![]() ![]() ![]() On 8th January 2019 – Scelsi’s date of birth – she performed a recital at Isabella Scelsi Foundation in Rome. Her interest in Giacinto Scelsi’s music is expressed through both performance and research, during piano recitals and seminars dedicated to the composer. November 2020: participation in the American Musicological Society Annual Conference – panel “At the Borders of Notation,” through a talk-interview in the intervention of Kate Doyle, PhD titled The Suchness of Sound: Lucia Dlugoszewski’s Revolutions of Musical Form and Instrumentation. Title: Problem as Possibility: Experimental Notation as Nexus of Concept and Praxis, Theorist and Performer. Talk in collaboration with Kate Doyle, PhD (Rutgers University-Newark), October 8th, 2021. October 2021 – speaker at “Dialogues: Analysis and Performance,” a musicology and performance conference organized by the University of Toronto. November 2021 – publication of two essays for the book Looking within – The Music of John Palmer, Vision Edition 2021, entitled “John Palmer: composer, improviser, performer,” and “John Palmer’s to the night (1) and to the night (2): from the piano to the score and back”. The title of the paper is Problem as Possibility: A Dialogue about Performance and Analysis with Lucia Dlugoszewski’s Experimental Notation as Case Study (). In 2023 she released the recording of John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano (Neuma Records, March 2023), and she contributed to the collection Fluxus&Neo Fluxus – Stolen Symphony part I (Sub Rosa, May 2023) with pieces by Mieko Shiomi, Dick Higgins and La Monte Young.Īpril 2023 – publication on Contemporary Music Review Special Issue: Engaging Analysis and Performance of an article written in collaboration with Kate Doyle, PhD. The recording featured among the ten Best of Bandcamp Contemporary Classics releases and the Top Five 2021 choices by Italian national review Alias – il Manifesto. Recent record releases: Lento trascolorare – piano music (Da Vinci Classics, 2020), a monographic CD for solo piano dedicated to the music of Giancarlo Cardini, and Subtle Matters (Neuma Records, 2021), featuring music by Lucia Dlugoszewski, Tan Dun and Philip Corner for piano, inside piano and “timbre-piano”, with the use of various extended techniques. Among them, the monographical “portrays” of Giacinto Scelsi, John Cage, Giancarlo Cardini, and the recitals dedicated to Fluxus movement (featuring premieres by Philip Corner e Dick Higgins) and to women’s creativity from the 50ies to nowadays (including Lucia Dlugoszewski’s “timbre” piano research project). Her solo recitals are often thematic or monographic, carefully interweaving live performance with extracts from writings and audio documents selected after musical, bibliographical and archival study. Her work often revolves around the role of sound in musical composition, and investigates the complementarity of composition and improvisation in musical creativity, both as an author and interpreter. She also specialized in piano and chamber music and attended masterclasses with F.-J. Lovato, graduating with full marks from Conservatory of Venice with a thesis on Giacinto Scelsi. ![]() Agnese Toniutti is an Italian pianist and independent researcher specialized in contemporary and 20th Century music. ![]()
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