Everything
keeps
REPEATING,
yet constantly
changing
A musical project by Serena Chillemi and Tommaso Farinetti
A concert that feels like a discovery
Minimal music was born in the United States in the 1960s, based on the desires of some composers to break the mould and to distance themselves considerably from twentieth century avant-garde serial music.
La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, and Philip Glass were some of the leaders of this musical movement, which was primarily based on the repetition of rhythmic and melodic cells.
This repetition becomes a means of destruction and innovation that stretches the perception of time and breaks all the rules, creating a listening experience where both auditory and visual imagination is amplified by rhythmic paroxysms and melodic repetition.
The pianists Serena Chillemi and Tommaso Farinetti present a programme for two pianos, the result of thorough and meticulous research. This stimulating concert pulls the audience into a powerful and rousing journey through sound unlike any other.
On the programme: pieces by Philip Glass, David Lang, John Adams
The Minimal Duo
Sometimes life makes decisions for us and destinies intertwine simply because it was meant to be.
Serena and Tommaso met by chance on a day like any other in June 2014 in the great Bavarian metropolis, neither of them imagining that such a brief moment could decisively change the course of their lives.
Both pianists, Italians living in Germany, driven by the desire to challenge themselves and experience new cultures: her, passionate and Mediterranean; him, reflective and more rational, united by a burning passion for contemporary music and the irresistible urge to experiment with new musical languages.
Both established concert performers, they also have professional backgrounds outside the purely 'academic' world of classical music.
The Minimal Duo was born on the very day that they first met, with this simple question: "Would you like to play Piano Phase by Steve Reich?".
Thus began a period of research, study, and deepening of knowledge of minimalist music for two grand pianos, which finally made its debut in October 2021 in the renowned Black Box Saal in the Gasteig in Munich.
The debut - Black box Saal - Gasteig - Munich
Across the Alps - Sala Maffeiana - Verona
Programme notes
The two pianos in the centre of the hall have a long story to tell, beginning in the 1960s when several composers, including Steve Reich, La Monte Young, and Philip Glass, more or less knowingly created a new musical movement, taking particular inspiration from the figurative arts of the period...READ MORE.
French connections
What do we feel in front of a Monet or Manet painting?
Wonder and inexplicable awe!
So ethereal and wonderful are the atmospheres that these artists paint, whose contours are lost to leave room for dreams.
The Minimal Duo presents a programme for 4-hands piano centred precisely on late 19th century French music, with pieces by composers such as Debussy, Ravel and Satie, who found one of their main sources of inspiration precisely in that pictorial impressionism.
"The thread that binds our two programmes is very thin.
Just like the American minimalists, the French Impressionists wanted to position themselves as pioneers of new musical frontiers, with new and more extreme harmonic experiences, in a clear break with the past."
Minimal Duo: Impro and Electronics
"In everyday life, we are constantly searching for a way of communicating that feels authentic, profound, and revealing. For us, playing and improvising together feels like travelling in this direction together.
No filters, just us, one after the other.
The freedom created by the lack of a score does not scare us. Quite the contrary! The same goes for the infinite number of possibilities for sound combination provided by the use of electronics. Improvisation is another dimension of our duo. It is fundamental and complementary to the aforementioned freedom, and allows us to engage as spontaneous composers."
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Photos Minimal Duo: Massimo Fiorito
Pictures video Teaser and video trailer concert in
Gasteig: Massimo and Pietro Fiorito
Pictures video trailer concert in Verona: Daniele Ferrero
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