Composers’ Forum - Stefano Gervasoni Presented by Liszt Academy

Stefano Gervasoni is an Italian composer born in Bergamo in 1962. He studied composition at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with Luca Lombardi, Niccolò Castiglioni and Azio Corghi. His artistic development was strongly influenced by Luigi Nono, as well as by encounters with Brian Ferneyhough, Peter Eötvös and Helmut Lachenmann. In 1990 he met György Ligeti in Hungary, and in 1992 he attended the Composition and Computer Music Course at IRCAM in Paris.

His works have been commissioned and performed by leading institutions and ensembles including WDR, SWR, the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern and Casa da Música. His catalogue – including chamber and vocal works, concertos, orchestral pieces and the opera Limbus-Limbo – is published by Ricordi and Suvini Zerboni.

Among numerous distinctions, he received the Franco Abbiati Prize (2010) and the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation Award (2018). Since 2006 he has been Professor of Composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris.

Language of the lecture: English.