Roberto Andreoni

Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Scripps College for the Fall semester 2010 Roberto Andreoni earned his undergraduate degree in Music Composition from the Conservatorio G.Verdi of Milan with further specialization at the local Civica Scuola di Musica under the tutelage of S.Gorli, G.Manzoni, F.Donatoni, B.Ferneyhough and G.Grisey. From 1989 to 1992, he studied and taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned both his M.A. (1990) and Ph.D. (1994) in Music. While in the United States, he recorded (Wergo, Stradivarius, Rodaviva) some of his solo, chamber and theatrical works, which have been broadcasted (RAI, BBC, KKSF, Vatican Radio) and published (Rai Trade, BMG, Suvini Zerboni, Eco, Rodaviva).

From 1993 to 1996, he was the Director of the Scuola Civica di Musica in Assago, as well as instructor of History of Musical Forms, History of European Vocal Music and Twentieth Century Harmony at the The Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad) Milan Center in partnership with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. He subsequently taught at the Conservatory of Trento, Bari and at the Civica Scuola di Musica of Milan, where he also served as the Director from 2002 – 2004.

He is Full Professor of Composition at the Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro, where he also serves as a member of the Academic Council. He frequently lectures as a guest professor in Italy, Switzerland and the United States.

From 1997 until the present, has been the Director of IES Abroad Milan Center in partnership with the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, overseeing the academic, logistical and cultural experience of approximately 300 American students per year.

In addition to his academic endeavors, he is also an award-winning composer (BEA Award – Best Event in Italy for year 2009) of audio-visual installations, soundtracks and stage music. In Milan, he has collaborated with the Divertimento Ensemble and is a member of the AGON Arsmagnetica studio. His compositions have been performed in the United States, Europe, also in Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and Pakistan. His works have been played at such renowned venues as Carnegie Hall in New York, La Scala in Milan, the Biennale in Venice, and the Settembre Musica Festival in Turin. His Opera Sì was successfully staged in Bergamo.

EDUCATION

1994

Ph.D. in Music, University of California, Berkeley

1990

MA in Composition, University of California, Berkeley

1989

Diploma in Composition, with G.Manzoni, S.Gorli, Conservatorio di Musica G.Verdi, Milan

1986-1988

Perfection in Composition with F.Donatoni, B.Ferneyhough, G.Grisey, Scuola Civica di Musica, Milan

1980

Diploma, Liceo Scientifico R.Donatelli, Milan

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2020-

Member of the Academic Council, Conservatorio G.Rossini, Pesaro (Italy)

2016-

Full Professor of Composition, undergraduate and graduate courses of Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Theory, Analysis, Composition, Conservatorio G.Rossini, Pesaro (Italy) 

2010

Fulbright Scholar in Residence, Professor of Italian Culture and Music, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

2008-2016

Full Professor of Music, undergraduate and graduate courses of Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Theory, Analysis, Composition, Conservatorio N.Piccinni, Bari (Italy)

2008-2011

Lecturer, Master in Sacred Music, Architecture and Liturgy, Pontificio Ateneo Regina Apostolorum, Università Europea di Roma – (Vatican City)

2000-2008

Full Professor of Music, undergraduate courses of Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Theory, Analysis, Composition, Civica Scuola di Musica, Milan (Italy)

2007-2008

Lecturer of Twentieth Century Music, Graduate School of Composition, Conservatory of Lugano (Switzerland)

1995, 1997, 1998-1999

Associate Professor of Music, undergraduate and graduate courses of Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Theory, Analysis, Composition, Conservatorio N.Piccinni, Bari

1996

Associate Professor of Music, undergraduate courses of Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue, Theory, Analysis, Composition, Conservatorio di Musica Bonporti di Trento at Riva del Garda

1996-2018

Professor of Music, IES Abroad Milan, muisc courses taught in English to international undergraduate students on Contemporary Music and Literature, Futurism, Musical Forms, and European Vocal Music, Milan

1993-1995

Instructor, courses of Musicianship and Music Theory, Scuola Civica di Musica, Assago

1991-1992

Graduate Student Instructor (GSI II), undergraduate courses of Basic Musicianship, University of California, Berkeley

1990

Graduate Student Instructor (GSI I), Assistant of Proff. R.Taruskin and J.Butt, undergraduate courses of Introduction to Music, University of California, Berkeley

1985-87

 Substitute Teacher, Scuola Media G.Pascoli Middle School, Music Education, Milan

1981   

 Substitute Teacher, Istituto Maria Immacolata Middle School, Music Education, Milan

ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE, COMMITTEES

2011

Supervisor of Assessment, Nucleo di Valutazione Committee, Civica Scuola di Musica, Milan

1997-

Director, IES Abroad, Chicago-based consortium of US colleges and universities, at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan https://www.iesabroad.org/IES/Programs/Italy/Milan/milan.html

2001-

Board Member, AGON Acustica Informatica Musica, Milan

http://www.agonarsmagnetica.it

2005-

Board Member, Il Canto di Orfeo Ensemble, Milan

http://www.quartettomilano.it/it/00637/638/page.html

2010

Jury Member, International Composition Competition “S.Rossore”, Pisa

2002-2004

Director, Civica Scuola di Musica, Milan

http://www.fondazionemilano.eu/musica/

2003-2004

President of the Jury, Concorso Jazz Dimensione Giovani, Comune di Milano, Orchestra Senza Confini

1995-1996

Management Consultant, AGON - Centro Studi Armando Gentilucci, Milan

1993-1996

Director, Scuola Civica di Musica, Assago

http://musicassago.altervista.org/pagine/scuola.html

1992-1996

Production Manager, Divertimento Ensemble, Milan

http://www.divertimentoensemble.org/

GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS

2010

Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Scripps College, Claremont, CA

2009

B.E.A. Award: Best Public Event in Italy in 2009 for Luci Futuriste: Il Suono della Guerra dei Suoni, commissioned by the City of Milan, produced by Castagna & Ravelli and AGON, Milan

2009

Visiting Composer, Harvard University, Composers’ Colloquium, Cambridge, MA

2008

Visiting Professor of Music, Penn State University, State College, PA

2006

Visiting Professor of Music, University of Puget Sound, WA

2005

O’Brien Visiting Professorship, Scripps College, Claremont, CA

2004

Spokesman Elected to represent the Association of music schools in Italy, AISM Conference, Malmö, Sweden

2001

Composer in Residence, Arcana Composers’ Meeting, Brescia, Italy

1992

Anne Ellston Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley

1992

First Prize, Nicola De Lorenzo Prize for Music Composition, for String Trio, University of California, Berkeley

1991

G.Charlebois Scholarship and O.Weil Memorial Scholarship, University of California, Berkeley

1990

First Prize, Nicola De Lorenzo Prize for Music Composition, for Opere – for solos, choir and orchestra, University of California, Berkeley

1990

Discussed and Included in the national list of emerging composers at the National Conference Comporre per la pratica, possibilitá e limiti, Bolzano, Italy

1989

Lulu J.Blumberg Memorial Fellowship in Music, University of California, Berkeley

1988

ISTRA Scholarship, funding one year of research abroad with Ceslaw Milosz, 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, Milan

1986

Selected for the final performance at Concorso Nazionale di Composizione Castello di Belveglio, with L'Aquilone, for wind quintet, Belveglio, Italy

1986

Selected for the Young Composers & Young Performers Series with the piece L'Istante for strings e percussion, cond: Daniele Gatti, Circolo Culturale Bertolt Brecht, Milan

COMPOSITIONS, INSTALLATIONS, COMMISSIONS, PUBLICATIONS, RECORDINGS[1]

Instrumental / Vocal Compositions:

Commiss / produc.

Publish.

Rec.

2011

Fibonacci Variations, for Guitar

Sante Tursi, Guit, Bari

Suite de l’Homme Désarmé –

11 Interludes for Vla, Cl, Guit, Cb

AGON – Sentieri Selvaggi Ens, Milan

CD

AGON

2010

Bardo, for Voice

Anne Harley, Sop, Claremont, CA

RaiTrade

Rome

Le Strade della Libertà, stage music for Voice, Accordion, Electronics

Piccolo Teatro, Milan

Valiani Found., Turin

2009

Miguel Manara, stage music

Meeting per l’Amicizia fra I Popoli, Rimini

Rodaviva

CD Rodaviva

The Antennae of Thought that Listens, for Four-Hands Piano

Commiss: Spinosa-Calcagnile Duo,

Centro Musica Contemporanea, Milan

RaiTrade

Rome

CD Spoon River (2012) Rai Trade, CMC

2007

Liebellula, for voice, vc & pf,

lyrics by Toti Scialoja

Lucilla May Trio, Museo della Scienza, Trento

2006

Sacred Folk Songs

for Vn & String Orch.

Festival di Pinerolo

RAITrade

Rome

2005

Una Finestra, a Betsaida

for Ensemble

Sentieri Selvaggi, Teatro Musicale di Monfalcone,

Biennale di Venezia

Suvini Zerboni, Milan

CD & Audio Book

2004

Spiragli, for orchestra

Orquestra Sinfonica do Paranà, Teatro Guaìra, Curitiba (Brazil)

Rodaviva

Rimini

2001

Slinking Around Midnight

for pf

Settembre Musica Festival, Turin; Emanuele Arciuli, pf

Suvini Zerboni, Milan

CD

Stradivarius 2011

Blitz!

for Sax & pf

Mario Marzi, Riccione

Suvini Zerboni, Milan

CD

Stradivarius 2002

Kaiser Soze

for Cl & Marimba

commiss: Duo Obliquo,

Teatro alla Scala, Milan

Suvini Zerboni, Milan

CD Thymallus

1999

PR en air

for Bass Cl, Cello, Pf

commiss.: BCCP (Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players), Berkeley

1998

Narrazioni a più voci

a Homage to J.S.Bach

for Hapsch and Live Electronics

Società del Quartetto - AGON, Milan, Ruggero Laganà, harpsichord

Suvini Zerboni, Milan

1996

Concerto per Archi

Progetto Dyonisos, Orchestra Nuova Cameristica’s Asia Tour

Suvini Zerboni, Milan

Six Variations on a Theme by Rossini Stage Music for a Pantomime

Moschino Uomo Fashion Show 1996;

Divertimento Ensemble;

Teatro Manzoni, Milan

1995

Six Songs for the Twelfth Night

stage music for Shakespeare’s drama

Commiss. Teatro degli Incamminati, Teatro Romano - Verona

Six Sacred Folk Songs

for Voice & Guitar

Commiss: P.Bonaguri-G.Valmaggi; Università di Rimini

Rugginenti  Ed., Milan

CD Rusty Records, 1996

1994

Chamber Concerto

for ensemble

commiss.: Divertimento Ensemble, Milan; Cal Performances,Berkeley

Suvini Zerboni, Milan

3 jingles – for Radio & TV commercials

Sharp inc., Milan

Radio, TV broadcast

1993

King Lear, stage music for the drama by Shakespeare

commiss.: Teatro degli Incamminati, Teatro Romano, Verona

1992

Scale

for Ob & Hrpsch

Composers' Forum, Mills College, Oakland

1988

Orchestration of Two Songs by Tosti

commiss.: Ensemble Mozartiano; Vacanze a Milano, Milan

Favelas, for Percussion

commiss.: Dulbecco-Cacciola (La Scala)

Fiumara Ed, Agrate Brianza

CD Percussioni in Concerto,

Multi-medial works / installations:

Commiss / produc.

Rec.

2010

Crescendo, A Trip to The Other Africa, Movie Soundtrack (dir: J.Lynch)

Fraternity of Saint Charles, Rome

DVD

«Ma misi me per l’alto mare aperto» L’Ulisse: quando Dante cantò la statura dell’uomo (dir: S.Braschi)

Meeting per l’Amicizia fra I Popoli, Rimini

Da uno a infinito. Al cuore della matematica Music consultant

Meeting per l’Amicizia fra I Popoli, Rimini

2009

Passaggio alla Luce, installation for sculptures and iPod (artist Maria Luisa Tadei)

Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Spazi Infiniti, installation for live lecturer, video, dance and electronics (readings by Prof. Marco Bersanelli, astro-physicist)

Teatro Noh-Ma, Milan

Luci Futuriste: Il Suono della Guerra dei Suoni, Installation for Live Electronics & interactive video (visual artists Castagna & Ravelli)

Commiss: City of Milan,

Produc.: AGON, Milan

Labor & Pulse, for actor and Electronics, a homage to Pina Bausch

Commiss: Tramedautore,

Piccolo Teatro Studio, Milan

2008

A-B-Cell, installation for I-Pod and interactive video by artist Carlo Steiner

Gagliardi Art System / Gallery, Turin

2007

Inaudito Beethoven, (Beethoven Unheard), Curator of Multi-medial interactive exhibition (visual artist: Mara Colombo)

Meeting per l’Amicizia fra i Popoli, Rimini (14,000 visitors)

2006

Igor Stravinsky, un Maestro nel Novecento (I.S., a 20th Century Master), Curator of Multi-Vision exhibition (visual artist: Mara Colombo)

Meeting per l’Amicizia fra i Popoli, Rimini (10,000 visitors)

2005

Mozart: Perfezione, Libertà, Ironia. I tratti di un solo volto  (Mozart: Perfection, Freedom, Irony: Three Features of the Same Face), Curator of Video Exhibition (visual artist: Ivano Conti)

Meeting per l’Amicizia fra i Popoli, Rimini (8,600 visitors)

2000

Sì – Azione Musicale in Tre Scene

multi-medial Opera, Neue Stuttgart Vocalsolisten, Divertimento Ensemble, AGON, Grandi Immagini

Grandi Eventi Giubileo 2000, Bergamo; Suvini Zerboni Ed, Milan

BG-TV

1998

Three Tales by Kafka,

Electronic music installation in a park

Commiss: Centro Studi Armando Gentilucci; Production: AGON, for

Fylkingen Festival, Stockhölm

1992

Three Trees, for 3 Voices,

Hameln, for solo Flute

...Rino, for solo Cl

Berkeley Festival of the Arts, Choreography by Guggenheim Fellow Wendy Rogers,

BMG Ariola Ed. Roma;

RAI Broadcast

1989

To Find My Home - Fractal Music for Solos, Choir, Orch.

Commiss: ISTRA, Milan

in collaboration with Nobel Prize poet C.Milosz & Computer Science Dept, Univ. of California, Berkeley

Articles

Publish.

2011

Onori, Oneri e Ambiguità del Tempo Musicale – Scendi un Minuto (rec)

Festival di Musica e Filosofia, Del Sud Ed., Bari, pp. 53-64 (CD Attached)

Beethoven’s Eroica – a listening guide

Spirto Gentil – BUR Ed, Milan, pp.130-133

Schubert’s Death and the Maiden

– a listening guide

Spirto Gentil – BUR Ed, Milan, pp.198-201

2009

L'ARTE DEI RUMORI! Teorie profetiche e prassi deludenti della Musica Futurista

Treccani Enciclopedia online

http://www.treccani.it/scuola/maturita/materiale_didattico/futurismo_nell_arte/andreoni.html

The Art of Noises, a Radio Dossier, Interviewed by Robert Worby

BBC Radio 3

2007

Inaudito Beethoven

Exhibition Catalog, Itaca Libri Ed, Rimini

2005

Mozart: Perfezione, Libertà, Ironia. I tratti di un solo volto 

Exhibition Catalog, Itaca Libri Ed, Rimini

Guided Listening to Beethoven’s Eroica, CD Booklet

CD Deutsche Grammophon

2004

La Forza dell’Accademia è nella Tradizione

Master, Anno II. N.2, Milan

2003

Insistere in una Terra Fertile

I Quaderni di Ricerca IRMUS n.1/03,

I Quaderni del Politecnico, Milan

Interview to James Galway

Flöte Aktuel Magazine, January issue

L’Emozione Primordiale del Suono

Il Giornale del Quartetto, Società del Quartetto, Milan

1999

The Music of Roberto Andreoni, by Enrico Raggi

C’è Musica e Musica Radio Series, Vatican Radio

1998

Guided Listening to Schubert’s “Death and The Maiden”, CD Booklet

CD Deutsche Grammophon

1995

Catalog of the exhibition L'Arte del Suono

Centro Culturale Rezzara, Carrara Edition, Bergamo

1992

Back to the ...Futurism?

Europa, the magazine of Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Goethe Institut and Alliance Francaise, San Francisco

1988

Program notes of the concert season:

Appunti di Musica Sacra, S. Maria della Passione, Milan

1983

Il libro dei Canti, collection of international lyrics from the Folk Traditions (600 pages) - curator of the Second Edition

Jaca Book Edition, Milan

LECTURES, LESSONS

2011

Concert-Lecture: Mozart’s Concerto n.23 for piano and orchestra K 488, historic Teatro Storchi, Modena

Lecture: “Musica: un’amicizia fra l’uomo e il tempo” (Music: the friendship between time and humans), Euresis Science Conference, Gressoney

Concert-Lecture: Analysis of Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata; Hao Huang, piano; Conservatorio N.Piccinni, Bari

2010

Concert-Lecture: The Making of Cross-Cultural Music and Research: Analysis and Performance of Roberto Andreoni’s Bardo, Malott Commons Tuesday Noon Academy, Scripps College, CA

Lecture: Italy: Modern Art Music in a Global Context, University of LaVerne, CA

Lecture: The Music of Roberto Andreoni,

University of the Redlands School of Music, CA

Lecture: Educating to Global Leadership - An Italian Perspective,

IES Annual Conference, Union League Club, Chicago

Concert-Lecture: Keyboard Music of J.S. Bach; Ramin Bahrami, piano, Conservatorio G.Verdi, Milan

Concert-Lecture: Onori, Oneri e Ambiguità del Tempo Musicale (= Honors, Burdens and Ambiguity of Musical Time), Festival di Musica e Filosofia "Il tempo in musica e filosofia", Ateneo, Università degli Studi, Bari

2009

Workshop: Praise of the Unpredictable and Awe: the Music of Roberto Andreoni, Composer’s Colloquium Series, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Lecture: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, Boston College, MA

Concert-Lecture: Liszt e Chopin, compagni di viaggio al destino; Nazzareno Carusi, piano, Ateneo di Bari

Concert-Interview to Ennio Morricone, Fiera di Rimini

Writer for the introduction to Nazzareno Carusi’s weekly televised performances of the following piano pieces:

Mattino 5, Canale 5, Mediaset National Broadcast

2008

Lectures:

Frost School of Music, University of Miami, Miami, FL

Lectures:

Penn State University, State College, PA

Concert-Lecture: Liszt’s Années de Pélerinage; Nazzareno Carusi, piano, Conservatorio G.Verdi, Milan

2006-

2007

Workshop: Music Education, Teaching Composition, Performing Arts Project, Regione Lombardia - Università di Bologna

2006

Lecture: Musica para Navidad – Universidad Complutense, Madrid

2005

Concert-Lecture: Dvorak’s Dumky Trio, (Clara Vieck Trio) Teatro Sociale, Como;

Foundation Elisa, Locarno (CH)

Concert-Lecture: Schubert’s Trio Op.100, (Trio Matisse) Università Bocconi, Milan

Visiting O’Brien Professorship at Scripps College, Claremont, CA

Lessons/Lectures:

Round Table: Modernism in Nowadays Arte, Centro Musica Contemporanea, Triennale Museum of Design, Milan

2004

Round Table: Professione Musicista, Istituzioni e Attività Musicali in Italia, the Subjects of Music Market Today, Conservatorio G. Verdi, Milan; Univ. of Bologna, Liberal Arts Workshop

Curator of the education project In Composizione, conjunct collaboration of AGON, the Milan Conservatory, Como Conservatory, Civica Scuola di Musica of Milan

2003

Concert-Lecture: The Primordial Emotion of Sound, Les Percussion de Strasbourg, Società del Quartetto, Sala Verdi, Conservatorio, Milan

Lecture: Reforming Music Curriculum Nowadays in Italy, Centre Culturel Francais, Milan

2002

Lecture: Giovani di Oggi, Musica di Sempre, Jeunesses Musicales International, Palazzo Stelline, Milan

2001

Round Table: Legami Musaici, with Bruno Lauzi, Davide Rondoni, Mariagrazia Bellocchio performing Andreoni’s complete piano works, Centro Culturale di Milano

Concert-Lecture: Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet, (Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Quartet), Basilica di S.Alessandro, Bergamo

1997-

Lecturing tours and recruiting meetings with students and faculty, sponsored by IES Abroad, Chicago: Recent Developments of Music in Italy / Music Education in Italy

1995

Conference & Concerts I Serassi e l'arte organaria a Bergamo, Curator, Scientific as well as Artistic Director, Centro Culturale Rezzara, Bergamo

1994

Lecture: La Musica del '900 negli U.S.A., UNITRE, Carate Brianza

1993

Lecture: Recent Developments of Music in Italy, Graduate Composition Colloquia, University of California at Berkeley

1992

Lecture: Russolo's Art of Noises: the forefather of Electronic Music, Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago

1991

Lecture: XX Century Cultural Areas and Music Movements in the US, Collegio S.Alessandro, Bergamo, for Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan

Lecture: How to listen to Music, a Composer's and conductor's perspective, Christian Brothers High School, Sacramento (CA)

1988

Lecture: Ascoltare e fare musica - ...a partire da cosa?, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Milan

1987

Lecture: Ascoltare Musica alla ricerca del volto umano, Liceo Classico Berchet, Milan

1986

Lecture: Alle radici delle forme musicali,

Presenza Cooperativa Servizi Culturali, Sesto S.Giovanni

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

Company

Job

1995-1996

AGON - Centro Studi Armando Gentilucci, Milan

Management Assistant

1992-1996

Divertimento Ensemble, Milan

Production Manager

1995

Teatro del Buratto, Milan

Scriptwriter and Music Consultant for the production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade

1993

Universitá Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan

Music Consultant: Project of Management of all music-related properties of the M.I.A. Foundation at Bergamo (Pio Consorzio della Misericordia Maggiore)

1992

Istituto Italiano di Cultura,

San Francisco

Music Consultant

1991

Office for Tourism of the U.S.A., Milano

Artistic Collaborator of the event

America, America '92

1990

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Translator of selected essays of aesthetics by Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo

1986-1987

City Administration of Milan, Teatro Ciack, Milan

Artistic Director Rassegna Musicale Giovanile I Popoli di Milano (Youth Music Festival: The Peoples of Milan)

1986-1987

Cooperativa Itinerari Musicali, Milan

Distribution Manager

1985-1987

Rassegna Teatro per Ragazzi, Teatro Sala Fontana, Milano

Animator, Composer, Performer with the Tempo Variabile Percussion Ensemble

1983-1990

Copyist

1983-1984

Italian Army

Obligatory Military Service (Albenga, Milan):

In charge of all entertainment / music events of the Reparto Comando del Terzo Corpo d’Armata (Headquarters of the III Army Corps)

1982

Conservatorio G.Verdi, Milan

Intern, in charge of filing program notes for all student concerts in Milan and in the public libraries of the Milan County

[1]  For the detailed list of compositions, premieres and publications please see the attached file named Catalogo delle Composizioni.

web-site: www.robertoandreoni.com