64th Festival di Nuova Consonanza - Forma

The 64th Nuova Consonanza Festival is titled FORMA (Form). The 2027 Festival hosts some of the leading Italian and foreign contemporary music ensembles.

 • Ensemble Itinéraire (Paris). At the festival, they will perform a concert centered around the 80th birthday of Tristan Murail, as well as world premieres by young Italian composers recommended by NC.

 • Ensemble Recherche is a German contemporary classical music ensemble consisting of nine permanent members. For this occasion, they will present classical authors of the German Avant-garde alongside recent generations of Italian and German composers.

 • Quartetto Fabrik (Frankfurt), a young and rapidly rising string quartet founded in 2022 and based in Frankfurt, will present a program focused on emerging figures in international music, including a premiere by a young Italian composer. 

• I Solisti Aquilani At the festival, they will present masterpieces of the historical 20th century alongside the premieres of two newly written compositions by Roman authors.

 • L’Arsenale (Venice), founded in Treviso in 2005 and conducted by Filippo Perocco, joins the festival with a program of young yet established Italian composers, supported by the Siemens Foundation. 

• Orchestra Senzaspine (Bologna), conducted by Tommaso Ussardi. They will participate in the festival with a youth ensemble of over 20 musicians for a monographic concert dedicated to Salvatore Sciarrino on his 80th birthday.

 • Syntax Ensemble (Milan), conducted by Pasquale Corrado, tt the festival, they will present a world-premiere multimedia project of their own production for instruments, electronics, and images. The festival will also feature, among others: 

• The Italian Air Force Band (Banda dell’Aeronautica Militare). 

• Trio Zazel, a very young group presenting the repertoire of their upcoming album, featuring premieres by authors such as Ivan Fedele, Giorgio Colombo Taccani, and Pasquale Corrado. 

•  Michele Marelli, one of the most prestigious performers on the international scene, will give a recital for solo clarinet and electronics.

 • An international call for scores for a concert featuring works for instrument and electronics by composers under 40. 

• The Evangelisti Competition concert, which this year is dedicated to pieces for voice and electronics with texts focused on Peace. Chamber Music Theatre • “Necrokomicon: six 'comic' tales to make fun of death”, featuring music by Fabrizio De Rossi Re, texts by Guido Barbieri, and live-improvised imagery by Gabriella Compagnone. 

• Two short operas for young audiences: “Il semaforo blu” on texts from Gianni Rodari's “Telephone Tales”, performed by the Freon Ensemble (Rome); and “Due pesci fuor d’acquario” by Roberta Vacca, with texts by Paola Campanini. Performance & Cinema 

• The premiere of the film-concert La passion de Jeanne d’Arc, the classic film by Carl Theodor Dreyer, featuring a live soundtrack.  Professional Development Initiatives for the Next Generation of Musicians 

• The De Musica composition workshop: running annually since 2000, it features a prominent figure from the international composition scene who presents their own work and reviews the pieces of selected young composers. As previously mentioned, the workshop concludes with a monographic concert dedicated to the guest artist, performed by the Parco della Musica Contemporanea Ensemble, conducted by Tonino Battista.

 • The improvisation workshop Comporre dialogante (Dialoguing Composition): led by Alessandro Sbordoni, this workshop is aimed at musicians under 35 from diverse musical backgrounds and skill sets, culminating in a live concert performance.

 • The Orizzonti della scrittura (Writing Horizons) Residency: aimed at 6 composers under 35, who are tasked with writing new works for 4 double basses and electronics. The residency finishes with a concert performance by Daniele Roccato's Ensemble Ludus Gravis, with Simone Pappalardo serving as the electronics tutor.