Works

Dario Maggi obtained a diploma in composition at Milan Conservatory with Franco Donatoni in 1977, having previously attended the literature faculty in the same city. He attended seminars with Brian Ferneyhough, György Ligeti and Hans Werner Henze. He studied electronic music with Angelo Paccagnini (Milan) and attended stages in computer music at the C.S.C. in Padua and at IRCAM. He teaches on the course of Experimental Didactics of Composition and on the course of Musicology (20th-Century Writing Techniques) at Milan Conservatory. He distinguished himself ( Grodek for orchestra) at the "Luigi Dallapiccola" International Competition (Milan, 1977). He was awarded first prize at "Rimini Aterforum" ( Tetra for solo violin, 1979) and at the "V. Bucchi" International Competition in Rome ( Le pieghe nascoste delle idee for string quartet, 1981). He was selected for the "Alte Kirche Boswil" International Seminar (Switzerland), for the exhibition "Venezia Opera Prima" (1981), and for the "I.S.C.M. World Music Days '86" (Budapest) and '88 (Hong Kong). From 1986 to 1994 he has been regularly invited to teach on the "Ferienkurse" in Darmstadt, where he has been on the jury of the Kranichstein Prize. The cycle for orchestra, Progetto Trakl, begun in response to a commission from Radio Italiana (1985), was completed at the invitation of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra ("Musica Viva/Münchener Biennale", 1994). His compositions have been performed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, in numerous European cities and at the major Italian festivals of contemporary music ("Venice Biennale", "Festival Pontino", "Nuova Consonanza" and "Nuovi Spazi Musi-cali" in Rome, "Festival Antodogma" in Turin, "Musica nel Nostro Tempo", concerts at the Civica Scuola di Musica, at "Nuove Sincronie" and at "Novurgia" in Milan). For Musica Presente - Musica in Europa, an exhibition organized by the magazine Mu-sica/Realtà and by the Teatro alla Scala, he composed Metafore della risonanza in 1996, which was given a successful performance by the "City of Granada" Orchestra conducted by Josep Pons, and repeated in '97 at the Alicante Festival. His compositions have been broadcast by Italian, Spanish and French radio, and by some of the major German networks. Interpreters of his works include Ensemble Intercontemporain, Groupe de l'Itinéraire, Ensemble Modern, the woodwind trio of Ensemble Recherche, Ensemble Phorminx, Ensemble Nuove Sincronie, Trio di Como, Divertimento Ensemble, conductors Arturo Tamayo, Renato Rivolta and Jürg Wyttenbach, soloists Brenda Mitchell, Luisa Castellani, P.Y. Artaud, Roger Heaton, Enzo Porta, Annamaria Morini, Roberto Fabbriciani, Ciro Scarponi, Maurizio Ben Omar, Claudia Antonelli. He takes an active part in critical reflection on the nature of composing today with articles and contributions published by the Civica Scuola di Musica, by Musica/ Realtà and in the magazine Sonus - Materiali per la musica contemporanea, of which he is on the scientific committee.