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Toy Counterpoint en Bologna

 Sabato 27 gennaio 2024, ore 11
Antonietta Loffredo
 Concerto per pianoforte giocattolo

Toy Counterpoint

Teatro Mazzacorati 1763
Vías Toscana 19, Bologna

Antonietta Loffredo presenta un programma dedicato al toy piano, con opere di compositori contemporanei che da tutto il mondo testimoniano l'interesse rivolto a questo piccolo e affascinante strumento. Al termine del programma, un curioso repertorio originariamente scritto per orologi meccanici offrirà all'ascolto musiche di Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach e Franz Joseph Haydn.


Musiche di Kaveh Azimi, Mercedes Zavala, Sara Carvalho, Diana Blom, Paul Smith, A.S. Reyes, Fabio Luppi, Gian

Paolo Luppi, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, J. Haydn

Toy Dance en Viena

 April 24th, 2022, 20h
Ruprechtsplatz 1, 1010 Vienna

Neue Musik in St.Ruprecht

Antonietta Loffredo – Toy Piano

Toy Dance scores is at Babelscores

Más información aquí

Estreno de "POLARIS", para toy piano y ensemble

 2021-19 dicembre, 17.30h
Salone Enrico Musa (spazio all'interno ell'instituto Carducci)
Via Felice Cavallotti 7, Cernobbio, Como, Italia

"POLARIS" (ESTRENO)

PROYECTO CONSTELLATIONS


Written at the request of Antonietta Loffredo and the Appasisonato Ensemble


 CONSTELLATIONS, a Work in four movements composed by


Diana Blom (Australia)

Gian Paolo Luppi (Italy)

Sara Carvalho (Portugal)

Mercedes Zavala (Spain)


Antonietta Loffredo, toy piano / Appassionato Ensemble

Sobre POLARIS (2021)

(English below)

POLARIS (2021), para Toy piano y cuarteto de flauta, clarinete, violín y violonchelo, está escrita a petición de Antonietta Loffredo y el Appasionato Ensemble, dentro del proyecto "Constellations" y dedicada a Luis de Pablo.

El título alude tanto al procedimiento compositivo empleado, como al papel que las enseñanzas de Luis de Pablo tuvieron en mi formación musical y cultural. 


He trabajado los materiales musicales, muy reducidos, apelando  a una memoria fragmentada en el oyente, que los reconstruye según se posicionen, agrupen e interactúen, transformándose continuamente la perspectiva de su escucha. Dentro de ese proceso el Toy piano juega un cierto papel de eje referencial que permite volver a anclar la escucha a un punto fijo.



POLARIS (2021), for Toy piano and flute, clarinet, violin and cello quartet, is written at the request of Antonietta Loffredo and the Appasionato Ensemble, within the project "Constellations" and is dedicated to Luis de Pablo.


The title alludes both to the compositional procedure used and to the role that Luis de Pablo's teachings had in my musical and cultural training.


I have worked on musical materials, very reduced, appealing to a fragmented memory in the listener, who reconstructs them as they are positioned, grouped and interact, continuously transforming the perspective of their listening. Within this process, the Toy piano plays a certain role as a referential axis that allows the listening to be re-anchored to a fixed point.

Antonietta Loffredo on our workshop at Cernobbio

The Toy Piano Is Not a Toy

 in Revista Vórtex | Vortex Music Journal

v.8 n.2, 2020 | ISSN 2317–9937
Dossiê | The Toy Piano Takes the Stage

Abstract: this paper describes a two-day composition workshop dedicated to the toy piano held in 2019 at a state middle school with a musical address in Italy. Eight young pupils in the early years of their piano studies took part. The resulting compositions are shown and indicate that the toy piano is a useful means to stimulate creativity in young pupils. A further consideration addressed is that operating in the educational field means expanding the future audience with respect to new musical languages and means of musical expression. In discussing both pedagogical practise and composing and performing, the author’s aim is to contribute to the comprehension of the ‘toy piano phenomenon’ which in recent years has increasingly seen this instrument take centre stage on the contemporary music scene

http://vortex.unespar.edu.br/loffredo_v8_n2.pdf

 http://vortex.unespar.edu.br

TOY PIANO FESTIVAL 2019 _Music as Play-The Toy Piano Takes the Stage


-World Premiere of Toy dance, by Antonietta Loffredo
-Concert: Pupils of the middle state school I.C. Cernobbio (toy piano). Mercedes Zavala (conductor)

The Associazione Carducci in Como, Italy, is organizing a musical festival entitled "Music as play – the toy piano takes the stage" with the aim of increasing the knowledge and practice of the toy piano.
Composers, musicologists and institutions in Italy and abroad have been invited to take part.
This festival will include a call for scores for concerts and a call for papers for a conference.
Conference and concerts will take place on the 6th and 7th of July 2019 and will be hosted by the Istituto Carducci in Como.
For more information please visit the official website of the festival www.music-as-play.wixsite.com/toypiano
Email: masp.toypiano@gmail.com


From Piano to Toy Piano: composing as a Rite of Passage


From Piano to Toy Piano: composing as a Rite of Passage 
Mercedes Zavala 
Conservatorio Profesional de Música Teresa Berganza, Madrid, Spain 

ABSTRACT

In this talk I will discuss the work I did with the piano students of Antonietta Loffredo in the workshop "Seriously or jokingly? Toy piano composition workshop for early stages".  As a result of this workshop, the students wrote a series of pieces composed by them for toy piano. We also worked on improvisation as a complementary activity with elements  differentiated from, but also related to,  musical composition.

The choice of the toy piano favors some aspects that help the initiation to compose. At this student level, to compose means a change of perspective, a step to another way of understanding music, indeed a passage to another musical reality. The toy piano is a new instrument for all of them, so they have to do prior work of exploration to understand how that new instrument works, and they have to react to its sound and possibilities; but at the same time it is a familiar instrument, so they can manage it very well. Also, it has a restricted range of possibilities that makes the writing easier. Last, but not least, the toy piano is freed from the sometimes overwhelming weight of music repertoire of the past. This gives the act of creating music a playful aspect, outside the overwhelming responsibility that the concept of composing sometimes implies. The response of the pupils was very interesting in many senses, as you will see and hear.

About "Toy Counterpoints", for Toy Piano

Published by BabelScores

1-Moderato
2-Allegro deciso
3-Toy Dance

My toy piano works are the result of Antonietta Loffredo's incitation to write for this instrument. These are pieces for a 25 keys toy piano. It is a very limited register but i loved the restriction of write a score combining careful and detailed writing with the naif and magic sound of this instrument. 

Toy Counterpoints is dedicated to Antonietta Loffredo. The first (Moderato) and the second (Allegro deciso) were composed at 2015 and premiered by Antonietta at Risuonanze, Incontri di nuove musiche at Molfalcone. The third (Toy Dance) was recently (2019) premiered at Como, at The Music as Play Festival. While the second piece is a kind of Passacaglia with some jokes in it, the first and the third move in a magic-oniric universe, but Toy Dance becomes almost hypnotic, a kind of inner ritual dance.

Conferencia-concierto de ANTONIETTA LOFFREDO en Madrid

25 de Febrero, 17h
Toy Counterpoints (Estreno en España)
Antonietta Loffredo, piano de juguete y piano

The Toy Piano In Contemporary Art Music
(LECTURE-CONCERT)
Obras para piano de juguete y/o piano de Sara Carvalho, Chris Adams, Antonio Giacometti, Diana Blom, Mercedes Zavala, Paolo Ricci, Lorenzo di Vora, Go Okawa y Kaveh Azimi

Semana Cultural 2016
Auditorio del Conservatorio Teresa Berganza
c/ Palmípedo 3, MADRID

PRODUCCIÓN ESTIVAL julio-agosto 2011: (viva las vacaciones)

Nuevas composiciones:

Toy Passacaglia, para toy piano
El polo norte de Saturno, para piano
Domestica Conversazione-II (Giornata seconda), para cuarteto de flautas de pico

Revisiones y ediciones:

Bestiariumrevisada para su presentación en el Festival de Música Contemporánea de La Habana 2011
Cómo es, violín y piano (revisada para su publicación en Periferia Sheet Music), con motivo de la redacción del artículo "Qué fue de Cómo es" en la editorial Piles.

y otras cosillas....