Ensemble

The FontanaMIXensemble debuted in 2002, performing in a concert for Bologna Festival. From 2004 to 2009 it has been ensemble in residence at the Department of Music and Performing Arts, University of Bologna, and is active in several festivals and concert venues: Festival of Reggio Emilia (REC), Institute of Japanese Culture in Rome, Teatro Comunale, MAMbo and Festival Angelica in Bologna, Milano Musica Festival, Nuova Consonanza in Rome, Amici della Musica in Palermo, Biennale Musica in Venice. The most notable feature in the Ensemble’s history is the cooperation with composers like Kaija Saariaho, Fausto Romitelli, Jonathan Harvey, Sylvano Bussotti, Toshio Hosokawa, Gilberto Cappelli, Francesco Carluccio, Giorgio Magnanensi, Paolo Aralla, Atli Ingolfsson, Paolo Perezzani, Giulio Castagnoli, Maurizio Pisati. FontanaMIX ensemble, conducted since its foundation by Francesco La Licata, performed with a number of guest artists: the conductors Yoichi Sugiyama and Giorgio Magnanensi, mezzosoprano Monica Bacelli, Bass-baritone Nicholas Isherwood, pianist Mauro Castellano, cellists Frances-Marie Uitti and Francis Dillon, flutist Thuridur Jónsdóttir, violinist Paolo Chiavacci, accordionist Corrado Rojac, contrabassist Stefano Scodanibbio and choreographer Luca Veggetti. FontanaMIX, as part of the concert season EXITIME, in collaboration with Teatro Comunale in Bologna and University’s Department of Music, devotes an annual portrait to a leading figure amongst the composers of our age: after Kaija Saariaho, Wolfgang Rihm and Jonathan Harvey, in the 2009-2010 season four concerts will be dedicated to George Crumb.