Gabriele Manca's current compositional approach avoids causal relationships and dialectical structures, focusing instead on a 'dilatation that seeks to reduce the structure into a constant flow' or a 'contraction that seeks to ignore time itself'.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gabriele Manca's compositions on this album explore the concept of time, with some pieces expanding greatly and others contracting to extreme brevity.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Gabriele Manca's music is often accompanied by literary influences, which he describes as a 'talisman' or 'Linus blanket', though not in a programmatic way.
Composer Biography
In 2000, Gabriele Manca received a Japan Foundation Uchida Fellowship to study the music of Noh Theatre at Toho Gakuen University.
Composer Biography
Gabriele Manca, the composer, studied piano with Bruno Canino and composition with Giacomo Manzoni at the Milan Conservatory.
Performer Biography
Divertimento Ensemble, founded in 1977 by internationally renowned soloists and directed by Sandro Gorli, has performed over 1500 concerts and released 20 CDs.
Performer Biography
Maria Grazia Bellocchio, the pianist, is a professor of piano and teaches on the Masters course in Contemporary Piano at the Conservatory in Bergamo.
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