(b. 1 August 1960, Rome).

Italian composer of mostly stage, orchestral, chamber, choral, and vocal works that have been performed in the Americas, Asia and Europe; he is also active as a pianist.

Mr. De Rossi Re studied composition with Mauro Bortolotti at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome.

As a pianist, he often participates in experimental projects and improvisations.

He is also active in other positions. He has been a member of the artistic committee of the ensemble Nuova Consonanza in Rome since 1987.

He teaches elements of composition for music teachers at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in Fermo and earlier taught educational techniques in composition and improvisation at the Scuola di Specializzazione all'Insegnamento Secondario in Rome.

In addition to the works listed below, Mr. De Rossi Re has composed many scores for films and stage productions.

COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS

STAGE:

Biancaneve, ovvero il perfido candore (chamber opera, libretto by the composer), soprano, mezzo-soprano, countertenor, flute (+ piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), trumpet, harp, violin, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, fixed media, 1993

Nocturnàlia I (dance music), female dancer, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, 1993

Paracelso, dal trattato delle Ninfe, Silfi, Pigmei, Salamandre ed altri esseri (text by the composer, after Paracelsus), speaker, flute, fixed media, 1994

L'Ombra dentro la pietra (ballet, choreography by Paola Rampone), fixed media, 1996

La Comunione dei beni (text by Edoardo Albinati), soprano, voice, male actor, harp, double bass, piano (+ synthesizer), 1996–97

Cantopinocchio, la fatina che canta (azione musicale, text by Adriano Vianello), voice, female actor, clarinet, saxophone, piano, percussion, 1997

La Stanza del corpo dipinto (performance), soprano (+ cowbell), flute, clarinet, guitar, violin, cello, piano, 1999 (incorporates sections of Astarte Syriaca and Mare obscuritatum)

Cesare Lombroso o il corpo come principio morale (azione musicale, text by Adriano Vianello), voice, male actor, mime, saxophone, French horn, trumpet, trombone, violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano, percussion, fixed media, 2000

Négritude, female voice, 2 male actors, violin, viola, cello, 2001

Il Canto dell'odio (melologo grottesco, text by Olindo Guerrini), female voice–actor, piano, 2002

Musica senza cuore (azione musicale grottesca, texts by Francesca Angeli, Paola Cortellesi, after Edmondo De Amicis), female voice, female actor, flute, double bass, piano, percussion, live electronics, 2003

Mysterium Cosmographicum, un viaggio nei sogni e nei ricordi di Keplero (azione musicale, text by Francesca Angeli, after Johannes Kepler), female voice, 2 male actors, flute, 5 saxophones, piano, fixed media, 2004

Radiopanico (breve notturno lunare, text by Carlo Lucarelli), 2 male actors, live electronics, 2005

ORCHESTRAL:

Grandebanda, symphonic band, 1984

Nero, nero II, piano, string orchestra, 1984 (version of Nero, nero I)

Aria di strèpito, tenor saxophone, orchestra, 1992

Épaves, 11 strings, 1992

Spaventàti dalla Tempesta, 1992

Concerto, harp, orchestra, 1998

Imaginary Portrait, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 French horns, string orchestra, 1998 (also version for 4 French horns, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, string orchestra, 2000)

An Imaginary Portrait (il vero antico, il nuovo falso), Baroque orchestra, 2000

Slow Dance, accordion, orchestra, 2001

Valse, small orchestra (16 players), 2005

CHAMBER MUSIC:

Paludes, string quartet, 1984

Attila, 4 guitars, 1985

Fregi notturni, flute, harpsichord, 1985

Wunderkammern, die Angst, piccolo, flute, clarinet, 1985 (also version for flute [+ piccolo], oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, piano, 2000)

Allegro nero, 4 saxophones, 1986

Direful Monster, whose Skin Clings, to His Strong Bones, flute, 1986

Sophie, guitar, 1986

An Optical illusion too?, flute, piano, 1987 (also version for flute, 6 pianos [all + synthesizer], 1998)

Krono e gli altri dèmoni e dèi, clarinet, viola, 1987

Palus Epidemiarum, viola, cello, double bass, 1988

Ribes nero, clarinet, 1988

Appunti dal nero, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1989

Fulmini, alto flute, 1989

Studi di nuvole, alto flute, 1989

Vampyr, alto saxophone, 1989

Si colmi il calice, 4 clarinets, 1990 (also version for 4 saxophones, 1994)

Eulalie (dagli occhi lucenti), oboe, guitar, 1991

Lacus Fulminis, piccolo (+ alto flute), bass clarinet, violin, cello, 1991

Mare obscuritatum, flute (+ bass flute), clarinet, guitar, violin, cello, 1991 (sections also incorporated into La Stanza del corpo dipinto)

Les Tourbillons, flute (+ piccolo), harpsichord, 1991

Cain (a mystery), flute, fixed media, 1991

Laus Veneris, violin, piano, 1991–92

Astarte Syriaca, cello, piano, 1992 (sections also incorporated into La Stanza del corpo dipinto)

Quarto nero (visione dell'Angelo), trumpet, organ, 1992

A Bop be bounce, recorder, flute, harp, harpsichord, 1993

Pescate un numero con Lea la maltese, flute (+ piccolo), bass clarinet, piano, string quartet, 1993

Salse per gru, anatre, pernici, tortore, colombacci, colombi e diversi uccelli, alto recorder, fixed media, 1993

Nocturnàlia II, recorder, flute, saxophone, 1994–96

L'Alfabeto delle Nuove Rovine, flute (+ piccolo), bass clarinet, violin, piano, harpsichord, 1997

Felix Culpa, flute, piano, 1997 (version by Tommaso Landolfi of Felix Culpa [Thank you, Catholic girls!], Omaggio a Frank Zappa)

Nocturnàlia III (You are a Tiger!), alto saxophone, trombone, 1997

Ritratto dell'artista da giovane, alto saxophone, cello, piano (+ melodica), percussion, 1997

Three Pieces for films by Hans Richter, recorder, piano, accordion, percussion, 1997

My sweet Georgia Brown, harp, 1998

La Stanza dei paesaggi artificiali (Il Viridario), flute (+ piccolo), alto saxophone (+ soprano saxophone), percussion, 1998

To Autumn (after John Keats), cello, piano, 2002

Erato, amore mio (after Luca Conti), viola, piano, 2002

Venus 'Song' (after Venus du und dein Kind by Matthias Waissel), flute, clarinet, guitar, 2003

Ricercare primo, harp, string quartet, 2004

Ricercare secondo, harpsichord, string quartet, 2004

CHORAL:

Lauda (text by Elio Pecora), mezzo-soprano, mixed chorus, flute, cello, piano, orchestra, 1990

Iguanas (divertimento, text by Edoardo Albinati), 4 mixed voices, 1999

Terra trémuit, tenor, mixed chorus, orchestra, 1999

Rappresentatione (Urbs Imaginaria), 2 female voices, 2 male voices, mixed chorus, ensemble of Renaissance instruments (flutes, cornetts, harp, lute, violin, violas da gamba, violoni, harpsichord), orchestra, fixed media, live electronics, 2003

VOCAL:

Il Diario del marinaio scalzo, female voice, 1982 (collaboration with Leonardo Gensini)

La Mano che firmò il trattato (text by Dylan Thomas), female voice, guitar, 1983

Che lunga notte, female voice, piano, 1984, revised 1985

As long as the thunder (text by Sheila Concari), voice, alto saxophone, 2 guitars, 1987

Và via (text by Edoardo Albinati), female voice, harp, 1994

Felix Culpa (Thank you, Catholic girls!), Omaggio a Frank Zappa, baritone, flute (+ piccolo), clarinet (+ bass clarinet), alto saxophone (+ soprano saxophone), electric guitar, bass guitar, piano, synthesizer, drum kit, 1997 (also version by Tommaso Landolfi as Felix Culpa)

Laus Crucis (text by Clemente Terni), soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, 1999

Mura Marmo e Mare (canzone, text by Gian Luca Favetto), amplified female voice, flute, clarinet, violin, piano, 2001

The Lost War, male voice, melodica, harmonium, 2002

PIANO:

Naufragio Bösendorfer, 1984

Nero, nero I, 1984 (also version as Nero, nero II)

Casa dei profumi – Esperimenti sul gusto, moltiplicazioni degli odori, 1993 (its two sections may be performed separately: I Profumi della nonna; My flower madame)

November Sea Scape (breve studio), piano (+ voice), 2002

Hurucane, piano, fixed media, 2005

Kinderszenen, 2 pianos, 2005

ELECTROACOUSTIC:

Bad Dance, fixed media, 1996

RADIO PRODUCTIONS:

Terranera, un viaggetto nel proto-Lazio (radiofilm, text by Valerio Magrelli), 3 soloists, male speaker, recorder, flute, piano, fixed media, 1994

Orti di guerra (text by Edoardo Albinati), fixed media, 1995

Diario giapponese, male voice (+ percussion), fixed media, 1997

Tre per una, per non dire l'Ernani (text by Vittorio Sermonti), soprano, male speaker, clarinet, piano, 2001

SCORE FOR SILENT FILM:

L'Éclipse du soleil en pleine lune, flute (+ bass flute), violin, cello, vibraphone, 2004 (for L'Éclipse du soleil en pleine lune by Georges Méliès)

DISCOGRAPHY

Appunti dal nero. Alicia Terzian/Grupo Encuentros (ADDA Records: CCS 590014)

Lacus Fulminis. Alter Ego (BMG/Ariola: CCD 3007)

A Bop be bounce. Alter Ego (BMG Ricordi: 74321.16229)

Quarto nero (visione dell'Angelo). Mauro Maur, trumpet; Luigi Celeghin, organ (BMG Ricordi: 74321.16825)

Spaventàti dalla Tempesta. Flavio Emilio Scogna/Istituzione Sinfonica Abruzzese (BMG Ricordi: 74321.17516)

Vampyr. Federico Mondelci, alto saxophone (BMG Ricordi: 74321.25171)

Cain (a mystery). Manuel Zurria, flute (Edizioni Edi.Pan: 3039)

Terranera, un viaggetto nel proto-Lazio; Paracelso, dal trattato delle Ninfe, Silfi, Pigmei, Salamandre ed altri esseri. Roberto Fabbriciani, flute (Edizioni Edi.Pan: 3057)

Ritratto dell'artista da giovane. Toni Germani, alto saxophone; Bernardino Penazzi, cello; Fabrizio De Rossi Re, piano, melodica; Mauro Orselli, percussion (IREC: DDQ 128039)

Terra trémuit. Francesco Marcacci, tenor; Fabio Maestri/chorus and orchestra of the Sagra Musicale Umbra (Octacorda/Casa Sonzogno)