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The second day of the 2019 Incó_ntemporanea festival is articulated in a conference, a round table and a multimedia concert, and clearly focuses on the importance of the audiovisual, multimedia or, more generally, dramaturgical approach in the most recent musical practices. In fact, two pieces by the German author Alexander…

Debut of the ensemble on national radio. The famous radio program “Piazza Verdi” on Radio Rai 3 invites collettivo_21 to perform a presentation concert for the third edition of Incó_ntemporanea festival. Milan, Rai Radio 3 studios Program:G. Manzoni, Percorso i for saxophoneK. Saariaho, Cendres for flute, cello and piano Lorenzo…

Collettivo_21 takes its first international trip to Finland, to participate in Musiikin Aika summer course with flutist Camilla Hoitenga, composer Kaja Saariaho and saxophonist John Butcher. The unforgettable experience of playing in such a historic festival hosted in the small village of Viitasaari granted the ensemble – alongside memorable moments…

One of the innate characteristics of collettivo_21 is eclecticism – a probable consequence of the different artistic paths undertaken by its members. For this reason, the ensemble gladly accepted the invitation by the  concert season Primaversa di Baggio (Milan) to create a program inspired by progressive rock music; an invitation…

The third edition of Incontri Contemporanei sees a much larger participation by collettivo_21, also in its organization; of particular interest was the meeting with Giorgio Colombo Taccani, whose string quartet “Das Letzte Gold” had been composed specifically for this occasion, and whose compositions will make a regular appearance in the…

Collettivo_21 is invited to participate in PactaSoundZone, the experimental music season organised by Pacta Teatri in Milan. For this occasion, collettivo_21 teams up with Ensemble Collettivo Crisis, to explore the multi-faceted world of contemporary improvisation. The result is a moving experience where the many differents timbres of the ensemble, the…

Again in 2019, the Conservatory of Piacenza invites collettivo_21 to take part in the celebrations for Women’s Day, which on this occasion saw the composer Ada Gentile as a guest. Collettivo_21 participates with the performance of the suggestive “Come un soffio”, for flute, clarinet, sax, vibraphone and piano, publicly appreciated…

Collettivo_21 returns to Teatro Municipale of Piacenza, this time in the concert season and with an original show, realized in collaboration with the composer Alessandro Baldessari and the dancer and choreographer Riccardo Buscarini. The show is a musical and scenic reading of the collection of short stories “La boutique del…

Incó_ntemporanea festival brings contemporary music to unexpected places. On this occasion, the setting is that of the Council Chamber of the Province of Piacenza: the audience is arranged around the ensemble and seated in the councilors’ seats. Collettivo_21 proposes here, in a lecture-concert, a preview of a large recording project…

While the first edition of Incó_ntemporanea festival had hosted the American composer Frederic Rzewski, the second one gave way to one of the most interesting and volcanic composers and performers of the Italian music scene: the cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima. On this occasion, the guest performed together with the…

After the success of the first edition, for the second year collettivo_21, with Riccardo Dapelo at electronics, is invited by the Cinemaniaci association to sonorise a silent film. This year, it is Murnau’s “Faust”, an expressionist masterpiece restored by Cineteca di Bologna. Parco Raggio, Pontenure “Faust” – 1926 directed by…

The second edition of Incontri Contemporanei, born from an idea by pianist Davide Cabassi, sees the participation of collettivo_21 alongside Cabassi’s students in a series of meetings with some of the most significant Italian composers of our time. These informal meetings, hosted in the welcoming setting of Magazzino Musica in…

Invited to the Contrasti festival in Trento, collettivo_21 dazzles the public with an unusual formation, a flute guitar and piano trio. The performers combine and deconstruct the timbre of their instruments in different combinations, generating a seamless concert culminating in the premiere of “Nessun Pianga” by Carlo Alessandro Landini, rearranged…

Collettivo_21, with Riccardo Dapelo at electronics, is invited by the Cinemaniaci association to sonorise some interesting silent films, recently restored by Cineteca di Bologna. Voyage sur Jupiter (Segundo de Chomón, 1909)  Le diable au couvent (Georges Méliès, 1899) Poule aux oeufs d’or (Gaston Velle, 1905) Il gabinetto del dottor Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)…

Since their first concert, collettivo_21 showes a particular interest in the music of Frederic Rzewski; an interest that changes into real affection when the American composer agrees to come to Piacenza for the first edition of Incó_ntemporanea fetival. After an open lesson and a day of rehearsals, the ensemble pays…

The opening concert of the first edition of Incó_ntemporanea festival sees on stage a collaboration between collettivo_21 (which organises the Festival and presents itself here in a wind quintet formation) and Tempus Fugit, a percussion ensemble born within the walls of the Conservatory of Piacenza almost at the same time…

The Chitarre a Piacenza festival dedicates a date to the students of the Nicolini Conservatory. Considering the involvement of the composition classes and the consequent production of a significant number of premieres, collettivo_21 is invited as guest ensemble. Piacenza, San Giuseppe Ospedale Church Musics written by the students of the…

Collettivo_21 is called as guest during the Settimana della Musica Contemporanea in Novara, presenting an eclectic programme. This is a chance for the ensemble to show one of its peculiarity, which is to design the concert as a seamless show, as the end of each piece intertwines with the beginning…

For the first time in its recent history, collettivo_21 performs in an opera house, conducted by the prestigious baton of Massimiliano Caldi, as an ensemble selected to perform one of the first performances of a new opera by the Sicilian composer Marco Betta. Piacenza, Teatro Municipale Massimiliano Caldi, conductor Francesca…

This is the Milanese debut of collettivo_21. Piacenza is home, but Milan is Milan: the most important cultural pole of attraction in northern Italy, especially for contemporary music, and a must for an emerging ensemble. The occasion, in this case, is the celebration (organized by the NoMus association and the…

Piacenza is a small province, but it hosts several important cultural initiatives. Among them is certainly to be included Concorto, a festival of short films of international importance. Collettivo_21 is invited to inaugurate the 2016 edition in the garden of the beautiful Palazzo Ghizzoni Nasalli, with an original concentric layout…

The Conservatory of Piacenza is enthusiastic about the birth, within its walls, of an ensemble as particular and close-knit as collettivo_21 and invites it to perform in various institutional celebrations. In this case, the occasion is Women’s Day 2016. Collettivo_21 invites the students of the Conservatory composition classes to write…

Second project curated by the newborn collettivo_21: the particular interest in Frederic Rzewski’s music suggests the idea of deepening the North American repertoire, which attracts the young musicians for its synthesis between research and immediacy. Piacenza, Conservatory Hall Program:M. Feldman, The Viola in my life II for viola and ensembleH.…

During the Spring 2015, some students of the Conservatory of Piacenza decide to come toghether in order to deepen their comprehension of some pieces of the most recent repertoire. The initiative develops into the idea of forming an ensemble dedicated to contemporary music, which a few months later, during the…