updated 19 February 2024

Aureliano Cattaneo

Italian composer born 1 January 1974 in Codogno.

Aureliano Cattaneo was born in Codogno (Lodi, Italy) in 1974. He studied piano with Vincenzo Balzani and composition with Carlo Alessandro Landini, Pippo Molino, and Sonia Bo at the Conservatories of Piacenza and Milan. He has also taken master classes in composition with Gérard Grisey and Mauricio Sotelo. He has written many chamber music pieces and works for orchestra; after a first dramatic work based on a text by Edoardo Sanguineti titled Minotaurus, Dreaming for soprano, counter tenor, and ensemble (2002), he and Sanguineti collaborated on a chamber opera entitled La philosophie dans le labyrinthe, which premiered in 2006 at the Munich Biennale. Cattaneo is also a co-founder of the ContemporaneaMente festival in Lodi.

Cattaneo has received many commissions, including from Klangforum Wien, the Ensemble intercontemporain, the Munich Biennale, the Berlin Konzerthaus, the IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Radio France’s Festival Présences, the Festival Musica in Strasbourg, the French and Spanish Ministries of Culture, Netzzeit, the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, the Berlin MärzMusik festival, the Berlin Akademie der Künste, Ensemble Musikfabrik, and Ensemble Contrechamps.

His pieces have been played in venues and festivals such as the Venice Biennale, the Munich Biennale, Warsaw Autumn, the Berlin Kontzerthaus, Musica Viva in Munich, the Gaudeamus Musiekweek in Amsterdam, the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Musica de Strasbourg festival, the Milano Musica festival, the Wien Modern festival in Vienna, the Salzburg Biennale, the Donaueschingen Festival, the Auditorio Nacional de Música in Madrid, and Festival Présences in Paris.

His work has been performed by the SWR Sinfonieorchester of Baden-Baden and Friburg, the Berlin Konzerthausorchester, the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Quatuor Diotima, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, Trio Accanto, the Ensemble Contrechamps, 2e2m, the Schola Heidelberg, Chorwerk Ruhr, Percussions de Strasbourg, the Mosaik ensemble, Trio Arbos, the Ensemble Divertimento and the Espai Sonor Ensemble.

Aureliano Cattaneo lives in Spain, and since 2010, has taught at ESMUC (Escuela Superior de Musica de Catalogne) in Barcelona. His works are published by Editions Suvini Zerboni in Milan.

  • 2001: First prize in the 4th Manuel Valcárcel International Piano Composition Competition (Botín de Santander Foundation) for Klangregie, selected for the 14th Boswil International International Composition Symposium (Switzerland)
  • 2003: Selected by the Comite de Lecture of the IRCAM/Ensemble InterContemporain
  • 2004: finalist in the “Gaudeamus Music Week” (Amsterdam)
  • 2005: fellowship from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin.
  • 2006-2007: composer-in-residence with the 2e2m ensemble
  • 2013: Musikpreis Salzburg

© Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2019

Sources

Éditions Musicales Européennes, site personnel du compositeur (voir ressources).

  • Solo (excluding voice)
    • Klangerie (2000-2001), 12 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • Souvenir d'égotisme III for accordion (2003), 8 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • Visible for solo piccolo (2002-2003), 6 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Xenia for solo piano (2003), 2 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • Aria variata variation on J. S. Bach's Aria variata all'Italiana (2005), 60 s, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • elec ircam Corda for piano and electronics (2015-2016), 15 mn [program note]
    • Clarpa for solo harp (2022), 8 mn about , Suvini Zerboni
  • Chamber music
    • Increasing shape for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1996-1997), partition retirée du catalogue
    • Poisson soluble for seven instruments (1999), 11 mn, partition retirée du catalogue
    • El cielo canta en azul for clarinet, percussion, piano, violin and cello (2000), partition retirée du catalogue
    • Fleurs, racines et cimes (2001), 10 mn, partition retirée du catalogue
    • Tele for accordion and piano (2002), 7 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • Trio for accordion, violin and cello (2001-2002), 16 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Trio II for violin, cello and piano (2003), 18 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Seeds for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2004), 11 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • elec Trio III for string trio and electronics (2005), 10 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Trio IV for clarinet, cello and piano (2006), 17 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Suite frammentata from philosophy in the labyrinth, for baroque flute, accordion and tack piano (2007), 6 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Liquido for string quartet (2008-2010), 22 mn
    • Trio V for saxophone, percussion and piano (2010), 14 mn
    • Insieme for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano (2015), 16 mn
    • Neben for string quartet (2016), 11 mn
    • Rito for violin, cello and piano (2017), 7 mn
    • Next, Then for flute, alto saxophone, percussion and piano (2017-2018), 15 mn, Suvini Zerboni
  • Instrumental ensemble music
  • Concertant music
    • Concertino for trombone and amplified ensemble (2001), 12 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • Violinkonzert for violin and orchestra (2006-2008), 23 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • Blut for trio and orchestra (2011-2012), 19 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Violinkonzert version for violin and ensemble (2006-2013), 23 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Estroso for violin, sopranino recorder and baroque orchestra (2018), 4 mn about , Suvini Zerboni
    • Not Alone We Fly for violin and orchestra (2021-2023), 25 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • elec ircam inside for double bass, ensemble and electronics (2024), 35 mn about , Suvini Zerboni [program note]
  • Vocal music and instrument(s)
  • A cappella vocal music
    • Mare Aperto for five voices (2022), 15 mn, Suvini Zerboni
  • Unspecified instrumentation
    • Ossido for six percussions (2014), 19 mn, Suvini Zerboni
  • 2024
    • elec ircam inside for double bass, ensemble and electronics, 35 mn about , Suvini Zerboni [program note]
  • 2023
  • 2022
    • Clarpa for solo harp, 8 mn about , Suvini Zerboni
    • Mare Aperto for five voices, 15 mn, Suvini Zerboni
  • 2020
    • Arco for baroque and modern instruments, 20 mn about , Suvini Zerboni
    • La Nuit Sombre for two sopranos and instruments in space, 22 mn about , Suvini Zerboni
  • 2019
  • 2018
    • Deserti for ensemble, 22 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Estroso for violin, sopranino recorder and baroque orchestra, 4 mn about , Suvini Zerboni
    • Next, Then for flute, alto saxophone, percussion and piano, 15 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Weg for soprano and cello, 10 mn about , Suvini Zerboni
  • 2017
  • 2016
  • 2015
    • Insieme for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello and piano, 16 mn
    • Resto for orchestra, 17 mn
  • 2014
    • Double for ensemble, 18 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Ossido for six percussions, 19 mn, Suvini Zerboni
  • 2013
  • 2012
  • 2011
    • Canto for saxophone, trombone, percussion, piano, violin and cello, 12 mn, Suvini Zerboni
  • 2010
  • 2009
    • Brother for choir and six percussions, 10 mn
  • 2008
    • Sabbia for 11 instrumentalists, 14 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Violinkonzert for violin and orchestra, 23 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
  • 2007
    • Dialoghi for soprano and accordion, 19 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • Suite frammentata from philosophy in the labyrinth, for baroque flute, accordion and tack piano, 6 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Trazos for soprano and ensemble, 32 mn, Suvini Zerboni
  • 2006
    • Trio IV for clarinet, cello and piano, 17 mn, Suvini Zerboni
  • 2005
  • 2004
    • Canzoni for four voices and four instruments, 20 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Seeds for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, 11 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
  • 2003
    • Souvenir d'égotisme III for accordion, 8 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • Trio II for violin, cello and piano, 18 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Visible for solo piccolo, 6 mn, Suvini Zerboni
    • Xenia for solo piano, 2 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
  • 2002
    • Minotaurus, Dreaming for soprano, haute-contre, and two groups of instruments, 25 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • Tele for accordion and piano, 7 mn, Editions Musicales Européennes
    • Trio for accordion, violin and cello, 16 mn, Suvini Zerboni
  • 2001
  • 2000
  • 1999
  • 1997
    • Increasing shape for flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano, partition retirée du catalogue

Discographie

  • Aureliano CATTANEO, Resto, WDR Sinfonie Orchester, Emilio Pomarico, direction, dans « Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2016 », 2 CD Kulturforum Witten, 2016, WD 2016.
  • Aureliano CATTANEO, Trazos - Trio - Concertino, Petra Hoffmann, soprano, Carlos Gill, trombone, Ensemble Espai Sonor, direction Voro Garcia, 1 CD Stradivarius, 2011, STR 33893.
  • Aureliano CATTANEO, Concertino per trombone ed ensemble, Andreas Eberle, trombone, ensemble Klangforum, direction Ed Spanjaard, 1 CD collectif, « 14. Internationales Kompositionsseminar Boswil », 2001, TA 9620.

Liens Internet

(liens vérifiés en janvier 2024).