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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…