International Symposium on the Music of Fausto Romitelli — April 17 & 18, 2021
With his rapturous, dystopian sound fantasies, Italian composer Fausto Romitelli, born in 1963, became a shooting star of the new music scene. His meteoric career was cut short, however, by his much too early death in 2004. Romitelli had received his artistic training from Franco Donatoni in Italy and Hugues Dufourt and Gérard Grisey in France – the starting point for developing his own distinctive musical language, which he called »obsessive, repetitive and visionary«. Today, his mature compositions belong to the undisputed core repertoire of new music. He obsessively sought expanded and distorted states of consciousness, musically walking on or beyond the abyss.
»The Sound-Lab of Professor Bad Trip« is the fi rst congress in Germany devoted exclusively to Romitelli’s music. For two days, international experts will join researchers from Lübeck to address Romitelli’s critique of modernism, his aesthetics, and his compositional technique. Two concerts will span the spectrum from the premiere of an early work for seven fl utes to Romitelli’s legendary triptych »Professor Bad Trip I-III«.
The congress is aimed at the professional audience. It is planned as a hybrid event (to register, click here) and will be broadcast live via www.mhl-streaming.de.
Please note: Contrary to what was announced, the concerts will be shown exclusively via MHL streaming.
SA / 17 / APR / 21
SU / 18 / APR / 21
Music theory at the MHL
Große Petersgrube 21
23552 Lübeck
Prof. Dr. Oliver Korte
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