WORKS
Works available from:
andreafontemaggi@gmail.com for RaiCom Catalogue
info@map.it for M.A.P. Catalogue
virginiaguastellamusic@gmail.com for unpublished music
You can listen to the pieces just clicking on the yellow lines.
INSTRUMENTAL CHAMBER MUSIC (UP TO 5 INSTRUMENTS)
Solo
Quello che resta - for piano (unpublished) - 2021
Commission of I Concerti della Normale di Pisa
Premiere: Teatro Verdi of Pisa - Roberto Prosseda, piano
Listen to the work (42' 45'')
Sul tasto – for piano (unpublished) – 2016
Premiere: Manhattan NY, Spectrum, Virginia Guastella
Biforcazione binaria – for piano – 2013 (M.A.P. Editions)
Premiere: Milano, Rassegna “Giovane Musica Italiana” Spazio Sirin, Alfonso Alberti
In a real landscape – for piano – 2013 (M.A.P. Editions)
Premiere: Festival Pianocity Milano, Carlo Boccadoro
Pomona ed Icaro. Dalla terra in volo – for violin – 2007 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Crespellano (Bologna), Ca’ Vecchia (Laboratory of the sculptor Giuliano Giuliani) – Roberto Noferini, violin
Studio – Omaggio a Bach – for piano – 2004 (RaiCom and Curci musical edition)
Premiere: Venezia, Teatrino Groggia – Ensemble Laboratorio Novamusica
Duos
The House of Sleep - for violin and piano - 2018 (RaiCom)
Piece commissioned by Classix Festival (Kempten, Germany)
Premiere: Kempten, Classix Festival (September 2018) - Yura Lee, violin and Virginia Guastella, piano
D'amore su corde – for guitar and viola d'amore (unpublished) – 2013
Premiere: Reggio Emilia, Circolo Dinamo, Giacomo Baldelli, guitar - Marco Fusi, viola d'amore
Trumpet Boulevard – for trumpet and prerecorded electronics – 2013 (RaiCom)
Composition published on the CD Nuove musiche per tromba (Ivano Ascari)
El toque – for guitar and marimba – 2011 (RaiCom)
Piece included in the CD EL CIMARRON ENSEMBLE DUO – Stradivarius Label – 2013
Tre minuti in epitaffio – for four hands piano – 2008 (RaiCom)
Commissioned by Festival5Giornate (Milano) about the “Spoon River Anthology” by Edgar Lee Masters
Premiere: Milano, Palazzo Reale
Trios
Une vague peut en cacher une autre – for trio (violin, cello and piano) (unpublished) – 2016
Commissioned by Musiche in Mostra 2016 (Torino)
Premiere: Torino, Accademia Albertina, Fontana Mix Ensemble Trio
...à bout de souffle... - for flute, alto sax and piano – 2013 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Sofia (Bulgaria), Sofia Union of Bulgarian Composers, “Filip Kutev” Concert Hall – NyKy Trio
Not in my name – for trio (clarinet, accordion, violin) – 2006 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Bologna, Sala Bossi of Conservatory – M. Scipioni, cl. M. Lo Russo, acc. S. Tarozzi, vl (Dir. Virginia Guastella)
Agbekor – for percussions (three players) – 2004 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Roma, Nuovi spazi musicali - Maurizio Trippitelli Ensemble
Quartets
The Times are changing for Percussion Quartet (2020)
Commission of Tetraktis Percussioni
Winner project of Maeci Call published by Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale
Anatomy of an American dream - for string quartet - 2017 (RaiCom)
Commission of MITO Festival
Premiere: Milano, Teatro Litta - Novus String Quartet
Sinopia n.1 – for string quartet – 2013 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Siena, Accademia Chigiana – Quartetto Prometeo
Re – wind – for flute, clarinet, cello and piano – 2012 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Florence, “Play It Festival” - ORT Ensemble, Fabio Maestri
Notturna – for quartet (violin, viola, cello, piano) – 2009 (RaiCom)
Premiere: L’Aquila, Società aquilana dei concerti “Barattelli” – Quartetto Michelangelo
Quintets
Parties diverses – for wind quintet – 2014 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Ferrara, Stagione FerraraMusica, Teatro Comunale Claudio Abbado – Les Vents Français
September – for soprano and string quartet – 2007 (RaiCom)
VOCAL CHAMBER MUSIC
Floria, sì, sono io. - Duodrama for reciting voice and piano - 2020
Commission of Puccini Festival Torre del Lago
Premiere - Festival Puccini Torre del lago, Villa Puccini
Stefania Sandrelli, voice
Orazio Sciortino, piano
E intanto un sorso – for soprano, baritone and piano – 2015 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Brescia, Teatro Grande – Commissioned by Teatro Grande for Festa dell'Opera 2015
Do not stir up love before its own time – for soprano and piano – 2010 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Roma, Nuova Consonanza – Sonia Visentin, soprano Alessandra Ammara, piano
WORKS FOR ENSEMBLE
La dinamica del ghiaccio - for ensemble (fl/alto fl, cl/bass cl, perc, piano, vl, cello)- 2022
commissioned by Sentieri Selvaggi
Premiere - Teatro Elfo Puccini (Milan) - Sentieri Selvaggi Ensemble conducted by Carlo Boccadoro
Naufragar m'è dolce - for ensemble (bass fl, bass cl, piano, guitar, vl, cello) - 2019
Premiere - Torri dell'acqua di Budrio - FontanaMix Ensemble - Francesco La Licata, conductor
So Far* So Good – for sextet (fl/alto fl, cl/bass cl, vib, piano, vl, cello) – 2014 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Milano, Stagione dei Sentieri Selvaggi, Teatro Elfo Puccini. Sentieri Selvaggi Ensemble – Carlo Boccadoro, conductor
Auf Naxos – for sextet (piccolo/flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, vibraphone, violin, viola) - 2004 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Firenze, Teatro della Compagnia - Contempoartensemble (Dir. Mauro Ceccanti)
Solo instrument/voice and ensemble
September – for soprano and ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello) – 2007 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Forlì, Sala Sangiorgi – Monesis Ensemble (Dir. Flavio Emilio Scogna)
Vento del golfo (omaggio a Palermo) - for trumpet and string quartet - 2010 (RaiCom)
Premiere: Taormina, Sinopoli Festival - Paolo Fresu and Alborada String Quartet
WORKS FOR ORCHESTRA
Zaira tra le misure del suo spazio (after Calvino) – for orchestra (unpublished) - 2015
Commissioned by I Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra (Milan)
Premiere: Milano, Teatro dal Verme – I Pomeriggi Musicali orchestra
Conductor: Aldo Ceccato
Solo instrument/voice and orchestra
Pax virginis – for baritone and orchestra – 2008 (RaiCom)
Winner of the international composition contest “Strumenti di pace”
Premiere: Rovereto, MART Museum – Orchestra Haydn of Trento and Bolzano (Dir. Gustav Kuhn)
MUSIC THEATRE/OPERA
L'ombra di un meriggio lontano - Opera for soprano, countertenor and ensemble - 2022
Original music and libretto by Virginia Guastella on texts by Guastella, Amelia Rosselli, PierPaolo Pasolini, Dante Alighieri, Franz Kafka. Commission by Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale d'arte of Montepulciano
Premiere - Teatro Poliziano, Montepulciano - Maria Eleonora Caminada, soprano - Danilo Pastore, countertenor, AltreVoci Ensemble conducted by Francesco Bossaglia - Director, Eva Maria Melbye - Stage design, Domenico Franchi
Angelica cunta - monodrama for mezzosoprano and ensemble (fl, ob, cl, fg, cr, vl, alto, cello, cb) - 2021
Original music and libretto by Virginia Guastella freely inspired by Orlando furioso (Ludovico Ariosto) and by Storia dei paladini di Francia da Carlo Magno imperatore fino alla sua morte, compresavi la battaglia di Roncisvalle (anonymous author).
Commission of Nuova Consonanza Festival (Rome)
Premiere - Ex Mattatoio (Rome) - Chiara Osella, mezzosoprano - Bruno Maderna Ensemble conducted by Gabriele Bonolis
SOUNDTRACKS
Silent movies
Il Fuoco – Original soundtrack for piano to the silent movie Il Fuoco by Giovanni Pastrone (1916)
Première : Barcelona (Spain), Filmoteca de Catalunya – November 2014 – V. Guastella, piano
Cenere - Original soundtrack for piano to the silent movie Cenere by Febo Mari (1917)
Première : Barcelona (Spain), Filmoteca de Catalunya – November 2014 – V. Guastella, piano
Lulù - Original soundtrack for piano to the silent movie Lulù by Segundo de Chómon (1923)
Première : National Gallery of Arts, Washington, DC – September 2016 - – V. Guastella, piano
Le Spectre Rouge - Original soundtrack for piano to the silent movie Le Spectre Rouge by Segundo de Chómon (1907)
Première : National Gallery of Arts, Washington, DC – September 2016 – V. Guastella, piano
The war and the dream of Momi - Original soundtrack for piano to the silent movie The war and the dream of Momi by Segundo de Chómon (1917)
Première : National Gallery of Arts, Washington, DC – September 2016 – V. Guastella, piano
Modern Garrick - Original soundtrack for ten piece ensemble to the silent movie Modern Garrick based on works by William Shakespeare – (Pathéplay, 1913)
Première : National Gallery of Arts, Washington, DC – September 2016 - Cinemusica Viva Ensemble
Conductor, Gillian B. Anderson
Taming of a Shrew - Original soundtrack for ten piece ensemble to the silent movie Taming of a Shrew based on works by William Shakespeare – (La Mègère Apprivoisèe; Eclipse, France,1911)
Première : National Gallery of Arts, Washington, DC – September 2016 - Cinemusica Viva Ensemble
Conductor, Gillian B. Anderson
Feature Films, Short Movies, Music for Advertisement, Documentary TV series
Virginia Guastella for Giuseppe Zanotti - Original soundtrack to the video created by Silvia Badalotti for Giuseppe Zanotti and The Collector
Virginia Guastella for Roger Vivier - Original soundtrack to the video created by Silvia Badalotti for Roger Vivier and The Collector
TODAY I WILL LIVE - Original soundtrack to the documentary directed by Nico Piro - 2020
Premiere: Roma, Casa del Cinema - October 2020
IO SONO MATTEO - Original music to the short movie directed by Loris Di Pasquale, produced by La Fondazione La clessidra- Claudio Giudice per la vita- Onlus, AITT in co-production with BeDi Produzioni with the support of Panalight, Backlight Digital Post, SDI Media, Rental Film Industry - 2020
Yuki - Original soundtrack to the movie directed by Francesco De Angelis and Antonio Di Trapani, produced by Movimento Film Production and the Department of Cinema (University of Rome - Roma Tre)
LA GRANDE STORIA - Original soundtracks to the episodes of the documentary series "La Grande Storia" (Rai Tre - Rai Com Musical Edition)
CORREVA L'ANNO - Original soundtracks to the episodes of the documentary series "Correva l'anno" (Rai Tre - Rai Com Musical Edition)
DISCOGRAPHY
LO SCOIATTOLO (Die Bergkatze - E. Lubitsch) - Hermitage Cinema by Dischi Hermitage srl in collaboration with F. W. Murnau Stiftung, Transit Film, Cineteca del Comune di Bologna - Soundtrack recorded by Ensemble “Musica nel buio”. Virginia Guastella, piano - DVD - 2005
DVD and CD Collections - Original soundtracks to the episodes of the documentary series "La Grande Storia" and "Correva l'anno" (RAI3) - Music written, played and produced by Virginia Guastella - RaiTrade Musical Publishing/De Agostini Editore - 2007/2013
SLANCIO MODERATO - Duo Improbabile - Virginia Guastella, piano Claudio Trotta, drums - VDM Records -Original music by Virginia Guastella - RaiTrade – 2009
NUOVE MUSICHE PER TROMBA – CD containing the piece Trumpet boulevard for trumpet and prerecorded electronics – Ivano Ascari Production - 2011
EL CIMARRON ENSEMBLE DUO – CD containing the piece El toque for guitar and marimba – Stradivarius Label – 2013
SO FAR SO GOOD - My music 2006 - 2015 - M.A.P. Editions
CHOPIN - HOUR (2016) - CD containing the piece Notturna for piano quartet - A simple lunch Label
À BOUT DE SOUFFLE (2016) - CD containing the piece À bout de souffle - A simple lunch Label