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Fragmentos Reduzidos de uma História Muito Longa (Reduced Fragments of a Very Large Story);
Composição Para Piano a Quatro Mãos e Dois Comentários (Composition for Piano Four Hands and Two Comments) – performed with the special guest Achille Picchi
Preludio (Prelude)
Figuração Interpretada (Interpreted Figuration)
Concerto para Piano e Sons Eletroacústicos (Concert for Piano and Electroacoustic Sounds)
Composição para Piano III (Composition for Piano III) – performed by Edson Zampronha.
Pianoforte, Attilio Mastrogiovanni
Edson Zampronha was born in a family of musicians. He started out his musical training since his first years, at home. His first lessons included musical composition, history of music, theory, harmony, counterpoint and musical analysis, besides piano playing. His family moved from Rio de Janeiro to São Paulo in 1969. In 1978 he was introduced into electroacoustic music composition, and his first experiments were done in a four-channel Revox tape recorder.
In 1983 he starts the course on Music Composition and Conducting at the São Paulo State University. Two years before its conclusion he was invited to be a professor at the São Paulo Municipal School of Music. In 1991 he concludes a Master Degree in Musical Composition at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and in 1992 he starts a large and fruitful period as a professor of musical composition at the São Paulo State University. In 1998 he concludes the Doctorate on Communication and Semiotics – Arts, at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo, were he first applied semiotic tools for music composition.
As of 1999 he starts an intense international agenda. In many opportunities he has been invited composer at outstanding studios as the Laboratory for Musical Informatics and Electronics at the Center for Diffusion of Contemporary Music (LIEM-CDMC, Madrid); the Phonos Foundation at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), and the Electroacoustic Music Studios of the University of Birmingham (England). He has developed two pos-doctorate researches to improve his theories on music and meaning, one at the University of Helsinki (Finland), in 2000, and another one at the University of Valladolid (Spain), in 2005. During this period the re-interpretation term was coined.[2]
Since the 1990s his compositions have gone beyond the specialized circuits. He has received commissions from different groups and institutions, as from the Museum for Applied Arts, Cologne (Germany), in 2006; from the fashion designer María Lafuente for her catwalk show at the Pasarela Cibeles also in 2006 (Madrid, Spain), and from the São Paulo State Symphonic Band for the 100th Anniversary of Sao Paulo State Art Gallery, in 2005 (São Paulo, Brazil).
In 2006 one of the leading classic music labels in Brazil, Clássicos, releases a CD fully dedicated to his compositions for piano, for the first time including a CD dedicated to contemporary music in their collection.
In 2008 he interrupts a sequence of 16 years as a professor of musical composition at the São Paulo State University. He transfer his residency to Spain and he starts a new period of musical composition and researches. |