Daniele Bravi

Daniele Bravi began to study composition very young on his own and followed the same path as those Italian composers who in the last thirty years have begun their musical training in Italy to then complete it in France.

Born in Rome in 1974, Bravi started studying composition at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome where he achieved his diploma in 2003 cum laude, also winning the Marcello Intendente prize for the best diploma of the academic year.

He then studied for three years at the Conservatory of Strasbourg under the guidance of Ivan Fedele and obtained the diploma in 2006. and later with Salvatore Sciarrino, Pascal Dusapin, Wolfgang Rihm and Helmut Lachenmann.

From 2006 to 2008 he studied composition and computer music at the IRCAM in Paris. In particular he specialized in computer assisted composition (C.A.O. – Open Music) and real time generated and controlled electronic music (Live Electronics – Max/Msp).

Bravi’s musical ideas are connected with philosophy, mathematics, physics and architectural principals like on La Curva di Lìgaso (2004) for piano, Rifrazioni Lontane (2004) for orchestra (first price at the Musica Europa-2004 international competition – Salvatore Sciarrino President of the Jury), the Quartetto n.2 (2005) for string quartet written for the Arditti quartet  and Meditazione Prima ‘in Eco’ – Hommàge à Descartes (2002) for ensemble that has been selected by the Italian National Commitee of Music – CIDIM and by the International Association of Music Centre – IAMIC to rappresent the italian contemporary music during the concert/conference IAMIC 2007 (June 2007) in Wellington – New Zealand.

Initially influenced by the works of C.E. Ives, he later developed his studies on the spatialization of sound and on timbral research in constant contact with the performers.

This exploration of sound is part of a clear formal context, characterized by an economy or material and a continuous reference to musical fragments, paying particular attention to the “musical perception” of the listener.

He has composed on commission for festival “Archipel” – Geneva, “Radio Suisse Romande”, festival “Musica” – Strasburgo,”I.R.C.A.M.” – Paris,  “Stockholm New Music Festival”,  Biennale di Venezia 54° festival di musica contemporanea (2010) and 59° festival (2015),  Bargemusic festival – New York, festival “Traiettorie (2016)” – Parma, festival Veranstaltungsreihe ed.2011 – Wien, festival “Acanthes 2005” – Metz, festival “Suona Francese”, al BKA-Theater – Berlin, “Seconda Rassegna Di Musica Contemporanea Italiana” – Peking,  festival “A Tempo” – Podgorica, festival “Musica Europa 2004” – Rome, Limerick and Tallinn, “Prima Rassegna Di Musica Contemporanea Italiana” – Strasbourg, festival “Zilele Muzich Contemporane” – Bacäu XVIII edition, “Cantiere Internazionale D’Arte” – Montepulciano, festival “Nuova Consonanza” – Rome,  Festival Rondò – Milan, Festival MICO – Bologna, The International Keyboard Institute & Festival  16th Season – New York, Sügifest 2014 – Tallinn, Summer Institute of Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) in Boston.

His works and recordings are published by Stradivarius.

Since 2007 he is professor of composition in Italy. He has taught at the Conservatorio Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina of Cagliari, the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi of Turin, the Conservatorio Tito Schipa of Lecce and the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Giuseppe Verdi of Ravenna. Currently he is professor in composition at the Conservatorio Umberto Giordano of Foggia.

Bravi has been invited to give lectures and master-classes at the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki), Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Tallinn), Conservatoire de Musique de Strasbourg (France) and Conservatoire de Musique (Geneve).

His first monographic CD “Del Vero e Del Falso” (Stradivarius – Times Future Series) has been recorded by Arditti Quartet, Donatienne Michelle-Dansac, Algoritmo Ensemble, Ensemble Vide, Roberta Gottardi, Matteo Cesari, Keiko Murakami, Anna D’Errico, Marco Rogliano, Béatrice Zawodnick and Marco Angius.