RICCARDO PERUGINI
composer
Riccardo Perugini (1996) is a Tuscan composer known for his provocative blend of experimental, pop, and early music. Perugini's compositional journey began under the guidance of Andrea Portera and has been furthered by world-renowned composers including Unsuk Chin, Mauro Lanza, Detlev Glanert, Peter Eötvös, Luca Francesconi, and Francesco Filidei. Perugini's music has been commissioned and performed by numerous institutions and festivals, such as the Biennale d'arte di Venezia, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Cantiere Internazionale d'arte di Montepulciano, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington), the 2 Agosto Competition (Bologna), the Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia, the Zhejiang Yichuang International Music Center, the Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the TorinoDanza Festival in collaboration with the Teatro Stabile di Torino, the Teatro Elfo Puccini and the MilanOltre Festival, the Reggia di Venaria Reale (Turin), the Summer Sounds Festival (Porvoo) and the Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival.
In 2023 the Gioventù Musicale d'Italia, together with the Ensemble Forma Libera, AERCO and Tactus Records commissioned his second opera "Il pellegrino del nulla". In 2024 he was selected as a Fromm Foundation Composer Fellow at the 80th Composers Conference.
He has been awarded by Kevin Puts, Salvatore Sciarrino, Magnus Lindberg, Giovanni Sollima, Fabio Vacchi, Christopher Theofanidis, and Michael Torke. Perugini's music has been performed by some of the leading contemporary classical music orchestras, ensembles and soloists, including the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Avanti! Kamariorkesteri, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, and the Shanghai New Music Ensemble, the Amatis Piano Trio, Salastina Music Society, the Akademiska Damkören Lyran, the Divertimento Ensemble, the Sunrise Quartet, Sharon Harms, Kari Kriikku, Roberto Fabbriciani, Alexander Baillie and soloists from Ensemble Modern, Quartetto Prometeo, Ensemble Linea, and Sentieri Selvaggi.
His music has been broadcasted on Rai3, Rai5, NPO Radio 4, Yleisradio Oy and is published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni – SugarMusic, EMA Vinci Records, Da_sh Music, and Tactus Records. He has been artistic director of the ECHI Festival from 2020 to 2023.
Riccardo Perugini - "La ragione di un prato" for vocoded countertenor and quartet
Riccardo Perugini - "La ragione di un prato" for vocoded countertenor and quartet
Riccardo Perugini - "Sol" from the string trio "Madri"
Riccardo Perugini - "Why you ghosting me?" for solo cello
Riccardo Perugini - "Viadeyra" from "Troubadouritz"
TITLE | DATE | VENUE | PERFORMER(S) |
|---|---|---|---|
NEW CHAMBER PIECE | 26/07/2024 | Avaloch Farm Music Institute (New Hampshire) | Composers Conference Ensemble |
"Studio natatorio" | 23/02/2024 | Paderewski Academy (Ponzan) | Ryszard Lubieniecki portative organ |
"La ragione di un prato" "Troubadouritz" | 09/2024 | Tonedmelisma MusikFestival (Istanbul) | Ayse Denix Birdal cello and voice |
"Courante alternatif" | 18/11/2023 | Barcola (venue tbd) | Lorenzo Dari vibraphone |
"Courante alternatif" | 07/11/2023 | Auditorium Tamburini (Rovigo) | Lorenzo Dari vibraphone |
Arr. of Mozart's "Adagio" K.617 | 27/01/2024 | Fondazione Pietà Turchini | NEMA Ensemble |
Arr. of Mozart's "Adagio" K.617 | 12/08/2023 | Accademia Chigiana (Siena) | NEMA Ensemble |
Il pellegrino del nulla (chamber opera) | 28/04/2024 | Cinema Auditorium Arena (Modena) | L. Zecchini soprano, G. Pieracci bass, C.E. Tortarolo conductor, Coro giovanile dell'Emilia-Romagna, Ensemble Forma Libera |
"La ragione di un prato" | 19/10/2023 | virtual performance | Ayse Deniz Birdal cello and voice |
"La ragione di un prato" | 15/10/2023 | BelVedere Lab (Mirano) | Claudio Pasceri cello, Riccardo Perugini electronics |
"Valse parabolique" | 20/02/2024 | Conservatorio Arrigo Pedrollo (Vicenza) | Bianca Darcey harp, Andrea Cainelli live electronics |
"Studio natatorio" | 16/03/2023 | PanDymińska (Warsaw) | Ryszard Lubieniecki portative organ |
NEW ORCHESTRA PIECE | 09/2024 | Laura Zecchini soprano, La Filharmonie Orchestra | |
"La ragione di un prato" | 09/10/2023 | Salastina Music Society (Los Angeles) | Salastina resident artists |
"Nuova musica segreta" | 21/07/2023 | Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte (Montepulciano) | B. Gaggioli, E. Tanaka, M. E. Trupiano, E. Caccamo soprani, G. Guastini piano |
"Valse parabolique" | 21/06/2023 | Festa della musica 2023, Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Pedrollo (Vicenza) | Bianca Darcey harp |
"Sequenza" | 02/02/2023 | Scuola di Musica di Fiesole | Riccardo Perugini organ |
"Studio natatorio" | 08/02/2023 | Scena Supernova (Krakow) | Ryszard Lubieniecki portative organ |
"Studio natatorio" | 11/02/2023 | Ksiegarnia Hiszpanska (Breslava) | Ryszard Lubieniecki portative organ |
“Studio natatorio" | 12/02/2023 | Ignorantka (Lodz) | Ryszard Lubieniecki portative organ |
"Astigma" | 01/03/2023 | Virtual performance | Francesco Vernero viola, Virginia Luca viola |
"Fabula nubeculata" | 24/03/2023 | Conservatorium Maastricht Zuyd Hogeschool | Hon Ning Cheung chromatic mouth harmonica, Nefelibata New Music Collective |
"Il limite degli alberi" | 30/06/2023 | Summer Sounds Festival (Porvo) | Avanti! Kamariorkesteri |