MAURIZIO PISATI

Set7

Ruben Mattia Santorsa

Marie Delprat . João Carlos Pacheco

Hugo Queirós . Kevin Juillerat
Céline Wasmer . Lino Mendoza
Anne-Laure Dottrens
MAURIZIO PISATI (*1959)

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 Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar  Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar
Marie Delprat, paetzold recorder Lino Mendoza, double bass

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Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar
 Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar

João Carlos Pacheco, percussion Anne-Laure Dottrens, viola

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Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar
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Hugo Queirós, bass clarinet

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Kevin Juillerat, tenor saxophone

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 Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar
Céline Wasmer, voice
Ruben Mattia Santorsa classical guitar

Marie Delprat paetzold recorder

João Carlos Pacheco percussion
Hugo Queirós bass clarinet
Kevin Juillerat tenor saxophone
Céline Wasmer voice
Lino Mendoza double bass
Anne-Laure Dottrens viola

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 1  –  7 World recording premiere

Recording dates: 30 – 31 January 2017

Recording venue: Recording Studio of the University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland
Recording engineer: Benoit Piccand
Mixing & Mastering: Benoit Piccand
Booklet Editor: Eva Hausegger
Publisher: Ricordi
Graphic design: paladino media, cover based on Artwork by
Enrique Fuentes (“De Profundis IV”, 2010)

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© Gianni Di Capua
 Set7

I heard the Sette Studi (Seven Studies) for the first

time at the age of nineteen. I was fascinated and
decided that I wanted to be an interpreter of con-
temporary music. Impressed by those new guitar
sounds, I wrote to Maurizio Pisati to ask to meet
him: I imagined a prepared guitar, with some scor-
daturas and used in an unconventional way. I still
remember his first words: “there is no scordatura,
no preparation. These sounds belong to the guitar.”

Since that meeting, the Sette Studi have been like a

beacon, faithful travelling companions for my con-
certs in Europe. After a few years the desire to re-
cord them was born: they were to be the nucleus of
my first record.

The recording project took shape in Milan during a

further meeting with Maurizio who, talking about
the opera Theatre of Dawn *, told me that in it there
were Sette Duo (Seven Duos) for guitar and seven
different instruments, each inspired by the Sette
Studi for the classic guitar”. What better occasion
than a record to bring together the Sette Studi and
the Sette Duo for guitar and the same number of in-
© Daria Evangelista

struments? And that is how Set7 was born.

by Ruben Mattia Santorsa

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Sette Studi Working with Ruben Mattia

Each study expresses an idea of the instru- My work together with Ruben Mattia be-
ment, but alludes to other possible worlds gan when he heard some of my music and
of sound to which the Guitar, as I see it, listened to me speak at the Music Conser-
tends by its nature. vatory of Bologna, whilst participating in
the activities of Incroci, a group of young
musicians that is still dedicated to new
The idea of the guitar in paths of invention and interpretation. I
my production saw that look which went beyond the du-
ration of the speeches, as if he wanted to
I have a certain manual ease with my in- be sure of what I had said, or he wanted
strument, I play continually, I read all kinds to sense any echoes, or simply see what
of music at first sight, be it from Dowland I really thought, beyond the words. Then
or Bussotti, and then I continue “on my Ruben Mattia continued on that person-
own”, improvising. al path which had already conducted him
around, and he reappeared a few years
The guitar is the instrument where the later with the Sette Studi in his hands. In-
writing “rests”. On the instrument I play as tense was the exchange of opinions, my
I write, but at that point there is no longer interventions on the musical breaths and
any medium, and the desire to not lose on the freedom, gradually revealing the
physical contact with the production of “hidden” instrument too. This led to a true,
sounds has always kept me connected to total and personal Interpretation in which
the guitar. I can improvise my music with I recognise my music and in it the breath
other instruments, even with two stones, of Ruben Mattia. He will already play it dif-
but with the Guitar, from the moment ferently in the future, but then “different-
I pick it up, it is like making a never-ending ly” will not be enough: it will take some-
speech. thing else, new fantasies and there, who
knows, we might meet again. This version

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has lasted as long as the whole unrepeat- former, on the other hand, was well distin-
able phase in which Ruben Mattia became guished on the stage, in the path of light
“young”, plunged between six strings and a created by the director. Long may be the
thousand musical thoughts among which story of these spirits. The music could per-
I find my music and, in his interpretation, haps take over a suggestion and return
the same years in which I was pondering it. the illusion of the story: in the popular fan-
tasies these spirits are adaptations of what
happens in that hour when it is no longer
From the Sette Studi to night or day, in the woods and the winds
the Sette Duo of the highest mountains.

Each of the Sette Studi has become a Duo For example, one title is the name of the
for Guitar and another instrument, written queen, S­ amblana, and another is of the
for the opera Theatre of Dawn for ensem- twins, Yemèles, two of her little girls sent to
ble, guitar, voice, audiovideo and electron- the rescue of those who, at dawn, ventures
ics *. among the rocks. And the others are he-
roes, but more often evil and mischievous
The opera and the Sette Duo draw ideal spirits: the musical notes can not say these
inspiration from some mountain legends, things, but the listener’s imagination can
popular fantasies and stories of spirits on be combined with that of the author and
the alpine borders of Italy, across nation- he can listen, through the music and its ti-
al languages, Ladin, dialects. Each Duo is tles, to the fantasies of unspoken stories.
inspired by the character of one of these
spirits, whose names I found in the writ- by Maurizio Pisati
ings of Brunamaria Dal Lago and who, For more information about the project, please visit the website:
in the Theatre of Dawn, appeared on the www.rubenmattiasantorsa.com/cd-set7
stage in solo moments: of the Guitarist, * Theatre of Dawn for ensemble, guitar, voice,
hidden, were visible only the hands filmed audiovideo and electronics – Elision Ensemble
(Brisbane 2007 – Judith Wright Centre of
live and enlarged on stage; the other per- Contemporary Art – Ed. Universal Ricordi)

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 Set7

Im Alter von neunzehn Jahren hörte ich zum ersten Mal das
Werk Sette Studi (Sieben Studien). Es faszinierte mich damals so
sehr, dass ich beschloss, mich gänzlich der neuen Musik zu wid-
men. Fasziniert von diesen neuen Gitarrenklängen, schrieb ich
an ­Maurizio Pisati, und bat ihn um ein persönliches Treffen. Ich
war mir fast sicher, dass seine Gitarre mit Skordaturen „präpariert“
sein musste, die er in einer untypischen Art und Weise verwende-
te. Ich erinnere mich noch immer an seine ersten Worte: „Es gibt
keine Skordaturen, keine Präparierung. Diese Klänge gehören zur
Gitarre.“

Seit diesem Treffen sind die Sette Studi ein Leuchtfeuer und treue
Gefährten meiner Konzerte, die mich durch ganz Europa führen.
Nach einigen Jahren entstand in mir der Wunsch, diese Stücke
aufzunehmen und auf einer CD zu veröffentlichen. Sie sollten
den Kern meiner ersten CD bilden.

Dieses Aufnahmeprojekt wurde besonders während einem wei-

teren Treffen mit Maurizio in Mailand konkreter. Bei diesem Tref-
fen erzählte er mir über die Oper Theatre of Dawn, die sieben
Duette (= Sette Studi) für akustische Gitarre und sieben weite-
re, unterschiedliche Instrumente enthält. Jedes dieser Stücke war
von Sette Studi inspiriert worden. Es war eine großartige Gelegen-
heit, um diese jeweils sieben Werke, Sette ­Studi und Sette Duo für
© Daria Evangelista

Gitarre und ebenfalls sieben Instrumente zusammen auf einer CD

herauszubringen. Und so war die Idee für die CD Set7 geboren.

Ruben Mattia Santorsa

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Sette Studi Ab dem Moment, in dem ich sie in die
Hand nehme, ist es wie ein nie zu Ende ge-
Jede Etüde drückt eine Idee des jeweili- hender Monolog.
gen Instruments aus, gleichzeitig bezieht
sie sich jedoch auch auf andere mögliche
Klangwelten, die die Gitarre naturgemäß Die Zusammenarbeit mit
innehat. Ruben Mattia

Meine Zusammenarbeit mit Ruben Mattia

Die Idee der Gitarre in meinem begann, als er erstmals meine Musik hörte,
künstlerischen Schaffen sowie einen meiner Vorträge am Konser-
vatorium in Bologna, als er an einigen Ak-
Ich habe einen ganz speziellen Umgang tivitäten von Incroci teilnahm (eine Grup-
mit meinem Instrument – geprägt von pe junger MusikerInnen, die sich neuen
manueller Leichtigkeit; ich spiele regelmä- Wegen an Interventionen und Interpreta-
ßig, ich spiele vom Blatt – egal ob D
­ owland tionen widmet).
oder Bussotti, und ich ergänze diese Stü-
cke, indem ich improvisiere. Die Gitarre ist Während des Vortrags bemerkte ich seine
das Instrument, bei dem mein Komponie- ungebrochene Aufmerksamkeit, die weit
ren Ruhe findet. über die Dauer des Vortrages hinausging;
es war als wollte er sicher gehen, dass all
Auf diesem Instrument spiele ich, noch das was ich sagte, auch das ist was ich
während ich schreibe. Dabei ist es nicht „wirklich“ dachte oder ob das, was ich sag-
nur ein Medium für mich, die enge phy- te nur eine Art Echo ist.
sische Verbindung mit dem Instrument,
mit dem ich Klänge erzeuge, ist mir enorm Ruben Mattia setzte seinen persönlichen
wichtig. Ich kann mit verschiedenen Inst- Weg fort, und tauchte ein paar Jahre spä-
rumenten improvisieren, sogar mit zwei ter, mit den Sette Studi in der Hand wieder
Steinen. Aber mit der Gitarre ist es anders. bei mir auf. Es folgte ein intensiver Aus-

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tausch von Meinungen; meine Interven- Instrument, komponiert für die Oper Thea- die Wälder von den Winden der höchsten
tionen von musikalischen Vorstellungen tre of Dawn für Ensemble, Gitarre, Stimme, Berge erfasst, passiert.
über Freiheit, die stufenweise dieses enig- Video und Elektronik *.
matische und verborgene Instrument ent- Ein Titel ist beispielsweise der Name der
hüllten. Das führte zu einer ehrlichen, sehr Diese Oper und Sette Duo wurde inspiriert Königin: Samblana; ein anderer ist der ihrer
persönlichen Interpretation, in der sich von typischen Berglegenden, Phantasi- Zwillings Yeméles; zwei ihrer kleinen Mäd-
auch in meiner Musik die persönliche Note en und Geschichten von Geistern, die sich chen wurden ausgesendet, um die zu ret-
von Ruben Mattia widerspiegelte. Er wird in rund um die alpine Grenze Italiens, über ten, die sich im Sonnenaufgang zwischen
der Zukunft dieses Stück auch anders inter- verschiedene nationale Dialekte wie z.B. die Felsen gewagt hatten. Und die anderen
pretieren. Eine andere Interpretation wird Ladinisch, hinweg verbreiteten. sind die Helden, des Öfteren jedoch aber
jedoch nie genug sein: es braucht noch et- auch böse Geister.
was mehr dazu, neue Phantasien hier und Jedes Duo wurde von einem Charakter ei-
da und wer weiß, vielleicht treffen wir uns nes Geistes inspiriert; die Namen fand ich Die musikalische Notation kann diese Din-
wieder. in Schriften von Brunamaria Dal Lago; in ge nicht ausdrücken, aber die Fantasie des
der Oper Theatre of Dawn erscheinen sie Zuhörers und die des Autors kann all dies
Diese Version und Interpretation auf seiner auch auf der Bühne: Der Gitarrist ist auf kombinieren. So wird durch Musik die Fan-
CD ist eine unwiederholbare Phrase, mit der der Bühne versteckt; es sind nur die Hän- tasie von unausgesprochenen Geschich-
sich Ruben Mattia „jung” hält. Eingetaucht de sichtbar, diese werden live gefilmt und ten zum Leben erweckt.
zwischen sechs Saiten und tausenden mu- groß auf die Bühne produziert. Der andere
sikalischen Gedanken, zwischen denen ich Darsteller wird deutlich anders dargestellt Maurizio Pisati
meine Musik wiederfinde und seine Inter- auf der Bühne, nämlich im Licht, welches
pretationen, dieselben Jahre, in denen ich vom Regisseur erzeugt wird. Translated from English by
darüber nachdachte. Susanne Grainer
Die Geschichte dieser Geister ist lang; die
Musik dazu ist eine gute Anregung, um zu Weitere Informationen zum Projekt finden Sie unter:
Von Sette Studi zu Sette Duo der Illusion der Geschichte zurückzukeh- www.rubenmattiasantorsa.com/cd-set7

ren. In diesen populären Fantasien stellen * Theatre of Dawn for ensemble, guitar, voice,
Jede der Etüden aus Sette Studi wurde zu die Geister dar, was zu jener Stunde, in der audiovideo and electronics – Elision Ensemble
(Brisbane 2007 – Judith Wright Centre of
einem Duo für Gitarre und einem anderen es nicht mehr länger Nacht oder Tag ist, wo Contemporary Art – Ed. Universal Ricordi)

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 Ruben Mattia Santorsa (*1992) is an Italian classical and
electric guitarist. His aim is to spread contemporary mu-
sic and to enlarge the repertoire for the guitar. For this
reason he constantly collaborates with and commissions
new pieces to young composers. His musical mentors are
Maurizio Pisati, Walter Zanetti and Elena Càsoli. Meeting
and working with composers such as Helmut Lachen-
mann, Salvatore Sciarrino, Giacomo Manzoni, Sylvano
Bussotti and Helmut Oehring was crucial for his musical
growth.

He has given concerts in Italy, Switzerland, Austria,

France, Hungary, Germany, Colombia, Slovenia, Bosnia
and Herzegovina. In addition to his career as a soloist,
he is also continuing his research on contemporary mu-
sic in chamber music and performing regularly with en-
sembles such as Ensemble Contrechamps, Nec Ensemble
and Sonemus Ensemble. Ruben Mattia gave a lecture on
the Contemporary Guitar for the composition class of the
Conservatoire Superieur de Musique et Dance de Paris.
He graduated the Master Specialised in Soloist with a
specialisation in contemporary music at the Hochschule
of Bern with Elena Càsoli and he also studied guitar and
composition at the “Conservatorio di Musica G. B. Marti-
ni” of Bologna. He won the Swiss Government Excellence
scholarship for the years 2013–2015. He collaborated
with the labels Stradivarius and Neos.
© Reisa H. Boksi

wwww.rubenmattiasantorsa.com

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 Maurizio Pisati (*1959). His musical research ranges
from the instrumental to the electronic, audiovisual and
theatrical fields. His music is played in festivals in Europe,
the USA, Japan, Latin America and Australia and has been
rewarded in international competitions (among which
Bucchi, Gaudeamus, Petrassi, the Uchida-Japan Founda-
tion). His works are published by ­Ricordi-Universal and
Suvini Zerboni, and have been recorded for Ricordi-Fonit
Cetra, Victor Japan, BMG, Edipan, Limen, Ars Publica, Ca-
valli Records Bamberg, Silta Classic, Almendra Music. He
collaborates with the production of PACTA dei Teatri-Mila-
no, where he also manages the space pactaSOUNDzone.
He studied at the Conservatorio di Musica G. Verdi of Mi-
lan with Salvatore Sciarrino, Adriano Guarnieri, Giaco-
mo Manzoni, and attended the International Musikinsti-
tut Darmstadt and the Accademia di Città di Castello. He
graduated in composition with honours, and then also
in guitar. He is now a professor at the “Conservatorio di
Musica G. B. Martini” of Bologna, where he founded the
CSR-Centro Studi e Ricerche. He held masterclasses, con-
ferences and seminars at the Toho Gakkuen Universi-
ty-Tokyo, Tokyo Music College, Arts Academy Reykjavik,
Politecnico delle Arti-Milano, Irino Foundation-Tokyo,
University of Kunitachi, in ­Växjö, Brisbane and Melbourne.
© Gianni Di Capua

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Marie Delprat (*1991) began her musical re plays a variety of repertoire with several constantly part of diverse artistic ensem-
studies at the Conservatoire of Versailles orchestras and chamber music groups. She bles and a former member of youth orches-
in the class of Pierre Boragno. She studied enjoys working with children and teaches tras in Mexico. He attended multiple mas-
with Michael Form at the Bern University the violin, viola and chamber music. terclasses and music festivals working with
of the Arts in Switzerland. Towards the end worldwide known teachers. Since Septem-
of her Bachelor degree, where she con- ber 2015 he has been attending a Master
centrated mainly on the language of early Kevin Juillerat, was born in Switzerland in Performance, with a Minor specialisation
music, Marie began her Masters in theatri- 1987, studies simultaneously saxophone in Viennese Violone, at the Hochschule der
cal music under the direction of composer with Pierre Stéphane Meugé in Lausanne Künste Bern with David Sinclair. During his
Xavier Dayer. Marie defines herself as a mu- and Marcus Weiss in Basel, and composi- time in Europe he has had the chance of
sician as well as a performer. In June 2015 tion with Michael Jarrell, Georg Friedrich performing a wide variety of music styles,
Marie participated as a musician and per- Haas and Héctor Parra in IRCAM. He par- from Contemporary to Baroque and per-
former at the Biennale in Munich, as part of ticipates in several classical, contemporary forming in Historical Instruments Orches-
the installation of The Navidson Records. In and experimental music projects, playing tras around the continent.
2017, she performed at the Gare du Nord with ensembles and orchestras such as En-
in Basel and at the Cologne National The- semble intercontemporain, Ensemble Con-
atre with Hans Wüthrich’s Das Glashaus, trechamps, Mariinsky Orchestra or Orches- João Carlos Pacheco (*1988) is a por-
under the direction of Pierre Sublet. tre de la Suisse Romande, under the baton tuguese percussionist, composer, and a
of well known conductors, such as Valery dedicated proponent of multidisciplinary
Gergiev, Pierre Boulez, Neeme Järvi or Mat- performance. Specialised in contempo-
Anne-Laure Dottrens is a swiss viola thias Pintscher. He worked with compos- rary music, he actively works with both re-
player. She studied in Basel and Lucerne ers such as Heinz Holliger, Peter Ablinger, nowned and promising composers, pre-
and developed an interest in contempo- Jean-Claude Risset and Tom Johnson. miering and performing their works in
rary music while studying with Geneviève major festivals around Europe. In recent
Strosser. She likes discovering new pieces years he has been performing with Ensem-
and particularly enjoys working with com- Lino Mendoza was born in Mexico City. He ble of Nomads, Winston/Pacheco duo, TAL
posers. She has been playing with the Neu- studied the double bass at the Mexico Na- Trio, as well as solo projects and regularly
verband ensemble since 2016. Besides her tional University (UNAM) Faculty of Music works as a guest with groups such as En-
activity in contemporary music, Anne-Lau- under Professor Luis Rojas. He had been semble Ascolta, Ensemble Phoenix Basel,

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Collegium Novum Zürich, among others. Céline Wasmer learned violin, piano and
João Carlos studied in Espinho, Porto, Lis- organ during her studies. While studying
boa and Basel. His teachers were, among medicine, she also studied concert and
others, Pedro Carneiro, Miquel ­ Bernat, opera singing in Freiburg im Breisgau and
Christian Dierstein and Erik Oña. contemporary music in Basel. She com-
pleted her PhD at the Freiburger Institut
für Musikermedizin. She participated in
Hugo Queirós is a portuguese clarinetist many musical theatre projects, was a prize
whose ec­lectic path has been dedicated winner at the Kammeroper Schloss Rheins-
primarily to the bass clarinet, contempo- berg and she took part in the Venice Bien-
rary music and improvisation. His academ- nale for a world premiere. She is also par-
ic path includes studies in Oporto, Bern ticularly interested in chamber music. She
and Frankfurt. During his studies in Bern he has already performed many world pre-
was a recipient of a grant from the Calouste mieres and plays as a soloist all over Eu-
Gulbenkian Foundation. Besides his solo rope.
performances, Hugo has performed with
ensembles including Ensemble Modern,
Lucerne Festival Alumni Ensemble, Ensem-
ble Proton, Collegium Novum Zürich, Ver-
tigo Ensemble, Grupo Música Nova where
he has worked with some of the most em-
blematic conductors and composers. Hugo
Queirós is a D’Addario Woodwind artist.

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Special thanks go to the Fondation Dene-
reaz for having financially supported part
of the project; to the Hochschule in Bern
for making the recording possible; to the
musicians Anne-Laure, Céline, João, Hugo,
Kevin, Lino and Marie for taking part with
enthusiasm in this project; to Maurizio for
having personally taken care of the regis-
tration phases and for his precious teach-
ing over the years; to Benoit for his fan-
tastic work; to Rebecca for the English
translation of the booklet; to Elena for be-
ing my teacher; to Daria for having metic-
ulously followed the logistics and or­gani­
sational part of the entire project

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 Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar 1  –  7 World recording premiere
Marie Delprat, paetzold recorder Marie Delprat paetzold recorder Recording dates: 30 – 31 January 2017
João Carlos Pacheco percussion Recording venue: Recording Studio of the
2 EY DE NET 05:02 Hugo Queirós bass clarinet University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland
Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar
 Kevin Juillerat tenor saxophone Recording engineer: Benoit Piccand
João Carlos Pacheco, percussion Céline Wasmer voice Mixing & Mastering: Benoit Piccand
Lino Mendoza double bass Booklet Editor: Eva Hausegger
3 HABERGEISS 04:42 Anne-Laure Dottrens viola Publisher: Ricordi
Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar
 Graphic design: paladino media,
Hugo Queirós, bass clarinet cover based on Artwork by Enrique Fuentes

4 SAMBLANA 04:59
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Kevin Juillerat, tenor saxophone

5 YEMELES 05:41
Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar
Céline Wasmer, voice

6 ODOLGHES 04:47
Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar
Lino Mendoza, double bass

7 DERSCIALET 04:29
Ruben Mattia Santorsa, classical guitar
Anne-Laure Dottrens, viola

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