From 7th to 19th November CLUSTER, Lucca’s Contemporary Music Association, starts its ninth year of activity with a novelty: the CLUSTER Music Festival. These are twelve days dedicated to new CDs, book presentations and the Cluster Music Festival. The Festival includes meetings with composers, concerts, as well as scientific discoveries on brainwaves and their beneficial effects on humans reacting to sound waves: all organized in the name of contemporary music with free entrance, thanks to the contribution of the Fondazione Banca del Monte di Lucca.
On Saturday November 11th, at 3 pm, in the Oratorio di S. Giuseppe (Duomo di Lucca) there’s the first Cluster Music Festival event with the well-known Italian composer Alessandro Solbiati. The afternoon’s programme is as follows:
At 3 pm there’s a meeting with the composer who will talk about his music, advise young composers on the path of a new composition from its conception to its public performance etc.
At 5 pm Renzo Cresti will interview Alessandro Solbiati;
At 5.30 pm Alfonso Alberti will perform Sedici Interludi for piano by Alessandro Solbiati.
Alessandro Solbiati is a professor of composition at Milan’s G. Verdi Conservatory. He has also held courses in Paris (Conservatoire National Superiore de Musique), Avignon (Centre Acanthes), San Marino and Milan (Civic School).
He has won numerous awards in national and international competitions and received commissions from institutions such as Teatro alla Scala in Milan, RAI, Bologna Municipal Theatre, Radio France, Mozarteum in Salzburg, Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, South Bank Centre London and others.
Alfonso Alberti is a much sought-after pianist in Europe and the United States. He has studied with P. Rattalino and R. Risaliti and has been taught by M. Damerini, R. Tureck, F. Scala, and O. Marshev. Noteworthy is Alfonso Alberti’s commitment to the popularity and promotion of last century’s music, with a repertoire ranging from historical avant-garde to younger composers. Alfonso Alberti is also a musicologist.
