Nicola Elias Rigato
*12 August 1991
Works by Nicola Elias Rigato
Biography
Classical pianist, composer, researcher, Nicola Elias Rigato graduated with full marks with honors and honorable mention in Piano, Composition and Chamber Music, under teachers as Oxana Yablonskaya and Elisabetta Brusa. He won several international competitions in piano, chamber music, and composition.
His music is played in Italy and Europe, and is used to establish the “Challenge Award” at OYPI Masterclass and competition in Eilat (Israel). His "Left Alone" was played from 11 well known pianists in video performance during the pandemic. The italian label Futura Modulans have published two albums of his piano solo music, and many singles. His music was recorded by international pianist Erato Alakiozidou in "Silent Landscapes" and published by Da Vinci Records; the greek pianist performed his Piano Concerto with the Dafo Quartet two times in 2022 (Cracow, Thessaloniki).
He is responsible for Italy of Fundus, international project bringing contemporary music to the major Italian art museums. With this project, his work for clavicord, inspired on De Chirico's "Cavalli in riva al mare" has been performed in MART Museum in front of the painting by Hansruedi Zeder. He writes music for any kind of ensamble and usage, from Radio to Audio-book, from museum installations to dance choreography.
He is founder of We-Choir, a virtual choir for contemporary music extended throughout the world, being invited in international music festivals and performing music by Rigato and other emerging composers. He teaches piano and composition in Liceum, music schools, giving lectures in international masterclasses and at Universities.
About the music
Rigato's music ranges in style and purpose and is the result of a connection between different and distant musical styles (minimalism, post-romanticism, progressive, jazz, pop), in the search for a common language. It began as a respectful immersion in the laws of the score of the giants of the past, and in many pieces we hear a tribute and an echo of the ghosts that preceded us. The gaze on contemporaneity leads to a use of twentieth-century languages in relation and comparison to past elements, in search of a direct and authentic communication with the listener. behind each passage there is a profound educational, psychological, philosophical intent as a process of progressive revelation. Lately, music writing has become a highly spiritual tool for me. There is certainly man and his finitude, but there is also the search for a higher reality, and the language of beauty (vanished or rediscovered in its fragility) which acts as a bridge between two dimensions.
