Luca Lombardi

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April 2011

4 Saluti (from: 8 Saluti)

for piano

Alessandra Ammara, pianist

April 8, h. 8 pm
New York, Bargemusic, 2 Old Fulton Street, Brooklyn

USA Première

A Conversation with Luca Lombardi (with musical examples)

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April 7, h. 6-8 pm (Jerusalem time)
kol hamusica (Israeli radio)

March 2011

January 2011

Criceto (Hamster), Zanzara (Mosquito), Porco (Swine), Moscerino (Gnat)
(from Lombardi's vocal cycle "Minima Animalia")

for baritone and piano

Elio (from the rock band "Elio e le Storie Tese"), baritone
Roberto Prosseda, piano

January 23, 17.00
Lucca, Auditorium di San Romano

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December 2010

Der Komponist Luca Lombardi

A Radio portrait by Wolfgang Korb

December 28, 21.00
Saarländischer Rundfunk (German Radio)

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The musical ladder which brought me to Israel
(hasulam - hatzlilim - shehe'ela oti leisrael)

A lecture with musical examples

December 22, 14.00
University of Haifa ( Dr. Hecht Arts Center), Israel

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November 2010

Lombardi/Schumann
Dialogue of a contemporary composer with Schumann
(on Lombardi's 2nd Quartet "Warum?")

November 17, 15.00
Rome University, La Sapienza

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Lucrezio. Un oratorio materialistico.
Parte seconda: Amore

on texts by Edoardo Sanguineti from Lucretius
for narrator, soprano, baritone and 12 instruments

Alex Hanna, narrator
Mary Mackenzie, soprano
Jeffrey Gavett, baritone
New Julliard Ensemble
Joel Sachs, conductor

November 12, 21.00
New York Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall,
USA première

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October 2010

Gesprächszeit

A Radio portrait of Luca Lombardi, by Nicole Nelhiebel

October 15, 9.05
Radio Bremen (German Radio)

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Prospero

Opera in two acts
libretto by F.C. Delius and L. Lombardi (based on Shakespeare's "The Tempest")

October 5, 22.00
on kol hamusica (Israeli radio)

September 2010

"Thoughts of a Germanised Italian composer with an Israeli Passport"

September 15, 18.00
HWK - Hanse Institute for Advanced Study
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
Delmenhorst (Germany)

Deutsch-Israelische Gesellschaft
Landeszentrale für politische Bildung

September 19, 16:00
Osterdeich 6
Bremen (Germany)

August 2010

July 2010

Echo de Syrinx

by Luca Lombardi was released on the Cd The Flute in The 21st Century, Tactus TC.950601 (2010), interpreted by Roberto Fabbriciani.
At the beginning of July Luca Lombardi started a three months residence at the Hanse-Institute for Advanced Study in Delmenhorst/Germany (www.h-w-k.de)
See also recordings

May 2010

Ophelia-Fragmente

Tiziana Scandaletti, Riccardo Piacentini (Duo Alterno)

May 25
China première
Beijing Modern Music Festival, Central Conservatory of Music, Recital Hall

"Musical Theatre and World Theatre"

Lecture on own works

May 25
Bar-Ilan University (Israel)

Porco

for voice and piano

text: Elio (from the rock band Elio e le storie Tese)
Elio and Roberto Prosseda in recital
From Mozart to Rossini, from Weill to Lombardi
With Roberto Prosseda at the piano, the popular singer Elio will perform three songs by Luca Lombardi: “Zanzara” (Mosquito), “Criceto” (Hamster) and the world première of “Porco” (Pig).

May 21
Castelnuovo Rangone, Italy

April 2010

"Musical Theatre and World Theatre"

April 24, 20.00
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Kayma Gallery, 26 Ben Dosa St., Jaffa
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February 2010

E, Concerto per flauto e orchestra (2009)

Commission: Kansas City Symphony

Soloist: Emmanuel Pahud
Kansas City Symphony,
Conductor: Michael Stern

February 19
World première: Kansas City, Missouri
For further information: Kansas City Symphony KCMetropolis.org Kansascity.com

December 2009

November 2009

Echo de Syrinx

for flute
Roberto Fabbriciani, flute

November 14
Sound 2009, North East Scotland Festival of New Music
Tarland, Migvie Church
Italian première

March 2009

World Premiere of Il re nudo in Rome

Il re nudo is the first opera by Luca Lombardi to be performed in Italy. Lombardi is at his fourth experience in the opera field, after the recent success of his Prospero in Nürnberg. Stage director will be Dmitri Bertman, Russian, among the most significant in contemporary theatre, founder and artistic director of Moscow Helikon Opera, at his Roman debut. Main character is not a typical opera singer, but the popular singer Elio of "Elio e le Storie Tese", together with a cast of outstanding performers. The subject of this chamber opera, commissioned by the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, is freely inspired by a 1934 play by Evgeny Shvarts, in its turn based upon three famous fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen: The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Princess and The Pea and The Swineheard.

Il re nudo
Divertimento in due atti
Music by Luca Lombardi
Libretto by Sandro Cappelletto
Enrique Mazzola, conductor
Dmitri Bertman, director
Andrea Giorgi, choirmaster
Lena Lukjanova, set design and costumes
Elio, Sonia Visentin/Lucia Vaccari (31), Danilo Formaggia/Marco Frusoni (31), Paolo Coni, Nicholas Isherwood/Simone Desaunio (31), Alessandro Svab, Romano Franceschetto, Margherita Settimo, Sabrina Testa, Marta Calcaterra, Manuela Boni, Antonella Trevisan, performes
Orchestra and Choir of Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Rome, Teatro Nazionale

Friday 20 March 2009, 8.30 pm - Sunday 22 March, 4.30 pm - Wednesday 25 March, 5.00 pm - Friday 27 March, 8.00 pm
Sunday 29 March, 4.30 pm- Tuesday 31 March, 8.30 pm

The opera will be broadcasted by RAI-Radio3Suite at a later date
Links: Rossijskaja Gazeta I (Video) II (Interview) III (Review),

Reviews, La Stampa Il Corriere della Sera Opernwelt Classic Voice
Interviews, Elio e Luca Lombardi VIVAVERDI Musica
Links to Youtube "Prima della Prima", Raitre (21-04-2009), Part I Part II La7 News (20-03-2009)
RadioRai3 Suite Il Festival dei Festival (05-07-2009)
Basta con i re nudi di Gianluigi Mattietti

January 2009

World Premiere in La Scala, Milano

Luca Lombardi´s ensemble work Memoria for narrator and four instruments (2008) is premiered on January 12, 4 pm, in La Scala, Milano. Memoria is based on texts by Luciano Violante.
Elio (delle Storie Tese), narrator
Fabrizio Meloni, clarinet
Klaidi Sahatci, violin
Alfredo Persichilli, violoncello
Roberto Prosseda, piano

January 12, 4 pm
La Scala, Milano
More informationLa Scala

July 2008

Member of Akademie der Künste Berlin

Luca Lombardi was elected a member of the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) Berlin.

More information: Akademie der Künste Berlin

June 2008

Luca Lombardi in Munich

Chamber music by Luca Lombardi will be presented in Munich on June 2 (8 pm) in the occasion of the Italian Republic Day and of the 60th anniversary of the Italian Constitution.

Nel vento, con Ariel for solo flute (2005)
8 Saluti for piano (2001-2003)
Essay 3 ('Steiner') for solo cello (2003)
Einstein-Dialog for flute and cello (2006)
Bremer Trio for flute, cello and piano (2007)

Roberto Fabbriciani, flute
Leonard Elschenbroich, cello
Alessandra Ammara, piano

June 2 (8 pm)
Gasteig, Black Box, Rosenheimer Str. 5, Munich

May 2008

Luca Lombardi at the Turin International Book Fair

Lombardi will discuss his new work Terra for orchestra with the musicologist Enrico Fubini.
By entitling this composition Terra (Earth, but also Soil, Ground or Land) I thought about the different meanings of the Italian term. The planet we live on, the solid part of the earth´s surface, the land as a nation, and last but not least one of the four elements. The initinal stimulus came from the second meaning and its material implications (underground telluric mouvements). Part of this composition was written in Israel, a "land" I particularly love. There I considered naming the piece "Eretz", in Hebrew, which in the combination "eretz Israel" means "Land of Israel". For this reason I included two quotations of Israel melodies: The first one from the song live in this land, the second one taken from Hatikva (Hope), the state of Israel´s anthem. My hope is, that this state will keep existing, for its own good as well as for the good of the neighbours and of ourselves.
Luca Lombardi

Sunday, May 11, 20.00
Turin, International Book Fair
Spazio RAI

Monographic concert in Bari, Italy

Chamber music by Luca Lombardi is presented in the frame of a portrait concert in Bari on May 6. Works created after 2000 are performed by Arcadio Baracchi (flute), Antonella Costantino (cello) and Giancarlo Cardini (piano).
Nel vento, con Ariel for flute (2005)
Essay 3 ('Steiner') for cello (2003)
Commiato dall'anno vecchio - Saluto dell'anno nuovo
Saluto a Juergen Thym (from 8 Saluti for piano, 2001-2003)
Einstein-Dialog for flute and cello (2006)

May 6, 21.00
Fondazione "N. Piccinni", Bari
Sala Giuseppina del Kursaal Santa Lucia