Federico Favali
Composer and Musicologist
About me
Works
Contacts
About me
Born in Pietrasanta, he spent his childhood in Lucca, homeland of composers.
In 2004 he graduated in piano at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “L. Boccherini”in Lucca and in 2008 he graduated in DAMS at the University of Bologna. He studied composition at King's College London, at the University of Birmingham (PhD), at the Conservatory of La Spezia, at New York University-Steinhardt and at the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires (PostDoc). He privately studied conducting with Adrian Slywotsky.
His music has been performed all over the world (Germany, England, Argentina, Ireland, Indonesia, Australia, South Korea, United States and Japan).
In 2014 the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca commissioned the opera “The Fall of the Usher House”, inspired by the tale of Edgar Allan Poe. It was staged at the Teatro San Girolamo in Lucca on May 4, 2014.
In 2015 he was invited to Daegu (South Korea) at the Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival and in 2016 at the CrossCurrents Festival in Birmingham. In 2016 and in 2019 he also participated in the Lucca Classica Festival.
In 2016 he was composer in residence of the Associazione Musicale Lucchese for the winter chamber music season.
As a musicologist he focuses on the analysis of contemporary music. His fields of research are the music of György Ligeti, the music of Thomas Adès, the relationships between Jorge Luis Borges' poetics and contemporary music and the relationships between mathematics and music.
He is corresponding member of the Accademia Lucchese di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti and of the Accademia Senese degli Intronati.
My Works
Solo
- Verticalities, for viola (2022)
- Aegilon, for organ (2022)
- Perpetuity, for trompet (2022)
- Leuk, for ukulele (2021)
- Wajarri, for didgeridoo (2021)
- Quimeras, for snare drum (2022)
- Oremis, for musical saw (2020)
- Shines, for cello (2020)
- RegenerActions, for violone in G (2020)
- Quadrifluus, for acting guitarist (2020)
- Lumìa, for flauto d’amore (2020)
- Eikónes, for violin (2019)
- Reveries, for piano (2018)
- Huegraphies, for flute (2016)
- Astor and me, for violin (2016)
- Madiratun, for doublebass (2016)
- Metalogicalities, for acting soprano (2016)
- The world is on fire, for doublebass (2016)
- Zreg, for doublebass (2015)
- Evanescens, for vibraphone (2014)
- Intimate memories, for piano (2013)
- Empire of the light, for cello (2012)
Small Ensemble (2-9)
- Tankas, for piano, violin and cello (2023)
- Sociopathies, for acting soprano and snare drum (2021)
- Sceneries, for piano and double bass (2016)
- Aleph, for three sopranos ed ensemble (2016)
- Hypothetical spaces, for string quartet (2015)
- Sombras, for flute and violin (2015)
- Yemaya, for ensemble (2013)
- Gemma, for flute and harpsichord (2011)
Large Ensemble (10-27)
- Grande Mottetto, for brass, organ and choir (2019)
- Qwalala, for harp and ensemble (2019)
- Time, old age, beauty, for ensemble (2016)
- Quando passai di qui era di notte, for mezzosoprano and ensemble (2016)
Choir
- Sancte Michaël, for choir and piano (2020)
- El Paraiso de tus Ojos, for four soloists (2018)
- Spontanea terra, for “a cappella” choir(2014)
Orchestra
- Kosmogonia, for violin and orchestra (2017)
- Ritratti di luce e di tenebre, for orchestra (2015)
Opera
- Con gli occhi di Jennifer, chamber opera (2020)
- Il crollo di casa Usher, chamber opera (2014)
Transcriptions
- Giacomo Puccini - Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut, for piano (2023)
- Astor Piazzolla – Adios Nonino, for piano (2022)
- Giacomo Puccini – Crisantemi, for piano (2020)
- Arnold Schönberg – Verklärte Nacht, for piano (2016)
- Luigi Boccherini – Quintettino dello Scacciapensiero (2016)
- Astor Piazzolla – Inverno Porteño, for piano (2012)
- Hogo Wolf – 4 Mörike-Lieder, for string quartet (2011)
Contacts
EMAIL
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federicofavalicomposer[at]gmail[dot]com
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