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Stefano Scodanibbio, contrabass soloist and composer, was born in Macerata, Italy, on June 18, 1956. In the 1980s and 1990s his name has been prominently linked to the renaissance of the double bass, playing dozens of works written especially for him by such composers as Bussotti, Donatoni, Estrada, Ferneyhough, Frith, Globokar, Sciarrino, and Xenakis at major festivals throughout the world. In 1987 in Rome he performed a four-hour nonstop marathon of twenty-eight pieces by twenty-five composers.
He has created new techniques to extending the timbres and range of the double bass to an extent not previously considered possible. He collaborated over a long period with Luigi Nono (“arco mobile à la Stefano Scodanibbio” is written on the score of Prometeo) and with Giacinto Scelsi. In 1996 he has been teaching contrabass at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. He regularly plays in a duo with Rohan de Saram and also with Markus Stockhausen.
Active as a composer his catalog consists of more than forty works principally written for strings ("Sei Studi" for solo contrabass; six duos for all the possible combinations of the four strings; three String Quartets; "Concertale" for contrabass, strings, and percussion, etc.) and he was selected three times for the ISCM, International Society of Contemporary Music (Oslo 1990, Mexico City 1993, Hong Kong 2002). Of particular importance are his collaborations with Terry Riley and with the poet Edoardo Sanguineti. In 1983 he founded the Rassegna di Nuova Musica, a festival for New Music held every year in Macerata, Italy. www.stefanoscodanibbio.com |
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