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Bio Mr. Consoli's musical aesthetic is concerned with dense sonorities, resulting from simultaneous polytonal centers, contrapuntal lines and shifting textures. The aim is to create a kind of floating lyricism on top of a band of complex harmonic and rhythmic strata. Marc-Antonio Consoli was born in Italy, and came to America when he was fifteen years old. Music was an integral part of his paternal family. His grandfather was a respected local amateur musician and organist at one of the town's three churches; his ten children were the choir. Mr. Consoli began his formal music education in his early twenties, and went on to earn the Doctor of Music Arts from Yale University. Mr. Consoli's music is performed around the world, and has been heard at various major contemporary music festivals such as the Fromm Music Festival, Tanglewood, USA; the Gaudeamus Music Week, Holland; the ISCM Festivals in Finland and Belgium; the Steirischer Herbst Music Festival, Graz, Austria; the Festival Internationale d'Arte Contemporaine, Royan, France.
Among the major orchestras and ensembles that have performed his music
include the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics; the American Composers
Orchestra; the Baltimore, Louisville and Nashville Orchestras. Also by
the Finnish and Dutch Radio Orchestras, and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra,
Australia. The Nash Ensemble (London); the Group for Contemporary Music
(NYC); the Ensemble Collectif 2e 2m (France); the Monday Evening Concerts
(L.A.); and many others. His music can be heard on the CRI/New World Records
label (CD 735 & 789), and Capstone (CD 8641).
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