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MAURIZIO PISATI -Born 1959 in Milan, composer and performer of his own works with his group ZONE. His music has been performed throughout both western and eastern Europe, the USA, Australia and Japan, is published by Casa Ricordi, has been awarded prizes and selected in several International competitions and was transmitted in radio broadcasting as in Italy, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, Nederlands, Brasil. He made CDs with Ricordi-Fonit Cetra, Edipan, BMG and LArecords, his own label founded in 1997.

-Musical theatre pieces: Umbra, texts by Marina Cvetaeva (Ensemble, AudioTrack, Live Electronics; Milano '88, CRT-EchoEnsemble), Ermengarda (Zürich '89, Stiftung BINZ39), TAXI! (Ensemble, AudioTrack, Electronics) Sassari '95, Teatro Civico; STOCK ZONE-TakuHon (Cello, Percussion, String Orch., 4 AudioTracks; Milano Teatro Studio/Teatro alla Scala '99); Il Copiafavole-ZONE (Ensemble and Copy Machines and A/V Track, Torino, Piccolo Teatro Regio Laboratorio 2001)

-Musical pieces with Video and Electronics: San Moku Sen Gan, ZONE II Suite (Percussion, Tokyo '97, Theater Winter), Vormittagspuk (music for the historical film by Hans Richter; Guitar, and Recorder), ZONE-d'Amore (Live music performance on the film "L'Inhumaine" by Marcel L'Herbier; ElectricMIDI Guitar, Percussion, Voice), La Stanza degli Indizi Terrestri (text by Marina Cvetaeva and Leonardo da Vinci, Video by Marcos Jorge, Teatro del Trionfo, Pesaro '98), 3HATSconcert (ZONE: El. MIDI Guitar, Perc., Voice; Warszawa Festival AudioArt '98).

-As a selection of other works with Live Electronics: ZONE I (El. MIDI Guitar and Flute; Biennale Venezia '95) ZONE II (Voice and Percussion; MilanoMusica '95/StudioAgon/Teatro alla Scala), 7 (Percussion, Piano and Electronics, ArsLudi in Los Angeles, New York, Rome’94), L'Autore a chi legge (based on the comedies and works of C. Goldoni, El. MIDI Guitar, Percussion, Actress), ZONE-Franche (Castelfranco Veneto '96, a city-wide happening in cooperation with CSC-Padua University), ShiKaShi (Recorders and Percussion; Zürich '97), CATVLLVS (Liuto, Arciliuto and Percussion, Verona, Unesco, World Day for Poetry2000), SpiegelKontaktFabrik (Didjeridoo/Oboe and Tape; Tuchfühlung2, Kunsthaus Langenberg AV, Summer2000), PURPLE H (Ensemble and AudioTrack -TheJimiHendrixReflections- Reggio Emilia 2001), Passacaglia Mit Albert, (Recorders, Percussion, Live Electronics; Biennale Bern 2005).

-As a selection of other chamber music works: SETTE STUDI (solo Guitar; Darmstadt 1990), Ö (Tenor Sax and Trombone, Strasbourg '91), HACK (Flute and Percussion; Tokyo '96), SaxStories (Roma 1998 Stockholm Saxophone Quartet), ZONE-Alp (Flute and Guitar; Tokyo '98), Senti? (Guitar and String Orchestra; Camerata Roman, Göteborg '99), TEI (Koto and Piano, Tokyo, TheaterWinter2000), Samblana (Guitar and Sax, Stockholm, SwedishRadioCompanyP2, October2000), Tamatebako (Percussion, Nashville 2001), ZONE-popTRAIN for ensemble as a commission by VictorJapan 2003, ZONE-Tarkus (project on the original TARKUS by EmersonLake&Palmer as a commission of label VictorJapan with the agreement of Keith Emerson), QUESTIO (Voice of the poet Thor Vilhjalmsson, Trumpet, Percussion and Electronics, Festival Myrkir Musikdagar, Reykjavik 2006)

-Maurizio Pisati graduated with highest votations in Composition, Analysis, History, Harmony and Counterpoint at the Conservatorio G. Verdi of Milan under A. Guarnieri and G. Manzoni, and in the same time studying with S. Sciarrino at Specialisation Courses at the Accademia of Città di Castello. He graduated in Guitar (again at Milan) and had a fruitful performing career between 1983 and 1989 establishing and playing in the Laboratorio Trio. He is Professor in Element of Composition at Conservatorio G. B. Martini in Bologna, he was giving seminars, lectures or classes at Toho Gakkuen University-Tokyo, Tokyo Music College, Arts Academy Reykjavik, Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano, Summer courses Bobbio, Irino Foundation-Tokyo, Summer courses Novantiqua, Frascati 2004-2006 and on summer 2006 at the Brisbane University.

Discography:

• Ab Sofort - CD Edipan, Roma 1992, Flute and Piano; Duo Zurria-Pizzo
• FFA - CD RCA/ BMG Ariola, Roma’93, Tenor Recorder, Flute, Arpa; Ensemble Alter Ego
• The Running Quartet - CD Ricordi/Fonit Cetra, Milano’94 Bass Clarinet, Violin, Alto, Cello; Ensemble Contrechamps
• S - CD RCA/BMG Ariola, Roma ‘95, Tenor Sax , Tape, Live Electronics; Sax: Federico Mondelci
• TAXI! - CD LArecords, Milano 1997, Words by R. Sanesi, El-MIDI Guit. M. Pisati, Recorder A. Politano, Perc. P. Strinna,Voices E. Callegari, R. Sanesi
• Il Copiafavole - CD LArecords, Milano 1998, Voices, acoustic and electronic instruments and copy machines
• Ricorda I Giochi - CD "Shin-On" LArecords, Milano ‘99, Cymbals T. Kasuya, Fl. M. Zurria; Voice Reiko Takashi Irino, El. MIDI Guit. M. Pisati
• Spiegelkontaktfabrik - CD ArsPublica, Pisa 2001, Didjeridoo/Oboe Michelangelo Rinaldi; AudioTrack, Mix and Editing M. Pisati
• Spiegelkontaktfabrik - CD Stradivarius, Milano 2003, Electric Guitar Elena Càsoli; AudioTrack, Mix and Editing M. Pisati
• ZONE-Tarkus - CD Victor Japan, Tokyo 2004, Aki Kuroda, Quartetto Prometeo, Elena Càsoli, Maurizio Ben Omar, Dir. Yoichi Sugiyama
• TheRunningDuo -CD CavalliRecords, Bamberg 2006, Tenor and Doublebass Recorder, AudioTrack. Duo Recordronik

Z O N E is a project, a group, an idea in continuous evolution that revolves around my music. I play a MIDI Electric Guitar whose fingerboard, as a virtual ensemble, is crossed by renowned interpreters, inhabitants of ZONE: percussionist Maurizio Ben Omar, Jonny Axelsson, Kuniko Kato and Pierpaolo Strinna, the voices of Luisa Castellani, Ursula Joss and Marco Bortoli, Sound engineers as Alvise Vidolin and Davide Rocchesso, people like Maurizio Maltese, maestro of Kali, actress Elena Callegari, the fascinating words and voice of Roberto Sanesi, the flutes of Manuel Zurria, Birgit Nolte, Antonio Politano and Kees Boeke, the Sax of Jörgen Petterson and Jam-Paoletti, the piano of Oscar Pizzo and Massimo Somenzi, the cello of Mario Brunello and Francesco Dillon, the guitar of Magnus Andersson and Elena Càsoli, the trombone of Ivo Nilsson, videomakers as Gianni Di Capua, Marcos Jorge, Max Bertolai; these artists are among todays protagonists of contemporary thought. Skattered all over the globe, they flow in and out of the ZONE: on stage we always are more people than audience can see.