Author: Michele Abondano

  • furl (new music for viola)

    My piece ‘The Inconvenience of Loving a Flickering Creature’, for prepared viola with amplification, has been released on the album furl (new music for viola) by Aleksandra Demowska-Madejska. This is the first time that my instrumental music is included on a professional album and working with Aleksandra has always been a very inspiring and satisfying…

  • Points of Attraction

    You can now watch the recording of the premiere of my piece ‘Points of Attraction’, which took place in Bremen last June. It was commissioned by Isabelle Raphaelis and Dalton Harris, and it is inspired by the concept of their project Apollonius Point. Consequently, the piece explores the possibility of equating force, intensity and articulation…

  • Klangwerkstatt Berlin 2025

    I can’t express how grateful I am to have received a commission from the Klangwerkstatt Berlin Festival für Neue Musik with the support of the ernst von siemens musikstiftung to compose a piece for ensemble progress to be premiered in November 2025. I am now facing my first composition in nine months, in the midst…

  • Short Portrait Film

    In 2023, I was one of the composers commissioned by Cecilia Castagneto to write a piece and have it premiered in Düsseldorf at the second version of Frauen im Licht, of which Cecilia is the artistic director. Today, I am delighted to share this short portrait film created by charakterfilm for this special project. Audio:…

  • Composing for Cello: The Experience of Light in Timbre

    Ex Chordis. Rivista di Cultura, Ricerca e Didattica degli Strumenti ad Arco has published my article ‘Composing for Cello: the Experience of Light in Timbre’. It is available online as part of the second issue of the journal, which is edited by Conservatorio di Musica Niccolò Piccinni and published by Milano University Press.Thanks to Elnaz…

  • Trazos

    ‘Trazos’ is a work I composed in 2013 for Indeterminate Ensemble, in which the decisions on how and when to play the material are in the hands of the performers, leading to a unique experience in each concert. Here you can listen to or download the live recording at the New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble Composer…

  • This Blurred Abyss

    The live recording of my piece ‘This Blurred Abyss’, for voice (Ả Đào), objects, Đàn Bầu, with amplification and 4-channel fixed-media electronics, is available now. The piece was premiered last November at Sprengel Museum Hannover and I couldn’t thank the performers Vu Thuy Linh, Ngo Tra My and Marijana Janevska enough for their magnificent job.…

  • Diese seltenen Momente der Ruhe

    I have been commissioned by Cecilia Castagneto to compose a piece to be premiered in Düsseldorf in the frame of her project Frauen im Licht, 8 December at the Forum Stadtsparkasse. Writing Diese seltenen Momente der Ruhe, for flute, bass clarinet, percussion (1 player), violin and cello, has been a wonderful and exciting experience. The…

  • TRAIECT IV-VIETMAN

    It has been a fantastic experience to write ´This Blurred Abyss’, a piece for Voice (Ả Đào), Objects, Đàn Bầu, with Amplification and 4-Channel Electronics, as one of the commissioned composers by TRAIECT (Traditionelle Asiatische Instrumente und Elektronik) for its IV edition dedicated to Vietnam. This project is supported by the Hannoversche Gesellschaft für Neue…

  • Bitácora de Resonancias

    Me llena de alegría compartirles esta compilación de textos realizada por Eduardo Spinelli y Micaela van Muylem y publicada por Suono Mobile Editora, en donde podrán encontrar mi clase magistral ‘La composición del timbre. Estudio tímbrico de lo efímero y volátil’ y la partitura completa de la obra. El libro recopila una semana maravillosa de…