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Francesca Verunelli
Italian composer born 24 April 1979 in Pietrasanta (Tuscany).
Francesca Verunelli studied composition with Rosario Mirigliano and piano with Stefano Fiuzzi at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, graduating summa cum laude. She undertook further studies with Azio Corghi at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome. In 2008, she participated in the IRCAM Cursus (IRCAM’s composition and computer music course), and the same year, was awarded a Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale.
During a research residency at IRCAM in 2011-2012, she was commissioned to compose Unfolding for string quartet and electronics. The piece was premiered by the Arditti Quartet at the Lyon Musiques en Scene Biennale in March 2012, and subsequently performed at the ManiFeste Festival the same year.
She has received commissions from IRCAM, NeueVocalsolisten Stuttgart, Venice Biennale, Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra, Milano Musica, Accentus Chamber Choir, Lucerne Symphony Orchestra, Court-Circuit, Aix-en-Provence Festival, GMEM (Marseille), CIRM (Nice), French Ministry for Culture, FACE Foundation, Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, International Contemporary Ensemble, Donaueschinger MusikTage, ECLAT, Luxembourg Philharmonic Orchestra, Klangforum Wien, and Musica Viva (Munich).
She has been composer-in-residence at GMEM in Marseille, Casa de Velasquez, and the Villa Medici. In the summer of 2021, she was composer-in-residence at the Luberon Quartet Festival, where the Zaïde Quartet premiered her piece, Unfolding II. She was awarded the 41st “Premio Abbiati della critica” in May 2022.
The 2024 Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik is centered on her music.
© Ircam-Centre Pompidou, 2015
- Solo (excluding voice)
- Piano (without the man) sitting for pianist (2017)
- Ultimi Fiori for cello (2017)
- Chamber music
- elec ircam Unfolding for string quartet and electronics (2011-2012), 20 mn, Ricordi [program note]
- Cinemaolio for flute, clarinet, piano and string trio (2014-2015) [program note]
- Secondo Quartetto for string quartet (2015-2016)
- Man sitting at the piano I for flute and pianist (e.g. Disklavier) (2017)
- Flowers#3 (dripping) for string quartet (2017-2018)
- Man sitting at the piano II for bass flute and pianist (2019)
- Unfolding II for string quartet (2021), 20 mn, Ricordi
- elec ircam In bianco e nero for five-string double bass, accordion and live electronics (2022), 15 mn, Ricordi [program note]
- In My Beginning Is My End (ma fin est mon commencement) for four baritone saxophones (2022), 10 mn, Ricordi
- Instrumental ensemble music
- The Narrow corner for orchestra (2014)
- Déshabillage impossible for ensemble (2015-2016)
- elec Five songs (Kafka's sirens) for ensemble and electronics (2016), 21 mn [program note]
- Tune and Retune for large orchestra (2017-2018)
- Tune and retune II for orchestra (2020), 18 mn, Ricordi
- In margine for string orchestra (2022), 15 mn, Ricordi
- Concertant music
- Accord, chord and tune for accordion and orchestra (2021), 20 mn, Ricordi
- Vocal music and instrument(s)
- elec Songs and voices for six singers, ten players and electronics (2023), 1 h 10 mn, Ricordi [program note]
- elec ircam Songs & Voices for 6 voices, 10 instruments and electronics (2023-2024), 1 h 10 mn
- 2024
- elec ircam Songs & Voices for 6 voices, 10 instruments and electronics, 1 h 10 mn
- 2023
- elec Songs and voices for six singers, ten players and electronics, 1 h 10 mn, Ricordi [program note]
- 2022
- In My Beginning Is My End (ma fin est mon commencement) for four baritone saxophones, 10 mn, Ricordi
- elec ircam In bianco e nero for five-string double bass, accordion and live electronics, 15 mn, Ricordi [program note]
- In margine for string orchestra, 15 mn, Ricordi
- 2021
- Accord, chord and tune for accordion and orchestra, 20 mn, Ricordi
- Unfolding II for string quartet, 20 mn, Ricordi
- 2020
- Tune and retune II for orchestra, 18 mn, Ricordi
- 2019
- Man sitting at the piano II for bass flute and pianist
- 2018
- Flowers#3 (dripping) for string quartet
- Tune and Retune for large orchestra
- 2017
- Man sitting at the piano I for flute and pianist (e.g. Disklavier)
- Piano (without the man) sitting for pianist
- Ultimi Fiori for cello
- 2016
- Déshabillage impossible for ensemble
- elec Five songs (Kafka's sirens) for ensemble and electronics, 21 mn [program note]
- Secondo Quartetto for string quartet
- 2015
- Cinemaolio for flute, clarinet, piano and string trio [program note]
- 2014
- The Narrow corner for orchestra
- 2012
- elec ircam Unfolding for string quartet and electronics, 20 mn, Ricordi [program note]
Liens Internet
- Site de la compositrice, www.francescaverunelli.com
- Site de l’éditeur, www.ricordi.com
- The Narrow Corner dans l’émission Création mondiale d’Anne Montaron sur France Musique, le 13 mars 2016.
- « Dialogue Philippe Manoury / Francesca Verunelli », entretien de 2012 à écouter sur le site du Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine.
(liens vérifiés en février 2024).
Discographie
- Francesca VERUNELLI, The famous box trick, Claire Chase : flûte, dans « Density 2036 », 4 CD Corbett vs. Dempsey, 2020, CvsD CD076.