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Gian Carlo Grandi
Gian Carlo Grandi - Biography
Sassari, 1960

Web: www.webalice.it/giancarlograndi/

E-mail: [email protected]
Splitting
studio for 3 clarinets in B
Dae sas voches

He studied in Cagliari with Maestro Vittorio Montis and Maestro Franco Oppo. He achieved the Diploma in Choral Music and Choir's Conducting, and the Diploma of Composition at the Conservatory "PierLuigi da Palestrina", place where he also attended to the course of Electronic Music taught by N. Bernardini and R. Doati.
He attended the courses of live electronics held by the Experimentalstudio der Henric-Strobel-Stiftung des Sudwestfunks, Freiburg i. B. held by Maestro Andrè Richard and attended the course Feriekurse für Neue Musik of Darmstadt (Germany).
In 1990 he founded the CERM (Centro Ricerche Musica e Sperimentazione Acustica). He had been President of that Centre for the first three years of activity.

He is author of Symphonic and Chamber Music. His composing work is mainly orientated towards the study and the application of the new instrumental techniques (Splitting, 1989) often integrated by an electrical-acoustic mean, (Studio per strumenti a fiato e live electronics, 1992; Sembianze, 1998). This latter composition took part in the final of II Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Elettronica "Pierre Schaeffer", being distinguished by a mention of honour. The study of acoustic matters of the Sardinian tradition of the a Tenore singing has been used on works for magnetic tape (Dae sas voches, 1997).
The biography, the analysis on his own work as composer and the piece Sembianze have been published on the Enciclopedia italiana dei Compositori Contemporanei.

In 1999 he was invited at the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione for a work meeting on problems related to the experimentation on a musical line side, particularly referring to the nation-wide planning and programming for experimental Arts' Schools which give students a musical education.
He works as a composer and as a researcher syde by side with directing a Choir.
He achieved the Diploma of Choral Music and Choir's Conducting, and the Diploma of Solfeggio, Theory and Musical Dictation, to teach at the Conservatory.
He taught at the Conservatory Solfeggio, Theory and Musical Dictation and Choral Music and Choir's Conducting.

Updated to 06/2001