Barrel Gallery, Trg žrtava fašizma bb, Zagreb

25th Musical biennale Zagreb presents:

A concert marking Roberto Fabbriciani’s 60th birthday — Flute Marathon

On Sunday, April 26th 2009. at 4:30 pm

Roberto Fabbriciani, flaute / flutes

Giampaolo Coral: Aulodia sul nome Roberto Fabbriciani / Aulodija na ime Roberto Fabbriciani / Aulody to the Name Roberto Fabbriciani *

Marcello Panni: L’inverno di Pan / Panova zima / Pan’s Winter *

Giacomo Manzoni: 708 *

Alessandro Sbordoni: Flatus II / Inauguracija jeke / Inauguration of the Echo *

Tristan Murail: Unanswered Questions / Neodgovorena pitanja

Alessandro Grego: Balingenesis / Balingeneza *

Fabrizio Fanticini: An Musil / Musilu  / To Musil *

Berislav Šipuš: Dick Tracy and the Story of the Sad Young Men / Dick Tracy i priča o tužnim mladićima

Roberto Fabbriciani: Suoni per Gigi / Zvukovi za Gigija za flautu i magnetsku vrpcu / Sounds for Gigi for flute and magnetic tape

Mauricio Sotelo: A Roberto: la chiarezza deserta / Za Roberta: Napuštena jasnoća /For Roberto: Deserted Clarity *

Alessandro Solbiati: Ibi, bone fabricator! / Tamo, dobri izumitelju! / There, You Good Inventor*

Sanja Drakulić: Dvoglasna invencija / Two-Part Invention*

Henri Pousseur/Roberto Fabbriciani: Zeus joueur de flûtes / Zeus the Flute Player /

Zeus flautist

An original performer and versatile artist, Roberto Fabbriciani has, through his personal explorations, innovated the flutist technique by multiplying the possibilities of the instrument’s sound. He cooperated with leading contemporary composers like Berio, Bussotti, Cage, Carter, Castiglioni, Clementi, de Pablo, Donatoni, Feld, Ferneyhough, Françaix, Genzmer, Guarnieri, Hosokawa, Kelemen, Krenek, Kurtág, Ligeti, Lombardi, Messiaen, Morricone, Nono, Petrassi, Pousseur, Rota, Rihm, Risset, Sani, Scelsi, Schnebel, Sciarrino, Sotelo, Stockhausen, Takemitsu and Yun. These composers dedicated to him more than six hundred significant works, of which he played premiere performances.

He established a long term collaboration with Luigi Nono at the Experimental studio SWF in Freiburg, discovering and following new and peculiar musical directions.

“… Fabbriciani’s surprising innovations” … Luigi Nono (1981)

“… whatever he plays, he always does so masterly.” John Cage (1989)

“… I exceedingly admire his magical art of the flute.” György Ligeti (1991)

As a soloist he has performed under conductors such as Claudio Abbado, Luciano Berio, Aldo Ceccato, Riccardo Chailly, Sergiu Comissiona, Peter Eötvös, Vladimir Fedoseyev, Bruno Maderna, Riccardo Muti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Artur Tamay and Lothar Zagrosek and others, and has appeared with orchestras such as the Orchestra of La Scala in Milan, the Orchestra of the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome, the Orchestras of RAI, the Ecyo and the LSO, the Spanish State Orchestra, the London Sinfonietta, the RTL Luxembourg, the Cologne WDR, the Baden-Baden SWF, the German Symphony and the Symphony orchestra of the Bavarian Radio.

He performed in prestigious theatres and musical institutions has also played on several occasions for festivals like the Venice Biennial and the festival Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, as well as in Ravenna, London, Edinburgh, Paris, Brussels, Granada, Luzern, Warsaw, Salzburg, Vienna, Lockenhaus, Donaueschingen, Cologne, Munich, Berlin, St Petersburg and Tokyo.

He has made numerous recordings for various radio and television organizations. He worked as an assistant lecturer in flute at the Conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence and taught master classes at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the University of New York.