Biennale College Musica: the winning composers and performers of the 2024 call

Five composers and six performers have been selected for the new edition of the Biennale College Musica, the fourth curated by Lucia Ronchetti. Chosen from an array of 407 applicants from 58 countries, all between the ages of 23 and 29 years old, starting Monday March 4th the young composers and performers will attend an 8-week programme of inquiry, research, creation and production that will end with the presentation of their works, new pieces or repertoire, at the 68th International Festival of Contemporary Music (26 September > 11 October 2024).

The 5 composers working on original and unreleased creations to present at the 68th International Festival of Contemporary Music are:

- Mattia Parisse, born in 1998 in Terni (Italy), who in the studios at CIMM (Center for Computer Music and Multimedia of La Biennale di Venezia), will work on a new piece of electronic music;
- Alice Hoi Ching Yeung, born in 1999 in Hong Kong, who will compose a new work for percussion;
- Miles Walter, born in 1994 in Keene (New Hampshire, USA), who will author a new work for the piano;
- Hristina Susak, born in 1996 in Novi Sad (Serbia), who is working on a new composition for string quartet;
- Jaeduk Kim, born in 1995 in Seoul (South Korea), who will compose a new work for viola.

The 6 performers – a percussionist, a violist and the members of a string quartet – who will perform works from the musical repertoire during the 68th International Festival of Contemporary Music are:

- Aleksandra Nawrocka (2000), a Polish percussionist (Szczecinek) who together with the Et/Et ensemble and Federico Tramontana will perform Le Noir de l’étoile by Gerard Grisey;
- Giulio Tanasini (1994), an Italian violist who, joined bymusicians Cristiano Contadin (viola da gamba) and Massimo Raccanelli (cello), will perform pieces from the repertoire of Benedetto Marcello and the new piece for two viole da gamba and cello commissioned by La Biennale di Venezia to Isabel Mundry;
- the Kandinsky Quartet, a string quartet based in Vienna, composed of Hannah Kandinsky (1996, Bremen) from Austria, Antonio Gervilla (1994, Granada) from Spain, the Ignazio Alayza (1994, Carrara) from Italy and Israel Gutierrez (1996, Chillàn) from Chile, which at the Biennale Musica will perform pieces by Salvatore Sciarrino, Vito Žuraj and Georg Friedrich Haas.

From March to October, the young artists will be guided through the programme of the Biennale College Musica 2024 by internationally renowned tutors: Luca Francesconi and David Lang for composition; Eva Böcker and Megumi Kasakawa of the Ensemble Modern, respectively for viola and cello; Brian Archinal and the Et/Et ensemble with Federico Tramontana forpercussion; Bertrand Chamayou for the piano; Thierry Coduys for electronics (CIMM); Hervé Boutry for dramaturgy.