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Claudio Gabriele "Illustration Analytique Supergelatineuse" for Saxophone Ensemble, Dennis Shafer conductor, 14 November 2011, Boston U.S.A., Chagall PAC Production.
Sopranino: Adam Pelandini (concertmaster)
Soprano: Jake Dockterman, Emily Cox
Alto: Goran Daskalov, Jacob Eisenmann, Karen Cubides, Tina Kambil, Seychelle Dunn
Tenor: Alex Rezzo, Mark Weissman, Brandon Valerino, Aaron Blumenthal
Baritone: Vitalijus Lisovskis, Scott Chamberlin
Bass: Clayton Hamilton
Claudio Gabriele, composer, pianist, and organist, was born in Rome, where he attended St. Cecilia Conservatory and Istituto Pontificio di Musica Sacra. During his studies in Rome he obtained degrees with emphases in Composition, Electroacoustic Music, Piano, Organ, Symphonic Band, and Gregorian Chant. Subsequently, he studied composition and conducting with George Benjamin at the National Academy of St. Cecilia, with Klaus Huber in Avignon, and Ivan Fedele at Strasbourg's National Conservatory, where he achieved the "Diplôme d'Etudes Musicales." From 1997 to 2004 he was awarded residencies in computer music at IRCAM (Paris) with Ferneyhough, Lindberg, Harvey, Rebotier, and Levinas. He continued studies in computer music with Risset, Roads, Terruggi and Di Giugno at the "Centro Ricerche Musicali" in Rome.
In 2003 Gabriele won first prize for the International Electroacoustic Music Contest Musica Nova (Prague - 2003), and later won an award at the International Composition Contest Music in the Garden (Krakow - 2006). He has collaborated for several years with the New York University and Vanderbilt University in the United States. He is currently Professor of Composition and Computer Music in the Department of New Technologies at the State's Conservatory of Benevento (Italy). Gabriele is often invited for masterclasses and as composer-in-residence at major universities and conservatories in Europe and the United States, including recent trips to Paris, Strasbourg, Montpellier, Aix-en-Provence, Nîmes, Cambridge, Boston, Hartford and New York. He is the author of chamber, symphonic, and electroacoustic music, with a catalogue of over one hundred compositions, including works for dance and musical theatre.
In recent years he has specialized in literature for saxophone, writing dozens of idiomatic compositions which often employ advanced contemporary techniques. His music for saxophone appears in a variety of settings, from unaccompanied solos to ensemble of twelve or more saxophones. According to Dr. Frederick Hemke, "Claudio Gabriele is one of the greatest of contemporary composers for saxophone!" His compositions have been published and recorded in Italy, France, Germany, the United States, and are performed worldwide in major events such as Festival Musica (Strasbourg), Festival d'Avignon, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, Encontro de Musica Elettroacùstica (Brasilia), and the World Saxophone Congress (Thailand 2009 and Scotland 2012). He often collaborates with renowned international artists such as Georges Aperghis, Gilbert Amy, Douglas Dunn, Mathew Jocelyn, Esther Lamneck, J.M. Goury, F. Hemke, J.P. Caens. Since 2005 Claudio Gabriele collaborates with visual artist Colette Albiolo to create the Concerts Diachromiques, innovative multimedia events that, through video-projected on a giant screen, explore the correspondences between sounds, colors and shapes. Gabriele's music is frequently broadcast by Radio-Televisione Italiana, Vatican Radio and Radio Mexico.
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