a student of Clarence Barlow, Richard Barret, Paul Berg, Joel Ryan and Konrad Boehmer.
He obtained his composition diploma (Bachelor of Music) in 1999, and the second phase (Master of Music) in 2000, studying with Clarence Barlow, Martijn Padding and Giulius van Berglijk also at the Koninklijk Conservatorium of The Hague.
He has attended composition masterclasses with:
Louis Andriessen, György Ligeti,
Alessandro Solbiati, Walter Zimmerman, György Kurtag and Frank Piquet.