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Carlo Minuta (Catania, 1994) is an Italian composer.

Carlo Minuta
Background information
Born (1994-07-29) July 29, 1994 (age 30)
Italia
GenresMinimalism
InstrumentComposer
LabelsSymphonos Italia
Minimal Music
Experimental

Activities

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Grandson of composer and director of the Civic Music Corps of Catania Francesco Minuta[1][2][3], he began his activity as a musician from a young age, devoting himself to composing music for ensembles and then for the theater. He has collaborated with the Teatro Massimo Bellini of Catania, the Teatro Stabile of Catania, the Teatro Vitaliano Brancati of Catania and the Piccolo Teatro of Catania, including writing stage music[4][5].

Winner of the first overall prize in the XVI International Music Competition A.M.A. Calabria, he participated in the first edition of the Italy Percussion Competition, for the composition section, presenting the piece Ciciulena, a suite of Sicilian dances written for percussion instrument ensemble. He made an arrangement for ensemble for the Poetry and Music - Art and Women review under the patronage of the City of Catania and the Diocesan Museum of Catania[6] and participated with the piece Spanish Lady in the Brancati Prize of Zafferana Etnea[7].

He participated in The Music Festival of Nations - Concerti del Tempietto, sponsored by Roma Capitale. In 2013 he made, together with the Camerata Polifonica Siciliana, the soundtrack for the silent film Un Amore selvaggio by Raffaele Viviani (1912)[8], and together with the Sicilian ensemble Broken Consorts he won in 2015 the Agata Rubino Impastato Prize , in the city of Alcamo[9].

Since 2015, he has collaborated as orchestra professor with the Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania for several of the institution's opera and symphonic productions. In 2016 he wrote the music for the play Cica la Cicala e Is la Formica, with a booklet by Lina Maria Ugolini and the patronage of the Camerata Polifonica Siciliana, staged at the Piccolo Teatro in Catania.

He contributed in 2017 to the production of the album Eclipse[10] and in 2018 he created for the Vitaliano Brancati Theater in Catania the stage music for the play Oh Dio Mio!, by Israeli playwright Anat Gov[11][12][13]. Also in the same year, he contributed to the publication of the book Le forme della poesia e la musica di Lina Maria Ugolini, published by Villaggio Maori[14][15].

In 2013, he co-founded the record label Symphonos Italia. He published songs and music collections for percussion ensemble, as well as a Metodo per Tamburo published by Symphonos Italia. Since 2021, he composed singles, EPs and albums of ambient music, realizing more than 250 thousand listens with the single “Long Time[16][17],” published by Symphonos Italia. The single was used in April 2023 by Spanish artist Elsa Yranzo to create the audiovisual work El Viaje. Una experiencia colectiva de transformación individual, from a graphic concept by María Alarcón, produced by Parte Digital[18].

Publications

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Title Description Catalog Number
Elpìs Symphonic poem in one act. CM001
Il Vecchio Castello Arrangement from the suite Pictures of an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky. CM002
Un Amore selvaggio Sonorization of the silent film by Raffaele Viviani. CM003
Eclipse Composition for percussion ensemble. CM004
Ciciulena Sicilian Dance Suite for Multiple Percussion. CM005
Percussion Ouverture Overture in 3 movements. CM006
Quattro Pezzi per Quattro Tom-Toms Composition for percussion ensemble. CM007
Giochi di Fuoco Composition for percussion ensemble. CM008
Jota Composition for harp ensemble. CM009
Spanish Lady Composition for harp ensemble. CM010
Requiem For a Dream Composition for harp ensemble. CM011
Metodo per Tamburo I Method for Snare Drum CM012
Metodo per Tamburo II Method for Snare Drum CM013

Discography

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Title Created Date Catalog Number
Dancing Shadows 18/08/24 EXP551860
Lucid Dreams 08/12/23 EXP551859
Afdera 23/08/23 EXP551858
Anthemis 04/06/23 EXP551857
Left Behind 01/03/23 EXP551856
Midnight 23/02/23 EXP551855
Save a Soul 24/12/22 EXP551854
High On Love 23/10/22 EXP551853
Eclipse 15/08/22 EXP510705
Summer Dreams 15/08/22 EXP507424
Mirrors 01/08/22 EXP560828
Pacific Coast 02/05/22 EXP551852
Time Laps 17/04/22 EXP504357
Mondays Time 17/04/22 EXP504370
Crepitaculum 17/04/22 EXP503251
Take Me Dancing 11/04/22 EXP541196
Friends in Love 11/04/22 EXP541181
Long Time 10/04/22 EXP533324
Lost with You 10/04/22 EXP528196
Talking Heart 10/04/22 EXP523791
Matter of Time 10/04/22 EXP523793
Astral Waves 10/04/22 EXP516007
Different Ways 09/04/22 EXP515115
Bar Night 09/04/22 EXP515353
You Know That Feeling 09/04/22 EXP509265
Symphony of Nature 09/04/22 EXP510708
Piece of Your Heart 09/04/22 EXP509536
Even After Dark 09/04/22 EXP509512
Age of Pandora 09/04/22 EXP509575
Okapi 09/04/22 EXP506817
Mystical Voices 09/04/22 EXP507299
My Dreams 09/04/22 EXP507308
Master of Fate 09/04/22 EXP508270
Holy Ground 09/04/22 EXP508742
Black in Mind 09/04/22 EXP508950
Above the Sky 09/04/22 EXP508698
Water Spirit 09/04/22 EXP507889
Sonic Flavours 09/04/22 EXP508884

References

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  1. ^ Pastura, Francesco (1968). Secoli di musica catanese. Nicolò Giannotta Editore.
  2. ^ Enciclopedia di Catania. Tringale. 1987.
  3. ^ Danzuso, Giovanni; Idonea, Domenico (1984). Musica, musicisti e teatri a Catania (dal mito alla cronaca). Publisicula.
  4. ^ Cresti, Renzo (2000). Enciclopedia italiana dei compositori contemporanei. Tolmino. ISBN 978-8887463071.
  5. ^ Oliveri, Dario (1991). Archivio: Musiche del XX secolo. Annuario del centro di documentazione della musica contemporanea. Centro per le iniziative musicali in Sicilia.
  6. ^ Savasta, Graziella Valentina (2018-05-18). "DAMEINCANTO: omaggio alle donne tra musica e poesia". GLOBUS Magazine (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  7. ^ "I finalisti del premio Brancati - Notizie - Ansa.it". Agenzia ANSA (in Italian). 2019-06-05. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  8. ^ "Articolo di P. Iaccio". www.teatro.unisa.it. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  9. ^ Redazione (2015-04-14). "Alle catanesi Broken Consorts| il premio speciale per la musica". Live Sicilia (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  10. ^ "Chiara Civello, il nuovo jazz italiano è esotico: "Il mio isolamento creativo"". la Repubblica (in Italian). 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  11. ^ Giacobbe, Gigi. "OH DIO MIO! - regia Ezio Donato". sipario.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  12. ^ SicilyMag, Redazione (2017-01-26). "Oh Dio mio!". SicilyMag (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  13. ^ "BELLININEWS - RECENSIONI". www.bellininews.it. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  14. ^ "Le forme della poesia e la musica – L'EstroVerso" (in Italian). 20 November 2015. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  15. ^ Ugolini, Lina Maria (2016). Le forme della poesia e la musica. Villaggio Maori. ISBN 978-8898119684.
  16. ^ Nagamag (2023-03-01). "Discover: Carlo Minuta - Long Time, on Nagamag Music Magazine". Nagamag - International Music Magazine. Retrieved 2024-10-25.
  17. ^ Long Time, 2021-12-03, retrieved 2024-10-25
  18. ^ Maria Alarcón (2023-06-29). El Viaje de Elsa Yranzo. Concepto digital y visuales por María Alarcón. Retrieved 2024-10-25 – via YouTube.