MASSIMILIANO MESSIERI

Massimiliano Messieri (Bologna 1964), compositore, direttore d’orchestra, fondatore e co-direttore musicale del MASKFEST – Festival Internazionale di Nuova Musica, nel 1997 il Festival Internazionale Associazione Mozart Italia di Rovereto gli commissiona, col patrocinio de’ Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, la TafelOpera “Don Giovanni il dissoluto redento“ (1998), pubblicata dalla Loescher nei libri didattici per le scuole di I e II livello “Musica dal Vivo” di Giovanni Duci con la prefazione di Claudio Abbado.

Nel 2000, l’Istituto Nazionale di ricerca per la Fisica della Materia gli commissiona “Leonids’ play“ (composizione per 5 cd audio realizzata sull’oggetto sonoro concreto delle Leonidi, fornito dalla NASA). Nel 2004, rappresenta al castello di Ettersburg (Weimar) il melodramma “Gretchens Traum“, patrocinato dalla Stiftung Weimar Klassik. Accademico mozartiano dal 1998 e socio d’onore dell’Unione Nazionale Scrittori e Artisti Italiani, nel 2012 termina per il violoncellista Nicola Baroni la sua opera “Zadig” 21 capricci per violoncello e ipercello (Cd pubblicato da AmadeusArte nel 2017 e distribuito da Naxos). Nel aprile del 2019 rappresenta al Teatro Rossini di Pesaro “Alice”, opera in 2 atti o 6 quadri, con l’Orchestra Sinfonica Rossini diretta dal Maestro Dean Anderson e con la regia di Anna Tereshchenko.

L’anno successivo durante il periodo pandemico da covid scrive una serie di composizioni per pianoforte solo che, nel 2021, vengono incise da Patrizia Romanello nel Cd “Islands” per l’etichetta discografica AmadeusArte. Vincitore del primo premio ai concorsi internazionali di composizione “2 Agosto” (Bologna, 1997), “100 note” (New York, 2006), “CMN” (Miami, 2013), le sue partiture sono state commissionate ed eseguite presso il Teatro Comunale di Bologna, la Sala delle Muse di Praga, International Forfest Festival di Kromeriz, Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Amburgo, Copenaghen, Praga e San Francisco), Festival Internazionale “Suoni Inauditi” di Livorno, “oh-Ton” Festival di Oldemburg, “92° Anniversario della Riconquista dell’Indipendenza della Polonia” e “Cracovia Sacra” a Cracovia, “ArtX Detroit” al Max M. Fisher Music Center a Detroit, Spectrum Foundation di New York, “CCRMA” Stanford University, KSFNM Festival Kennesaw State University, “Hole Memorial Auditorium” La Sierra University di Riverside, “Sala Rotonda delle Nazioni Unite” a Vienna, “Grande Auditorium” del Museo Scriabin di Mosca, e in altri festival internazionali di musica.

Ha tenuto masterclass e lezioni di composizione e direzione al Conservatorio di Musica di Cracovia, DAMS Arte di Bologna, Kennesaw State University, International Forfest Festival di Kromeriz, Università IULM di Milano, La Sierra University di Riverside Università di Edimburgo. Le composizioni di Messieri sono state incise per l’etichetta discografica AmadeusArte, Tactus, Da Vinci Classics, Discantica e Drycastle Records È docente di Teoria e Esercitazioni Orchestrali presso il Conservatorio di Musica di San Marino “Istituto Musicale Sammarinese”.

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Massimiliano Messieri (Bologna, 1964), composer, conductor and music director of the Maskfest (San Marino International Festival of New Music), after the academic and advanced studies (Bologna and Pesaro Conservatory of Music, Fiesole Academy, Chigiana Academy in Siena, IRCAM in Paris) he focuses his musical research on the arts’ interaction. Therefore with the Corea Dance Company are born the ballets: “Espressione I” ballet  (Bologna, 1994), “Quintetto” (Bergamo, 1994), “Tarkìz” (Bologna, 1995) and “Cabaret Selvaggio” (Milan, 1999) with the Pierpaolo Koss Dance Company. In 1994 with the artist Daniela Carati, he organizes in Bologna the “Art Difference – hypothesis of interactions and coincidences of Prime Works of Painters, Sculptors, Composers and Poets” project and two year later it is published the book of art “Reazioni Interattive” (Circolo degli Artisti Edition, Faenza 1996). In 1997, the Italian Mozart Association in Rovereto, supported by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg, commissioned him the TafelOpera “Don Giovanni, The Redeemed Rake“ (1998), then later it is published by Loescher Editions inside an educational book for the first and second level “Musica dal Vivo” by Giovanni Duci with a preface by Claudio Abbado.

In 2000, the National Research Institute for Material Physics (INFM) commissioned him, for the Genoa INFMeeting 2000, “Leonids’ Play“, a composition for 5 audio CDs created on the real sound of the Leonids provided by NASA. In 2004, he performs “Gretchens Traum” an opera for 4 actresses and electronics performed at the Ettersburg Castle and supported by Stiftung Weimar Klassik. In 2007, he records with Duo Messieri/Selva the audio cd “Noises X” (Drycastle Records) and two years later “Masken” (Drycastle Records, 2009). In 2010, he has the world premiere of the “Quartetto d’archi No.2” played by Krakow Philharmonic String Quartet for the “92nd Anniversary of the Reconquest of Poland’s Independence” in Krakow Jewish Cultural Center. In 2012, he has the world premiere by “Zadig” 21 Capricios for solo cello (also hypercello) with Nicola Baroni (cello, Max/Msp and hypercello) in Espoo (Finland), and in the 2017, with the same cellist, he records all twenty-one capriccios on the namesake Cd for the AmadeusArte Label and distributed by Naxos. In 2018 the Mascagni Conservatory of Music in Livorno dedicates him a concert for the “Suoni Inauditi” International Festival, commissioning him “Salmo XLIII“, lyric for soprano, male chorus, baritone saxophone and live electronics (Elena Tereshchenko, soprano; Valerio Barbieri, saxophone; Maestro Gabriele Micheli, conductor); in the same year the Embassy of San Marino in Vienna presents its music at the Rotunda Hall of the United Nations. In April 2019 at the Teatro Rossini in Pesaro, Messieri represents the world premiere by “Alice“, a two-act opera with the Rossini Symphony Orchestra conducted by Maestro Dean Anderson and directed by Anna Tereshchenko.

In 2020 during the Covid pandemic, Messieri writes a series of compositions for solo piano, and a year later they are recorded on “Islands” Cd by Patrizia Romanello for the AmadeusArte Label. M. Messieri won the first prize at the International Competition of Composition “2 Agosto“ (Bologna, 1997), “100 note“ (New York, 2006), “CMN“ (Miami, 2013) and various national competitions.

His scores are commissioned and performed at the Town Theatre in Bologna, at the Martinu Hall in Prague, at the Schlosskirche in Ettersburg (Weimar), IIC (Prague, Hamburg, Copenhagen and San Francisco), 1° and 2° International Piano Competition in Republic of San Marino, Forfest Festival in Kromeriz, “oh-ton” in Oldenburg, “Cracovia Sacra” in Cracow, “ArtX Detroit” at the Max M. Fisher Music Center in Detroit, Spectrum Foundation in New York, “CCRMA” Stanford University, “KSFNM” Festival Kennesaw State University, “Hole Memorial” La Sierra University Auditorium in Riverside, Scriabin Museum Auditorium in Moscow and in other festivals of new music. He holds masterclasses and lectures at the Conservatory of Music in Krakow, DAMS University in Bologna, Kennesaw State University, International Forfest Festival in Kromeriz, IULM University in Milan, La Sierra University in Riverside, Edinburgh University. His scores are recorded on AmadeusArte, Tactus, Da Vinci Classics, Discantica and Drycastle Records.  He lives in San Marino, where he is professor in theory and orchestra lessons at the “Istituto Musicale Sammarinese” Conservatory of Music.