Osvaldo Coluccino
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Osvaldo Coluccino (born Domodossola, 22 April 1963) is an Italian composer and poet.
His music has been performed in some of the major festivals of classical and contemporary classical music, by prestigious soloistes, conductors, orchestras and ensembles such as Ensemble Recherche, Nieuw Ensemble and Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, and has been broadcast by national radio stations such as SWR, Radio France France Musique, ORF, Rai Radio 3, BR-Klassik, Kulturradio RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg), Concertzender, RTBF Musiq 3, Klara, Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep VRT, RTP Rádio e Televisão de Portugal Antena 2. He has received commissions by Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Biennale di Venezia, Milano Musica – Teatro alla Scala, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Transit Festival Leuven, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent, Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles and others. Some of the major labels for contemporary classical music (Kairos, Neos, Col legno, Stradivarius, Another Timbre...) have released some monographic discs, while some scores are published by RAI Trade editions. It was the music historian Luigi Pestalozza who discovered him as a composer, and the musicologists who wrote about him include, in Italy, Angela Ida De Benedictis (in Edizioni del Teatro alla Scala), Angelo Foletto (Repubblica), Mario Gamba (Il Manifesto), Mario Messinis (Il Gazzettino), Paolo Petazzi (Classic Voice and Takte-Bärenreiter), in Europe Reinhard Ermen (on MusikTexte, Cologne), Pierre Rigaudière (Diapason, Paris), Liam Cagney (Gramophone, London), Dirk Wieschollek (NMZ, Hamburg), Daniel Ender (ÖMZ, Vienna)…
He has been engaged in an intense poetry activity from 1986 to 2003. Discovered by Stefano Agosti, one of the most eminent literary critics of the twentieth century in Italy, his poems and prose have been published in monographic books, prestigious literary magazines such as Il Verri and anthologies. He has also published artist books consisting of his poems and original works of art by renowned artists (see below in “Poetry”).
Discography
- Quale velo (2001), in [“various composers”] Crossroads, Monesis Ensemble, conductor Flavio Emilio Scogna, VDM, Rome 2008
- Voce d’orlo (2004-2007), Algoritmo Ensemble, conductor Marco Angius, introduction by Paolo Petazzi, RAI Trade, Rome-Milan 2009
- Neuma q (2006), electroacoustic music, Die Schachtel, Milan 2010
- Gemina (2002-2008), chamber music, various performers, Due Punte Classica, 2010
- Atto (2011), music for acoustic objects, Another Timbre, Sheffield 2012
- Stanze (2004-2011), Alfonso Alberti piano, Col legno, Vienna 2012
- String Quartets (2002-2008), Quartetto d'Archi del Teatro La Fenice (with the participation of Achille Gallo), Neos, Munich 2012
- Oltreorme (2012), music for acoustic objects, Another Timbre, Sheffield 2013
- Parallelo (2007-2009), electroacoustic music, Unfathomless, Bruxelles 2015
- Dimensioni (1997-2007), electroacoustic music, Die Schachtel, Milan 2015
- Emblema (2009-2015), chamber music, Ex Novo Ensemble, Kairos, Vienna 2018
- Interni (2017-2018), music for flute, Roberto Fabbriciani, Kairos, Vienna 2019
- Absum (1999), electroacoustic music, Inexhaustible Editions, ljubljana 2021
- Prima stanza (2004), in [“various composers”] Notturni, Ilaria Baldaccini piano, EMA Vinci Records, Florence 2021
- Rispecchiato in quarzo (2020-2023), solo instrument and electronics, Jan Michiels piano, Carl Rosman contrabass clarinet, Daniel Agi bass flute, Kairos, Vienna 2025
- Diade (2002-2011), mixed duets, soloists from Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Quartetto d'Archi di Torino, Dedalo Ensemble and others, Stradivarius, Milan 2025
