(b. 1950, Ferentino).
Italian composer of mostly stage and chamber works that have been performed in Europe and elsewhere.
Mr. Poce initially studied classics, but then studied composition with Domenico Guaccero and Ennio Morricone and earned a diploma in 1981.
Among his honours are prizes in the competition Valentino Bucchi in Rome (1985), the competition ICONS in Turin (1990), the competition G. B. Viotti in Vercelli (1991), the competition ENDAS in Perugia (1991), and the competition Città di Udine (2002), as well as the Music Today Composition Award in Tōkyō (1985) and the IBLA Grand Prize in Sicily (2002).
He is also active in other positions. He has served as artistic director and organiser of the Europa Festival since 1994 and founded the intermedia studio HERMES in 1997.
He has taught as a lecturer in composition at the Conservatorio Licinio Refice in Frosinone since 1991.
COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS
STAGE:
Seme del tempo (flash opera), speaker, flute, clarinet, harp, violin, cello, 2 percussion, fixed media, 1996
Vedo dove vado (flash opera), soprano, speaker, flute, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, trumpet, percussion, fixed media, 1998
La Casa dei misteri (flash opera), soprano, 2 speakers, flute, clarinet, bassoon, percussion, fixed media, 1999
Jack Kerouac Opera (flash opera), soprano, speaker, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion, fixed media, 2000
ORCHESTRAL:
Exaltatio utriusque mundi, 1997
CHAMBER MUSIC:
Fluxus, flute, bassoon, French horn, 1983
Flamen, flute, bassoon, French horn, 1984
Fanes, oboe, 1985
Ilinx, clarinet, 1985
Lievi ombre e rotte, violin, 1985
Preludio in forma di rosa, oboe, 1986
La Stanza del tè, flute, oboe, clarinet, French horn, bassoon, 1986
I Fantasmi del giovane Achille, flute, 1990
L'Azzurro giardino di ninfa, recorder, flute, harp, harpsichord, 1991
Chi mai, flute, 1992
'Forse è soverchia maninconia', bass clarinet, 1994
Umbra Videtur, alto saxophone, 1995
Nudo il bagliore, clarinet, 1999
Azzurro, catrame, baritone saxophone, 2000
Certo d'inquieti sogni, string quartet, 2000
Visiones utriusque mundi, clarinet, 2001
CHORAL:
Una Via Crucis (4 stations, intermezzo), soprano, alto, tenor, bass, mixed chorus, orchestra, 1991–93
Come materia pura, mixed chorus, French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone, tuba, 1993
PIANO:
Memoria, 1987