Torsdag 17 november
Kl. 12.00
Malmö, Inter Arts Center
Panel discussion with Luca Francesconi and Simon Emmerson
Luca Francesconi (1956-) holds the position position as professor of composition at Music Academy of Malmö since 2003. He studied forAzio Corghi, Karlheinz Stockhausen (in Rome), Luciano Berio (at Tanglewood) and jazz in Boston. He also worked as an assistant of Berio beetwen 1981 and 1984. Between 2008-2011 he´s been the artistic director of La Biennale Musica in Venice, and is the instigator of the Connect Festival.
Since November 2004 Simon Emmerson (1950-) has been Professor in Music Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University, Leicester, following twenty eight years as Director of the Electroacoustic Music studios at City University, London. His catalogue now spans thirty five years, including commissions for Intermodulation, Singcircle, Option Band, Lontano, Jane Manning, Philip Mead, Jane Chapman amongst many others. He has also completed purely electroacoustic commissions from the IMEB (Bourges) and the GRM (Paris).
