Marco Fusi’s upcoming guest recital will focus on two of the most eminent Italian composers of contemporary music alive today, each of whom illuminates radically different approaches to writing for a solo instrument. Pierluigi Billone’s ITI.KE.MI for solo viola is a 35-minute poetic exploration reaching deep into various timbral possibilities of a string instrument. The second part of the concert features 6 Capricci per violino (6 Caprices for Solo Violin) by Salvatore Sciarrino, a contemporary masterpiece that is technically and musically demanding of the violinist, opening a sensuous and imaginative soundscape.
Marco Fusi, violinist, violist and composer, studied with Dimitrios Polisoidis, Ernst Kovacic and Jeanne-Marie Conquer. He has performed with conductors including Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Peter Eötvös, Beat Furrer, Susanna Mälkki, and premiered new works by composers Castiglioni, Eötvös, Sciarrino. He has performed concerts at the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, KKL Konzertsaal in Lucerne, Royaumont abbey Paris, Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles, and Experimental Intermedia in NYC. Among Marco’s collaborations are Ensemble Linea (Srasbourg), Interface (Frankfurt), Phoenix (Basel), MotoPerpetuo (NYC) and Handwerk (Köln). His complete recording of John Cage’s Freeman Etudes was released by Stradivarius; he has been invited to present this project, giving concerts, masterclasses and lectures at University of Southern California, Columbia University, Arizona State University, Basel Musikhochschule, and the Milan Conservatory. Marco was a member of Lucerne Festival Academy, under the artistic and musical direction of Pierre Boulez.
In collaboration with the Italian Culture Institute of Chicago
Preceded by Composition Seminar presentation in the Logan Center Penthouse. See link for details: http://music.uchicago.edu/page/composition-seminar