Diego Minciacchi

Diego Minciacchi, born on March, 31st, 1955 in Rome, Italy, had main formative contacts with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Giuseppe Giuliano, Luigi Nono, Emmanuel Nunes, Horatiu Radulescu, and Curtis Roads. He worked at: “Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung Experimentalstudio”, SWR, Freiburg; IRCAM, Paris; EMS Institute for Electroacoustic Music, Stockholm; MEDIA Lab, MIT, USA. His music has been premiered at main contemporary music Festivals (e.g.: “Internationales Ferienkurse fur Neue Musik – Darmstadt”, “Donaueschinger Musiktage”, ISCM Festival - Mexico City - Warsaw, Cours d'ete “Iannis Xenakis” – “Festival Lucero” - Paris, “...antasten... Internationales Pianoforum” - Heilbronn, “La Fenice” - Venice; “Inventionen” - Berlin). Minciacchi wrote more than 60 compositions for conventional solo instruments, small and large ensembles, analog and digital electronic music, music for conventional instruments and electronic sounds, live electronic music. He collaborated with: Magnus Andersson, Pierre-Yves Artaud, Maurizio Barbetti, Alan Brett, Jeffrey Burns, James Clapperton, Philippe Geiss, Roberto Fabbriciani, Fernando Grillo, Kaya Han, Nicolas Isherwood, Daniel Kientzy, Jean Luc Mas, Istvan Matuz, Federico Mondelci, Adrian Peacoch, Jan Pilch, Ortwin Sturmer, Barrie Webb. He teaches at the University of Florence, Degree Course in Sciences of Movement. Publications (about 100) in the most diffused journals of Neuroscience, and in several books. First editor of “Thalamic Networks for Relay and Modulation”, 1993, Pergamon Press, Oxford; co-editor of “The Giorgio Macchi Textbook of Neurology”, 2004, Piccin, Padova, and of “The Neurosciences and Music”, 2003, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume 999. LPs: “Opera Daedalus Ensemble” (Edipan, PRC S2064); “Saxophone Orchestra” (Edipan, PRC S2061) CDs: “25 Years Experimentalstudio” (Freiburg, col legno, WWE 20025) “The Aforesaid” (col legno, WWE 20077)