Composers
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Gabriele Manca studied piano with Bruno Canino and composition with Giacomo Manzoni at the Conservatorio in Milan, where he graduated with distinction.
In 1985 he was the prizewinner of the "neue generation in Europa" competition, organized by the WDR-Köln, the Biennale-Venezia and Festival d'Automne-Paris.
In 2000 he won the Japan Foundation Uchida Fellowship.
His music has been performed at a number of important contemporary music events and festivals, including Holland Festival, Musica nel Nostro Tempo, Pontino Festival, Ars Musica Bruxelles, Gesellschaft für neue Musik Hannover, Musica Presente- Teatro alla Scala RAI-RTSI, Spaziomusica-Cagliari, Musica Presente-Musica in Europa, Beckett Theatre Melbourne, Sydney Festival, Beethovensaal Bonn, Musical Biennale Zagreb, Darmstadt ferienkursen, Nuovi Incontri Musicali Milano, MilanoMusica-Teatro alla Scala, Cantiere Internazionale di Montepulciano, ROMAEUROPA Festival-Villa Medici Academie de France, Metafonie-Teatro alla Scala, Theatre Winter Tokyo, Irino Foundation Tokyo, Bienal de Barcelona, Sipario Ducale-Pesaro, Radio Suisse Romande-Lausanne, Århus Festival, Valencia Cyberfestival, Senzoku University-Tokyo, Melbourne University, Konzerthaus Große Saal Wien, Festival Synthese di Bourges, Klangforum Wien Festival, Festival Musikprotokoll-Graz, Europalia-Bruxelles, Cité de la Musique-Paris, Festival Nieuwe Ensemble-Amsterdam, Gulbenkian Foundation-Lisbon, Kammerakademie-Potsdam, XVI and XVII Festival de Nueva Musica-Santiago de Chile, Theater Felix Mendelsshon-Bartoldy Liepzig, Hochschule für Musik Weimar, Universität der Künste Berlin, Conservatoire superieur de musique Lausanne, Koninklijk Conservatorium voor muziek Den Haag, Ex Novo Musica-La Fenice, Venezia, Festival de musique d'aujourd'hui Geneve.
In 2001 he wrote the soundtrack for "Rokurobyoe", a movie by the Japanese director Chiseko Tanaka.
He gave a number of workshops and lectures at the Melbourne University, Irino Foundation, Senzoku University, Toho Gakuen University, Theatre Winter, Tokyo College of Music, Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo and at the Pontificia Universidad de Chile.
He teaches composition at the Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" in Milan.
His scores are mainly published by RICORDI-BMG.