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| Icarus Ensemble - Biography |
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| The Icarus Ensemble was founded in 1994. This internationally acclaimed ensemble was present in Mexico (Festival Cervantino (1996, 2003, 2005), Festival Donatoni (1995,1996), Forum Manuel Enriquez (2002,2003,2005),Oaxaca Festival (2007), in Argentina (teatro Colon di Buenos Aires (1998), in Holland (Gaudeamus Week (1998), in Belgium (Ars Musica (2004), Bruxelles e Mons), in England (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2002), Festival Musica (2000) Cardiff, Swansea |
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Festival, in Japan (Art Festival of the New Generation (the ensemble resided there) in Tokyo (2000), Switzerland (Tag fur der Neue Musik, Zurich (2004) and ISMC Lugano (2004), in Croatia (Biennale di Zagabria) (2001,2003,2005,2009), The United States (UK for NY in New York (2001), Spring Festival of the Italian Music in San Francisco (2008), Egypt (Cairo Opera House, Alexandria Opera House) (2009) in France (Festival Manca of Nice 2008), Italiart (Dijon 2009), Festival Deodat de Severac (2007), in Germany (Musikhochschule 1995, 2003 and Gasteig 1996 in Munich and Theaterhaus Pragsattel of Stuttgart (2003), in Azerbaijan SonorFestival (2003) in Baku, Indonesia (Jakarta and Bali in 2009), Ireland, Romania, Moldavia and Maltafest.
In Italy, the ensemble has performed for nearly all the most important institutions and festivals.
The ensemble is (currently) based out of the Teatro di Reggio Emilia, Italy. |
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The Artistic collaborations of greater importance are among these, work with director Yoshi Oida (2003) for the realization of Verrando's opera "Alex Langer" , with Daniele Abbado (2004) for the opera "The Rape of Lucretia di Britten" and for Miracolo a Milano of Giorgio Battistelli, with Franco Ripa di Meana for Il tempo sospeso del volo, with Francesco Micheli for Fidelio Off (2009) with the artist Christian Boltanski (2005) for the |
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| installment of "Tant que nous sommes vivents", with Lorenzo Mijares for "DeCachetito Raspado di Trigos", with the Agon Studies, with Fabrica (Benetton), with Otolab (Sincronie 2004, 2005, Chew-Z 2006 and Rec 2006) with Luca Scarzella ("Lips, Eyes, Bang" by Francesconi and "The Rape of Lucretia di Britten"), with Roberto Paci Dalo and i Giardini Pensili for the production of "Organo Magico Organo Laico with MartinenFabrik for “Prove di volo”, with David Ryan, with the actors John DeLeo, Michele DeMarchi and Ivana Monti. The latest productions have included interpreters from the international electronic and post-techno arena such as Staalplaat Soundsystem, (Holland), Pan Sonic (Finland), Matmos (USA), Andi Toma of "Mouse on Mars"(Germany). Among the conductors the ensemble has hosted are are the likes of Giorgio Bernasconi, Pietro Borgonovo, Erasmo Gaudiomonte, Giovanni Landini, Andrea Molino, Renato Rivolta, Yoichi Sujiama, Juan Trigos, Pierre Andre Valade, Pierangelo Valtinoni and Jonathan Webb. Icarus has often joined in special collaborative projects with other ensembles such as Alter Ego, Neuvocalsolisten (Germany) and Cantus (Croatia), Coro Claudio Merulo. The ensemble is regularly a guest of RAI radio programs and its concerts have been broadcast by Japanese, Mexican, Argentinian, Dutch, French, Swiss, Romanian and Azerbaigianian national television stations. The ensemble has recorded for major recording companies such as, Ricordi, Stradivarius, Bottega Discantica, Sincronie, Ariston and Spaziomusica. |
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