Ensemble Laboratorio Novamusica

Formed in 1991 upon the initiative of students of the Venetian "Benedetto Marcello" Conservatory, the Laboratorio Novamusica Ensemble and associated musicians not only perform today's classical music but also research and study the many and various aspects of new music.

The Laboratorio Novamusica Ensemble has taken part in several festivals and concert series, such as: “Sonopolis” (Venezia 1992, 1996 e 1998); “Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell’Europa Mediterranea” (Lisbona 1994); Convegno Internazionale in Occasione del Cinquecentenario della morte di Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (Mirandola 1994); “Note intorno al mondo” (Venezia 1995 e 1997); Seminari e Concerti della Scuola Civica di Milano (Milano 1995); “Intempo” (Venezia 1996); 8° Festival Internazionale di Venezia (Venezia 1997); “La Festa della Musica” (Scuola di Musica di Fiesole 1997); “Replay” (Teatro La Fenice – Venezia 1997); Istituto di Cultura in Libano (Concerti a Beirut e Baalbek 1999), Festival “Ondine” (Rovereto 1999), Rassegna “L’Altra Scena” (Teatro La Fenice- Venezia), Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo (Roma 1999), Arcana Composers’ Meeting (Brescia 2000), Biennale Musica (Venezia 2000), Teatro Strehler (Milano 2000), Risonanze (Venezia 2001), Musica Oggi (Padova 2001), Contemporary Music Festival (Gasteiz- Vitoria; Spain 2001),Biennale Danza (Venezia 2001 and 2002), CDMC (Madrid 2002), Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Madrid - Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid 2002), Festival Novart (Bordeaux 2003), Total Music Meeting (Berlin 2004), Festival Luigi Nono (Trieste 2009), Massa Sonora (Massalombarda, RA 2010)

They have also recorded for the RAI, Italian national radio and RNE Radio Clasica (Spain).

The group has collaborated with the city's institutions in planning concerts and other musical projects: Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Fondazione Levi, Istituto Romeno di Ricerca e Cultura Umanistica, Istituto Ellenico, Collegio Armeno, Assessorato alla Gioventù, Assessorato alla Cultura, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Fondazione Italo Tedesca, Amici della Musica di Venezia, Societé Europeenne de Culture, Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Università di Venezia Ca’ Foscari, Gran Teatro La Fenice.

The group's repertory spans the entire 1900s and reaches into 2001 with the works of young composers, from whom Laboratorio Novamusica regularly commissions works. Its prime function is in fact to bring little know, although exemplary, works to the public's attention, and particularly those works by the more competent young composers who operate cutside the "standard" contemporary music circuit in Italy, to offer hearings and the diffusion of such works through contacts and exchanges with soloists, groups and composers from other regions and countries.

The Laboratorio Novamusica fosters weekly meeting for in-depth discussions of today's new music, occasions upon wich several noteworthy composers and instrumentalists - Luca Mosca, Renato Rivolta, Stefano Bellon, Michele Negro, Stefano Bassanese, Corrado Fantoni, Paolo Furlani, Omar Zoboli, Richard Causton, Riccardo Bianchini, Christian Laubà, Salvatore Sciarrino, Walter Branchi, Luis de Pablo, etc - have presented and discussed their own works.

Several composers - Andrea Vigani, Renato Rivolta, Stefano Bellon, Corrado Fantoni,  Luca Mosca, Paolo Furlani, Carlo Carcano, Riccardo Bianchini, David Lesser - have dedicated works to the Laboratorio Novamusica, who has presented the world premieres of these works.

The Laboratorio Novamusica has collaborated with many important musicians as: Pietro Tonolo, Paolo Angeli, Gavin Bryars, Bruno Canino, Pietro Borgonovo, Renato Rivolta, Butch Morris (Conduction N°143, Venice-Berlin), Frederic Rzewski, Malcolm Goldstein, Philip Corner.

Sice 2001, Ensemble Laboratorio Novamusica was named as ensemble in residence at the new Venice theater Teatro Groggia, responsibled for a season of contemporary music.

In 2002 Laboratorio Novamusica Ensemble founded Galatina Records – its official recording label - and recorded four cd’s :

Musica Compressa (Music by Giovanni Mancuso performed by Pietro Tonolo and Laboratorio Novamusica)

Alphabet Music (Music by Giovanni Mancuso performed by Raiz, Pietro Tonolo, Luca Mosca and Laboratorio Novamusica – winner of European Association for Jewish Culture Grant Awards 2003)

Compressione Dialettica Alla Mente (Collective Compositions by Laboratorio Novamusica Experimental Unit)

Black Film (Music by Giovanni Mancuso performed by Laboratorio Novamusica – produced by John Rottiers)

Butch Morris: Conductions 143/1 143/2 (Ensemble Laboratorio Novamusica feat.: Armand Angster, Wolfgang Fuchs, Peter van Bergen, Hans Koch)

Galatina Records is distribuited by FMP - Free Music productions - Berlin

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Laboratorio Novamusica at Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell'Europa e del Mediterraneo

Rome 1999

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