MATTEO BELLI
MATTEO BELLI
MATTEO BELLI
MATTEO BELLI
Matteo is active in Italy and in the United States. Visual arts and drama are powerful sources of inspiration in some of his works, with three ongoing projects dedicated to Picasso, Shakespeare and Tarkovsky respectively. His music has been played by Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Camere Contemporanee, Altre Voci Ensemble, EMC “L.Dallapiccola”, DMC Ensemble (Scuola di Musica di Fiesole), as well as by solo performers.
Composer and performer
ORCHESTRA
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Semifinale Premio Veretti 2015 - New version for Tae Ho Hwang 2019
With this piece, I felt the urgency to express the conglomerate of violence, dread, and anxiety represented by the phenomenon of terrorism.
for solo piano
Songs f(or) a Loss
for soprano sax/oboe and piano
Sinuous, Straight, Solar
for solo piano
Breaking the Standard
SOLO/DUO
trame di sangue grigio
for orchestra
Nudo di maschera
for string orchestra
for mezzo-soprano, string orchestra,
and percussion
Terra rossa, terra nera
Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University - 2018
Dismayed at the multi-year Syrian crisis, I dedicated this work to all the human blood poured on the sacrificial altar of power.
Commissioned by Orchestra Camera Fiorentina - 2016
I was driven by the convoluted seduction scene of Shakespeare's "Richard III", in which Gloucester and Lady Anne show what they may offer to and receive from one another: power, possession, revenge and protection. Both characters are being uncovered - “naked masks” - to their pitiless needs.
Personal project - 2015
Poem by Cesare Pavese.
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Accademia del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Scuola di Musica di Fiesole - 2016
A contemporary orchestration for sinfonietta by a team of composers.
Opera buffa by Jacques Offenbach
Libretto by Philippe Gille
Vent du soir ou l'horrible festin
ARRANGEMENTS
Commissioned by Ensemble di Musica Contemporanea "L.Dallapiccola" - Broadcast by Rete Toscana Classica as official commercial of the Conservatory of Music “L.Cherubini” of Florence - 2016
Concertino for C-trumpet and ensemble
(sax-quartet, drum-set, marimba, piano 4H)
ENSEMBLE
On a Shore of Cries [Lei, piangente]
for fl, cl, vibr, vc, pf
Commissioned by Camere Contemporanee at Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte in Montepulciano (Italy) - 2017
It is a dialogue with Picasso's "Nude Woman with Necklace" (1968 - Tate Modern, London). When I first saw that portrait of Jacqueline Roque, I felt overwhelmed by its exuding energy. Driven by the vivid memory of that visit, I conceived a musical flux in which mellow sonorities and propulsive gestures are intertwined within a transparent texture, with a constant oscillation between nebulosity and assertiveness.
for cl, vibr, vl, vc
Version for Altre Voci Ensemble - 2017
A Tango – Milonga etude that ends with an elusive and illusive equilibrium, passing through sketches of varying pace and tone.