Marco Tutino - Counterpoint Music Library Services

Marco Tutino is considered one of the most representative in the new generation of italian composers. He made his debut in 1976 at the Gaudeamus Festival, Holland. He has composed chamber and symphonic music for the major Italian concert societies and for foreign music institutions as the BBC, The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, The Moscow Soloists, The Copenhagen Radio Symphony Orchestra, The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, etc. In addition, he has received commissions and performances from conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Bruno Bartoletti, Roberto Abbado, Daniele Gatti, Carlo Rizzi.
For the stage he composed several operas: among the others Pinocchio (1985, Genoa, Vienna, Florence), Cyrano (1987, Alessandria, Verona, Metz), Vite immaginarie in concert at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna (1989), being presented in stage form in Modena (1990) after wich it run more than 40 performances all over Italy.
In 1990 Tutino presented a new opera in Livorno, La Lupa, commissioned for the 100th Anniversary of Cavalleria rusticana by Mascagni. Both operas were performed as part of the same evening under the direction of Bruno Bartoletti, with Viorica Cortez in the title role. Three new productions of La Lupa was staged by the National Opera House in Szeged (Hungary) in 1994 and 1995, by the Teatro Massimo in Palermo (1998), and by the KuppelTheater in Erfurt (Germany) in 2002.
Tutino has been creator, promoter and author (with six other composers chosen by him) of the Requiem in memoria delle vittime della mafia performed in the Palermo Cathedral (1993).
La Scala Orchestra commissioned and performed Piano americano, for clarinet and orchestra - soloist Vladimir Ashkenazy, conductor Carlo Rizzi - as part of its 1994 symphonic season.
In spring 1997 the Arena di Verona organized a portrait of the composer, broadcasting two works: Il gatto con gli stivali (Puss in Boots), a musical for children, and the cantata Pugacev.
Another important appointment of Tutino’s career has been the Kirye and Agnus Dei for the Jubilee celebrations in August 2000.
The opera Peter Uncino (Peter Hook) - with Milva as guest star - was presented in Verona and Genoa on November, 2001, and in Rome and Milan on January, 2003.
For the year 2003 La Scala commissioned to Tutino a new opera, Vita, based on the novel "Wit" by Margaret Edson (Pulitzer Prize 1998).

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