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Livorsi, Paola (b. 1967, Alessandria). Italian composer, now resident in Finland, of mostly chamber and vocal works that have been performed throughout Europe.
Ms. Livorsi studied music history with Giorgio Pestelli at the Università degli Studi in Turin in 1994 and there earned a diploma and studied composition with Riccardo Piacentini at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Turin, where she graduated in 1996. She has also studied computer music at CCMIX in Paris in 1999-2000 and IRCAM in 2000-01, on grants from De Sono in Turin and has attended masterclasses with Franco Donatoni in Siena (1995), György Ligeti in Novara (1996) and Ivan Fedele and Salvatore Sciarrino at IRCAM (1997, 1999). She studied composition with Jean-Baptiste Barrière and electronic music with Kaija Saariaho in Helsinki in 1997, on a grant from CIMO, and also studied with Kaija Saariaho in Paris from 1999-2001.
Her awards include First Prize in the Concorso Nazionale per Musica Vocale e Strumentale per Ragazzi in Como (1994, for Il gatto dal serraglio) and a scholarship from GAI (2000). She has also received commissions from the Foundation Adkins-Chiti (Rome, 2001) and Saarländischer Rundfunk (2002, for Klangforum Wien) and her music has been performed in Finland, France, Germany, and Italy.
She has also been active as a correspondent from abroad for the Italian review Il Giornale della Musica since 1996.
She has lived in Helsinki since 2001.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: paolalivorsi@hotmail.com
Street address: Ms. Paola Livorsi, Vuosaarentie 1C, I 76, 00980 Helsinki, Finland
Website: http://www.cematitalia.it
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
CHAMBER MUSIC: Ludus, 3 trombones, tuba, string quartet, double bass, percussion, 1995; Pizzicato II, flute, guitar, string quartet, 1995; Manantial, flute (+ piccolo), bass clarinet, violin, cello, piano, 1997-98; ...de peu de poids..., bass clarinet, 1999; Atem, alto flute (+ bass flute), 2001; Eâ, ring flute (+ alto flute, bass flute), piano, 2002; Verso, ring flute (+ alto flute), A-clarinet (+ clarinet), French horn, cimbalom, 2 violins, 2 violas, cello, double bass, 2 percussion, 2002-03
VOCAL: Quartets (text by T.S. Eliot), soprano, piano, 1993; Il gatto dal serraglio (text from an anonymous 19th-century English text [Italian translation]), speaker, small orchestra, 1994; I segni della persona felice (text by Giuseppe Amadio), soprano, flute, 1997; La Soleá (text by Federico García Lorca), soprano, 1998; Ohnfad (text by St.-John Perse), female voice, tape, 2000; Os (text by St.-John Perse), male voice, live electronics, 2001-02; Yapapi yapapi (text from an Eskimo fairy tale), female voice, percussion, tape, 2003
HARPSICHORD: Pizzicato I, 1995
(Last updated on September 28, 2004)
