I can’t wait to hear my orchestral piece Festum Sine Voce (Camp Style)  at the Wiener Konzerthaus on January 27, performed by a selection of highly talented Sicilian musicians and conducted by Epifanio Comis. The same concert will also feature music by Vincenzo Bellini and Johannes Brahms. January 27, 7:00 pm Wiener Konzerthaus, Großer Saal, Vienna Vincenzo Bellini Overture from Norma  (1831) “Oh! Quante volte” (from I Capuleti e i Montecchi , 1830) Emanuele Casale Festum sine voce / Camp...

Three dates for my new work MUSICA EX UMBRA , a composition for ensemble and electronics inspired by photographs by Ferdinando Scianna: Trento - Italy, 15 January Tallinn - Estonia, 8 February Cluj-Napoca - Romania, 4 March Thanks to:  Conservatorio di Trento, Istituto Europeo di Design (Milan), Conservatorio di Riva del Garda, IULM – Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione, Ensemble Bonporti.

My new string quartet, commissioned by the “I Teatri di Reggio Emilia” Foundation, will be premiered next November 2nd as part of the Festival Aperto. Its title is Cantieri di Solitudine  ( Solitude Under Construction ). The sociologist Zygmunt Bauman identified individualism and loneliness as two of the most insidious issues of modernity, stemming from the growing tendency to see the human being as a “project,” and from a consumerist view of human relationships. In Cantieri di Solitudine  (...