1990-92

Adagio für Glasorchester

for:

orchestra

2.2.2.2./2.2.0.0./perc.I.II./cel., harp and strings (10.8.5.5.3.)

duration:

about 5'30" (1st vers.); about 11' (2nd vers.)

first performance:

1st version: May 1991, Florence, ORT's Musical Season, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, conductor Donato Renzetti 2nd version: 16.11.92, Vienna, Wien Modern, ORF Symphonieorchester, conductor Bernhard Kontarsky

prizes:

2nd prize at the International Competition Mozart 1991 in Vienna

2001

chhamp

for:

flute and eleven couples of musicians

solo flute, 2.2.0.0./2.2.2.0./perc. I.II/ 2 pianos (a grand piano and an upright piano) and strings (2.2.2.2.2.)

duration:

about 23'

commission:

Contrechamps, Geneva

first performance:

11.12.01, Geneva, Bâtiment des Forces Motrices - Salle Théodore Turrettini, Ensemble Contrechamps, flute Mario Caroli, conductor Heinz Holliger

2005

Fantasia

for:

piano and orchestra

solo piano, 2.2.2.2./2.2.2.0./perc. I.II.III.IV, harp and strings (12.10.8.6.4.)

duration:

about 10'

commission:

Fondazione Concorso Internazionale Ferruccio Busoni - Bolzano festival Bozen

first performance:

24.8.05, Bolzano, Nuovo Teatro Comunale, Bolzano Festival Bozen, Massimiliano Damerini, Orchestra Haydn, conductor Ola Rudner

1987

In Eile zögernd III

for:

symphonic orchestra

3.3.3.3./4.3.3.1./perc. I.II.III.IV./piano, harp and strings (14.12.10.8.6.)

duration:

about 14'50"

first performance:

August 87, Parma, Teatro Farnese, OSER "A. Toscanini" Symphonic Orchestra, conductor Olaf Henzold

prizes:

3rd prize at the 2nd International Competition Goffredo Petrassi in Parma, 1987

2006

Irrene Stimme

for:

piano and symphonic orchestra

solo piano, 3.3.3.3./4.3.3.1./perc. I.II.III.IV, 2 harps, cymbalom and strings (14.12.10.8.6.)

duration:

about 14'

commission:

OSN RAI Orchestra (RAI National Symphonic Orchestra)

first performance:

26.10.06, Torino, Auditorium RAI, Symphonic Season 2006 - 2007, Jenny Lin, OSN RAI Orchestra, conductor Lothar Zagrosek

2002-03

Metà della ripa

for:

orchestra

2.2.2.2./2.2.2.0./perc. I.II.III.IV/cel., harp and strings (12.10.8.6.4)

duration:

about 17'

commission:

Radio France

first performance:

4.11.06, Milano, Sala Verdi del Conservatorio "G. Verdi", Milano-Musica 2006, OSN RAI Orchestra, conductor Lothar Koenigs

2008

Reconnaissance

for:

orchestra

4.4.4.4./8.4.4.2./2 harps and strings (16.14.12.10.8.)

duration:

18'

commission:

Suntory Limited for Suntory Hall International Program for Music Composition 2008

first performance:

29.08.08, Tokyo, Suntory Hall, Suntory Music Foundation's Summer Festival 2008 "Music Today 21"

1989

Sensibile

for:

symphonic orchestra

3.3.3.3./4.3.3.0./perc. I. II. III. IV. /cel., harp and strings (14.12.10.8.6.)

duration:

about 7'30"

first performance:

13.9.89, Parma, Teatro Farnese, OSER "A. Toscanini" Symphonic Orchestra, conductor Hubert Soudant

prizes:

2nd prize at the 3rd International Competition Goffredo Petrassi in Parma, 1989

1999-00

Sonata sopra Sancta Maria

for:

orchestra

2.2.2.2./2.2.0.0./perc.I.II./ strings (8.6.6.4.4.)

duration:

7'

commission:

Mrs. Mariuccia Rognoni

first performance:

6.5.00, Milan, Sala Verdi del Conservatorio, Musical Season of the Pomeriggi Musicali, "I Pomeriggi Musicali" Orchestra, conductor Andrea Pestalozza

2003

Un leggero ritorno di cielo

for:

twenty-two strings

strings (6.6.4.4.2.)

duration:

about 13'

commission:

Internationale Stiftung Preis E. Balzan-Fonds, Zurich

first performance:

4.7.03, Zurich, Tonhalle, Zürcher Festspiele 2003, Zürcher Kammerorchester, conductor Howard Griffiths