Il pozzo sepolto for Piano and 5 Wind Instruments (Score & Parts)

Scartazzini Il pozzo sepolto for Piano and 5 Wind Instruments (Score & Parts)
for piano, flute, oboe, clarinet in B-flat, bassoon, horn

Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini was born in Basel in 1971, where he studied German and Italian language and literature from 1990-97.  He also studied composition with Rudolf Kelterborn at the Musikhochschule, Basel from 1994-97 and with Wolfgang Rihm in Karlsruhe from 1998-2000 as well as at the Royal Academy of Music, London.  He has received numerous prizes including the Jakob Burckhardt Prize from the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation, Basel in 1998, the Study Prize from the Kiefer Hablitzel Foundation, Bern in 1999, the Supportive Prize from the Alexander Clavel Foundation, Riehen and the Study Prize from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation, Munich in 2000.  In 2004-05 he was the autumn composer-in-residence at the University of Witten/Herdecke.  His opera “WUT” was premiered at the Erfurt Theatre in 2006. In 2011 he received a scholarship for a study leave at Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai.  In 2012 he was awarded a scholarship from the Internationales Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia of the State of Bavaria. His opera “Der Sandmann” was premiered an Theater Basel in 2012.

During the 2016/17 season “Der Sandmann” the German premiere took place in Frankfurt, and his new opera “Edward II” was premiered at Deutsche Oper Berlin on 19 Feb 2017.

“Behind closed doors. I shake off the mundane, sit down, wait, become free, shed my skin, release my innermost being, tune my soul, wait, stare at the wall until it slowly fades away. Shapes begin to emerge, soundscapes far removed from language. Composition as ritual, music as vision. And now I read the signs, interpret them – and listen, over and over again. I convert the images, translate them, search for pathways from the eye to the ear – that’s the hardest thing of all. What sustains me from place to place, from measure to measure, is the sculpted sound, the discovered gesture, the musical object, casting its shadow forward and pointing out pathways. The score: my footfalls made manifest, my remembrance of a realm inwardly divined.” (Andrea Lorenzo Scartazzini, 2004)