Duo Alterno

Duo Alterno
Origin	Turin, Italy
Genres	Contemporary classical
Occupations	Chamber ensemble
Years active	1997-present
Website	[1]
Members
Founder Tiziana Scandaletti and Riccardo Piacentini

The Duo Alterno is an Italian voice-piano chamber ensemble specializing in 19th century and contemporary classical music. The Duo made up of soprano Tiziana Scandaletti and composer-pianist Riccardo Piacentini.

Duo Alterno's made its debut in February 1997 at the Vancouver Italian Contemporary Music Festival, where it held concerts and masterclasses for the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University and the Vancouver Academy of Music. Since then they have performed in the major Italian festivals and in more than thirty countries, including Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Australia, through concerts, masterclasses and CDs.

Recent international performances include: University of California in Berkeley, Stanford University, Lincoln Performance Hall of Portland-Oregon, Gasteig of Munich, Xinghai Concert Hall of Canton, Liaoning Grand Theatre of Shenyang, Opera Ballet Theatre of Ulan Bator, BKA Theater of Berlin, University of New Mexico of Albuquerque, SoundaXis Festival of Toronto, MITO Festival of Turin and Milan, Mozart Festival of Rovereto, Sydney Conservatorium, Federation Hall in Melbourne, IIC in Beijing, Moscow Conservatory, Janáček Academy in Brno, the University Theaters of Vilnius, Riga and Kiev (Taras Shevchenko University), Nuova Consonanza Festival of Rome, Levine School of Music in Washington where The Washington Post particularly appreciated their "fine sense of comedic timing".^{[citation needed]}

CDs

• 1999 - Giacomo Manzoni. Du Dunkelheit (Milan, Curci E. 11326 C.)
• 1999 - Musiche dell'aurora (Turin, Italian Foundation of Photography - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00005)
• 1999 - Shahar (Milan, Curci E. 11351 C.)
• 2000 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini. Sacred Music (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7354)
• 2001 - Arie condizionate (Turin, Italian Foundation of Photography - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00009)
• 2001 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini. Canti e strambotti (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7365)
• 2002 - Alfredo Casella. Liriche (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7371)
• 2003 - Treni persi (Province of Turin - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00012)
• 2004 - Franco Alfano. Liriche da Tagore (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7388)
• 2004 - Mina miniera mia (Province of Turin - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00014)
• 2004 - Musiche della Reggia di Venaria Reale (Piedmont Region - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00015)
• 2005 - La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 1 (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33708)
• 2006 - La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 2 (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33743)
• 2007 - La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 3 (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33769)
• 2007 - Italienischer Gesangsabend mit dem Duo Alterno (Graz, Steirischer Tonkünstler Bund STB 07/07)
• 2009 - La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 4 (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33833)
• 2010 - La voce crepuscolare - Notturni e Serenate del '900 (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33839)

Tours abroad Italy

Argentina (1998, 2004) Australia (2004, 2008) Belgium (2002, 2005) Canada (1997, 2003, 2008, 2009) China (2002, 2007, 2008) Chorea (2001) Denmark (1999, 2008) Finland (1998, 1999) France (2001) Germany (2007, 2008, 2009) Holland (2005) Japan (2006, 2007) Kazakhstan (2001) India (2004) Indonesia (2001, 2004) Latvia (2009) Lithuania (2009) Macedonia (2003) Norway (1999, 2002) United Kingdom (2001) Russia (2005, 2009) Singapore (2001, 2002, 2003) Sweden (1999, 2008) USA (2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010) Turkey (2005) Ukraine (2009) Uzbekistan (1998, 1999)

Repertoire

Marcello Abbado, Franco Alfano, Davide Anzaghi, Marino Baratello, Andrea Basevi, Cathy Berberian, Luciano Berio, Sonia Bo, Giovanni Bonato, Mauro Bortolotti, Aldo Brizzi, Gilberto Bosco, Sylvano Bussotti, Curt Cacioppo, Mauro Cardi, Alfredo Casella, Pieralberto Cattaneo, Mario Cesa, Ernest Chausson, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Giovanni Cima, Aldo Clementi, Alberto Colla, Azio Corghi, Luigi Dallapiccola, James Dashow, Leonid Desyatnikov, Franco Donatoni, Lorenzo Ferrero, Boris Filanovski, David Froom, Sandro Fuga, Stanislao Gastaldon, Ada Gentile, Giorgio Federico Ghedini, Riccardo Giavina, Domenico Guaccero, Richard Hermann, Carlo Alessandro Landini, Martin Q. Larsson, Corrinne Lateur, Paola Livorsi, Luca Lombardi, Bruno Maderna, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Giacomo Manzoni, Giuseppe Martucci, Ennio Morricone, Carlo Mosso, Luigi Nono, Franco Oppo, Marcello Panni, Goffredo Petrassi, Carlo Pinelli, Piera Pistono, Maurice Ravel, Riccardo Piacentini, Lodovico Rocca, Gioachino Rossini, Aurelio Samorì, Giacinto Scelsi, Arnold Schönberg, Salvatore Sciarrino, Christopher Shultis, Leone Sinigaglia, Antonio Smareglia, Alessandro Solbiati, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Fabio Vacchi, Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky, Vittorio Zago.

(Composers who have dedicated works to the Duo Alterno are in bold)

External links

• Duo Alterno official website 1
• Duo Alterno official website 2
• CEMAT website

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