Gervasoni's works on this album explore themes like global warming and biodiversity loss through construction techniques such as discontinuous form, superposition, and polystylism.
Compositional Technique
A core idea in Gervasoni's works is that a musical score can be seen as an "environment" populated by "sound objects" that are tested in new contexts, reflecting migration and cohabitation.
Performer Biography
Sandro Gorli founded the Divertimento Ensemble in 1977 and still conducts it, dedicating its activities to the diffusion of contemporary music.
Compositional Technique
Gervasoni employs a "virtuous recycling" approach, using fragments and "waste products" from his earlier works to build new compositions, similar to botanical grafting.
Performer Biography
Corrado Colliard, the trombone soloist, has won multiple national and international competitions and is often invited to perform Luciano Berio's "Sequenza V."
Composer's Artistic Vision
Composer Stefano Gervasoni's compositional approach from 2009 to 2015 was based on "ecological" research criteria, exploring themes related to the environment.
Performer Biography
Aleksandra Dzenisenia, the cimbalom soloist, won first prize at the Moscow International Musical Competition as a first-year student and has performed with the Berlin Philharmonic.
