Caterina Calderoni

for violin, cello, and piano

I happen to visualize sounds as a color spread by means of broad brushstrokes over the timeline. Its shade, although apparently even, discloses ripplings, thickenings, and nuances that make it restless and sometimes violent, like the blue of deep waters or moonless nights.

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Caterina Calderoni

for flute, B-flat clarinet, violin, cello, and piano

ca. 8'00"

The formal structure of this work follows a spiral scheme based on a sequence of four sonic states (A: resonance – B: thickening – C: shattering – D: echo) that recurs four times, each time in a wider span of time. Moments of suspension (Tempo sospeso) frame and break in this cyclic process in order to reveal the sonic substance from which the spiral originates. Just like the shape of a shell (murex), the spiral suggests an endless process “towards infinity.”

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Born in Ravenna (Italy) in 1963, Caterina Calderoni received her degree in Piano under the guidance of the Argentinian pianist Daniel Rivera and Composition with the Italian composer Bruno Bettinelli. Afterwards she mastered composition with composer Franco Donatoni. Winner of the first prize of the 1st Composition Contest for Film Music chaired by Ennio Morricone at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, she has composed soundtracks for TV documentaries and worked at multimedial and visual art projects along with contemporary artists, providing sound concepts to performances, art works, and exibitions.

From 1988 through 1999 she worked on the editorial staff of Casa Ricordi, Milan. She was then commissioned to create a piano reduction of scores from the classical and contemporary operatic repertoire, orchestral arrangements, and compositional textbooks.

In October 2010 she was professor in residence at UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) and in April 2011 she was invited to be a guest composer at the Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts (State University of New Jersey).

Since 1999 she has been Professor in Composition at State Conservatories in Italy; in the last two decades she has also been teaching film scoring. At present she is Professor in Composition and Film scoring at the Conservatory “G. Verdi” in Milan, Italy.

Some of her scores and textbooks have been released by Ricordi, Bèrben, Rugginenti, Ut Orpheus, Sconfinarte, and I Resound Press. As a pianist, she has devoted herself to the Lieder literature of the XIX century. She lives in Milan.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5rbsXOUyNE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhTJx_KRjC4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9B5fxDP_JU

http://www.cidim.it/cidim/content/314619?db=bdci&id=249358&nc=Caterina_Calderoni

Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto, Italy