FIRE 3. Claudio Pasceri, cello - Simone Beneventi, percussion
Event Date: Dec 1, 2024
Event Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Mansion Gravisi-Buttorai, street OF 10
PROGRAM:
C.Shaw: Boris Kerner (2012, rev. 2021) for cello and marimba
C. Wolff: One coat of Paint 1 (2004) for cello and marimba
D.Coll: Caldera (2016, rev. 2021) for cello and marimba
D.Terranova: A feeling imagine the moving water (2021) for cello
Tradizionale Ortodosso: Invocazione per Semantron
O.Messiaen: Louange à l’Éternitè de Jesus da Quatuor pour la fin du temps (1941) for cello and marimba
J.S.Bach: Sarabanda dalla Suite n.5 in do minore, BWV 1011 (1717-1723) for cello
C.Magnan: Dagh (2005) for cello and marimba
M.Marelli: Novità (2024) for cello and marimba (WP)
F.Perotti: Selva d’autunno_Canzona (2021) for cello and marimba
“The wonderful cellist Claudio Pasceri impressed me so much with his musicality and his absolute mastery of his instrument, as well as his competence around the music of today”
Helmut Lachenmann
One of the most highly regarded Italian cellists of his generation, Claudio Pasceri has a busy concert schedule. His solo repertory ranges from Vivaldi concertos to the works of Schnittke, in performances with orchestras like the Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse, the Camerata Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Arpeggione Kammerorchester. One of his interpretations of the Schumann Cello Concerto was recorded by the Bayerischer Rundfunk in Munich. In the domain of chamber music he has played with famous musicians like Salvatore Accardo, Pavel Gililov, Ilya Grubert, Dora Schwarzberg, Bruno Giuranna, Rohan De Saram, Rocco Filippini, Irvine Arditti, Gilles Apap. Since 2012 he has been the cellist in NEXT- New Ensemble Xenia Turin, a string quartet specialized in the contemporary repertoire . He regularly conducts master classes and workshops for European institutions like Musicalta in Rouffach, Università del Liceu in Barcelona, Leopold Mozart University in Augsburg, Leeds University. He taught cello for several years at the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo. Claudio Pasceri is artistic director of the contemporary music festival EstOvest. He’s Artist in residence 2023/2025 of Late Spring Music Festival | Reggia di Venaria Reale, in Italy.
Percussionist, awarded the Silver Lion at the 2010 Venice Music Biennale (Repertorio Zero project). His research into sound, design of new instruments and new compositional solutions for percussion has led him to collaborate with important composers, artists and international companies including Barcelona 216, Berlin Piano Percussion, EnsembleKollektiv, Klangforum Wien, mdi, Mosaik, Phace, Prometeo, Sentieri Selvaggi, Zeitkratzer. He has played with the most prestigious Italian orchestras, including the Filarmonica della Scala in Milan, Teatro la Fenice in Venice, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Claudio Abbado’s Orchestra Mozart, Spiramirabilis and Mahler Chamber Orchestra. He performs as a soloist interpreter of 20th and 21st century music in Festivals such as Aperto, Autumn Warsaw, Biennale Venice, Biennale Zagreb, Gaida in Vilnius, Huddersfield Contemporary Music, Krakow International, Impuls in Graz, Manca in Nice, Milano Musica, Traiettorie in Parma. He is a founding member and artistic director of ZAUM_percussion, an ensemble born within the three-year residency (2018-21) of the Milano Musica Festival. He has released four solo albums under his own name (label Stradivarius) and participated in many other record productions for various European labels. He has created and performed live original music for dance productions (Aterballetto), theatre (Franco Parenti), silent films (Bela Lugosi’s Dracula) and short films (Catherine van Campen). He collaborates with the artists of the former Consorzio Produttori Indipendenti: Massimo Zamboni, Simone Filippi, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti. After studying at Italian conservatories, he continued his education at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan, the University of Bologna (DAMS), the Conservatoire National Regional de Paris, the ESMUC in Barcelona and the Hochschule für Musik in Basel.
He is a percussion teacher at the Conservatory of Reggio Emilia and guest lecturer at the Katarina Gurska Academy in Madrid.
He is currently working on a book, still unpublished, that collects more than 250 interviews with the leading composers and performers of percussion music in Italy from the 1950s to the present day. He lives between Reggio Emilia and Berlin