Luigi Antonio Irlandini
Performances

Concert "Contemporary Music of the 20th Century" as part of the Brazilian Music Festival at Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, on February 11, 2007. The pieces by Irlandini in this program were Agnistoma I, performed by Sarah Fox (soprano), Emma Bonanno, Lucia Alves Melo (recorders), Luigi Antonio Irlandini (didjeridu), and Luna, for mixed choir a cappella (world premiere), performed by the Contemporary Vocal Ensemble, with conductor Carmen Helena Téllez.

"Spiral - Music: a Lecture/Recital with Luigi Antonio Irlandini", at room MU 204, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, on February 8, 2007. In this event, Irlandini's presentation on spirals and its role as a compositional process in his music included his performances of Pralaya, for piano solo, and Pythagoras, for tenor recorder solo.


Concert "Spirals and Movements: Chamber Music of Luigi Antonio Irlandini, Guest Composer", at the Ford Hall, Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University, Bloomington, on February 6, 2007.
Program:
Pralaya
, for piano solo - performed by Luigi Antonio Irlandini
Agnistoma I, for soprano, didjeridu, and two soprano recorders - performed by Sarah Fox (soprano), Luigi Antonio Irlandini (didjeridu), Emma Bonanno, Lucia Alves Melo (recorders)
Agnistoma II, for four recorder players - conducted by Charles Latshaw
Sol das Almas, for guitar solo - performed by Espen Jensen
Pythagoras, for tenor recorder solo - performed by Eva Legêne
Partita, for six recorder players - conducted by Iara Fricke-Matte

Lecture/Recital: Spiral Forms in Music at the Old Little Theater, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, 11 April 2006.
Luigi Antonio Irlandini discusses the spiral as a special form of temporality, and how it determines the passing of time, change and becoming in music, and performs three of his own compositions as examples of spiral forms in music:
Pythagoras, Pralaya, Trail of Tears

Lecture/Recital: Spiral Forms in Music, at the Contemporary Music Program, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 28 April 2006.
Luigi Antonio Irlandini discusses the spiral as a special form of temporality, and how it determines the passing of time, change and becoming in music. Together with special guests Prof. Eva Legene from University of Indiana, Bloomington, and violinists Elena Sopoci and Gail Robertson, Irlandini performs three of his own compositions as examples of spiral forms in music.
Pythagoras, Pralaya, Trail of Tears

New Music Festival XV BIENAL DA MUSICA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORANEA. Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro, 10 November 2005
Sacrifice
(version for two pianos)

Pillow Concert
Santa Fe Waldorf School Great Hall, Santa Fe, N.M., U.S.A., 4 November 2005
Trail of Tears

10th RICE (Rio International Cello Encounter, 2005) , 19 August 2005, Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro, Conductor: David Ashbridge - Soprano: Martha Herr - Cellos: Anatoly Krastev, Armen Ksajikian, Ina-Esther Joost, Lars Hoefs, Maria Alice Brandão, Michael Vollhardt. Minna Rose, and Ricardo Bru.
Sun Door... at World's End

New Music Festival XV BIENAL DA MUSICA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORANEA.
Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro, 15 November 2003, Zdenek Zwab Brass Ensemble
Cromlech

BRISK Recorder Quartet Amsterdam & DUIX Recorder Duo (Kees Boeke Antonio Politano)
"In stile antico e moderno", a concert of 16th-century and contemporary music for recorders
Waalse Kerke, Amsterdam, 28 March 2003
Lutheran Church, Hondstraat, Maastricht, 29 March 2003
Kloveniersdoelen, Achter de Houttuinen, Middelburg, 30 March 2003
Partita

New Music Festival XIV BIENAL DA MUSICA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORANEA.
Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro, 28 October 2001
Cosmologia II

Recital by Eva Legene, recorders
Christ Church, Kagoshima, Japan, April 2001
Pythagoras

UCSB ECM (Ensemble of Contemporary Music of the University of California, Santa Barbara), at the 2000 UCSB CONTEMPORARY MUSIC New Music for a New Century" Lehamn Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, 21 April, 2000
Cosmologia I

Recitals by guitarrist Silvia Cesco, guitar:
1.Theater in der Altstadt, Merano, Italy, 27 May 1999
2. Incontri con la Musica, estate 1999, Tione, Italy, 3 August, 1999
3. Colegio de Escribanos, La Plata, Argentina, 13 August 1999
4. Colegio de Escribanos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 13 August 1999
5. Conservatorio Nacional de Musica, Iuna, Argentina, 19 August 1999
6. Conservatorio Nacional de Musica, Buenos Aires, 19 August 1999
7. Teatro La Scala de San Telmo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 22 August 1999
8. Conservatorio A. Ginastera de Moron, Argentina, 23 August 1999
9. RAI (Radio Diffusione Italiana), Radio Broadcasting: March 2000
10. Theater in der Altstadt, Merano, Italy, 30 March 2000
11. Music at Noon, Center of Performing Arts, Santa Clara University, 19 April 2000
12. Schoenberg Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, 22 April 2000
13. Karl Geiringer Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, 24 April 2000
Sun of Souls

UCSB ECM concert
(Ensemble of Contemporary Music of the University of California, Santa Barbara),
Lehman Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2 March 1999
Agnistoma I

"Contemporary Breakfast", hosted by Brian Brown,
at Radio Station KCSB, Santa Barbara, California,
April 1999. One-hour long interview with Irlandini and broadcasting of his work:
Mojave, Madrigal of fire, Archipelago

UCSB ECM (Ensemble of Contemporary Music of the University of California, Santa Barbara) at the 1998 UCSB CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL,
Lehaman Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1998 - Archipelago

"MUSIC OF LUIGI ANTONIO IRLANDINI - MUSICAL COSMOLOGIES, Part II", monographic recital.
Karl Geiringer Hall, Music Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, 10 May 1998 Archipelago - The Age of Iron - Pythagoras (computer music, withdrawn composition) -
Sacrifice (4-hand piano version)

"MUSIC OF LUIGI ANTONIO IRLANDINI - MUSICAL COSMOLOGIES, Part I", monographic recital.
St. Anthony's Seminary Chapel, Santa Barbara, California, 3 May 1998
Vox clamans in deserto (first performance of the horn version) - Cosmologia II -
Agnistoma I -
Marriage of heaven and earth (first performance of the definitive version)

Ensemble "The Running Quartet", (recorders) recital at the Festival SIMBOLI E ALLEGORIE DEL SACRO NELLA MUSICA STRUMENTALE ANTICA E CONTEMPORANEA, of Musica Reservata Association, Vicenza and Varese, Italy, March 1998
Agnistoma II

New Music Festival XII BIENAL DE MUSICA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORANEA, Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro, October 1997
Marriage of heaven and earth (first performance of the second version for chamber orchestra)

Recital: Thomas Piercy, clarinet, New York City 1997-8 concert season
Vox clamans in deserto (first performance of the bass clarinet version)

UCSB ECM (Ensemble of Contemporary Music of the University of California, Santa Barbara) at the1997 UCSB CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL,
Lehman Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1997
Madrigal of fire

UCSB ECM (Ensemble of Contemporary Music of the University of California, Santa Barbara) at the 1996 UCSB CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL,
Lehamn Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1996
De natura

Nine concerts of the ensemble UC Davis Contemporary Music Players during their tour at all campuses of the University of California (Davis, Berkeley, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara, RiversideLos Angeles, Irvine, San Diego), and Stanford University, October 1995
Mojave

UCSB ECM (Ensemble of Contemporary Music of the University of California, Santa Barbara) at the UCSB CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FESTIVAL,
Karl Geiringer Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1995 -
Marriage of heaven and earth (first performance of the original version)

New Music Festival IX BIENAL DE MUSICA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORANEA, Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro, October 1991
Archipelago

"MUSIC OF LUIGI ANTONIO IRLANDINI", monographic recital.
Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts, November 1990
The Age of Iron - Mojave - "…nature loves to hide…" - Archipelago

Gruppo Octandre concert.
Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena, Italy, August 1990
Archipelago

New Music festival VIII BIENAL DE MUSICA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORANEA
Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro, November 1989
De natura

New Music festival VII BIENAL DE MUSICA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORANEA .
Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro, November 1987
Four Scenes From "The Gaze of Orpheus"

"MUSICA DE LUIGI ANTONIO IRLANDINI", monographic recital.
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, August 1986
The Age of Iron - Numen (under the original title MUSICA ANTIGA)

New Music Festival CICLO DE MUSICA CONTEMPORANEA DE BELO HORIZONTE, Teatro Ceschiatti, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, June 1986
The Age of Iron

New Music Festival VI BIENAL DA MUSICA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORANEA.
Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro, November, 1985
The Age of Iron

Ensemble NAGUAL, co-founded by Irlandini: concert with pieces by John Cage, Oscar Bazan, and Irlandini.
Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, February 1985
The Age of Iron

Festival II MOSTRA DOS NOVOS COMPOSITORES E INTERPRETES
Sala Funarte Sidney Miller, Rio de Janeiro, June 1984
Vox clamans in deserto (first performance of the tenor saxophone version).

New Music festival V BIENAL DE MUSICA BRASILEIRA CONTEMPORANEA
Sala Cecilia Meirelles, Rio de Janeiro, 5 November 1983
Fragments

Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini, Florence, Italy, 27 May 1983
Fragments

 

 

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