FEAT MARIO BIONDI
Classical and electronic music genres merge in the Italian-exclusive premiere concert/event Scripted Orkestra: Henrik Schwarz is accompanied by the Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta conducted from Gabriele Bonolis and Italy's most representative soul voice, that of Mario Biondi, world-renowned Italian singer, composer and arranger who will perform the only unreleased track onopera, written by Schwarz himself.
After last year's successful Jeff Mills concert with the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra, once again symphonic and electronic music meet at the Festival to celebrate two different ways of producing music, with the desire to increase the involvement of younger audiences.
The first time Schwarz experienced such symbiosis of orchestral and electronic music was in October 2016 at the ADE Festival with the Metropoli Orkest, thanks to his previous meeting with MO director Jules Buckley.
At the Festival, the German composer and his setup, together with the 52 elements of the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra, present 12 pieces, for a musical journey that reconciles sounds of different origins, producing extraordinarily communicative music, in which the sharing of tempo and intensity ensures total harmony between genres. Creativity, tradition and innovation come together to provide an unparalleled experience.
Henrik Schwarz
and **Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta**
live from Gabriele Bonolis
organized from The Roof Production
in collaboration with Spoleto 60 Festival
program
Henrik Schwarz
_The Glass Is Half Full _
_Me Vibrate _
_Brotha From Anotha Motha _
_Night Kasper _
_Stratosphärenspäher _
_Gygylili _
_Justified Lament _
_Typewriter _
_Algorhythm _
_Counter Culture _
_You Are to Fireball _
_Walk Music Five _
He has been composing and performing his music since 2002. Despite his young age, he is known worldwide for his extraordinary ability to maintain the right balance between electronic, classical and jazz music. After producing hundreds of musical realizations commissioned from him from numerous record companies (Warner Music, Universal Music, Sony/BMG, and many others) and following the evolution of different musical styles, in 2010 Schwarz made a mark on his artistic path by embarking on a collaboration with Norwegian pianist Bugge Wesseltoft, from which the album Duo was born, the result of an on-stage duet between a piano and a computer. Since 2010 Henrik has been making commissioned works for the Philharmonie Luxembourg, Tonhalle Zürich and Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra; in 2013 he composed and produced the score for a ballet by the State Ballet, Berlin staged at Berghain. He worked with the Dutch Chamber Orchestra and the German Chamber Orchestra before producing his latest album Instruments in 2015. Henrik Schwarz has performed on the stages of the Philharmonie Luxembourg, London's Barbican Hall and Royal Festival Hall, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, Zurich's Tonhalle Theater, Cologne Philharmonic Hall, Auditorium Parco Della Musica, Hamburg's Kampnagelfabrik, Dresden's Hellerau Theatre, and Berlin's Leipzig Opera House and Chamber Music Hall.
Formed in 1993, the Roma Sinfonietta Orchestra began a collaboration with the University of Rome "Tor Vergata," where it still carries out its concert activities. It is regularly invited to the Seasons of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, the Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti di Roma. In the course of her activity, she has accompanied artists such as Michael Ny-man, Quincy Jones, Roger Waters, Dulce Pontes, Andrea Bocelli, Nicola Piovani, and Luis Bacalov. from twelve years she has been collaborating steadily with Ennio Morricone, performing concerts in the world's most prestigious theaters such as the Palace of Congresses in Paris, the International Forum in Tokyo, and Radio City Hall in New York. For Maestro Morricone, the Orchestra also records absolute music, film and television soundtracks and a rich discography for EMI, SONY and Universal.
With a vocal timbre very close to to that of the best-known Barry White, Isaac Hayes and Lou Rawls, Mario biondi - in life Mario Ranno - gives life to a warm and passionate soul jazz, the result of the musical path cultivated with care and patience already to starting at a very young age from listening to his singer father - aka Stefano Biondi - in memory of whom Mario took the pseudonym. So many different experiences have been worth to forming the great artist of today: from church choirs to shifts in recording rooms for niche labels, without neglecting the study and improvement of the English language. Passionate about soul music, since 1988 he has opened a number of concerts of performers and authors of the international scene, first among them Ray Charles. But Biondi's greatest opportunity came in 2006 with the release in Japan of the single This is what you are, which bounced on the console of Norman Jay, a famous BBC1 DJ, who - in love with the song - relaunched it throughout Europe. It was also in 2006 that Biondi won the first of two platinum records with his first album Handful of Soul, recorded with the group High Five Quintet. He participated as a celebrity at the 2007 and 2009 editions of the Sanremo Festival, duetting with Amalia Gré and Karima Ammar. November 2007 saw the release of the double live album with the Duke Orchestra, I Love You More, recorded at the Teatro Smeraldo in Milan with the collaboration of the group High Five Quintet and the 25-piece orchestra conducted by maestro Beppe Vessicchio. She duets with Renato Zero during the Sei Zero concert tour and a few months later performed at the Wind Music Awards, singing No More Trouble in a new version with Incognito. On November 18, 2016, the double album Best of Soul was released, collecting the artist's best hits, accompanied from seven new songs.