Romitelli Fausto
(1963–2004)
Born in Gorizia, he graduated in composition from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatoire in Milan. He also attended advanced courses at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and the Scuola Civica in Milan. In 1991 he moved to Paris to study the new technologies at IRCAM, where he was later a research fellow (1993–95). After a series of successes at international competitions in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Graz, Milan, Stockholm and Siena (1st Prize at the Casella Competition in 1989), Romitelli’s music has been frequently performed at such prestigious festivals as Musica in Strasbourg, Présences of Radio France, Ars Musica in Brussels, Les Saisons de l’IRCAM–intercontemporain, Venice Biennale, and Milano Musica, and by ensembles and orchestras including Ictus, L’Itinéraire, Court-circuit, Ensemble intercontemporain, Musiques Nouvelles, ensemble recherche, Alter Ego, RAI National Symphony Orchestra and the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin. He received commissions from the French Ministry of Culture, Musiques Nouvelles, Ictus, Radio France, IRCAM, the Gulbenkian Foundation and the Festival in Royaumont. Struck down by a fatal illness, Fausto Romitelli died in Milan on 27 June 2004 at the age of 41.
S e l e c t e d w o r k s: Kü for 14 performers (1989), Natura morta con fiamme for string quartet and electronics (1991), Seascape for Paetzold contrabass recorder (1994), EnTrance for soprano, ensemble and electronics (1995), Domeniche alla periferia dell’impero. Prima domenica for four instruments (1995–96), The Nameless City for orchestra (1997), Professor Bad Trip: Lessons I–III for instrumental ensemble and electronics (1998–2000), Blood on the Floor, Painting 1986for instrumental ensemble (2000), Domeniche alla periferia dell’impero. Seconda domenica: hommage à Gérard Griseyfor four instruments (2000), Flowing Down Too Slow for orchestra and live electronics (2001), Amok Koma for strings, percussion and electronics (2001), Trash TV Trancefor electric guitar (2002), Dead City Radio. Audiodrome for orchestra (2003), An Index of Metals, video opera to texts by Kenka Lekovich (2003).
