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STEFANO GIANNOTTI (1963)
Composer, author, director and performer. He studied composition with Pietro Rigacci and he was the assistant of Alvin Curran in "Crystal Psalms" and "Tufo Muto". Between 1983 and 1990 he performed in several European countries with the chamber music group "Trio Chitarristico Lucchese". In 1997 he started a collaboration with the Italian coreographer Roberto Castello. Between 1998 and 1999, he lived in Berlin as guest of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program). In the year 2000 he has been guest of the Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf with a Stipend of the Ministerium of Brandeburg. In the year 2002 he has been invited in Worpswede with a stipend of the Ministerium of the Niedersachsen and he has won the Karl-Sczuka-Preis (SWR, Baden-Baden) with his work IL TEMPO CAMBIA. In 2004 IL TEMPO CAMBIA II, produced by SWR2 has got the Honourable Mention in the Prix Italia. In 2007 he has got the Karl-Sczuka-Preis for the second time with his composition GEOLOGICA.
His repertoire ranges from performance, radio-art, dance theatre to chamber music, orchestral scores and songs.
Landscape, memory, life cycles, voices of people, languages; these are some of the main themes developed in Giannotti's work.
Age
48
Hometown
Via del Garbini 65a, Gattaiola
Country
Italy
Occupation
Composer/Sound-artist/Film-maker/Performer