ALDO BRIZZI

Aldo Brizzi, was born in Italy in 1960. Graduated at the Bologna University. Composition with Aldo Clementi, Brian Ferneyhough, Niccolò Castiglioni. He studied also with Sergiu Celibidache, Pierre Boulez, Leonard Bernstein.

Prize “Venezia Opera Prima” - Venice 1981, “European Year of the Music 1985” – Paris, Cologne, Venice, “Franco Evangelisti 1986”- Rome, “Junge Komponisten Forum 1989” – Cologne.

Works commissioned by Hugo-Wolf-Akademie, Stuttgart; Orchestra Jazz-Sinfonica São Paulo-Brazil; Antasten Festival Heilbronn; Cesem, Lisbon; Gulbenkian Foundation; Istituto Svizzero, Roma; French Ministery for Culture; Radio France; SACEM; Festival 38e Rugissants of Grenoble, Donaueschinger Musiktage; Royaumont Foundation; ASAFRA Paris; Town of Bielefeld .

His music is played, among others, by the strings of the Berlin Philharmonic, the European Union Youth Orchestra, Bamberger Symphoniker, Baden-Baden Radiosymfonieorkester, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Arditti String Quartet, etc.

He has consulted and worked with Ennio Morricone and Giacinto Scelsi.

He conducted works by Giacinto Scelsi recorded for Salabert/Harmonia Mundi (“Superchoc de Le Monde de la Musique 1990”) e INA/mémoire vive (“Diapason d’or 1993”).