WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
Recorded on October 6, 2018 at SPE Cultural Association Dello Scompiglio, Vorno - Lucca - Italy
Mastering by Luca Burocchi - Studio Teclas https://teclasmusic.wordpress.com
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In 2018, the great English composer Gavin Bryars dedicated Extra Time to Antonio Caggiano & Sergio Sorrentino. They performed the piece in its world première at SPE Cultural Association Dello Scompiglio
Vorno - Lucca - Italy on October 6, 2018 in the presence of the composer. Here is the live recording of the World Premiere
BIO - Antonio Caggiano
Trained as a percussionist at the Conservatory of L’Aquila and as a composer at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome, in 1987 Antonio Caggiano founded the Ensemble Ars Ludi with G. Ruggeri, with whom he participated in major festivals and national and international exhibitions, developing relationships with contemporary composers such as S. Reich, G. Battistelli, A. Pärt, G. Bryars. Active in the major Italian lyric-symphonic institutions, he has collaborated with important conductors such as L. Bernstein, G. Sinopoli, L. Maazel, D. Gatti, W. Sawallisch, M.W. Chung.
He has worked with international composers of different generations, contributing to the creation of a new repertoire for percussion.
He performs with prestigious ensembles as a soloist and teaches percussion at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome. He writes music for theater and dance and frequently collaborates with visual artists.
He has held courses at the Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte in Montepulciano, at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, and seminars and workshops in various parts of the world.
He holds the first course in percussion at the Accademia Chigiana since 2015.
BIO - Sergio Sorrentino
"A Superb Musician" (The Wire)
As a performer he promotes the classical guitar and electric guitar contemporary repertory. As a composer and improviser his music is based on sonic research and combines elements of contemporary classical music, minimalism, avant- garde, ambient, experimental. His CD Dream -
American Music for Electric Guitar (Mode Records) was reviewed and highlighted in the New York Times by Seth Colter Walls as one of the "Week’s Best Classical Music Moments”. Philip Glass published on December 2020 Sergio Sorrentino's video performance of "Orphée's Bedroom" on his official channels for the #glassminutes series. Orange Mountain Music released "Orphée's Bedroom" Single on all digital platforms on January 2021; the Single is earning a great success. Sergio plays with the great Gavin Bryars ("Sergio Sorrentino has performed many of my works for guitar, and also my ensemble pieces that include the guitar and I have the greatest admiration for his work in this respect") as a member of the Gavin Bryars Italian Ensemble and he plays live and in studio with Elliott Sharp and John King. He has worked with important composers and musicians like Alvin Curran, John Russell, Machinefabriek, David Lang, Steven Mackey, Usui Yasuhiro, Scott Fields, Tim Brady, Paul Lansky and many others. As a soloist, Sergio Sorrentino started his international concert career very early and has held solo concerts and master classes in many important festivals and venues (like Yale University, Sprague Hall in New Haven, Spectrum in New York, Festival de Música Contemporánea de La Habana in Casa de Las Américas, Cuba, Italian Cultural Institute of Paris, Sala Biala of the Wilanow Museum (Warsaw, Poland), International Guitar Research Conference/University of Surrey (UK), Vortex in London, Performance Room of Luxembourg, Filharmonia Gorzowska Concert Hall, ON Cologne Neue Musik Festival, In Situ Art Society in Bonn, Spektrum in Berlin, Nuova Consonanza Festival in Rome, Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, AngelicA Festival of Bologna, etc.).
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released October 29, 2021
ANTONIO CAGGIANO, vibraphone
SERGIO SORRENTINO, electric guitar
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
Recorded on October 6, 2018 at SPE Cultural Association Dello Scompiglio, Vorno - Lucca - Italy
Mastering by Luca Burocchi - Studio Teclas teclasmusic.wordpress.com
A new Duo devoted to contemporary classical music. Gavin Bryars and Alvin Curran (among others) have written new works for
Antonio & Sergio. Antonio is one of the greatest percussionist of his generation (also Teacher at Chigiana Academy and Santa Cecilia) and Sergio is one of the well known electric and contemporary classical guitarists (he collaborated also with Philip Glass and Elliott Sharp)...more
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