Massimo Lauricella

Massimo Lauricella

Massimo Lauricella

Title: In Memory of Carlo Walter Loeb
Commission: 2004
Completed: 2005
Instrumentation: string orchestra
Premiere Location: Chiesa di San Matteo al Cassaro, Palermo, Italy
Premiere Ensemble: Orchestra Giovanile Mediterranea
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With his first composition, Impressions of an American Sparrow for two pianos, won the Valentino Bucchi prize of Rome in 1986 and, two years later, he won the Forum prize of Cologne with Tremiti for string quartet. This piece, played by the Arditti Quartet and recorded by the German radio-tv station WDR, was subsequently also awarded the prize of the Kennedy Foundation of Washington.

In the following years his works received much more recognition and began to be diffused throughout the world by internationally renowned soloists, ensembles and conductors.

In 1992 Witold Lutoslawski, chairman of the International Contest of Warsaw, awarded his symphonic work Spectra that, also performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, was a great success according to both the public and critics.

After two more prestigious international prizes (Jewish Culture Center of Los Angeles in 1994; Tulane University of New Orleans in 1995), the B. Barattelli Society of l’Aquila, on the occasion of their fiftieth anniversary, appointed him to compose Imis, a piece for seven instruments, which, among many other interpretations, was also played by the Ensemble Pierrot Lunaire at the Wien Musikverein.

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