Two new publications of works by Gian Paolo Chiti

Musik Fabrik has just published two new works by the distinguished Italian composer Gian Paolo Chiti.

The Fantasia for pianoforte is a one-movement extended work for solo piano in an expressionist style. The Intermezzo for string trio is also a one-movement work, in a highly compact, but lyrically expressive style.

Maestro Chiti's work for Piano and String Quartet October Quintet was premiered in September at the Le Ceret International Music Festival in France.

Performances of works by Freidlin and Chiti

Among the many performances of Musik Fabrik works this, Jan Freidlin's "MonoOpera" for solo violin was performed by G. Gurevich at Beit - Barbur in Tel Aviv on March 13, 2010 .

On March 25th, the Trio A.Do.Re performed Gian Paolo Chiti's Kinamama for two flutes and piano at the State Library of Nova Gorica in Slovenia.

Other past and upcoming performances may be found in our Concert Schedule.

Chopin Promenade by Gian Paolo Chiti

Gian Paolo Chiti's instrumental elaboration of Chopin piano works for string quartet was written for the 2010 Chopin bicentennial. The work is discussed in detail on this special page on our site and is also available on our String Music catalog.

Musik Fabrik's project in honor of Claude Lévi-Strauss' 100th birthday

Today is Claude Lévi-Strauss' 100th birthday. Seven Musik Fabrik composers have each written a short piece in honor of the great French Anthropologist which will be published together in the same album. The seven pieces are :

Thérèse Brenet: Dans l'or vibrant du désert... for violin and piano

Gloria Coates: Elegy for flute and piano

Jean-Thierry Boisseau: Sur le bord du fleuve assoupi for flute and marimba

Gian Paolo Chiti: Nocturnal for piano, left hand

Carson Cooman: Un Regard Eloigné for Flugelhorn and Violoncello

Jean-Yves Malmasson: Points de Suspension for Clarinet and Violoncello

Paul Wehage: Savage Thoughts for Tenor Saxophone and Harp

Jean-Thierry Boisseau, who was behind the organization of this project, describes it as follows :

During my participation in the Cahier de L’Herne dedicated to the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss (on the request of Michel Izard), I had the chance to explore the work of this great thinker. He honored me greatly by thanking me for my article which corrected some misunderstandings concerning his ideas about music and also for exposing the poetic qualities of his work...It seemed clear to me that, not being a poet, I should use musical means to honor this great man who could easily have been a musician himself.

Claude Lévi-Strauss is celebrating his 100th birthday. I asked several of my friends who are also composers to mark this occasion by writing a short piece. Since Lévi-Strauss is one of the most open spirits which I have been privileged to consider, it was understood that these pieces would also be completely free in both instrumentation and form. Six different composers of different ages and nationalities agreed to write works.

Thérèse Brenet; First Grand Prix de Rome; Gloria Coates; the noted American doyen of German composers; Gian Paolo Chiti, ancien vice-directeur of the Academia Santa Cecilia de Rome and pianist; Carson P. Cooman; organist and graduate of Harvard University; Jean-Yves Malmasson; First prize of the CNSM de Paris, pianist, ondist and conductor; Paul Wehage; First prize of the CNSM de Paris, saxophonist and conductor: these six musicians are, in addition to their many musical talents, first-rate composers. I wrote the seventh work myself.

This is a celebration of Lévi-Strauss outside of all official commemorations and with no preoccupations towards the media. Rather, this is an imitate way of thanking an important thinker who has given us new ideas, stimulated our own reflection and has given us much pleasure.

Jean-Thierry BOISSEAU.

Two new works for the Pianoforte by Gian Paolo Chiti

Two new works for the Pianoforte by the Italian composer Gian Paolo Chiti have just been published by Musik Fabrik : Sonatensatz for Piano and Under the Left Hand, Three pieces for the Piano, Left Hand only.

The Sonatensatz is a compression of a three-movement Sonata-form into a one movement work, with elements of all movements which interplay with each other in a highly interactive manner. The three pieces which make up the cycle "Under the Left Hand" are a modernist view of the piano left-hand tradition of Ravel and Scriabin. The first of the three pieces "Nocturnal" is Gian Paolo Chiti's contribution to the Musik Fabrik project in honor of Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Both of these works, as well as other works for Pianoforte by Gian Paolo and other composers, are available in our Piano Music Catalog.