Manca: Offese fantastiche

Gabriele Manca studied piano under Bruno Canino and composition under Giacomo Manzoni at the Conservatory

in Milan. He won the prize "Musica nel nostro tempoCasa

RICORDI", the prize "Neue Generation

in Europa", WDR (Koln), Biennale Musica (Venice), Festival d'Automne (Paris) for the European Year of

Music. In 2000 he obtained the Japan Foundation Uchida Fellowship, thanks to which he was able to work

on the music for Noh Theatre at the Toho Gakuen University. His music has been played during the most

important concert series and festivals of new music. He has held numerous workshops, masterclasses and

conferences at the Irino Foundation, the Senzoku University Tokyo, the Toho Gakuen University, the Tokyo

College of Music, the University of Melbourne and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica in Santiago, Chile,

where from 2006 to 2013 he was visiting professor; since 2015 he has held several masterclasses at the

CENART in Mexico City. He teaches composition at the Conservatory in Milan.

Il dodicesimo studio was written in memory of Antonio Sardi de Letto, who, in 2008, had recorded the first

eleven piano studies on the CD Studi per il XXI secolo ("Studies for the 21st Century"). Senti! Aspetta! Was

composed in two stages: the first part was completed, for solo piano, between 2018 and 2019, to which

the instrumental 'coda' was added in 2020, a sort of enormous 'reverberation' of what had been heard

before. Offese fantastiche is a series of seven very short pieces for solo piano that each explore an elementary

musical idea that is presented radically in it's bare nakedness.