Ghiribizzi.

Contemporary music for guitar

... The Ghiribizzi had to serve to a girl of Naples, and I did not write but I scribbled, anyway some passionate
melodies will be not disliked ... (from a Paganini's letter to Luigi Guglielmo Germi)..

In the project on Niccol Paganini, who was a great guitarist as well as violinist, I contacted a
group of contemporary Italian composers from different generations, to whom I asked to develop a
personal re-interpretation of the Paganini's invention. These new works are presented here for the
first time, alternating with those of the great composer from Genoa, with the intention of creating a
bridge between tradition and innovation.
The program will touch different aspects of the Paganini's soul: the instrumental virtuosity, the
melancholic side, the ironic nature: each of these aspects is reflected in a group of compositions,
proposed following an ideal continuity
Andrea Portera (1973) : Capriccio
Alessandro Solbiati (1957) : Le sei corde di Niccol (I-IV)
Vittorio Montalti (1984) : Ghiribizzo
Matteo DAmico (1955) : Paganini 33 (ghiribizzo clandestino)
Mauro Cardi (1955) : Bagatella
Alessandro Magini (1955) : Quarantatr (ghiribizzo intorno al La)
Daniele Bravi (1974): Minus 43
Michele Tadini (1964): Hands
Fabrizio Festa (1960) : Ghiribiz

Award-winning in several national and international competitions, among the others the Concours International
dExcution Musicale (CIEM) in Geneva (1995), Luigi Attademo was one of more important pupil of the guitaristcomposer Angelo Gilardino. He has been invited as a guest in several festivals and he has given the first performance of
many contemporary works, playing on the Italian Networks RAI and Rete Toscana Classica. Among his teachers, Julius
Kalmar (conduction), composers as Dusan Bogdanovic, Alessandro Solbiati and Ennio Morricone, and the harpsichord
player Emilia Fadini (Baroque music).
Doctorate in Philosophy with a dissertation on the musical interpretation, he published a book about this subject. He is
contributor to several specialized magazines. He worked in the Archive of the Andrs Segovias Foundation (Linares-Spain),
to catalogue its manuscripts (published on the Spanish musicological review The Roseta), and he discovered some unknown
manuscripts of important composers, such as Jaume Pahissa, Alexandre Tansman, Gaspar Cassad and others. He recorded
several CDs, pa rticularly dedicated to Baroque music (Scarlattis Sonatas and Bach transcriptions) and to Segovia Repertoire.
In the 2007, Guitar Review dedicated an interview and a CD to his works. Last issue (2009) is published by Brilliant Classics
and edicated to Scarlatti.In 2010 he produced the complete recording of Bachs music for lute and a tour in Australia during
which he presented the Italian contemporary music for guitar and accordion.

Luigi Attademo - Via Mercadante 20 - 50144 Firenze tel. 0553234019 3491405346 email: luigiattademo@tiscali.it

The composers
Alessandro Solbiati
http://www.esz.it/aut/ita/alessandro_solbiati/index.htm
Michele Tadini
http://www.milanomusica.org/archivio/autori_micheletadini.html
Vittorio Montalti
http://www.vittoriomontalti.com/VM/Home.html
Daniele Bravi
www.danielebravi.altervista.org/
Mauro Cardi
http://www.edisonstudio.it/edisonIta/cardi/cardi.html
Alessandro Magini
http://www.alessandromagini.it/
Matteo D'Amico
http://www.matteodamico.it/
Andrea Portera
http://andreaportera.com/
Fabrizio Festa
http://fabriziofesta.com/

Luigi Attademo - Via Mercadante 20 - 50144 Firenze tel. 0553234019 3491405346 email: luigiattademo@tiscali.it