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Renato Rivolta read philosophy and received an all-round
musical training at the Conservatory in Milan (violin, flute, composition
and conducting). He continued his education as a postgraduate student of
Sandor V¬gh (chamber music), Franco Donatoni (composition) and Peter Eötvös
(conducting) at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. He worked for fourteen years as
a member of some of leading Italian orchestras (La Scala, La Fenice, Radio
Orchestra in Turin), collaborating with such conductors as Claudio Abbado,
Seiji Ozawa, Carlo Maria Giulini and Leonard Bernstein. He subsequently
decided to pursue a conducting career.
His interests focus on contemporary music. Since 1989 he has worked closely
with Peter Eötvös. He has also collaborated with Pierre Boulez, David
Robertson, Markus Stenz, George Benjamin, Arturo Tamayo and Mark Foster. He
has performed at major contemporary music festivals including ‘Ars
Musica’ in Brussels, ‘Time of Music’ in Vitaasari (Finland),
‘Wien Modern’, ‘Musica’ in Strasbourg,
‘Archipel’ in Geneva, ‘Présences’ in Paris, the bbc
Festival in Edinburgh and the ‘Warsaw Autumn’ (debut in 2002).
He has conducted concerts in the bbc ‘sounding the century’
series and worked with such groups as Ensemble InterContemporain (in
1996–98 as assistant to its artistic director), Ensemble Modern,
Klangforum Wien, 2e2m, Nieuw Ensemble, L'Itinéraire, Israel Contemporary
Players (close cooperation since 2000).
He has taken part in such major projects as Stockhausen’s Gruppen at
the Salzburg Festival (1994), Ligeti’s Le Grande Macabre in Paris
(1999) and Berio’s Sinfonia at the La Monnaie in Brussels (1997).
In 1992–98 he conducted the En-semble Nuove Sincronie in Milan. In
1996–98 he worked as ‘chief assistant’ of the Ensemble
InterContemporain.
He also teaches at the Accademia Internazionale di Musica in Milan and
Scuola Superiore di Musica di Fiesole in Florence. He is also a no-ted
composer. His works have been performed in Italy, France, Bel-gium, Germany,
Japan, Finland, Israel and the United States.
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