Curriculum
Giorgio Netti was born in 1963 in Milano. He studied composition with Sandro Gorli at the G. Verdi Conservatory of Milan and attended courses at the Contemporary Music Section of Civica Scuola di Musica in the same city with B. Ferneyhough, G. Grisey, E. Nunes, W. Rihm, I. Xenakis.
Awards
- Special mention Wieniawski Competition 1990
- Special mention CASELLA 1995
- ICOMS 1996 and 1997
- Klangforum Wien workshop 2000
Commissions
- Elision Ensemble Melbourne 1995
- Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart 1997
- Wittener Tage fur Neue Musik Koln 1998
- Neue Musik Rumlingen Basel 2000
- Tage fur Neue Musik Zurich 2001
- Wittener Tage fur Neue Musik 2004
- Steirischer Herbst Graz 2004
- Stockholm New Music 2006
- Musica Viva München 2009
Fellowship
- Japan Foundation Tokyo, Uchida Fellowship 2004
Cd
- edition Zeitklang Musikproduktion 2008: "Spaces. Räume." Lars Mlekusch, sax
- Durian 2003: "necessità d’interrogare il cielo" (67’), Marcus Weiss, sax
Works
- dalla tentazione di sant’Antonio: tre voci
- violin solo (1986) (10’)
- special mention Wieniawski Competition 1990
- l'arcipelago
- for seven players (rev. 1999) (27’)
- selected for the Klangforum workshop 2000
- in un luogo superfluo
- clarinet solo (1991) (15’)
- note all’Empedocle
- for twelve players (rev. 2004) (24')
- commisioned by Elision Ensemble, first version ‘93/95,
- special mention Casella 1995
- new version commissioned by Wittener Tage für Neuekammermusik 2004
- necessità d’interrogare il cielo
- cycle for sax soprano solo (1996-1999) (67’)
- … intuire la dispiegata forma della luce (18:15)
- commissioned by Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart 1997
- … affrettandosi verso il centro della luce risonante (20:36)
- … silenzio dei padri (15:27)
- … sottile veicolo dell’anima (11:50)
- … intuire la dispiegata forma della luce (18:15)
- cycle for sax soprano solo (1996-1999) (67’)
- avvicinamento: tre studi sul quarto centro
- for saxophone quartett (rev. 2004) (23’)
- commissioned by Wittener Tage für Neuekammermusik 1998
- due lune più in là
- for five players (2000-2001) (15’)
- commissioned by Festival Rümlingen, Basel 2001
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- for string quartett (2001-2002) (28‘)
- commissioned by Tage fur Neue Musik Zurich 2001
- rinascere sirena
- for string trio (2003-2004) (20’)
- commissioned by Steirischer Herbst Graz
- edo no hana
- for tenor recorder (2004) (14’)
- with the contribution of Japan Foundation Tokyo, Uchida Fellowship 2004
- ultimo a lato
- for solo sax soprano (2005) (8’)
- inoltre
- for two violins (2005-2006) ( 12’)
- commissioned by Stockholm New Music 2006
- tête
- cello solo without bow with prerecorded voice on CD
- commissioned by Musica Viva München 2009
Theoretical works
- - Essay on the 4th volume of ‘‘New Music and Aesthetics in the 21 st Century - Morphology in Music’’
- - in collaboration with M. Weiss, The Techniques of Saxophone playing, Bärenreiter 2009
About him
- 2004, Composer portrait by Thomas Adank on radio DRS2 (Suisse) (52’)
- 2004, Composer portrait in Intermedialität, Studien zur Wechselwirkung zwischen den Künsten, by Theo Hirshbrunner
- 2006, Interview portrait in Cahiers du saxophone, Paris