Festival Archipel 2020, - biographie de Pierluigi Billone

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http://www.pierluigibillone.com

Born in 1960 in Italy, Pierluigi Billone lives in Vienna. He studied composition with Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann. Billone's music has been performed by relevant interpreters in festivals such as Wien Modern, Festival d'Automne Paris, Donaueschinger Musiktagen, Wittener Tagen für neue Kammermusik, Eclat-Stuttgart, Ultraschall-Berlin, Musica Viva München, TFNM Zürich, Ars Musica Bruxelles, Huddersfield NMF, World Music Days Wroclaw, Biennale Zagreb, Boston, New York, Monday Ev. Concerts Los Angeles, Bendigo Festival Sidney. His music has been regularly broadcasted from the most important radios in and beyond Europe. His works received international awards such as the Kompositionspreis der Stadt Stuttgart (1993), the Busoni-Kompositionspreis (Academy of Arts Berlin 1996) the Wiener Internationaler Kompositionspreis (2004),

the Ernst-Krenek-Preis (Vienna 2006), and the Kompositionspreis der Ernst-von-Siemens-Musikstiftung (Munich 2010). From 2006 to 2008 Pierluigi Billone has been guest professor for composition at the Music University Graz, in 2009 at the Music University of Frankfurt, from 2010 until 2012 at the Music University Graz, and in 2017 at the ESMUC in Barcelona. He is regularly invited as teacher and lecturer in composition courses such as : IEMA-Ensemble Modern Akademie, Harvard University, Columbia University NY, MCME International Academy Russland, Ferienkurse Darmstadt, Impulse Akademie Graz, Tzlil Meducan Israel, MCIC Madrid, Boston University, New York University, Composit-Rieti. The works of Pierluigi Billone appear on the Kairos, Stradivarius, Col-legno, Durian, EMSA, NEOS and Ein_Klang labels.