Emanuele Casale

Emanuele Casale started to compose at the age of thirteen. At the beginning he approached rock music and later he studied Alto and Double Bass. Subsequently he devoted himself to Composition and studied with various teachers. While he was a student, he received scholarships for academic merits in order to improve his Composition studies. He graduated at the "Istituto Musicale V, Bellini" in Catania (Italy), under the guidance of Sebastiano Nicotra. He followed Composition specialisation courses with Aldo Clementi and Salvatore Sciarrino. He studied Electronic Music in Catania with Agostino Di Scipio, later with Alessandro Cipriani whit whom he graduated. He attended Electroacoustic Music specialisation courses with Barry Truax in Sicily and with Giorgio Nottoli and Riccardo Santoboni at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena.
In 1998 he received the CEMAT competition prize (Rome). During the same year he won the "Prix" at the Concourse International the Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges (France) in the "electroacoustic music with instruments" category. In 1999 he was selected by the "Reading Panel" of IRCAM (Paris) for an Ensemble Intercontemporain commission. Later, at the Frankfurt Opera House competition, he resulted among the five European composers selected for a small opera piece commission. He received the First Prize at the Japanese Competition IRINO (Tokyo - 2001 Edition for Chamber Music). In 2002 the International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music - UNESCO (Copenhagen/Paris) conferred the First Prize to him.
Well-known performers, chamber and symphonic Ensemble, have played his music: Alter Ego, Mario Caroli, Anna Clementi, Pascal Gallois, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Mosaik, Antonio Politano Manuel Zurria.
His compositions have been performed in festivals and institutions such as Sibelius Academy, YLE radio (Helsinki), Memorie Sonore, Media Artes (Stockholm), Conservatoire de Paris - Cité de la Musique, Centre Pompidou (Paris), Synthèse (Bourges), CEMAT - Sonora, Nuova Consonanza, RAI radio 3 (Rome), Audionale (Munich), Iowa University, University of Maryland (U.S.A.), Siglo XX - Radio Beethoven (Santiago/Chile), Ilkhom-XX (Uzbekistan), Festspiele Erl (Erl-Austria), Klangfiguren (Frankfurt), Agon (Milan), CIRM (Nizza), Inventionen (Berlin) and many others.
Studio 2  (2000) by Emanuele Casale is the work selected as most worthy of worldwide broadcasting by radio music producers and representatives of national electroacoustic music organisations participating in the 2002 International Rostrum of Electroacoustic Music (IREM) held at Danmarks Radio in Copenhagen, May 22-24 2002. The work, written for recorder (played by Antonello Politano) and tape, was elaborated in Catania and Rome; it was presented by Federazione CEMAT Progetto Sonora. Studio 2 is a short work (4'30") very lively and full of virtuosity, with a very close counterpoint between the instrumental and digital parts. Exceptionally, this composition was selected as most outstanding both in the general and in the young composers' category.

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