Carlo Corazza
*21 June 1978
Works by Carlo Corazza
Biography
After the Piano Diploma, the Musicology Degree, and the studies of Chamber Music in Vienna, he devoted himself to a deep concert activity while studying Music Education and Composition.
In the main Italian and European towns and cities he gained success among public and critics. In 2013 after the Lyme disease diagnosis he has abruptly interrupted his concert activity, giving up a tournée in China and in Europe. During the years in which he has looked for an appropriate therapy, he has found in composing a way to express his musicality.
His music has soon gained success and it is played all around the world, many of his compositions are collected in discographic projects.
His pieces have been executed in Europe and China many times by famous artists, such as Luisa Sello, LE AGANE, Donatello Ensemble, Mac Saxophone Quartet, H. Fister. In 2020 his album for piano solo Dreamer’s Landscape won the silver medal at Global Music Awards in California.
He is professor of piano at Music high school in Udine.
Through my music I'm committing to raise public awareness on this disease and the pathologies correlated to it, in order for research and diagnostics to move forward and help many friends of mine who have been too sick to have a life.
About the music
Through my music I would like to be able to evoke an array of images. Working with images doesn’t necessarily means writing movies soundtracks, I wanted to investigate them from another point of view.
Image is memory codification, our temper grows and forms itself starting from the images stored in ourselves even if we don’t see or even remember them and make us feel as we do.
Images are made up of vibrations and therefore of frequencies. Music is composed of frequencies, too, and it is the perfect art to work with them. The pieces I write want to be an attempt to search for images, forms or other visual elements stored jealously in the inner part of each of us. They are different from mine, but authentic in the same way, and they touch the most secret part of us making us feel special and unique.
I feel Modal style suitable for me and I followed composing techniques typical of 20th century used by Stravinski, Prokofiev, but modifying them according to my personal sensitivity. Those techniques are mixed with a language caressing soundtrack sphere. Musical critic Mattia Mei writes that this style “places itself somewhere between deep classical background and soundtrack allusions”.
Sonatine in Modal Style, vol. I and vol.II
While the market is full of collections of piano pieces and piano methods, the Sonatinas are almost entirely missing. After years of teaching I have had the need to fill this gap. This collection aims to be a valid alternative in modern / contemporary style to the sonatas by Clementi, Dussek, Kuhlau, etc., maintaining the same level of technical complexity and the same didactic utility in the development of the hand and musical sensitivity. These sonatas are pleasant to listen to and fun to study. The Modal style has allowed a synthesis of languages, from the inventions of contemporary music, to modern music through film music. As Mattia Mei writes: “Carlo Corazza's music is placed somewhere between the deep classical background and soundtrack allusions”.