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I write music that collides early music with pop, not to reconcile them but to expose their friction. 

I believe in distortion, in clarity through the acceptance of limits, and in histories that never existed. 

Riccardo Perugini (b. 1996) is a Tuscan composer. Perugini's compositional journey began under the guidance of Mauro Montalbetti and further developed through studies with Unsuk Chin, Mauro Lanza, Richard Danielpour, Detlev Glanert, Peter Eötvös, Marcos Balter, Luca Francesconi, and Francesco Filidei.

Perugini's works have been commissioned and performed by numerous institutions and festivals, including the Venice Biennale, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 81st Composers Conference (Boscawen), Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington), Fondazione Pietà dei Turchini, 2 Agosto Competition, Teatro Grande di Brescia, Accademia Chigiana, Festival della Piana del Cavaliere, Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), TorinoDanza Festival, Teatro Stabile di Torino, Teatro Elfo Puccini, Reggia di Venaria Reale, Summer Sounds Festival (Porvoo), and the Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival.

His music has received recognition from composers such as Kevin Puts, Salvatore Sciarrino, Osvaldo Golijov, Magnus Lindberg, Kalevi Aho, Giovanni Sollima, Fabio Vacchi, Christopher Theofanidis, and Michael Torke. 

In 2023 the Gioventù Musicale d'Italia, together with the Ensemble Forma Libera and Tactus Records, commissioned his second opera "Il pellegrino del nulla" and in 2024 he was selected as a composer fellow at the 80th Composers Conference after which he was the recipient of the Susan Horvath Commission 2025, awarded by the Fromm Foundation. 

Perugini's music has been performed by orchestras, ensembles and soloists, including the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini (conducted by Alessandro Cadario), the Orchestra della Toscana, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Avanti! Kamariorkesteri, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Shanghai New Music Ensemble, the Conference Ensemble (conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni), the Amatis Piano Trio, the Salastina Music Society, the Akademiska Damkören Lyran, the Divertimento Ensemble, the Sunrise Quartet, Kari Kriikku, Roberto Fabbriciani, Alexander Baillie and soloists from Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Talea, American Modern Ensemble and Ensemble Linea.

His music has been broadcast on Rai3, Rai5, NPO Radio 4, Yleisradio Oy and Resonance 104.4. He has been artistic director of the ECHI Festival from 2020 to 2026.

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