Gino Contilli

Gino Contilli (Rome 1907-Genoa 1978), trained at the school of Dòbici, Respighi and Pizzetti, was one of the first Italian composers who adhered to the aesthetics of the Neue Musik and to adopt dodecaphonic writing according to a very personal style that is best described as ‘advanced modernism’. Fully accept by the Italian avant-garde movement led by, between the two world wars, by Alfredo Casella, in 1942 he was appointed by the Ministry as the conductor of the School of Music of the Laudamo Philharmonic, now the Corelli Conservatory of Messina. He remained in this city until 1966, when he went to direct the Genoa Conservatory. The European element of his culture, his passionate devotion to teaching, the novelty of the music he presented during the seasons of the Laudamo Philharmonic with the Schools vocal and instrument groups, provided cultural life in Messina with excitement and ideal which left traces still very present today. In the centenary of his birth, Messina commemorates him with a series of four concerts organised by the Filarmonica Laudamo, the Philharmonic Academy, the Corelli Conservatory and the Teatro di Messina. The series is preceded by a round table attended, among others, byi, Giacomo Manzoni and Giuseppina La Face Bianconi, who were pupils and friends of Contilli.

saturday april 28nd 2007 at 9 P.M.
Sala Laudamo

GINO CONTILLI
ON THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH

GINO CONTILLI
Sonatina
for violin and piano

Two songs for black poet
for voice and piano

Quartet for strings

Songs of death
for voice, clarinet, viola and piano

 

 

mezzosoprano Emy Spadaro
clarinet Roberto Saccà
violin Cesare Frisina
violin Francesco Carlo Magistri
viola Rosaria Mastrosimone
violoncello Domenico Giuseppe Cogliandro
piano Antonino Averna