Mauro Lanza (b. 1975), studied piano at the Venice Conservatory, writing and musicology at the Ca’ Foscari University, and has studied under Brian Ferneyhough, Salvatore Sciarrino, and Gérard Grisey. His works have premiered during the IRCAM concert season, at the Présences Festival, the Venice Biennal, the Musica Festival in Strasbourg, the Gaudeamus Music Week in Amsterdam, and the Montréal Nouvelles Musiques in collaboration with with the ensemble Court-circuit, the ensemble l’Itinéraire, the ensemble Alternance, the United Berlin ensemble, Pierre-André Valade, Fabrice Pierre, and Denys Bouliane.
Maura Lanza © DRHe teaches at IRCAM and gives master classes at the Paris, Cagliari, and Cuneo conservatories where he continues to teach in the music and new technologies program. His research on sound synthesis attempts to go beyond the limits of instruments or voices, as can be seen in his work that premiered at the Agora Festival in 2006, I funerali dell’Anarchico Passannante for a cappella choir and electronics, commissioned by IRCAM and Accentus.