Alessandro Boratti (Rovereto, 1986) è attivo come compositore e pianista. Attualmente vive a Londra. Ha studiato armonia, contrappunto e orchestrazione con Nicola Straffelini e pianoforte jazz con Renzo Vigagni. Ha poi conseguito il Diploma Accademico di secondo livello in Composizione al Conservatorio Arrigo Boito di Parma sotto la guida dei maestri Luca Tessadrelli e Luigi Abbate, e la laurea in Antropologia Culturale presso l’Università degli Studi di Bologna. Ha frequentato masterclasses di importanti compositori e improvvisatori, tra cui Vincenzo Cresta, Fabrizio De Rossi Re, Sandro Gorli, Carlos Marecos, Tristan Honsinger, Stefano Battaglia. 

La sua attività di compositore si concentra sulle intersezioni tra notazione e improvvisazione, e su quelle tra musica e scienze sociali. Nel 2008 ha co-fondato il collettivo di teatro musicale Abele di Babele. Come arrangiatore e performer ha collaborato con cantanti, scrittori, attori e realtà culturali in particolare dell'area emiliana (Narkissos Contemporary Art Gallery, Massimiliano Chiamenti, Gabriele Zobele, Debora Binci, Pierre Campagnoli).

Sue composizioni sono state eseguite da vari solisti ed ensembles, tra cui Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Fontanamix, AltreVoci, AdM, Quatuor Chouette. Ha collaborato attivamente con realtà importanti della musica di ricerca italiana ed europea, tra cui il festival Multiversal (Oslo/Berlino), il centro Tempo Reale (Firenze) e il collettivo anonimo Kapuziner Strasse.

Tra i progetti principali: Quei là postadi al mur (2011) per voce recitante, quattro cantanti e trio jazz; Gershwin vs Porter, (arrangiamenti per voce e pianoforte); i cicli compositivi Digitans (2016-2018) e Ludofonia (2012-2018) per varie formazioni di interpreti classici e improvvisatori.

Alessandro Boratti - Composer, pianist

Higher education studies

2015 Master’s Degree in Composition (Conservatorio A. Boito, Parma, Italy)

supervisors: Luigi Abbate, Luca Tessadrelli.

2012 Master’s Degree in Cultural Anthropology (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy)

2010 Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Anthropology (Università degli Studi di Bologna, Italy)

Other relevant studies

Masterclasses attended between 2006 and 2018:

Composition (Carlos Marecos, Sandro Gorli, Fabrizio De Rossi Re, Gianluca Baldi,

Gianvincenzo Cresta, Claudio Rastelli)

Jazz piano (Stefano Bollani, Siena Jazz - Franco d’Andrea, Paolo Birro, Stefano Battaglia)

Improvisation (Tristan Honsinger, Roberto Bonati)

Arrangement (Giancarlo Schiaffini, Giorgio Casadei)

2008-2012 studying harmony, orchestration and counterpoint with Nicola Straffelini

2003-2007 studying jazz piano with Renzo Vigagni (CDM School, Rovereto, Italy).

Artist activity

I am interested in:

contemporary music, musical theatre, jazz and in links between music and social sciences.

• Compositions

Agon[e] – hommage à Roger Caillois (n.3) (2018) version for trumpet, clarinet and baritone sax

Rammento/Rammendo (2017) for piano

Première performed by Fabrizio Ottaviucci.

Musiche in Mostra. 26/11/2017, Auditorium Vivaldi, Torino

Voce del verbo frangere (2015 rev. 2017) for piccolo flute, clarinet, piano, percussion and cello

Première performed by Ensemble Altre Voci

Salone di Villa Barbarella(Castelfranco Veneto), 04/15/2016

Spam (2017) for two electronic keyboards and recorded voice

Première performed by Alessandro Boratti and Andrea Goretti

460 Gran Paradiso Festival, Ceresole (TO) 08/20/2017

Flashback (2017) for three sopranos;

(four postludes to play after four madrigals by Luzzasco Luzzaschi)

Première performed by Maria Clara Maiztegui, Sara Ricci e Cecilia Rizzetto

#Giochidacamera17, 05/31/2017, Fucina Machiavelli, Verona

Mail (2016) for piano, percussion and absent soprano (sampler)

Commissioned by Filarmonica di Rovereto.

Première performed by ADM Soundscape Ensemble

Auditorium F. Melotti, MART, Rovereto. 04/15/2017

Anton’s post (2016) reading on fragments from Webern’s Passacaglia op.1 for a speaker,

two pianos and samples. Texts by G. Lovink, W. Benjamin and social networks users

Première performed by Debora Binci, Alessandro Boratti, Andrea Goretti

Sinergie Lagarine Festival, Castel Beseno, Besenello (TN). 06/04/2016

Alea & Ludus – hommage à Roger Caillois (n.4) (2016) for clarinet quartet

Première performed by Quatuor Chouette

17/03/2018, Mamu (Milan)

Agon – hommage à Roger Caillois (n.3) (2015) for two clarinets and bass clarinet

Le realisme du jour (2015) graphic score for speakers, improvisers and a conductor.

Première performed in Multiversal Festival (Oslo), 01/09/2016

Mimicry – hommage à Roger Caillois (n.2) (2015) for bass clarinet

Première performed by Marco Ignoti (Fontanamix Ensemble)

Teatro Accademico, Castelfranco Veneto, 05/05/2015

Post- (2014) for two electric guitars and bass tuba

A Chije aspette (2013) for wind quintet

Ilynx – hommage à Roger Caillois (n.1) (2013) for clarinet

Klausen/Nebbia (2012) for alto singer and viola, on lyrics by Gabriele Zobele

START (2012), controlled improvisation for plucked strings instruments

Borghesissimus (2011), a very short piece for baritone saxophone, two pianos and orchestra

• 2016/2018 residencies - performances - recordings

august 2018: recording the Elgaland-Vargaland National Anthem

in collaboration with I. Pjevcevic, G. Zobele, Narkissos Contemporary Art Gallery (Bologna),

Leif Elggren and Carl Michael von Hausswolf.

2017/2018 performing the Gershwin and Porter Songbooks with the singer Giulia Albertazzi

06/19-21/2018 Residency (arrangement, recording) with the collective Kapuziner Straße

(CD under publication)

08/14-20/2017 Residency and concert with Andrea Goretti at the 460 Gran Paradiso Festival

Rifugio Massimo Mila, Ceresole (TO)

06/26-29/2017 Residency (arrangement, recording) with the collective Kapuziner Straße in

Luserna (TN) (published CD: Kapuziner Straße #2 )

04/29/2017 Performance at Musica Istante

Workshop directed by Francesco Giomi (Centro di Ricerca Tempo Reale).

Auditorium F. Melotti, MART, Rovereto.

04/07/2017 Performing the Elgaland - Vargaland National Anthem (original arrangement).

Alessandro Boratti, Ivan Pjevcevic, Gabriele Zobele

art exhibition by Leif Elggren and Carl Michael von Hausswolf. Narkissos Contemporary Art Gallery, Bologna

• Theatre music / arrangements / art installations

music and performing for Sagra dell’Apocalisse  (2018), a play by Pierre Campagnoli

arrangements and performing  for Messer Ludovico Ariosto QUASI Furioso  (2017), a play by Pierre Campagnoli

In 2016  he is founder of the DIGITANS trio (consisting of two keyboard players and an actress) in order to develop the cycle of compositions of the same name in a musical theatre context. The group performed in a number of  festivals and cultural events in Northern Italy between 2016 and 2018.

La bella e il punkabbestia - Study n.1 (2015), a scene for an opera; for mezzosoprano, bass,

tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, two electric guitars, piano/keyboards and double bass.

Quei là postadi al mur – cantata per Malga Zonta (2011)

for a speaker, four singers/actors, keyboards, banjo, electric bass and drums.

95% (2009), art installation in collaboration with the artist Ivan Pjevcevic. Audioart work; exposed in the exhibition Iconoclastie in Basilica di Santo Stefano (Bologna, Italy).

In 2008 he is co-founder of the collective Abele di Babele, taking a practical and

theoretical interest in musical theatre, folk music, improvisation and links between oral

traditions and written texts.

• Transcriptions

J.S.Bach, Contrapunctus I, from L’arte della fuga. Transcription for chamber orchestra

(2014).

Publications

La passacaglia. Storia e struttura di un principio compositivo. (The passacaglia. History and structure of a compositional principle) in the review Rassegna Musicale Curci,

(under publication)

Conferences

2016: lecturer at the conference Il testo “tradito”#2. La Passacaglia di Bach

Conservatorio A. Boito (Parma, Italy)

2014: lecturer and coordinator at the conference Il testo “tradito”. La Ciaccona di Bach

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