Giovanni Sollim Biography

Yury Voronyuk 19 Jul at PM Coolonchelist and composer Giovanni Sollim was born in Palermo on October 24 a year. The son of the composer Eliodor Sollim - Gg. He studied the game of the cello with Giovanni Perreyra and the composition of his father at the Palermo C conservatory, which he graduated with honors. He also studied the game of cello at Antonio Yanigro at the Stuttgart Higher School of Music and Theater and the Salzburg Conservatory Mozartum C, and the composition of Milko Keleteman at the Stuttgart Higher School of Music and the G.

Awards such as Interforum Prize in Budapest and the first premium for "International Jazz meetings "in Messin as a composer, Sollima was captured by all musical languages, therefore he strives to create new mixtures that form a variety of genres that combine elements of classical and rock music, as well as the ethnic characteristic music of the entire Mediterranean. He composes for acoustic and power tools, as well as others invented by himself or created for him - such as tenor violins represented in the painting of Caravaggio, or cello from ice, at which he played at the height of the sea in the needle -theater needle - the dwelling of the ice of ice.

With the video operator Lass Gyersen in the year, he implemented the DAYDream project. Among the discs it is worth mentioning "Aquilarco" year, "Works" year and in the year, together with his partner, Croatian cellist Monik, Leskovar's concertmaster of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra group, he recorded "We Were Trees" from Patti Smith as a vocal guest and the ensemble of soloists "Kaleidoscope" from Berlin.

In September, he performed in Budapest, Linze and Cologne with his new concert of the “Folk Tales” by order of the Budapest festival orchestra led by Ivan Fisher. He teaches at the Romani Foundation in Breshia, and with the Santa Chetil Academy in Rome, he was appointed academician, which is the highest award in Italy for the musician. He also conducts master classes at the Kronberg Cello Academy.

Among the projects that he is currently working on: the concert of the Ba-Rock Cello Solo concert, a duet with Monika Leskovar “Interpretation of Dreams” and a new project in a duet with pianist Giuseppe Andaloro the first prize of the Buzoni Piano competition, he plays the cello work of Francesco Ruggerie of the year. Show Likes Yury Voronyuk 19 Jul at PM The music of Giovanni Solmia refers to the direction of musical minimalism.

Nevertheless, the composer is actively experimenting with a variety of directions: jazz, rock, electronic music, folklore of Sicily and the countries of the Mediterranean basin. He is fond of playing the musical instruments of the West and East, electrical and electronic instruments, as well as instruments of his own invention. Giovanni Sollim is one of the prominent Italian cellists and, despite his classical education, he interprets this instrument in a new way, offering the listeners all kinds of experiments with sound.

His cello plays often have software subtitles. Among these works are the play "Spasimo" the name of the church dilapidated during the war with the frescoes of Raphael. Show Likes finally I did it! In the year, Sollima receives an invitation from Philip Glass to record an album of Aquilarco at his studio with Robert Wilson. The newspaper New York Times has described the new creation of Giovanni with the following words: “The album of Sollima Aquilarco is a frantic, which keeps a ninety -minute concert, as if partially recorded by a group, and partially a string quartet.

This is smart and sensual music, which breathes the Sicilian mixture of antiquity and novelty. ”In the year, the composer writes music for ballet Carol Armitage“ Casanova ”, and in the same year he takes part in writing music for the film“ I Cento Passi ”directed by Tullio Jordan.

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