Tiziano Manca is an Italian

Italy

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 composer of contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music

Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...

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Biography

Born in Squinzano

Squinzano

Squinzano is a town and comune in the province of Lecce in the Apulia region of south-east Italy.Squinzano is also a specific area within the Puglia wine region. Squinzano DOC is produced in red and rosé versions, and is obtained principally from the Negro Amaro grape, with a small addition of...

, Italy, Tiziano Manca attended the Faculty of Philosophy and the Conservatory in Florence

Florence

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, studying Electronic Music and Composition with Romano Pezzati and Salvatore Sciarrino

Salvatore Sciarrino

Salvatore Sciarrino is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music.-Biography:In his youth, Sciarrino was attracted to the visual arts, but began experimenting with music when he was twelve. Though he had some lessons from Antonino Titone and Turi Belfiore, he is primarily self-taught as a...

. He undertook also further studies in conducting with Piero Bellugi

Piero Bellugi

Piero Bellugi is an Italian conductor from Florence. He received a diploma in violin and viola from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence, and also studied composition there with Luigi Dallapiccola. He also studied at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and at the Universität...

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In 2001 he was composer-in-residence in Japan (Akiyoshidai International Art Village), in 2001–2002 in Royaumont (Paris) and in 2002–2003 at the Akademie Schloss Solitude

Akademie Schloss Solitude

The Akademie Schloss Solitude is a foundation under public law. The main aspect of the Akademie is to promote mainly younger, particularly gifted artists by means of residency fellowships and also by organizing events and exhibitions by its residents...

(Stuttgart).

His music has been performed in Amsterdam (Gaudeamus Music Week), Anvers (Ars Musica), Stuttgart (Theaterhaus), Darmstadt (Ferienkurse), Lucerne (Lucerne Festival), Paris (Théâtre Dunois, Abbaye de Royaumont), Lille (Opera), Stuttgart (Theaterhaus), Berlin (Konzerthaus) and Japan (Akiyoshidai International Art Village).

Selected works

• Deserto colore for Voice and Piano (1998)
• Ondine for Chamber Orchestra (1998)
• Flatus vocis for Flute (1999)
• Deux Epigrammes amoureuses et un intimation for Clarinet, Violin, Cello, Voice, Percussion and Piano (2000)
• Narcisse for two Baritones (2001–2002)
• Nel labirinto for Trumpet, Trombone, Percussion, Bass Drum, Guitar, Cello, Piano (2003)
• Limen for Tenor Sax, Guitar and Marimba (2003)
• La Gabbia opera in un atto (2003–2004) Libretto di Alejandro Tantanian
• Moi, Daniel G. for Countertenor, Violin, Bariton Saxophon, Piano (2005) Text by Samuel Beckett
• Nell'assenza dei venti for Chamber Orchestra (2006)
• Defining for Flute, Clarinet, Vibraphon, Violin, Viola, Cello, Piano (2007–2009)