RICCARDO PERUGINI
composer
RICCARDO PERUGINI (1996) is a Tuscan composer known for his provocative blend of experimental, pop, and early music. Perugini's compositional journey began under the guidance of Andrea Portera and has been furthered by world-renowned composers including Unsuk Chin, Mauro Lanza, Detlev Glanert, Peter Eötvös, Marcos Balter, Luca Francesconi, and Francesco Filidei.
Perugini's music has been commissioned and performed in numerous institutions and festivals, such as the Biennale d'arte di Venezia, the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the 81st Composers Conference (Boscawen), the Cantiere Internazionale d'arte di Montepulciano, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington), the 2 Agosto Competition (Bologna), the Fondazione Teatro Grande di Brescia, the Zhejiang Yichuang International Music Center, the Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), the TorinoDanza Festival in collaboration with the Teatro Stabile di Torino, the Teatro Elfo Puccini and the MilanOltre Festival, the Reggia di Venaria Reale (Turin), the Summer Sounds Festival (Porvoo) and the Hangzhou Contemporary Music Festival.
In 2023 the Gioventù Musicale d'Italia, together with the Ensemble Forma Libera, AERCO and Tactus Records commissioned his second opera "Il pellegrino del nulla" and in 2024 he was selected as a Fromm Foundation Composer Fellow at the 80th Composers Conference.
He has been awarded by Kevin Puts, Salvatore Sciarrino, Magnus Lindberg, Kalevi Aho, Giovanni Sollima, Fabio Vacchi, Christopher Theofanidis, and Michael Torke.
Perugini's music has been performed by some of the leading contemporary classical music orchestras, ensembles and soloists, including the Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini (conducted by Alessandro Cadario), the Orchestra della Toscana, the Avanti! Kamariorkesteri, the Tapiola Sinfonietta, the Collective Lovemusic, the Shanghai New Music Ensemble, the Conference Ensemble (conducted by Vimbayi Kaziboni) the Amatis Piano Trio, the Salastina Music Society, the Akademiska Damkören Lyran, the Divertimento Ensemble, the Sunrise Quartet, Kari Kriikku, Roberto Fabbriciani, Alexander Baillie and soloists from Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Talea, Quartetto Prometeo, American Modern Ensemble and Ensemble Linea.
His music has been broadcasted on Rai3, Rai5, NPO Radio 4, Yleisradio Oy. He is artistic director of the ECHI Festival since 2020.
TITLE | DATE | VENUE | PERFORMER(S) |
|---|---|---|---|
NEW CHAMBER PIECE | 08/2025 | Avaloch Farm Music Institute (New Hampshire) | Conference Ensemble |
"Courante Alternatif" | 07/2025 | Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi (Ravenna) | Gabriele Ciangherotti vibraphone |
"Troubadouritz" | 18/04/2025 | Galerie Das Bilderhaus (Frankfurt) | Ayse Deniz Birdal cello and voice |
"La ragione di un prato" | 08/09/2024 | Certosa di Firenze (Florence) | Valeria Matrosova soprano, Quartetto La Filharmonie |
"La ragione di un prato" "Troubadouritz" | 03/09/2024 | Tonedmelisma MusikFestival (Istanbul) | Ayse Denix Birdal cello and voice |
"Suite Rosa" | 26/07/2024 | Avaloch Farm Music Institute (New Hampshire) | Sharon Harms soprano, Vimbayi Kaziboni conductor, Conference Ensemble |
"Troubadouritz" | 07/06/2024 | Atelier Christiane Schnauder (Mainz) | Ayse Deniz Birdal cello and voice |
Il pellegrino del nulla (chamber opera) | 28/04/2024 | Cinema Auditorium Arena (Modena) | L. Zecchini soprano, G. Pieracci bass, C.E. Tortarolo conductor, Coro giovanile dell'Emilia-Romagna, Ensemble Forma Libera |
"Valse parabolique" | 20/02/2024 | Conservatorio Arrigo Pedrollo (Vicenza) | Bianca Darcey harp, Andrea Cainelli live electronics |
Arr. of Mozart's "Adagio" K.617 | 27/01/2024 | Fondazione Pietà Turchini | NEMA Ensemble |
"Courante alternatif" | 18/11/2023 | Barcola (venue tbd) | Lorenzo Dari vibraphone |
"Studio natatorio" | 23/02/2024 | Paderewski Academy (Ponzan) | Ryszard Lubieniecki portative organ |
"Courante alternatif" | 07/11/2023 | Auditorium Tamburini (Rovigo) | Lorenzo Dari vibraphone |
"La ragione di un prato" | 19/10/2023 | virtual performance | Ayse Deniz Birdal cello and voice |
"La ragione di un prato" | 15/10/2023 | BelVedere Lab (Mirano) | Claudio Pasceri cello, Riccardo Perugini electronics |
"La ragione di un prato" | 09/10/2023 | Salastina Music Society (Los Angeles) | Salastina resident artists |
Arr. of Mozart's "Adagio" K.617 | 12/08/2023 | Accademia Chigiana (Siena) | NEMA Ensemble |
"Nuova musica segreta" | 21/07/2023 | Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte (Montepulciano) | B. Gaggioli, E. Tanaka, M. E. Trupiano, E. Caccamo soprani, G. Guastini piano |
"Il limite degli alberi" | 30/06/2023 | Summer Sounds Festival (Porvo) | Avanti! Kamariorkesteri |
"Valse parabolique" | 21/06/2023 | Festa della musica 2023, Conservatorio di Musica Arrigo Pedrollo (Vicenza) | Bianca Darcey harp |
"Fabula nubeculata" | 24/03/2023 | Conservatorium Maastricht Zuyd Hogeschool | Hon Ning Cheung chromatic mouth harmonica, Nefelibata New Music Collective |
"Studio natatorio" | 16/03/2023 | PanDymińska (Warsaw) | Ryszard Lubieniecki portative organ |
"Astigma" | 01/03/2023 | virtual performance | Francesco Vernero viola, Virginia Luca viola |
“Studio natatorio" | 12/02/2023 | Ignorantka (Lodz) | Ryszard Lubieniecki portative organ |
"Studio natatorio" | 11/02/2023 | Ksiegarnia Hiszpanska (Breslava) | Ryszard Lubieniecki portative organ |
"Studio natatorio" | 08/02/2023 | Scena Supernova (Krakow) | Ryszard Lubieniecki portative organ |
"Sequenza" | 02/02/2023 | Scuola di Musica di Fiesole | Riccardo Perugini organ |