Alessio Elia Email and Phone Number

COMPOSER«Alessio Elia does a truly interesting music, complex in the writing and in its conception, and at the same time it works very well as a listening. And this is what matters».Péter Eötvös (la Repubblica, Italian newspaper)«Mr. Elia is a very fine composer. He has a very broad knowledge in many aspects of the arts and philosophy. For me, it was an immense pleasure to exchange ideas in the huge field of music with him».Manfred Stahnke, German composer (Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg)BIOGRAPHYGuest composer and researcher at the Liszt Academy in Budapest, the University of Debrecen, the Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, the Sacher Foundation in Basel and at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo where he was lecturer in composition in 2010.His music was performed worldwide in many important venues (Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome; Budapest Music Centre; Bartók Hall of the National Hungarian Auditorium - MÜPA; Accademia Filarmonica Romana; Studios of the National Hungarian Radio Orchestra etc.) and broadcasted by State radios and TV channels (Radio Bartók, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Radio Vaticana, Magyar Televízió, etc.)Among several commissions there are those by Radio Bartók and I Solisti della Scala di Milano.Ten portrait concerts of his music have been organized in Europe.Among several awards: the first prize for the orchestral piece Hidden dimensions at the International UMZF 2013 Competition, president of the jury Péter Eötvös.His recent pieces are inspired by String Theory, M-Theory and quantum physics.Some works are addressed to the integration of different kinds of tuning systems in a process of developing the sonic material he named "polysystemism" presented in many conferences in Europe, among them Cité de la Musique at "Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine" in Paris.In June 2017 his Octet has been recorded by I solisti della Scala di Milano and relesead by Warner Classics.www.alessioelia.com