Workshops

For this edition there are two composition workshops proposed:

Workshop on choral composition with Bob Chilcott (United Kingdom)

As a composer, Bob Chilcott created music that is both connective and helps give voice to singers, at various levels of preparation. He has also composed pieces designed for young singers that are often sung in schools. As a result, much of his music is melodic, with a connective harmonic language. He also like to collaborate with writers and this has resulted in pieces that focus on the art of storytelling and ideas and themes, and this way of working appeals to him greatly. When he writes, he likes to think about clarity, both lyrically and musically, shape, sound-worlds, practicality and craft. Most importantly, whatever music he writes needs to connect with singers and ultimately with the people who listen. Bob is essentially a communicator who tries to use whatever knowledge he has gained as a singer, conductor and composer to try and motivate a love of singing together, which for him is one of the greatest examples of an art that not only unifies across continents but also resonates on a human level in a most rich and profound way.

Workshop on choral composition with Giovanni Bonato (Italy)

From the very beginning of his activity as a composer, Giovanni Bonato has turned his attention and research towards sound spatialisation. A compositional technique that has allowed him to focus and concentrate much of his production (especially instrumental and vocal a cappella, with the possible timbral contribution of small instruments) towards a realisation of sonorities and geometries that interact with the performing environment, enhancing and often ‘modifying’ it. The use of the human voice in this sense is privileged and the sung text adds value and strength, not only semantically but also phonetically. In his workshop, where collective discussion and confrontation will be encouraged, Bonato will try to provide participants with a motivated and targeted spatialisation approach (aimed at a particular concert situation).