Curriculum Vitae

Stefano Gervasoni.
Born in Bergamo, Italy,
in 1962.

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Stefano Gervasoni Curriculum Vitae
Education
Teaching
Professional Experience
Prizes
Grants
Commissions
Works

Education

1994

Brian Ferneyhough's and James Dillon's Composition courses and workshops at the Royaumont Foundation - Voix Nouvelles, Royaumont, Paris

1992-93

"Cursus de Composition Informatique Musicale" at I.R.C.A.M., Paris

1990

György Ligeti's classes at the International Bartok Seminar in Szombathely, Hungary

1980-90

Composition courses with Luca Lombardi, Niccolò Castiglioni and Azio Corghi at the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory in Milan

1988

Composition and Computer Music classes with Marco Stroppa, Alvise Vidolin and Roberto Doati at the International Master Classes Lario Musica

Teaching

2006-current

Professorship in Composition at Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Dance de Paris (CNSMDP)

2018-19

Karel Husa Visiting Professor of Composition at Ithaca College (USA)

2012-13

Visiting professor in Composition at Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC, Barcelona)

2001-2012

Professorship in Composition at Bergamo Conservatory (ISSM Gaetano Donizetti)

2000-01

Composition course at Como State Conservatory

1999-00

Composition course at Brescia State Conservatory

1998-99

Composition course at Trento State Conservatory

1989-92

Composition courses at State Conservatories of Fermo (1989-90), Pesaro (1990-91) and Trento (1991-92)

Professional Experience

2021

The Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo): guest professor - composition classes, lectures and workshops

2021

IDEA (International Divertimento Ensemble Academy - International Workshop for Young Composers, Moncalvo, Italy): composition workshop as invited professor, lectures and concerts

2021

Trento (Italy): MotoContrario International Workshop for Young Composers: composition masterclasses and lectures

2021

Livorno Music Festival 2021 (Italy): composition workshop in collaboration with Marco Liuni

June 2021

June in Buffalo 2021, University at Buffalo, Department of Music: composition workshop, lectures and concerts

March 2021

HEM Geneva: guest professor - composition classes, lectures and concerts

2020

IDEA (International Divertimento Ensemble Academy - International Workshop for Young Composers, Milan): composition workshop as invited professor, lectures and concerts

2020

Livorno Music Festival 2020 (Italy): composition workshop in collaboration with Marco Liuni

2019

Livorno Music Festival 2019 (Italy): composition workshop in collaboration with Marco Liuni

2019

VIPA Valencia International Performance Academy & Festival: invited professor - composition classes, lectures and concerts

June 2019

IRCAM ManiFeste Academy (Paris): workshop of composition for chamber music with Ensemble InterContemporain

May 2019

Mixtur 2019 (Barcelona): invited professor - composition classes, lectures and concerts

2019

ENSEMS Valencia (Spain): guest composer - composition classes, lectures and concerts

2019

2018-19 Karel Husa Visiting Professor of Composition at Ithaca College (USA): seminar presentations, workshops, masterclasses and concerts

April 2019

University at Buffalo, Department of Music: lecture on composing

2019

IDEA (International Divertimento Ensemble Academy - International Workshop for Young Composers, Milan): composition workshop as invited professor, lectures and concerts

2018

IDEA (International Divertimento Ensemble Academy - International Workshop for Young Composers, Moncalvo, Italy): composition workshop as invited professor, lectures and concerts

2018

VIPA Valencia International Performance Academy & Festival: invited professor - composition classes, lectures and concerts

June 2018

IRCAM ManiFeste Academy: workshop of composition for chamber music with Ensemble InterContemporain

2018

Kiev: composition workshop with Ukho Ensemble

March 2018

Geneva, Archipel Academy: workshop of composition for string quartet

2017

Divertimento Ensemble’s International Workshop for Young Composers, Bobbio (Italy): composition workshop as invited professor, lectures and concerts

2017

VIPA Valencia International Performance Academy & Festival: invited professor - composition classes, lectures and concerts

2017

Kiev: composition workshop with Ukho Ensemble

November 2016

Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz: lecture, master class and concert

2016

Takefu International Music festival and Composition Academy (Japan): invited professor - composition course, lectures and concerts

September 2016

Toho Gakuen Scholl of Music, Tokyo: lectures, master class and concert

2016

Yellow Barn Summer Festival and Academy (Vermont, USA): composer in residence

2016

VIPA Valencia International Performance Academy & Festival: invited professor - composition classes, lectures and concerts

2016

Composit International Summer Festival, Rieti (Italy): invited professor for the composition program

2015

VIPA Valencia International Performance Academy & Festival: invited professor - composition classes, lectures and concerts

2015

Divertimento Ensemble’s International Workshop for Young Composers, Bobbio (Italy): composition workshop as invited professor, lectures and concerts

March 2015

Zaragoza, master class and composition classes at Conservatorio Superior de Música de Aragón

Feb 18, 2015

New York, Columbia University, Department of Music: seminar for graduate students

2014

Flaine (France), Opus 74 Music Stage: composition course

May 2014

Foggia State Conservatory: master class in composition

December 2014

Florence State Conservatory: master class in composition

December 2013

Geneva Conservatory (Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève): lecture and concert

November 2013

Recife (Brasil), Festival Virtuosi Século XXI: master classes and concerts as invited composer

August 2013

Montegiorgio (Italy): composition course

June 2013

Foggia State Conservatory: master class in composition

Aug-Sept 2011

Montegiorgio (Italy): composition course

July 2011

Auvillar (France), Etchings 2011 Festival: composition workshop, lectures and concert

August 2010

Monterubbiano (Italy): composition course

July 2010

Festival de Inverno Campos do Jordão (Brasil): composition course, lecture and concerts

March 2010

Cambridge, Harvard University, Music Department: lecture and concert

March 2010

New York, Italian Academy at Columbia University: lecture and concert

Sept 30 - Oct 1 2010

Rennes, Université Rennes 2: lecture at "Journées d'étude Musique et Poésie" (speech title: "Raisons et occasions dans le choix d’un poème qui devient musique")

October 2009

Shanghai Conservatory of Music, New Music Week 2009: invited composer - lectures, master class, composition course and concerts

September 2009

Monterubbiano (Italy): composition course

July 2009

Festival de Inverno Campos do Jordão (Brasil): composition course, lecture and concerts

May 2009

San Sebastian (Spain): lecture and master class at Musikene - Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco

November 2008

New York, Columbia University, Department of Music: lecture, master class and concert

November 2008

New York, Manhattan School of Music: lecture

November 2008

Cambridge, Harvard University, Music Department: lecture, master class and concert

September 2008

Toho Gakuen Scholl of Music, Tokyo: lectures, master class and concerts

June 17, 2008

IRCAM, Paris: lecture at "Expressivity in Music and Speech" Symposium (speech title: "In-Expressivity (and Eclecticism): Suspended Expressions - An Ambiguoug Approach to an Old Idea")

November 2007

Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz: lecture, master class and concert

2005

Lausanne Conservatory (Haute Ecole de Musique de Lausanne): composer in residence

2005

Lugano Conservatory: master class in composition

2004

Accademia Internazionale Tema (Milano): master class in composition

September 2001

Fondation Royaumont, Paris: invited professor at Session de Composition 2001 - master course and concerts

2001

Geneva Conservatory: master class in composition

Jul-Aug 1998

Darmstadt, Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik: lectures and concerts as invited composer

Jul-Aug 1997

Fondation Royaumont, Paris: composer in residence at the Centre de la voix - Centre de la poésie et de la traduction

July 1997

Verbier, Switzerland, Summer Academy: lectures and concerts as invited composer

April 1995

Vienna, Internationales Komponistenseminar, Klangforum Wien Seminar (held by Helmut Lachenmann, Peter Eötvös & others)

Oct-Nov 1991

Montréal, Forum '91, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne and Université de Montréal: lectures and concerts

October 1990

New York, Festival of Contemporary Music from Italy: lectures and concerts

Prizes

2018

Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation in the Library of Congress Award

2010

Premio della Critica Musicale Italiana "Franco Abbiati"

1994-1996

Prix de Rome - Villa Médicis, Académie de France à Rome

1995

XI Internationalen Kompositionswettbewerbs / Kompositionsseminars Boswil, Boswil, Switzerland: 1st prize

1993

IRCAM-Ensemble InterContemporain Reading Panel, Paris: 1st Prize

1991

Forum '91, Université de Montréal, Montréal: 1st prize

1991

Mozart , Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, Vienna: 2nd prize

1989

Goffredo Petrassi, Third Edition, Parma, Italy: 2nd prize

1988

Premio Lario Musica, Como, Italy: 1st prize

1988

Premio Lario Musica, Como, Italy: 1st prize

1988

G. F. Malipiero, RAI: Mention

1987

Goffredo Petrassi, Second edition, Parma, Italy: 3rd prize

1986

Ennio Porrino, Cagliari, Italy: Mention

1985

G. B. Viotti, Vercelli, Italy: 2nd prize

Grants

2006

DAAD Grant for Berliner Künstlerprogramm: annual residency

Spring 2000

Residence at the Bogliasco Foundation - The Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities, Genova

1995-96

Prix de Rome - Villa Médicis, from the French Academy, for a two-years' residence at Villa Medici in Rome

1994-95

Stipend from the Académie Musicale de Villecroze - Fondation des Treilles, Paris

Commissions

2023

FIMS Fribourg - Festival International de Musiques Sacrées
Piece title: The world grown dark

2023

Ars Nova Ensemble
Piece title: Fleur d'un cri

2022

Ars Nova Ensemble
Piece title: Recitativo a tre

2021

Phace and Wien Modern, in cooperation with Fondazione I Teatri Reggio Emilia and Teatro Verdi Pordenone, with the support of Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung
Piece title: In nomine PPP

2020

Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for Loadbang - New York
Piece title: Four Songs

2019

Kölner Philharmonie (KölnMusik) for »non bthvn projekt« 2020
Piece title: Felsen, der Widerhall

2019

Kölner Philharmonie (KölnMusik) for »non bthvn projekt« 2020
Piece title: Felsen, der Widerhall - Ade

2019

L'Instant Donné
Piece title: Adagio di sgelo

2019

Amis des Swiss Chamber Concerts Genève
Piece title: Abri

2019

Ministère de la Culture (France) - IRCAM
Piece title: De Tinieblas

2018

Swiss Chamber Concerts
Piece title: Dunkler Lichtglanz

2018

Koussevitzky Music Foundation - Library of Congress
Piece title: Chi?

2018

Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
Piece title: Liebesverrat

2017

Ensemble InterContemporain
Piece title: Eufaunique

2017

Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD 2018
Piece title: Drei Grabschriften

2016

Bologna Festival
Piece title: Prima traccia

2016

Münchener Kammerorchester
Piece title: In die Luft geschrieben

2016

Lemanic Modern Ensemble
Piece title: Capriccio ostico

2016

Istituto Italiano di Cultura - Paris
Piece title: Muro di canti

2015

Mrs Ryoko Aoki
Piece title: Yoru no hibiki, yama no naka yori

2015

Divertimento Ensemble
Piece title: Ver­än­de­rung XXXI-bis

2015

Milano Musica
Piece title: The triple foole

2015

Radio France
Piece title: Strepito e garbuglio

2015

Ensemble InterContemporain
Piece title: Eufaunique

2015

Fondazione Orchestra Haydn
Piece title: Di respiri mancanti

2014

IRCAM-Centre Pompidou
Piece title: Fado errático

2014

Bludenzer Tage zeitgemäßer Musik, Quatuor Diotima and Milano Musica
Piece title: Clamour

2013

Exaudi with funding from Diaphonique, a Franco-British contemporary music fund supported by the Institut Français, the Sacem, the Bureauexport de la Musique, the British Council and Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
Piece title: Di dolci aspre catene

2013

French Ministry of Culture and Cumulus
Piece title: Romper del día

2012

Ex Novo Musica
Piece title: Sonatinexpressive

2011

Contrechamps
Piece title: Nube obbediente

2011

French Ministry of Culture and les Percussions de Strasbourg
Piece title: Limbus-limbo

2010

Contrechamps, Geneva
Piece title: Nube obbediente

2010

KlangForum Heidelberg and Milano Musica
Piece title: Se taccio, il duol s'avanza

2009

Armand Angster
Piece title: Ansioso quasi con gioia

2009

Domaine de Kerguéhennec
Piece title: Quindici invenzioni a due voci (BWV 772-786)

2009

Kunstfest Weimar GmbH for "Pèlerinages 2011"
Piece title: Froward

2009

Teatro alla Scala
Piece title: Heur, leurre, lueur

2009

Domaine de Kerguéhennec
Piece title: Masques et Berg

2009

Mr. Luca Innocenti
Piece title: Phanes

2009

Lodovico e Angioletta Meneghetti
Piece title: Prato prima presente

2008

Spectra Ensemble
Piece title: Gramigna

2007

Domaine de Kerguéhennec (for the songs "Im Herbst", "Im Winter", "Im Sommer")
Piece title: Aster Lieder

2007

Contrechamps
Piece title: Busque Amor novas artes, novo engenho

2007

Ircam, Casa da Música (Porto), Ensemble Modern and Radio France (1st version); Nieuw Ensemble (2nd version)
Piece title: Com que voz

2007

Commissioned by WDR, supported by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung and SACEM, for the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik
Piece title: Horrido

2007

SO.GE.DA-Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, Montecarlo
Piece title: Whisper Not

2006

OSN RAI Orchestra (RAI National Symphonic Orchestra)
Piece title: Irrene Stimme

2006

WDR Köln for Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2006
Piece title: Six lettres à l'obscurité (und zwei Nachrichten)

2005

French Ministry of Culture
Piece title: Due poesie francesi di Luca

2005

Fondazione Concorso Internazionale Ferruccio Busoni - Bolzano festival Bozen
Piece title: Fantasia

2005

IRCAM, Paris
Piece title: L'ingenuo

2005

Suntory Limited for Suntory Hall International Program for Music Composition 2008
Piece title: Reconnaissance

2005

Arditi Foundation, Geneva
Piece title: Sviete tihi

2004

Contrechamps, Geneva
Piece title: Epicadenza

2003

WDR Köln for Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2004
Piece title: Dir

2003

French Ministry of Culture
Piece title: In dir

2003

Internationale Stiftung Preis E. Balzan-Fonds, Zurich
Piece title: Un leggero ritorno di cielo

2002

Deutschland Radio-Berlin
Piece title: Anadromous Coda

2002

WDR Köln for Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2002 and Ensemble Cikada
Piece title: Godspell

2001

Contrechamps, Geneva
Piece title: chhamp

2001

Ensemble Recherche
Piece title: In nomine R.

2001

ProQuartet-Centre Européen de Musique de Chambre and Fondation Royaumont, Paris
Piece title: Strada non presa

2000

Mr. Mario Caroli
Piece title: Ravine

2000

Südwestrundfunk Baden-Baden for the Donaueschinger Musiktage
Piece title: Rigirio

2000

Collegium Novum Zurich (for the trio version)
Piece title: Trittico grave

1999

Milano Musica and the Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam
Piece title: Antiterra

1999

L'Itinéraire, Paris
Piece title: Eyeing

1998

Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival 1998; musikFabrik (for the final version)
Piece title: Far niente

1998

XVIIth Musik-Biennale, Berlin
Piece title: Pas si

1998

Mrs. Mariuccia Rognoni
Piece title: Sonata sopra Sancta Maria

1998

Ms. Jenny Lin and Mr. Luca Sabbatini
Piece title: Studio di disabitudine

1997

Milano Musica
Piece title: Atemseile

1996

the French Ministry of Culture
Piece title: Bleu jusqu'au blanc

1996

Radio France
Piece title: Metà della ripa

1996

Festival d'Automne à Paris - Contrechamps
Piece title: Parola

1995

WDR - Köln
Piece title: descdesesasf

1995

Archipel 1996 Festival in Geneva
Piece title: Due poesie francesi di Beckett

1993

French Ministry of Culture
Piece title: Dal belvedere di non ritorno

1993

Ensemble InterContemporain, Paris
Piece title: Lilolela

Works

2024

The world grown dark for mixed choir

2023

Fleur d'un cri for for violin, cello and accordion

2022

In nomine PPP for eight voices and sixteen musicians

2022

Recitativo a tre for woodwind trio, brass trio and string trio

2021

Four Songs for baritone, bass clarinet, trumpet and trombone

2020

Felsen, der Widerhall - Ade for recorder, violin, théorbo and strings ad libitum

2020

Felsen, der Widerhall for recorder, violin, strings, théorbo and harpsichord

2019-20

De Tinieblas for mixed choir and live electronics

2016/17-2020

Eufaunique for large ensemble

2019

Abri for string trio

2019

Adagio di sgelo for violin, bass flute and viola

2018-19

Chi? for double children choir, oboe, clarinet (and bass clarinet), basson, percussion, accordion, violin, viola, cello

2017-19

Sechs Grabschriften for mezzo-soprano and piano

2018

Dunkler Lichtglanz for alto flute, viola, cello

2018

Liebesverrat for soprano, tenor, baritone and orchestra

2017-18

Drei Grabschriften for mezzo-soprano and piano

2017-18

In die Luft geschrieben for mezzo-soprano, harp, celesta, percussion and string orchestra

2017

The triple foole for vocal ensemble (S. MS. CT. T. B.)

2017

Prima traccia for basset horn and live electronics

2017

Capriccio ostico for ensemble

2016-17

Eufaunique for large ensemble

2015-17

Altra voce for piano and electronics

2015-17

Odoi II for two soprano saxophones

2007-09/2017

Dodici sonetti di Camões for bass-baritone and large ensemble

2016

Ver­än­de­rung XXXI-bis for fourteen musicians

2016

Yoru no hibiki, yama no naka yori for voice and string quartet

2016

Fu verso o forse fu inverno for mezzosoprano, piano and live electronics

2015-16

Di respiri mancanti for orchestra

2015

Strepito e garbuglio for double bass

2015

Ansioso quasi con gioia for bass clarinet

2015

Odoi for two oboes

2015

Luce ignota della sera for piano and live electronics

2014-15

Prés - III for piano

2007-15

Fado errático for for female voice, large ensemble and live electronics

2014-15

Clamour for string quartet

2014

Pas perdu for cimbalom solo

2014

Album di figurine doppie for accordion and live electronics ad libitum

2014

Romper del día for countertenor and french horn

2014

Phanes II for soprano saxophone solo

2013-14/2017

Di dolci aspre catene for vocal ensemble (S. MS. CT. T. B.)

2011-14

Tre canzoni popolari for female voice and piano

2013

Heur, leurre, lueur for cello and symphonic orchestra

2011-13

Prés - II for piano

2012

Adagio ghiacciato for toy-piano (or celesta) and violin

2011-12

Sonatinexpressive for violin and piano

2011-12

Limbus-limbo for soprano, countertenor, baritone, three actors, recorders and Paetzold flutes player, horn and alphorn player, cimbalom player, six percussion players and live electronics

2011-12

Folia for violin solo

2011

Se taccio, il duol s'avanza for twelve solo voices and violin

2011

Froward for percussion, string trio and brass trio

2011

Nube obbediente for trombone, percussion and ensemble

2011

Tornasole II for viola solo, viola (in echo) and bass flute

2010-11

Nube obbediente for trombone and percussion

2008-11

Horrido for seven voices

2005-07-11

Aster Lieder for soprano, violin, viola and cello

2003-10

Dir - in dir for vocal sextet and string sextet

2009-10

Due poesie francesi di Luca for female voice and ensemble

2009-10

Phanes for flute

2008-10

Prés - I for piano

2007-2008/2009-2010

Com que voz for for fado singer, baritone, large ensemble and live electronics

2009-15

Gramigna for cimbalom and ensemble

2009

Quindici invenzioni a due voci (BWV 772-786) for flute (in C, piccolo, alto and bass), violin and viola

2009

Prato prima presente for ensemble

2009

Masques et Berg for violin and viola

2008

Reconnaissance for large symphonic orchestra

2007

Whisper Not for viola and live electronics

2007

Busque Amor novas artes, novo engenho for countertenor, oboe and trombone

1998-2007

Far niente for double-bass and seventeen instruments

2006

Irrene Stimme for piano and symphonic orchestra

2005-06

Sviete tihi for two pianos and two percussionists

2005

Fantasia for piano and orchestra

2005

1992-1994/2005

L'ingenuo for soprano, euphonium, horn and live electronics

2004

Epicadenza for percussion, double trio and cimbalom

2003-04

Dir for double string trio

2003-04

In dir for vocal ensemble

2003

Un leggero ritorno di cielo for twenty-two strings

2003

Anadromous Coda for one percussion player

2002-03

Metà della ripa for orchestra

1991-92/1993-2003

Least Bee for voice and chamber ensemble

2002

Godspell for mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano/celesta and string quintet

2001

chhamp for flute and eleven couples of musicians

2001

In nomine R. for eight instruments

2001

Strada non presa for string quartet

1998-99 (01)

2000

Ravine for flute

2000

Rigirio for baritone saxophone, percussion and piano

1999-00

1999-00

Eyeing for seven instruments

1992-93 1988-94 1989

Trittico grave for viola (Tornasole); cello (Vigilia); double-bass (Terzo paesaggio senza peso)

1999

Antiterra for twelve instruments

1998-99

Pas si for two singers-actors and an accordionist

1997

Atemseile for obbligato string trio and three echo trios

1996

Parola for sixteen instruments

1995-96

Due poesie francesi di Rilke for female voice, flute, clarinet, percussion, piano and string quartet

1995

Bleu jusqu'au blanc for six percussion players

1995

Due poesie francesi di Beckett for female voice, bass flute, viola and percussion

1995

descdesesasf for violin, viola and cello

1994-95

Concerto pour alto for viola and fifteen musicians

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