Landini Carlo Alessandro

Carlo Alessandro Landini studied Piano (under Piero Rattalino) and Composition (under Bruno Bettinelli) at the Conservatory of Milan. He then pursued his studies at the «Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique» in Paris. He took advanced courses with Olivier Messiaen, Franco Donatoni, György Ligeti, Iannis Xenakis and Witold Lutosławski and was a recipient of the prestigious «Fulbright Award» allowing him to study and teach at the University of California San Diego. Winner of national and international awards («Valentino Bucchi» in Rome, «Ennio Porrino» in Cagliari, «Ernest Bloch» in Lugano and «W. Serocki» in Warsaw), from 1978 to 1996 Landini attended the Darmstadt-based «Ferienkurse für Neue Musik», undeniably a must for a musician of his generation. His works are published by Pizzicato, Sonzogno, Da Vinci and Alphonse Leduc. In March 2003 he was named Fellow of the «Italian Academy» in New York and «Associate Research Scientist» of the Music Department at New York’s Columbia. Landini taught seminars and Masterclasses at the University of California, Columbia’s Department of Graduate Studies, the «Eastman School of Music» in Rochester, Buffalo State University, the Musikhochschule in Trossingen (Germany) and the University of Prague. In 2008, he was the first and only Italian ever to win the Warsaw-based, world-renowned «W. Lutosławski Competition» with his Le retour d’Astrée for violin and piano. In 2013 Landini was the only composer selected by ISCM to represent Italy at the 2013 World Music Days in Vienna­-Bratislava. Again, in 2016, his Kyrie for nine mixed voices (designed to be part of his Missa novem vocum) was awarded the First Prize in the Sacred Music International Competition «Francesco Siciliani», with Arvo Pärt and Helmut Rilling in the jury. The mystery of time has always been at the very heart of his music and research.