Marco GVP

______________________________________________________ Marco VISCONTI-PRASCA
Born in Milano (Italy) in 1957.
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E-mail: [email protected] ______________________________________________________PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES:
-Current collaborations with composers/performers Ken Ueno - "MK2" - and Gwilly Edmondez -"SPAT" .
-Artistic director of the “Progetto Toys” a program of Contemporary Music Seminars and Concerts sponsored by the Public Administration of Modena.
-Conducted jazz big band and symphonic ensemble with David Liebman, Markus Stockhausen, Bobby Watson and James Newton.
-Performed a tribute to Gerry Mulligan’s music with Bob Brookmeyer as a guest soloist and gave the European premierè, on the baritone saxophone, of Mulligan’s “Octect for Sea-Cliff ” for saxophone and chamber group.
-Led the “ DadA’ – Orchestra “ & the “ DadA’ – 4ett ” ( saxophone quartet) in original arrangements of Earl ”Bud” Powell, “Duke” Ellington, Lee Konitz & John Coltrane’s music. The ensembles repertoires comprised several original compositions of mine as well as “European Classical” ( Stravinsky, Ravel, Bartòk ) music in its original scores and new orchestrations, all commissioned by several music festivals.
-Performed with the Italian Television (RAI) big band; Swiss-Italian Radio & Television (RSI) big band; Gianni Basso big band; Dusko Goikovich big band & quintet; Jimmy Knepper Nonet.
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RECENT PERFORMANCES OF COMPOSITIONS:

-June 2007. York (U.K.):"Making a Point...Aren't You?" for solo cello; Rohan de Saram - cello.
-June 2007. S.I.C.P.P. New England Conservatory, Boston (U.S.A.):"Ulrich" for violin, cello & piano; Ethan Wood - violin, Rachel Arnold - cello, Minji Noh - piano.
-July 2006. C.O.M.A. Summer School, Doncaster (U.K.):"No Chances" for piano solo; Michael Finnissy - Piano.
- June 2006. York (U.K.): “tROM beONE” for trombone and percussions;“Black Hair Ensemble” (Barry Webb – trombone & Damien Harron percussions).
-February 2006. York (U.K.): "Self Exposure" for voice and tape; Angelica Cathariou - voice.
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TEACHING:
-TUFTS University Department of Music.
Fall semester 2004- Graduate Composers Seminars: “The Music of Earle Brown”.
Fall semester 2003- Graduate Composers Seminars: “Post-War Italian Contemporary Music: Maderna, Nono, Berio & Donatoni”.
-2000/’01: Tutored a Master Thesis (Laurea) dissertation at the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Bologna on George Russell’s Lydian Chromatic Concept.
-1997- June 2003: Professor of Music Theory, Ear-Training & co-conductor of the “Civica Big Band” at the Jazz Department of the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milano (Italy).
-November 1999 : Co-taught a 3 weeks Composition seminar during a Sculpture, Music and Film-making residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna, Florida (U.S.A.).
-1998: Taught a one-year Jazz course at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Milano (Italy).
-September 1998: Assistant & guest lecturer during Franco Donatoni Composition seminar at Harvard University Music Department & New England Conservatory in Boston & Cambridge, Massachusetts (U.S.A.).
-1992/’93: Taught two Contemporary Music Performance - Jazz and Classic -courses sponsored by the European Community Educational Board.
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STUDIES:
-September 2005 to present – University Of York Department Of Music. Music Composition PhD's Research : “An Old Story with A New Memory”. Supervisor: Prof. Roger Marsh.
-2005 – Master of Arts in Music Composition, TUFTS University Department of Music, Medford, Massachusetts, U.S.A. . Professor John McDonald.
-1996 - Master in “Contemporary Music” (Composition), Civica Scuola di Musica, Milano, Italy. With Franco Donatoni & Luis DePablo among others.
-Jazz Arranging & Composition: With Francy Boland at the “Fribourg Conservatoire” (Switzerland); private studies with Bill Dobbins, Bill Holman & Herb Pomeroy.
-Saxophone: With David Liebman, Steve Grossman, Sal Nistico and Andy Scherrer.
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