Andrea Di Paolo: PLANETARIUM

Often looking at the night sky from a deeply blue ocean, lost in the immenseness african deserts or in the breezy air on the top of snow-capped mountains i was amazed by unexpected sound trajectories and a pure musical silence paths. Planetarium is the poetic and musical journey of these nocturnal experiences collected in years of traveling on the road and into the music, to come back on my piano, to play my music with my hand.

Andrea Di Paolo is a pianist and composer of modern classical, contemporary, postminimalism, ambient music. He graduated in piano and composition (bachelor and master degree) and he studied in rome (italy) at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia and in Strasbourg (France) at the CRR, cité de la musique et de la danse. Fundamental in his human and artistic development has been the meeting with Arvo Part, Salvatore Sciarrino, Valentin Silvestrov, Luciano Berio, Bernardo De Angelis. His music has been performed in Europe, America and Russia, broadcast by Radio France and Radio Rai and, as pianist, he played in italian and foreigns theaters including Portugal, Serbia, France, England, Norway, Bosnia, Ukraine, Spain, Armenia, Russia, Germany, Romania, Hungary.
In 2015 it was published his first album titled “Das universum” for string quartet and in 2021 his piano solo album titled “Planetarium” (Preludes for piano, Book 1).
Since 2008 he teaches composition, harmony and analysis at the italian music universities and conservatories.

Andrea Di Paolo’s music is influenced by the natural world, the neo-mythology and ritualism. His road and backpacking trips (Northern Europe, Iceland, the Balkans, Anatolia, Russia, Africa and more) have shaped is music with a strong sense of place and a resonance of landscapes that also reverberates in his b&w photographs.
His works come from ruins, from churches, from altarpieces, from forgotten villages. He observe the lonely and silence places, the folds of the colors at dusk, the blinding white of journeys that take you in other directions. His music lives in a minimal resonance that stretches in the muscles and gestures of the musicians, focus on the precariousness of the music materials with a contemplative landscape drawn by liquid harmonies and dust sounds, built on fragments of melodies and musical gestures often extracted from ancient musics or liturgical rituals. «My music is in the places i’ve never been, in the silences that i have still not listen. My music is a form of prayer: it must once again become simple and speechless, like growing wheat or the falling rain. My music just has “to be”».

His music is published and distributed by the Universal Edition in Vienna.

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