 Artist BIO
STEFANO GIANNOTTI (1963)
Composer, author, film-maker, guitarist and performer. He studied composition with Pietro Rigacci and he was the assistant of Alvin Curran in "Crystal Psalms" and "Tufo Muto". Between 1983 and 1990 he performed in several European countries with the chamber music group "Trio Chitarristico Lucchese". In 1997 he started a collaboration with the Italian coreographer Roberto Castello. Between 1998 and 1999, he lived in Berlin as guest of DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program). In the year 2000 he has been guest of the Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf with a Stipend of the Ministerium of Brandeburg. In the year 2002 he has been invited in Worpswede with a stipend of the Ministerium of the Niedersachsen and he has won the Karl-Sczuka-Preis (SWR, Baden-Baden) with his work IL TEMPO CAMBIA. In 2004 IL TEMPO CAMBIA (Part 2) has got the Honourable Mention in Prix Italia. In the year 2007 he has got for the second time the Karl-Sczuka-Preis for his radio-piece GEOLOGICA.
His repertoire ranges from performance, radio-art, dance theatre to chamber music, orchestral scores and songs.
Landscape, memory, life cycles, voices of people, languages; these are some of the main themes developed in Giannotti's work.
His compositions have been performed in: Festival Internazionale Teatro d'Arte (Narni 1989), G.A.M.O. (Florence 1989), Stichting Logos (Gent 1991 and 1999),"Macrophon '91 and '94" (Wroclaw), "Wings of Sound" (Helsinki 1993), "Sounding Islands" (Faroer Islands 1995), "Musica per le Stelle" (Costa degli Etruschi 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2000), "Strade Contemporanee" (Lucca 1997), "Neue Italienische Musikszene" (Berlin 1998), Ballhaus Naunynstrasse (Berlin 1999), Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf (Wiepersdorf 2000), Museum of Fine Arts (Philadelphia, 2000), Children's Future (Yokohama, 2001), ISCM World Music Days (Hong Kong 2002), Donaueschinger Musiktage (2002 and 2008), Maerz Musik Festival (2003), Voix Nouvelles (2003), ...
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Website: www.stefanogiannotti.com |
NEWS
April 10th - July 11th 2008: BOLLE at ILLUMINATORS Exhibition, Airport Koltsovo, Yekaterinburg, Russia
April 9th, 2008: 59 MEMORIES ABOUT LANDSCAPE AND PEOPLE (video, 2008) at the 59 Seconds Video Festival in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) - Galeri Patronas
March 26th, 2008: GEOLOGICA on air on HR2 at 21.30
March 2008: CHIAYI SYMPHONY has got the Katherine Knight Award at the Earth Vision Film Festival
January 18 - 2008: GEOLOGICA on Hörfunkprogramm Bayern 2, Bayerische Rundfunk at 8.30 p.m. |
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VIDEO SYNOPSYS
Music video. The film only in appearence introduces itself as a video-clip, but develops more in the direction of a video-art project; a poetry composed and performed on voice and guitar |
CREDITS
Directed by: Stefano Giannotti
Screenplay by: Stefano Giannotti
Photography by: Stefano Giannotti
Camera: Stefano Giannotti and Claudio Di Paolo
Edited by: Stefano Giannotti
Music by: Stefano Giannotti
Cast:
Stefano Giannotti
Mariola Krajczewska
Matilde Giannotti
Prodution: Stefano Giannotti
Master: Mini DV
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