Projects and Bands
SOLIDBody
Solo electric guitar, live electronics.
Solid Body is a long-term project by Maurizio Grandinetti on a new repertoire for electric guitar. It consists of commissions for new compositions and the development of a website, where information about electric guitar will be collected. This website will be of support for those composing for electric guitar. These new works will then be played in concert by Maurizio Grandinetti.I asked some composers, to write for electric guitar. I started working with these particular ones because they already have the know-how and know the alchemy of this instrument. Some of them are incredible guitarists and others are extraordinary composers who have already used electric guitar in their music and did not need much of my assistance. They are also versatile and crossover musicians with no awe for electronics, and are very peculiar artistic figures.Alex Buess Ata 11
Elliot Sharp Seek
Junghae Lee Lunatico
Domenico Caliri Pit Stop
Marcelo Nisinman Take life As a Slow motion Suicide Process(electric Tango)
Volker Heyn electric cat
other piece in program
Eric Chasalow Scuse Me electric guitar and tape
Nick Didkovsky I Kick My Hand
Fausto Romitelli Trance TV Trance 12’
Periklis Liakakis Scar Guitar
Repertory:
Solo: (selection)
Luciano Berio: Sequenza XI
Brin (trascr. M.G.)
Wasserklavier (trascr. M.G.)
Erdenklavier (trascr. M.G.)
Dusan Bogdanovich Sonata 1
Sonata 2
Jazz Sonata
Alex Buess Ata 11 (first performance)
John Cage In a Landscape (trascr. M.G.)
Totem ancestor "
A Room "
Primitive "
Music for Marcel Duchamp "
A dream "
Summer (preservation) "
And The Earth Shall Bear Again "
Domenico Caliri Pit stop (first performance)Eliot Carter: Changes
Carlos Chavez Three Pieces
Nuccio D’Angelo Due Canzoni Lidie
Stephen Dodgson Partita
Franco Donatoni Algo
Alberto Ginastera Sonata
Felix Ibarrondo Cristal y Piedra
Thomas Kessler Guitar ControlErnst Krenek Suite
Tristan Murail Tellur
Vampyr
Maurice Ohana Tiento
Helmuth Oehring Foxfire 1
Goffredo Petrassi Suoni notturni
Nunc
Walter Prati Il giardino di Teodora (first performance)
Gwyn Pritchard Sonata for Guitar (first performance)
Roger Reynolds The Behavior of the Mirror
Giacinto Scelsi Ko-tha
Elliott Sharp Seek (first performance)Toru Takemitsu In the woods
Folios
Equinox
All in a twilight
John Zorn The Book of Heads
William Walton Five Bagatelles
Lois V. Vierk Go guitars
Maurizio Grandinetti ha suonato larga parte del repertorio ottocentesco (con particolare attenzione per le opere di Fernando Sor e Mauro Giuliani) con una chitarra Lacote del 1829 di sua proprietà.
Negli anni di studio alla Schola Cantrum Basiliensis Maurizio Grandinetti ha suonato opere per chitarra barocca di M. Bartolotti, Francisco Guerau, Gaspar Sanz e Robert De Visée.
Francesco da Milano Fantasie e Ricercari
John Dowland: Fancy P.73
Fantasia P.1
Fancy P.6
John Langton’s Pavan
Farewell
A dream
Forlon Hope
Luis Milan: Tientos e FantasieGiovanni Zamboni Romano Sonate
J. S. Bach opere per liuto, violino e violoncello
S.L. Weiss opere per liutocon ensemble:
Louis Andriessen Hout
Richard Barret Another Heavenly Day
Pierre Boulez Marteau sans Maitre
Pli selon Pli
Alex Buess Phylum (first performance)John Cage Music for
Song Book
Dror Feiler Restitutio in pristinum
Fred Frith The As Unusual DanceVinko Globokar La Prison (first performance)
Sam Hayden Presence
Matthias Heep rappresentazioni I e II (first performance)
Wolfgang Heiniger In Four (first performance)
Tim Hodgkinson Repulsion (first performance)
Klaus Huber Plainte – lieber spaltet mein Herz...II
Rudolph Kelterborn Ensemble-Buch IV (first performance)Wolfgang Mitterer "Crushrooms" opera (first performance)
Andrea Molino Those who speak in a faint voice
Giorgio Netti Note all'EmpedocleOlga Neuwirth Homage à Klaus Nomi
Lost Highway
Helmuth Oehring Cayabyab
Frederick Rzewcki Coming Together
Rebecca Saunders dichroic seventheen
Arnold Schoenberg Serenade op. 24
Salvatore Sciarrino Esplorazione del Bianco
Erkki-Sven Tüür Architectonics VNadir Vassena "leib. wache" - opera (first performance)
Lois V. Vierck Red ShiftDaniel Weissberg A trois
Julia Wolfe Lick
Luigi Boccherini Quintetti
con orchestra:
Ennio Morricone Terzo Concerto per chitarra, marimba e Orchestra
Walter Prati Il Tempo che Scorre (first performance)
Toru Takemitsu To the edge of Dream
Olga Neuwirth Photophorus
Mauro Giuliani Concerto op. 30Gyorgy Kurtag Gabstein für Stephan
Dedalo Guitar Projects
Cosa hanno da dire due improvvisatori sulla partitura di un grande compositore del ‘900? E cosa riescono a trasferire nell’improvvisazione due interpreti di formazione accademica?
Marco Cappelli, chitarra classica / Domenico Caliri, chitarra elettrica / Maurizio Grandinetti, chitarra classica / Roberto Cecchetto, chitarra elettricaDUE NOTE CRITICHE , di Oscar Ghiglia e Ralph Towner
Che si tratti di Stravinsky, di Ligety, di Satie o di Jazz si prova comunque una gradevole sorpresa
all’ascolto delle prorompenti sonorita` di forte colore ed aperte ad estremismi espressivi che pervadono la musica di DEDALO GUITAR PROJECT.
Una novita` trasversale nel mondo della chitarra, cui auguro un luminoso successo
OSCAR GHIGLIAThe DEDALO GUITAR PROJECT combines a dedication to the discovery of new methods of improvisation and intricate original arrangements of contemporary classical music with refreshing enthusiasm and spontaneity that demands and deserves attention.
RALPH TOWNER
Matteis Project Ensemble
There are moments when we have the feeling we`re somehow in touch with eternity, moving beyond the realms of time and space.
We`re circling around moments like these in our musical-theatrical journey A Clear View of Heaven. As a starting point we have Michelangelo`s frescoes – until recently covered under a patina – in the Sistine Chapel, as well as the music of the Italian Baroque composer Nicola Matteis.
Sounds and images from the past mix with those of today: a restaurator explains how Michelangelo`s colours are to be laid bare. The stories which he reads from the images gradually begin to merge with his own – and Matteis’ music mutates unexpectedly into popsong... Baroque sensuality and a multimedial event of our time are mixed into one.
And in the process, visions begin to emerge... Where the past, present and future jostle together towards one whole, we arrive with a feeling of clarity, indeed: A Clear View of Heaven.
A Clear View of Heaven Website
Matteis Project Ensemble
Ensemble Phoenix Basel
The Ensemble Phoenix Basel is a group of up to 25 musicians who are especially dedicated to performing contemporary music.
The initiator and conductor of the ensemble, Jürg Henneberger, who is presently also president of the IGNM Basel, has for years been regarded as a specialist for contemporary music. Each of the individual members of the ensemble has accumulated experience in this branch of musical performance during the past years.
During this time, these musicians were engaged as individual performers by institutions such as the IGNM Basel or the Theater Basel, where they performed in various formations, for example under the name "Ensemble der IGNM Basel". As such, the members of the Ensemble Phoenix Basel were involved in productions such as "The Unanswered Question" (Marthaler/Henneberger) or "Der mündliche Verrat" from Mauricio Kagel, etc. However, at this point in time an actual ensemble per se did not exist.
In time, the need of forming a specialized ensemble for contemporary music became evident, not only to meet the demands of the Basler Theater. The city of Basel, which with its large number of resident composers is regarded as an important center for contemporary music in and outside of Switzerland, is ideally suited to house an ensemble of this kind.
In addition, an independent, self-managed ensemble significantly eases the organizational burden of concert promoters such as the IGNM and the Basler Theater, and can insure the efficiency which comes from working with a permanent team, the members being tuned-in to each other.
In 1998 Jürg Henneberger and a handful of nucleus members took the initiative and founded the Ensemble Phoenix Basel, which gave its initial concert on the "Kleine Bühne" of the Basler Theater on December 12, 1998. Works from B. A. Zimmermann, Harrison Birtwistle and Christoph Delz were on the program. The concert was recorded live by Swiss Radio DRS II and received wide acclaim by the press.
The Ensemble Phoenix Basel will continue to be active, performing ensemble concerts of the IGNM Basel, as well as realizing projects requiring chamber music ensembles at the Basler Theater, and organizing its own concerts.
The purpose of the Ensemble Phoenix Basel is to perform concerts in its home town, the rest of Switzerland, and also to be present in the most important contemporary music festivals outside of the country. Its primary objective is to play an integral role in the development of contemporary music through direct co-operation with not only renowned, but also young composers of our times, in order to perform their works and make them accessible to a broader public.
EQUIvoci
(EQUALvoices)
The guitarist Maurizio Grandinetti presents a programme with music by John Cage and John Dowland. All pieces are transcribed from the piano (Cage) and from the lute (Dowland).This musical project originated from the desire of setting these two authors on multiple layers: first the intrinsic message in the scores, then the transcription for a new instrument, which gives new light to this music. Most of all though, I wanted to allow these two men, who lived centuries apart, to talk to one another giving them equal voices.
Their compositions in the CD and in concert are alternated. One in front of the other, the two composers escape their historical dimension and find a way in the present time to talk to the listeners through the performance.
Dowland’s counterpoint, true labyrinth where his hidden unrestlessness und unpronounceable thoughts would hide, approaches us through his daring chromatisms and false relations. Cage, often referred to as the composer of silence, escapes from the several avangards of the 20th century. He seeks for roots that go beyond the musical language, and thus conveys to silences and noises. A way to come closer to the primordiality and to the extraeuropean music and philosophies.
The programme presents works by John Cage mainly composed in the forties for prepared piano, which are alternated to contrapuntal compositions by John Dowland (fantasies, chromatic fantasies etc.). The pieces by John Cage are played on an eight stringed guitar often prepared with objects used in everyday life (paper pegs as shown on the CD cover, pieces of wood and iron).