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Giuliano, Giuseppe (b. 1948, Rome). Italian composer of mostly instrumental, vocal and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout the world.
Mr. Giuliano studied composition with Guido Turchi at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome from 1972–74 and with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome from 1974–76, where he earned his DPhil. He also had important encounters with John Cage from 1971–90 and studied electronic music with Hans Peter Haller and Luigi Nono at the Experimentalstudio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung in Freiburg im Breisgau from 1982–84.
He is also active in other positions. As a pianist, he has performed both contemporary music and free improvisations. As a sound projectionist, he has worked in contemporary music. He founded Studio ES in Milan in 1987, a studio for the development and production of electroacoustic music with which he remains associated. He served as artistic director of the festival for electronic music (ES) in Milan from 1988–94.
He taught as an assistant to Goffredo Petrassi at the Juilliard School of Music in 1976. He has taught as Professore di Composizione at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan since 1984, where he has also taught live electronics since 2000. In addition, he has given lectures in Austria, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, and Spain, including at Darmstadt from 1986–94.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: josefman@fastwebnet.it
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
INSTRUMENTAL, 1980s: Der Einsamkeiten tiefste schauend, piano, live electronics, 1981; Adieu mes amours (in memoriam Bruno Maderna), oboe, clarinet, bassoon, B-flat trumpet, 2 tenor-bass trombones, violin, viola, cello, live electronics, 1982; Preludio, flute, 1982; Im blau, any number of resonant tuned instruments, 1983; Mnn Nyorai Myoshoku, clarinet, 1983; Tenebre, cello, live electronics, 1983; Im rot, double bass, 1984; Strati nello spazio, any 10 strings, live electronics, 1985; Equilibrio instabile, amplified guitar, 1985; Immaginazione essenziale, 5 bassoons, live electronics, 1985 (also version for bassoon, 6-track tape, 1985); Atman, 3 amplified contrabass flutes, 1986; Tempi della mente, soprano saxophone, ensemble (5 sopranino saxophones, 5 soprano saxophones [any 3 + sopranino saxophone], 5 alto saxophones), 1986 (also version for soprano saxophone, 8-track tape, 1986); Vidh, 12 tenor-bass trombones (around hall), 1987 (also version for tenor-bass trombone, 12-track tape, 1987); Erinnerung, any player, 4-track tape, 1987 (also version for any voice, 4-track tape); Feux d'artifice, amplified string quartet, 8-track tape, 1988; Random C, amplified bass clarinet (+ contrabass clarinet), 4-track tape, 1989
INSTRUMENTAL, 1990s: Random evocative memory, piano, 2-track tape, 1991 (also version for piano, 2-track tape, live electronics, 2000); Prefazione prima, violin, 2-track tape, live electronics, 1991; Wo bist Du Licht, flute (+ piccolo), 2-track tape, live electronics, 1991; Lff! Whish! Lps, clarinet, live electronics, 1992; Aleph infinito, bass tuba, live electronics, 1992; Giardino metafisico, shō (Japanese mouth organ), live electronics, 1992; Random S, baritone saxophone (+ bass saxophone, sopranino saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, contrabass saxophone), live electronics, 1993; In memoriam John Cage, octobass flute, bass tuba, 3 celli (with scordatura), 2 percussion, live electronics, 1993; Prefazione alla raccolta del padiglione delle orchidee, octobass flute, live electronics, 1994; Oh noche amable más que el alborada, 4 French horns, 4 B-flat trumpets, 4 tenor-bass trombones, bass tuba, contrabass tuba, 1994; ...infiniti... paralleli, 2 pianos, live electronics, 1995; Anniversaire, alto flute, 1996; Dum de dum, piano, 1997
INSTRUMENTAL, 2000s: Clarinetto incantato blu, contrabass clarinet, live electronics, 2001; Collage all'infrarosso, 4 piccolos, 4 flutes, 6 alto flutes, 6 bass flutes, 4 octobass flutes, 2-track tape, 2001; Der Ausweg (Blues voyage III) (text by Hans Magnus Enzensberger), 2 percussion, 4-track tape, live electronics, 2002; L'attimo della viola, viola, 2003; Epigrammi futuri, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion, 8-track tape, 2003; Les tambours étouffés, alto flute, French horn, B-flat trumpet, cello, piano, percussion, live electronics, 2004; Tempo sospeso, piano, live electronics, 2005; Viva!, 1/2 percussion, 6-/8-track tape, 2005 (version of vocal work); Beslan Requiem, 2 tenor saxophones (1st + soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, 2nd + alto saxophone, soprano saxophone), 2 baritone saxophones (1st + tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, 2nd + alto saxophone), 8-track tape, live electronics, 2005 (version of electroacoustic work); Vladimir (Blues voyage IV) (text by Vladimir Mayakovsky), bass ad libitum, 3 percussion, any visual medium ad libitum, 4-track tape, 2006; Gemini 0205, cello, live electronics, 2006; Rhapsody 21, bayan, live electronics, 2006; the last train home at midnight, violin, live electronics, 2008; A toy world, piano 4 hands, 2009; It is the final Gestalt of the imagination, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, B-flat trumpet, tenor-bass trombone, harp, piano, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, 2 percussion, 8-track tape, 2009 (also version for violin, 8-track tape, 2009)
VOCAL: Magnificat, soprano, 2-track tape, 1983 (also version for mezzo-soprano, 2-track tape, live electronics, 2000); Dawn (vocalise), any 2–7 female voices, any number of tuned instruments, live electronics, 1984–86; Erinnerung (vocalise), any voice, 4-track tape, 1987 (version of instrumental work); QHLT (texts from Qoholet, the Revelation of St. John), female voice, octobass flute (+ bass flute), trombone, 8-/16-track tape, live electronics, 1988; Fragment Faust II (text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), female voice, flute, 2-track tape, live electronics, 1990; Fragment UrFaust (text by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), bass, octobass flute, 2-track tape, live electronics, 1990; Dialogo del sé (text from the Bhagavadgītā), 2 altos, live electronics, 1992 (also version for 2-track tape); a way (Blues voyage V) (text by James Joyce), mezzo-soprano, 1/2 percussion, 4-/8-track tape, live electronics, 2000; Viva! (Blues voyage II) (text by Lawrence Ferlinghetti), bass, percussion, 8-track tape, 2005 (also versions for 1/2 percussion, 6-/8-track tape; bass [+ percussion], 8-track tape, 2005); Miss Z (Blues voyage I) (text by Jean Jacques Schuhl), female cabaret voice, percussion, 4-track tape, live electronics, 2006; Click photofit (text by Dan Albertson), female voice (+ percussion), piano (+ percussion), 2010
ELECTROACOUSTIC: Dialogo del sé, 2-track tape, 1992 (version of vocal work); ...l'aurora... le dieci notti... il pari e il dispari, 2-track tape, 1999; Beslan Requiem, 8-track tape, 2005 (also version for 2 tenor saxophones [1st + soprano saxophone, sopranino saxophone, 2nd + alto saxophone, soprano saxophone], 2 baritone saxophones [1st + tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, 2nd + alto saxophone], live electronics, 2005); Eyots – Eyries, 8-track tape, 2007 (shorter version of multimedia work); Canticum sacrum, 6-track tape, 2008
MULTIMEDIA: Automaton (improvisation, variable text), any number of voices, any number of players, any number of sound sources, 8-track tape, live electronics, any visual medium, 1986–90; Eyots – Eyries (text by Pier Luigi Berdondini), any number of voices, 8-track tape, any visual medium, 2007 (also shorter version for 8-track tape)
FILM SCORE (FOR SILENT MOVIE) (DIRECTOR): La passion de Jeanne d'Arc, 24 flutes, 8-track tape, 2008 (collaboration with Marco Giai-Levra, Luca Stefani) (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
DISCOGRAPHY
Feux d'artifice; Random C; QHLT. Manuela Galizia, mezzo-soprano; Pierre-Yves Artaud, octobass flute, bass flute; Roger Heaton, amplified bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet; Barrie Webb, trombone; Arditti String Quartet (Rugginenti Editore: RUS 555018.2, 1991)
Fragment UrFaust; Fragment Faust II; Random evocative memory (original version). Manuela Galizia, mezzo-soprano; Nicholas Isherwood, bass; Pierre-Yves Artaud, flute, octobass flute; G. Simonacci, piano (Studio ES: Pan CD 3035, 1992)
Wo bist Du Licht. Pierre-Yves Artaud, flute, piccolo (Rugginenti Editore: RUS 555019.2, 1993)
Aleph infinito; Giardino metafisico; Random S. Mayumi Miyata, shō; Daniel Kientzy, baritone saxophone, bass saxophone, sopranino saxophone, tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, contrabass saxophone; Giancarlo Schiaffini, bass tuba (Studio ES: Pan CD 3048, 1994)
Tempi della mente (second version). Daniel Kientzy, soprano saxophone (Nova Musica: CD5103, 1996)
...infiniti... paralleli. Antonio Ballista, Bruno Canino, pianos (Lasdim: SMC CD 9901/2, 1999)
a way (Blues voyage V). Manuela Galizia, mezzo-soprano; Sergio Armaroli, percussion (Lmcsl Artache: Q83626894, 2002)
Magnificat (second version); Dialogo del sé (second version); Fragment Faust II; ...l'aurora... le dieci notti... il pari e il dispari; a way (Blues voyage V). Manuela Galizia, mezzo-soprano; Pierre-Yves Artaud, flute; Sergio Armaroli, percussion (Rugginenti Editore: RUS 555131.2, 2003)
Anniversaire; Prefazione alla raccolta del padiglione delle orchidee; Collage all'infrarosso; Wo bist Du Licht; Atman. Pierre-Yves Artaud, alto flute, octobass flute, flute, piccolo, contrabass flutes; Orchestre de flûtes français (Rugginenti Editore: RUS 555150.2, 2005)
Eyots – Eyries (second version); Canticum sacrum; Beslan Requiem (original version). (Rugginenti Editore: RUS 555169.2, 2008)
Gemini 0205; Dawn; Vidh (second version); Rhapsody 21; It is the final Gestalt of the imagination. Brenda Mitchell, soprano; Manuela Galizia, mezzo-soprano; Pierre-Yves Artaud, flute; Roger Heaton, clarinet; Barrie Webb, tenor-bass trombone; Rohan De Saram, Friedrich Gauwerky, celli; Fernando Grillo, double bass; Corrado Rojac, bayan; Igor Dronov/Studio for New Music Ensemble Moscow (Rugginenti Editore: RUS 558172.2, 2009)
Tempo sospeso; Random evocative memory (second version); ...infiniti... paralleli. Alfonso Alberti, Antonio Ballista, Bruno Canino, Giuseppe Giuliano, pianos (Rugginenti Editore: RUS 555174.2, 2010)
(Last updated on September 5, 2010)
