Maurizio Azzan
Composer | Sound Direction
Maurizio Azzan is an Italian composer and sound artist.
His music has been performed at festivals and venues including the Venice Biennale Musica, Wiener Konzerthaus, ManiFeste and the IRCAM concert season, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Wien Modern, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Impuls Graz, Milano Musica, MATA New York, Music Biennale Zagreb, Teatro Massimo in Palermo, LAC Lugano, Budapest Music Center, Romaeuropa Festival, Tempo Reale, Festival Aperto, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Transart Bolzano, Time of Music in Viitasaari, MIXTUR Barcelona, Gare du Nord Basel, MITO SettembreMusica, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, MA/IN Festival, Open Recorder Days Amsterdam, and the JACC in Kuwait City.
Ensembles and soloists who have performed his works include Ensemble Intercontemporain, Orchestra of Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Phace, Divertimento Ensemble, Nieuw Ensemble Amsterdam, Ensemble Fractales, mdi ensemble, Schallfeld Ensemble, Proton Bern, Suono Giallo, Platypus Ensemble, Ensemble Reconsil, Collettivo_21, Duo Dubois, Trio Concept, Alda Caiello, Anna D’Errico, Emanuele Torquati, Antonio Politano, Ruben Mattia Santorsa, Axel Trolese, Jordan Dodson, Susanne Fröhlich, Anna Piroli, Marie Ythier, Cameron Crozman, Alexandre Silva, Fabio Macchia, and many others.
Winner of several composition competitions (including the Impuls International Composition Competition, Premio Nazionale delle Arti, “Franco Donatoni” International Meetings, and The Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music), he has been artist-in-residence at the Austrian Federal Chancellery within the KulturKontakt program (2019), at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris (2017–18), with Ensemble Fractales in Brussels (2018–19 season), at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris (2020–21), and at the Fortissimissimo Firenze Festival (2021).
He has received commissions from institutions including the Venice Biennale Musica (2019), Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2014, 2019, 2022), Teatro La Fenice Foundation (2013, 2019), Ensemble Phace and Wiener Konzerthaus (2023), Impuls New Music Festival (2022), MATA Festival New York (2021), MA/IN Festival (2024), ProQuartet (2024), Fondazione “I Teatri” of Reggio Emilia (2018), and SIAE (“Classici di Oggi” 2019), among others.
He studied composition at the Milan Conservatory (with A. Solbiati), at the CNSM in Paris (with F. Durieux, Y. Maresz, L. Naon), at IRCAM, and with Salvatore Sciarrino. He also holds a BA and MA in Classical Philology and Ancient Literature from the University of Turin.
All his works written up to 2022 are published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni – SugarMusic S.p.A., and since 2023 his music has been published by Casa Ricordi – Universal Music Publishing.
He teaches composition at the Conservatorio di Mantova in Italy.
