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Aldo Brizzi | |
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| Born | Alessandria, Italy |
| Genres | Classical, contemporary |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
| Website | papermine |
Aldo Brizzi is an Italian composer and conductor.
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Aldo Brizzi | |
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| Born | Alessandria, Italy |
| Genres | Classical, contemporary |
| Occupation(s) | Composer, conductor |
| Website | papermine |
Aldo Brizzi is an Italian composer and conductor.
He was born in Alessandria, Italy, in 1960. Studies at the Milan Conservatory, conducting workshops with Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, and Sergiu Celibidache. Graduated at DAMS Bologna. He has also worked with Giacinto Scelsi who has influenced his artistic horizon.
He has composed music for solo, ensembles and orchestras, including the Strings of the Berlin Philharmonic, European Union Youth Orchestra, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France, Arditti String Quartet. His awards include the Venezia Opera Prima del Teatro La Fenice (1981), European Year of Music (Biennale di Venezia, Festival d'Automne in Paris, WDR di Cologne/Köln, 1985), Concorso nazionale Franco Evangelisti in Rome/Roma (1986), and the Young Composers' Forum in Cologne/Köln (1989).
As conductor, he was director of the Ensembles of Ferienkurse in Darmstadt from 1990 to 1994 and is now music director of Núcleo de Ópera da Bahia, Brazil. He has also conducted the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France in Paris, Kammermusik Philharmonishes Berlin, etc. and recorded albums with Bamberger Symphoniker, Filarmonica di Torino, Orquestra Metropolitana de Lisboa.
In the late 1990s and throughout the 2000s, Aldo Brizzi has moved into fusing different musical traditions and styles. This culminated in the widely acclaimed album Brizzi do Brasil(featuring Caetano Veloso, Gilberto Gil, Teresa Salgueiro among others), which won the Trofeu Caymmi in Brazil, "best Brazilian album production 2003".
Aldo Brizzi has written operas such as “Mambo Mistico” (libretto by Alfredo Arias) produced by Theatre National de Chaillot – Paris, “Gabriel et Gabriel” performed in many theaters in France, “Ópera dos Terreiros” performed in Grenoble, Rome, Belém and Salvador, “Jelin”, a comic opera set on the background of the events of the year zero, premiered in Alessandria, Italy in 2021 and a new orchestration of “Treemonisha” by Scott Joplin. A new opera, "Amor Azul", written with Gilberto Gil, was premiered in Paris in 2022 by Chorus and Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France.
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