BELGRADE PREMIERE!
CONCERT OF WONDERFUL PIANIST AND COMPOSER
ALFONSO PEDUTO (USA/Italy)
“A kind of unicorn in post-classical. Intellectually fulfilling and emotionally stimulating.”
Price Suddarth, choreographer, artistic director at Jumpkut, soloist at Pacific Northwest Ballet
The concert will take place on
Wednesday, November 01, 2023 at 8pm
in Kolarac Concert Hall
Studentski trg 5, Belgrade
http://www.alfonsopedutomusic.com/
Online tickets reservation and purchasing: https://www.kolarac.rs/rezervacije/sr/alfonso-peduto-1-11-detail.html
Classically trained in composition and piano performance, Alfonso’s post-genre approach to music-making aims to defy categorical classification, bringing together idioms from American minimalism, European classical traditions, together with reminiscences of popular genres. With a prolific catalog comprising over a hundred pieces, ranging from solo, chamber and orchestral, the main focus of his output has been on creating music for solo piano and for multiple pianos.
After an early exploration of classical forms (Beginnings, Vol. I and II, released in 2011 and 2013), his active interest in mathematics informed a new direction rooted in minimalism from 2014. His research, stemming from the idea of applying selected mathematical devices to the music-compositional process, lead him to the production of a 150-minutes three-collection trilogy for multiple pianos: Images (2015), Sequences (2016) and To The Lost Ones (2016)
This new direction, based on the repetition and layering of many short motivic ideas (at times with the aid of a looping station), sparked a wide variety of subsequent projects: a symphonic poem, new music for choir, a multi-year long series of pieces for piano and multiple hands named This Is Not a Piano (Volume I, 2018; Volume II, 2019), an album for keyboard ensemble Spaces (2018) and the 3-hour trilogy of compositions for solo piano Nachtmusik (2017), Wintermusik (2019) and Stillemusik (2021).
Alfonso’s music has been performed in the US and Europe, and has appeared in collaborations and productions by the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the Kansas City Ballet, the dance duo Salvitto-Francese at the Uffizi Gallery (Florence) and at the Florence Dance Festival; performances by the William Jewell College Choir, the classical piano duo Fortin-Poirier (Canada), and pianist Hanyi Meng; Alfonso was also featured in an exclusive collaboration with Google (ATAP) in 2020.
Since 2021 he has been experimenting with a Yamaha Disklavier to adapt his multiple piano works to be performed in a solo setting, as well as developing new modes of real-time interactivity and their ensuing new compositional paradigms.
Alfonso holds Bachelor’s in Classical Composition and in Music Technology from Berklee College of Music, Master’s degree in Classical Composition from New England Conservatory, and Bachelor’s in Physics and in Mathematics from the University of California at Berkeley.