Disklavier Festival at Cremona Musica
The Disklavier Festival, as part of the program of events organized by Yamaha Music Europe – Branch Italy at the Sala Stradivari in Cremona Musica, offers a series of events related to the Yamaha Disklavier piano, with the intention of introducing the potential of Disklavier technology to the international audience of Cremona Musica, to enhance existing projects of musicians working with the Disklavier, and to open up to new ideas and experimentation.
Cremona Musica’s mission is not only to organize the event but continues 365 days a year with a constant commitment to promoting music. This includes co-marketing projects with partner companies to create prestigious initiatives like these.
The Disklavier Festival follows the multi-year project of Disklavier Composers Contest. The festival will also serve to showcase the award-winning compositions from previous editions of the Disklavier Composers Contest.
The Disklavier Festival will take place on Sunday, the last day of Cremona Musica. It will be a showcase of events related to the creative use of the Disklavier. We will host internationally renowned musicians who regularly use this type of piano, experiment with “remote lessons” by connecting pianos thousands of kilometers apart, and many other ideas are currently in development. It will also be possible to submit applications to perform your own project designed for the Disklavier. More details on how to participate will be published soon. Follow us on this page and on the social media of Cremona Musica and Yamaha Piano.
Disklavier Composers Contest. The Disklavier Competitions for Composers
Cremona Musica and Yamaha Music Europe – Branch Italy, have been collaborating for 4 years in organizing the “Disklavier Composers Contest”, the composition contest that takes advantage of Disklavier technology that makes the piano play autonomously. The final of the competition is held during Cremona Musica.
The “Disklavier Composer Contest” was created to bring together the genius of Yamaha engineers and the genius of today’s composers, who are thus invited to make the most of the potential of this innovation, which infinitely expands the versatility of the piano, lending itself to countless uses. A technology that can undoubtedly stimulate the imagination of the most creative musicians.
Disklavier Technology, developed over more than 30 years by Yamaha, enables the Japanese brand’s acoustic pianos to record and perfectly reproduce the pianist’s performance, even drawing from a catalog of sheet music, recordings, or starting from even a simple MIDI format track, replicating even the sonic nuances and movements of keys and pedals, and allowing the pianist to even accompany himself or play a piano located on the other side of the world.
Contest participants can submit their own unreleased song, which will then be played live on the Yamaha Disklavier piano. La giuria internazionale che nel 2022 era composta da Antonio Faraò (Italia), Andrea Portera (Italia), Gabriel Prokofiev (UK), Gabrio Taglietti (Italia), Dan Tepfer (Francia-USA), selezionerà i brani che avranno poi accesso alla finale che si svolgerà nell’ambito di Cremona Musica.
Disklavier technology makes it possible to introduce what is a first for composition competitions: each submitted score will in fact be played and judged by listening, and the performances will also be recorded in high-quality video and posted on the Disklavier Composers Contest Youtube channel with the author’s name, giving each composer a chance to hear and publicize their work.
FOR INFO: disklaviercompetition@cremonamusica.com
The finalists for the Disklavier Composers Contest 2022 are:
- Giacometti Antonio: Mawè
- Napoli Domenico: Moti interiori
- Tortorella Ernesto: Hi Robot
- Yokota Keisuke: Goshi-Goshi
- Zattera Federico: Il vento che fa musiche bizzarre
The winner of the Disklavier Composers Contest 2022 is:
- Giacometti Antonio