Gabriele Manca

Gabriele Manca studied piano with Bruno Canino and composition with Giacomo Manzoni at the Conservatory in Milano where he graduated with distinction.
In 1985 he was the prize winner of the "Neue Generation in Europe", competition organized by the WDR-Köln, the Biennale-Venezia and the Autome-Paris. In 2000 he won the Japan Fondation Uchida Fellowship.
His music has been performed in many important contemporary music events and festivals, including Holland Festival, Musica nel Nostro Tempo, Pontino Festival, Ars Musica Bruxelles, Gesellschaft für neue Musik Hannover, Musica Presente-Teatro alla scala RAI-RTS1, Spaziomusica-Cagliari, Musica Presente-Musica in Europa, Beckett Theatre Melbourne, Sydney Festival, Beethovensaal Bonn, Musica Biennale Zagreb, Darmstadt Ferienkurses, Nuovi Incontri Musicali Milano, MilanoMusica-Teatro alla Scala, Cantiere Internazionale di Montepulciano, ROMAEUROPA Festival-Villa Medici Academie de France, Metafonie-Teatro alla Scala, Theatre Winter Tokyo, Irino Foundation Tokyo, Bienal de Barcelona, Sipario Ducale-Pesaro, Radio Suisse Romande-Lausanne, Ărthus Festival, Valencia Cyberfestival, Senzoku University of Tokyo, Melbourne University, Konzerthaus Große Saal Wien, Festival Synthese de Bourges, Klangforum Wien Festival, Festival Musikprotokoll-Graz, Europalia-Bruxelles, Cité de la Musique-Paris, Festival Nieuwe Ensemble-Amsterdam, Gulbenkian Foundation-Lisbon, Kammerakademie-Potsdam, XVI Festival de Nueva Musica-Santiago de Chile.
In 2001 he carried out the soundtrack for "ROKUROBIOE", a movie by Japanese Chiseko Tanaka.
He gave many workshops and lectures at the Melbourne University, Irino Foundation, Senzoku University, Toho Gakuen University, Theatre Winter, Tokyo College of Music, Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo, Pontificia universidad de Chile.
Gabriele Manca teaches composition at "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory in Milan.
His scores are mainly published by RICORDI-BMG.

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