{"id":12820,"date":"2024-06-14T13:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T11:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/scartazzini-andrea-lorenzo\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T14:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T12:57:58","slug":"scartazzini-andrea-lorenzo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/emag.baerenreiter.com\/en\/scartazzini-andrea-lorenzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Scartazzini, Andrea Lorenzo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAndrea Lorenzo Scartazzini, born in Basel in 1971, studied German and Italian studies at the University of Basel as well as composition with Rudolf Kelterborn (Basel) and Wolfgang Rihm (Karlsruhe). In 1999\/2000 he spent a semester studying at the Royal Academy of Music in London.<\/p>\n

In 2004 he was composer-in-residence at the University of Witten Herdecke, in 2011 and 2018 he was a guest at the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai, and in 2012\/13 he was a fellow at the Internationales K\u00fcnstlerhaus Villa Concordia in Bamberg.<\/p>\n

He has received several awards, including the sponsorship award from the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation in Munich, the Jakob Burckhardt Award from the Goethe Foundation in Basel and the Alexander Clavel Prize in Riehen.<\/p>\n

His pieces are performed at important festivals (Salzburg Easter Festival, Lucerne Festival, international summer courses for new music in Darmstadt, Prague premieres, etc.) by numerous ensembles and orchestras (including Quatuor Diotima, Collegium Novum Z\u00fcrich, Ensemble Contrechamps, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Phoenix , Basel Chamber Orchestra, Basel Sinfonietta, Bern Symphony Orchestra, Rhineland-Palatinate State Philharmonic, etc.).<\/p>\n

His work focuses on the operas “WUT” (Theater Erfurt 2006, Theater Bern 2010), “Der Sandmann” (Theater Basel 2012, Oper Frankfurt 2016) and “Edward II”.<\/p>\n

Since autumn 2018, Scartazzini has accompanied the Jena Philharmonic for several years as composer in residence. He is working on a multi-part work related to the Gustav Mahler cycle that Simon Gaudenz and the Jena Philharmonic are currently performing. A short symphonic movement is created for each Mahler symphony, and with each Mahler performance these symphonic movements Scartazzini grow together into a large-scale orchestral piece.<\/p>\n

In April 2023, the composition commissioned by the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra “Wunde(r) f\u00fcr Orchester” based on associations with the novel “Hiob” was also premiered.<\/p>\n

2025 Finale of the Mahler-Scartazzini cycle with the world premiere of \u201cEnigma\u201d and \u201cEinkehr\u201d by Simon Gaudenz and the Jenaer Philharmonie. World premiere of \u201cEarth\u201d for orchestra by the Bremer Philharmoniker conducted by Marko Letonja.<\/p>\n\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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