Marco Ramelli (*1984 in Milano) ist Dozent am TU Dublin Conservatoire und nähert sich der Musik mit Neugier und Forschergeist. Solistisch und als Kammermusiker ist er international in vielen bedeutenden Konzertsälen aufgetreten. Zudem hat er mehrere Alben aufgenommen, darunter die Gitarrenmusik von Roberto Gerhard und Federico Mompou sowie Transkriptionen der Klaviermusik Mompous. Seine Forschungsinteressen erstrecken sich auf Aufführungspraxis, Musikkognition und Organologie, wobei er sich in jüngster Zeit mit Trauma, Behinderung (insbesondere Sehbehinderung) und deren Auswirkungen auf die Kreativität beschäftigt. Der Gewinn des Kompositionswettbewerbs in Serbien machte ihn auch als Komponisten bekannt. Seine Werke werden von führenden Solisten wie Sean Shibe, Andrea Dieci, Lorenzo Micheli und Andrea De Vitis aufgeführt. Marco organisiert weltweit eine Reihe von Forschungssymposien und ist Mitglied des Lenkungsausschusses des Festival of Music Performance Research (Dublin) und des TU Dublin Research Symposium. Im Jahr 2018 wurde er während der Internationalen Gitarrenkonferenz Michele Pittaluga mit der „Goldenen Gitarre“ ausgezeichnet. Marco studierte Gitarre und Komposition in Milano und Glasgow und promovierte an der Universität St. Andrews und dem Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Zudem absolvierte er einen Aufbaustudiengang in Orgelkunde an der Universität von Edinburgh und hat einen Abschluss in Informatik (Università degli studi Milano-Bicocca).
The mysterious music of Frederic Mompou
‘Music must be understood as pure inspiration, as a fluid that comes from beyond and is perceived as if through a kind of medium. It is written for the inexpressible, I wish it would come out of the shadows to return to them.’ The Catalan composer Frederic Mompou (1893-1987) cultivated a deeply personal approach to the piano and explored its most poetic facets as a composer and performer. Despite his innate introversion, the unique tonal language of his music was soon recognised. It is a mirror of his life, in which it served as a medium to connect with the spiritual world. Inspired by Eastern and mystical cultures, this music could perhaps be better described as ‘feeling’... as sounds that are not composed but received. Marco's talk will focus specifically on the composer's aesthetic, concentrating on his use of note shifts and flowing tempi in relation to the perception of touch as expressed in his writings and recordings.
Marco Ramelli (*1984 in Milan) is a lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire and approaches music with curiosity and a spirit of enquiry. He has performed internationally as a soloist and chamber musician in many major concert halls. He has also recorded several albums, including the guitar music of Roberto Gerhard and Federico Mompou and transcriptions of Mompou's piano music. His research interests extend to performance practice, music cognition and organology, with a recent interest in trauma, disability (particularly visual impairment) and its impact on creativity. Winning the World Guitar Composition Competition in Serbia also brought him to prominence as a composer. His works are performed by leading soloists such as Sean Shibe, Andrea Dieci, Lorenzo Micheli and Andrea De Vitis. Marco organises a number of research symposia worldwide and is a member of the steering committee of the Festival of Music Performance Research (Dublin) and the TU Dublin Research Symposium. In 2018 he was awarded the ‘Golden Guitar’ during the Michele Pittaluga International Guitar Conference. Marco studied guitar and composition in Milan and Glasgow and completed his doctorate at the University of St Andrews and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. He also completed a postgraduate course in organ studies at the University of Edinburgh and has a degree in computer science (Università degli studi Milano-Bicocca).
