SCM - Scuola di Composizione del Conservatorio di Mantova

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SCM - Scuola di Composizione del Conservatorio di Mantova

Pagina ufficiale delle classi di composizione del Conservatorio "L. Campiani" di Mantova.

18/05/2026

Here are some moments from last week’s workshop and concert by Luca Lavuri (.lavuri), visiting professor from the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Through toy pianos and experimental sound worlds, our students explored new sonic possibilities that will inspire their future artistic research and projects.
Thank you, Luca, for sharing your musical vision and experience with such generosity.

09/05/2026

Some pictures from the past week at the Conservatory of Mantua and the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage of the University of Pavia-Cremona.
Thank you to Thierry De Mey for being with us and sharing your work and artistic point of view, and to Ensemble Hopper for the amazing concert.
See you on Thursday for the next workshop and concert with the pianist Luca Lavuri, visiting professor from MDW.

27/04/2026

Applications for the 2026/27 AY are now open!
Deadline: May 24
BA
MA
Preparatory course
One-year course
Our faculty:
📍 (Composition, Analysis, Orchestration)
📍 (Composition, Analysis, Improvisation)
📍Lorenzo Troiani (Composition, Analysis, Orchestration)
What we offer:
📍Up to three masterclasses per year with worldwide renowned composers*.
📍At least one performance and recording per year of a new work especially written for an invited soloist or ensemble**.
📍Focus on improvisation with low-fi technologies and on electronic music composition.
📍Possibility to integrate courses from the Musicology Faculty of Cremona.
Info:
https://www.conservatoriomantova.com/it/ammissioni
Do you want to book a trial lesson with one of our professors? Write at:
[email protected]
Curious about our students' music? Listen here:
https://soundcloud.com/scm_mantova
*this year we had Simon Steen-Andersen, Eva Reiter and Thierry De Mey
** only for BA and MA students; invited groups for this year are Ensemble Hopper, Quartetto Maurice, Duo Aria, Luca Lavuri

23/04/2026

Today, we are honored to welcome the Italian poet Daniele Bellomi, who will give a lecture in our library on contemporary poetry.
“Spaces and Devices of Contemporary Italian Poetry: A Writing Journey”
Thursday, April 23, 2026, 11:00–13:00
Library
Daniele Bellomi (1988) was born in Monza, where he lives. His published works include: Un cerchio, un quadrato, Edizioni Prufrock spa, 2025; Divided by zero, Edizioni Prufrock spa, 2018; Sequenze arbitrarie, 89Plus/LUMA Foundation, 2017; Dove mente il fiume, Edizioni Prufrock spa, 2015; Ripartizione della volta, Anterem Edizioni, 2013.
His poems have appeared in the journals ‘il verri’, ‘Trivio’ and ‘L’Ulisse’; others are included in the anthologies CONTINUO, [dia•foria, 2023; Poesie italiane 2018, Elliot Edizioni, 2018; La parola informe, Marco Saya Edizioni, 2018; Totilogia, Edizioni Cinquemarzo, 2014; Parabo(lich)e dell’ultimo giorno, Dot.com Press, 2013; EX.IT_materiali fuori contesto, TLC, 2013. Some of his woirks have been translated into English and Spanish.
Winner of the Opera Prima 2012, Lorenzo Montano 2015 and 2024, Poesia di Strada 2023 and Facebook Poetry Lab 2025 awards.

02/04/2026

The third edition of Open Space came to a close yesterday! Thank you to all the participants who joined us, to our guest Luigi Manfrin, to our piano professor Chiara Saccone, to our students, and to the PhD candidates from the doctoral program “New Musical Languages,” coordinated by the Conservatory of Mantua (Jacopo Cenni, Marco De Martino, Fabio Machiavelli, Luca Guidarini, Davide Rizza, and Manuel Zwerger), for sharing their ideas, research, and perspectives on the countless ways of making music today.
See you next year!

31/03/2026

Diving into some contemporary scores from our library’s collection.

09/03/2026

Some pictures from last week at the Conservatory of Mantua and the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage at the University of Pavia–Cremona!

A big thank you to Eva Reiter and Simon Steen-Andersen for their generosity in sharing reflections and insights with our students, and to the amazing Quartetto Maurice and Duo Aria for giving us two wonderful concerts.

See you soon for Fabian Lévy’s seminar (March 23) and OPEN SPACE (March 31–April 1). Stay tuned!

03/03/2026

[ITA] Felici di presentare la nuova edizione di “MUSICA DEL XXI SECOLO – Seminari, concerti e incontri con la musica di ricerca”, un progetto del Conservatorio di Mantova, del Dipartimento di Musicologia e Beni Culturali di Cremona (Università di Pavia) e delle edizioni SZ Sugar, in collaborazione con i gruppi di ricerca CCOrP e DALM, e con il sostegno della Fondazione Stauffer di Cremona.

Quest’anno il focus è dedicato alle prassi compositive contemporanee multimodali, multimediali e transmediali, osservate attraverso le esperienze di alcuni dei protagonisti della scena europea: Thierry De Mey, Eva Reiter e Simon Steen-Andersen.

I concerti vedranno in scena il Quartetto Maurice, l’Ensemble Hopper, il Duo Aria, il pianista Luca Lavuri e l’SCM Ensemble del Conservatorio di Mantova, quest’anno affiancato dal DCNL del Conservatorio di Piacenza. Mentre il seminario di Fabien Lévy presenterà i risultati della sua pluriennale ricerca sull’orchestrazione funzionale, i convegni internazionali “The Plural Artist” e “Music Beyond Sound” segneranno due importanti momenti di confronto accademico fra musicologi e creatori di oggi.

I concerti e i convegni sono a ingresso libero e gratuito.

[ENG] Happy to present the new edition of “MUSICA DEL XXI SECOLO – Seminars, Concerts and Encounters with Research Music”, a project by the Conservatory of Mantua, the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage in Cremona (University of Pavia), and SZ Sugar Editions, in collaboration with the CCOrP and DALM research groups, and with the support of the Stauffer Foundation of Cremona.

This year’s focus is dedicated to contemporary multimodal, multimedia, and transmedia compositional practices, explored through the experiences of some of the leading figures of the European scene: Thierry De Mey, Eva Reiter, and Simon Steen-Andersen.

The concerts will feature the Maurice Quartet, Ensemble Hopper, Duo Aria, pianist Luca Lavuri, and the SCM Ensemble of the Conservatory of Mantua, joined this year by the DCNL of the Conservatory of Piacenza. While Fabien Lévy’s seminar will present the results of his long-term research on functional orchestration, the international conferences “The P

16/02/2026

OPEN SPACE #3 - giornate della composizione
31 Marzo – 1° Aprile 2026

COS’È / WHAT IS IT?

[Ita] Due giorni di seminari, incontri e dibattiti con gli studenti, i dottorandi e i professori delle classi di composizione del Conservatorio di Mantova e vari ospiti esterni dedicati ai linguaggi di ricerca. Nel limite dei posti disponibili, a tutti i partecipanti verrà data la possibilità di fare lezione con i nostri professori, gli ospiti e i dottorandi e presentare il proprio lavoro creativo.

[Eng] Two days of seminars, meetings, and discussions with students, PhD candidates, and professors from the composition classes of the Mantua Conservatory, along with various external guests, dedicated to research-oriented musical languages. Subject to availability, all participants will have the opportunity to take lessons with our professors, guest composers, and PhD candidates and to present their creative work.
NB: If you don't speak Italian, no problem! Individual lessons can be held in English, as well as some of the lectures!

Faculty members: Maurizio Azzan, Zeno Baldi, Chiara Saccone, Lorenzo Troiani
Guest composer: Luigi Manfrin
PhD students: Jacopo Cenni, Marco De Martino, Luca Guidarini, Fabio Machiavelli, Davide Rizza, Manuel Zwerger

COME ISCRIVERSI / HOW TO REGISTER

[Ita] La partecipazione è libera e gratuita. Per iscriversi, basta compilare il seguente form:

[Eng]Participation is free and open to everyone. To register, simply fill out the following form:

https://forms.office.com/e/qBmRuuvY3B

PROGRAMMA / SCHEDULE

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02/12/2025

We are proud to introduce our doctoral student, who, starting this year, will be working on his research project in our composition department!
Manuel Zwerger, born in 1992 in Bolzano, studied Composition with F. Baur, S. Steen-Andersen, N. Rønsholdt and J. Hodkinson at the Conservatory of Innsbruck and at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. He received further education from H. Kerschbaumer and W. Schurig. In 2019 he was a member of the International Young Composers Academy (Festival Ticino Musica) with O. Bianchi and S. Kurljandski in Lugano.
Manuel moves as a composer at the intersection of new music, performance and installation art, whereby visual and extra-musical material is not subordinated to the sound quality, but made it inherent.
Oriented towards intermedia, he pays special attention to scenic, performative and theatrical aspects, which are integrated in an interdisciplinary and multi-sensory manner into the socio-aesthetic complex of tasks of our media society. The thematic focus lies on the usual phenomena in the process of making music, which are connected and questioned with influences from everyday life, pop culture, anti-art, current trends and science. He works particularly with prepared instruments and new media.
Manuel's music was performed by Tiroler Symphonieorchester Innsbruck, Tetra Brass, the Ensemble Modern, the ensemble chromoson, the NAMES Ensemble, airborne extended, strings&noise, Windkraft - Kapelle für neue Musik, the HOAX Quartet, the Orchester der Akademie St. Blasius, the Tiroler Kammerorchester Innstrumenti, the Sonarkraft string orchestra and various Soloists. Long-term collaborations with recorder player C. Mayrhofer, trombonist J. Grimm and horn player S. Stoll deserve special mention.
He has received various grants and scholarships for his work (scholarships from the Richard Wagner Verband Wien and from the Akademie Musiktheater heute of the Deutsche Bank Foundation; the Hilde-Zach-Kompositionsförderstipendium from the city of Innsbruck; the Startstipendium from the Austrian Federal Chancellery; residency fellowship at Schloss Wiepersdorf). His works are published by Edition Gravis / Berlin.

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