Andrea Liberovici

Andrea Liberovici
Liberovici with his dog.
Born	1962 Turin, Italy
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Composer, theater director
Parent(s)	Sergio Liberovici, Margot Galante Garrone

Andrea Liberovici (born 1962, Turin, Italy) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music and a theater director.

Biography

The son of Sergio Liberovici (musician, Turin, 1930–1991) and Margot Galante Garrone, Andrea Liberovici studied composition, violin and viola at the conservatories of Venice and Turin. He also studied acting at the Scuola del Teatro Stabile in Genoa, and singing with Cathy Berberian at the International Festival in Montalcino in 1980. He recorded his first LP at the age of fifteen.^[1][2]

As a composer and director, he co-founded Teatrodelsuono (theatre of sound) with poet Edoardo Sanguineti^[3] (librettist of Luciano Berio) and Ottavia Fusco.

As quoted by Jean-Jacques Nattiez from his book, "Andrea Liberovici is a composer of his time. He define himself a modern.(...) We can find in his Frankenstein Cabaret a metaphor of the composer today. (...) he his a tragic musicians, a tragic-postmodern composer who tell about man and woman compared with the absurd and unbearable loneliness in which Internet borders more and more humanity."^[4]

Over the last decade, in collaboration with artists such as Peter Greenaway,^[5][6] Claudia Cardinale, Aldo Nove, Judith Malina,^[7] Vittorio Gassman, Giorgio Albertazzi, Enrico Ghezzi, Ivry Gitlis and Regina Carter, Liberovici has created many projects concerning the relationships between music, poetry, theatre and technology.

Recently, those who have performed his music include Yuri Bashmet,^[8][9] Nouvel Ensemble Moderne^[10] (Montreal), Toscanini Orchestra, and Teatro Carlo Felice. His works have also been presented and produced by the Teatro di Roma, La Fenice (Venice) and Salle Olivier Messiaen (Paris). He has also worked in residence at INA-GRM and France Culture in Paris, STEIM Center for Research and Development in Amsterdam, and the GMEM^[11] National Centre of Musical Creation in Marseille. His music and performances have been presented in Italy and in various cities, including New York, Paris, Athens and Montreal.^[12]

Music

• 64,^[13] Oratorio for actors in 64 movements through the acoustic memory of Living Theatre from J.Cage to now, with Judith Malina, Hanon Reznikov, Ottavia Fusco, GRM – INA, Paris 2000
• Frankenstein Cabaret,^[14] Festival Les Musiques, GMEM, Marseille 2001
• Electronic Lied, GRM – INA, Paris 2002
• Electronic Frankenstein, Teatro Carlo Felice, Genova 2002
• Intégral,^[15] Radio France-France Culture, Paris 2003
• Children of Uranium,^[16] concept and libretto Peter Greenaway, direction Saskia Boddeke, Genova 2005
• Cunegonde's last journey to Irak, Festival Archipel, Ginevra 2005
• Poètanz!,^[17] libretto Edoardo Sanguineti, Festival Oriente Occidente, Artemis Danza, Rovereto 2006
• Titania la Rossa, libretto and direction Giorgio Albertazzi, Fondazione A. Toscanini, Piacenza 2007
• From Ivry^[18], dedicated to Ivry Gitlis, with Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Montreal 2007
• The Transparency of the Word- cantata for Primo Levi,^{[19][20][21][22][23]} libretto Emilio Jona music and video Andrea Liberovici, with Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, International Symposium "New Voices on Primo Levi",^[24] Asia Society, New York, 2010 October 26
• Springing from the Heart, libretto Daisaku Ikeda, Festival Les Musiques, GMEM, Marsiglia 2010
• Non un Silenzio,^[25] for viola, string orchestra and celesta, commissioned from Yuri Bashmet and Moscow Soloists, Teatro La Fenice, Venezia 2014
• MAVRYA, dedicated to Martha Argerich and Ivry Gitlis, for violin and piano, Lugano Festival - Martha Argerich Project,^[26] Lugano 2015

Dramas

• Rap,^[27][28] text by Edoardo Sanguineti, music and direction Andrea Liberovici Teatro della Tosse, Genoa 1996
• Sonetto,^[29] text by Edoardo Sanguineti, music and direction Andrea Liberovici Teatro Carlo Felice, Genoa 1997
• Macbeth Remix, da W. Shakespeare, text by Edoardo Sanguineti, music and direction Andrea Liberovici Spoleto Festival, Spoleto 1998
• Seipersonaggi.com,^[30] da L. Pirandello, text by Edoardo Sanguineti, music and direction Andrea Liberovici Teatro Stabile, Genoa 2001
• Concerto per Roma, with Giorgio Albertazzi, Uto Ughi, Teatro Argentina, Rome 2002
• Quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore, by Luigi Pirandello, Teatro Stabile, Rome 2002
• Candido. Soap opera musical, text by Aldo Nove and Andrea Liberovici,Teatro Stabile, Genoa 2004
• Centurie, by Manganelli, Calvino, Trilussa, with Massimo Popolizio, XXXVIII Festival di Borgio Verezzi, Borgio Verezzi 2004
• Urfaust,^[31] by J. W. Goethe, with Ugo Pagliai and Paola Gassman, XXXIX Festival di Borgio Verezzi, Teatro Stabile, Genoa, Teatro Stabile del Veneto, Borgio Verezzi 2005
• The Glass Managerie, by Tennessee Williams with Claudia Cardinale, Fox&Gould, Rome, 2006
• Nel Nome di Gesù di Corrado Augias, with Paolo Bonacelli, music and direction A. Liberovici, Teatro Stabile, Genoa 2010
• Operetta in Nero musica, testo, video e regia Andrea Liberovici, with Helga Davis, Teatro Stabile, Genoa 2011
• Fiona di Mauro Covacich, musica e regia Andrea Liberovici, Teatro Stabile, Trieste 2012

Cinema

• 2008 - POSTCARDS FROM FAUST, 9 to 6 minutes in illusions
• 2006 - WORK IN REGRESS, An assembly
• 2004 - 500.000 LIONS, THE LAST HOURS OF J. W. OR TARZAN OR J. W.
• 2003 - Il teatro immateriale, Rai Sat Show

Books

• Officina Liberovici, Marsilio, 2006, ISBN 9788831791120 (catalog)
• Candido. Soap opera musical, Il Melangolo, 2004, ISBN 978-88-7018-530-0 (libretto of the play)
• l mio amore è come una febbre e mi rovescio, Andrea Liberovici and Edoardo Sanguineti Bompiani, 1998, ISBN 8845236005

Discography

Album

• 1978 - ORO (CGD, LP)
• 1980 - Liberovici (CGD, 20194, LP, CD)
• 1992 - Pranzo di famiglia (Carosello, CD)
• 1996 - Rap (Fonit Cetra, CD)
• 1998 - Sonetto (Devega Edizioni)
• 2001 - 64 (GRM-INA, Francia)
• 2003 - Electronic Frankenstein (Gmem, Francia)

References