The Music of Today: Facts and Ideas

Carlo Alessandro Landini: "The Music of Today: Facts and Ideas"

The Humanities Forum presents the keynote lecture for the Department of Music's Livewire 3: On Fire festival, featuring composer Carlo Alessandro Landini, who will speak on "The Music of Today: Facts and Ideas."

Carlo Alessandro Landini studied composition and piano at Milan Conservatory, at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, and at the University of California, San Diego. He attended master classes in Siena (Accademia Chigiana) with Franco Donatoni, in Aix-en-Provence with György Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis, in Grožnjan with Witold Lutoslawski. He has also received a Fulbright scholarship.

A winner of numerous national and international competitions including the Valentino Bucchi Competition in Rome (1986) and the Ernest Bloch Competition in Lugano (1994), Mr. Landini is the only composer ever to win two consecutive editions of the K. Serocki Competition (Warsaw, 2002 and 2004). He is a regular guest of the Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt and publishes for the Milan-based houses Sonzogno and Rugginenti, the Rome-based Edi-Pan, and the French Alphonse Leduc (Paris). In spring of 2003 Mr. Landini was appointed Fellow of the Italian Academy in New York and Research Scientist at the Music Department of Columbia University. He has taught at UMBC, the University of California, at the Department of Graduate Studies of Columbia, at the Eastman School of Music, at the University at Buffalo and at the MHS Trossingen (Germany). In 2008 Mr. Landini won the First Prize in the International W. Lutoslawski Competition in Warsaw with his work Le retour d'Astrée for violin and piano. Mr. Landini is current professor of composition at the G. Nicolini State Conservatory in Piacenza (Italy).

4:00 p.m., Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery. Admission is free. For more information call 410-455-6798.

This event is sponsored in part by the Department of Music.