Music, Science and Data-driven Composition

Long biosketch

 

Marco Buongiorno Nardelli’s (b. Rome (Italy), Nov. 21, 1964) broad musical interests span from the baroque repertoire to jazz, contemporary and electronic music. Educated as both a musician and a physicist (PhD, Condensed Matter Theory, 1993), he holds a BM in Music Theory and Composition from the Conservatorio "Luigi Cherubini" in Florence, Italy, studied flute with Oro and Gian-Luca Petrucci in Rome and Brooks deWetter-Smith at UNC-Chapel Hill and sung in the choir of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana with M. Pablo Colino, who introduced him to music at a very early age. He has studied composition with Riccardo Giagni (Rome), Lyda di Cuffa (Florence), Alan Shockley (RI College) and Allen Anderson (UNC-Chapel Hill). As a performer he has recorded for the Italian National Radio and Television (RAI) and has released various CD's with the world music group Kolaj, the Arabic-jazz-fusion ensemble Jaafar and he is one of the founders of Ecco La Musica, a composers collective in Raleigh, NC. He has played in the Raleigh Civic Symphony and Chamber Orchestra and is a member of ASCAP, the Center for the Promotion of Contemporary Composers, the American Music Center, Chicago’s Accessible Contemporary Music, SEAMUS and ICMA. His music has been premiered, among others, by the New York Miniaturist Ensemble, London's C.O.M.A. group, the Accessible Contemporary Music ensemble of Chicago, the Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra, GaTech's Sonic Generator, ICMC and University of North Texas NOVA Ensemble. Among his awards, the composition "Tzolk'in" for three marimbas has received a honorable mention at the Second Annual Louisiana State University Percussion Society's Percussion Ensemble Composition Contest in 2009 and was the winner of the 2010 Volta Trio Composition Competition. As a member of Ecco La Musica, he has relesed the critically acclaimed CD "Morning Moon" (Big Round Records, 2012).

Composer Marco Buongiorno Nardelli is a University Distinguished Research Professor in the Department of Physics and the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Texas, a member of iARTA, the Initiative for Advanced Research in Technology and the Arts and a Parma Recording artist.

 

Marco plays a Burkart-Phelan 9K/Ag flute with L. Burkart M2 headjoint (S.N. 08014 and 2309) and a Burkart-Phelan"Global" piccolo (S.N. 10706)

 

What the critics have said

 

Of his flute and electronics works "Canto notturno" and "Ossi di Seppia", North Carolina critic Karen Moorman said: "[...] Incorporating a range of compositional tools and performance techniques, his sensual pieces were enchanting. [...] A “Renaissance man” in his own right, composer and theoretical physicist, Nardelli demonstrates a rich distinctive style". His electronic composition "Bamboo's Ghost" has been called by La Salle University composer Susan McDonald: "[...]evocative [...] quite mysterious and touching [...]". Of the premiere of “Finzione di Interludio” for chamber orchestra, critic John W. Lambert wrote: “This was much more than a reading - the music was clearly well-served, and it made a very favorable impression on the audience”. Of the same piece, conductor Randolph Foy said: “It is a relatively small work, infused with surrealistic humor and intentional banality. ‘Finzione’ is skillfully constructed, employing a fluid mix of traditional and progressive techniques that make a strange sense in context.”