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virginiaguastellamusic@gmail.com for unpublished music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Quello che resta - for piano (unpublished) - 2021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Sul tasto – for piano (unpublished) – 2016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D'amore su corde – for guitar and viola d'amore (unpublished) – 2013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Une vague peut en cacher une autre – for trio (violin, cello and piano) (unpublished) – 2016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
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)
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