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Toy Counterpoint en Bologna

 Sabato 27 gennaio 2024, ore 11
Antonietta Loffredo
 Concerto per pianoforte giocattolo

Toy Counterpoint

Teatro Mazzacorati 1763
Vías Toscana 19, Bologna

Antonietta Loffredo presenta un programma dedicato al toy piano, con opere di compositori contemporanei che da tutto il mondo testimoniano l'interesse rivolto a questo piccolo e affascinante strumento. Al termine del programma, un curioso repertorio originariamente scritto per orologi meccanici offrirà all'ascolto musiche di Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach e Franz Joseph Haydn.


Musiche di Kaveh Azimi, Mercedes Zavala, Sara Carvalho, Diana Blom, Paul Smith, A.S. Reyes, Fabio Luppi, Gian

Paolo Luppi, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, J. Haydn

Toy Dance en Viena

 April 24th, 2022, 20h
Ruprechtsplatz 1, 1010 Vienna

Neue Musik in St.Ruprecht

Antonietta Loffredo – Toy Piano

Toy Dance scores is at Babelscores

Más información aquí

TOY PIANO FESTIVAL 2019 _Music as Play-The Toy Piano Takes the Stage


-World Premiere of Toy dance, by Antonietta Loffredo
-Concert: Pupils of the middle state school I.C. Cernobbio (toy piano). Mercedes Zavala (conductor)

The Associazione Carducci in Como, Italy, is organizing a musical festival entitled "Music as play – the toy piano takes the stage" with the aim of increasing the knowledge and practice of the toy piano.
Composers, musicologists and institutions in Italy and abroad have been invited to take part.
This festival will include a call for scores for concerts and a call for papers for a conference.
Conference and concerts will take place on the 6th and 7th of July 2019 and will be hosted by the Istituto Carducci in Como.
For more information please visit the official website of the festival www.music-as-play.wixsite.com/toypiano
Email: masp.toypiano@gmail.com


From Piano to Toy Piano: composing as a Rite of Passage


From Piano to Toy Piano: composing as a Rite of Passage 
Mercedes Zavala 
Conservatorio Profesional de Música Teresa Berganza, Madrid, Spain 

ABSTRACT

In this talk I will discuss the work I did with the piano students of Antonietta Loffredo in the workshop "Seriously or jokingly? Toy piano composition workshop for early stages".  As a result of this workshop, the students wrote a series of pieces composed by them for toy piano. We also worked on improvisation as a complementary activity with elements  differentiated from, but also related to,  musical composition.

The choice of the toy piano favors some aspects that help the initiation to compose. At this student level, to compose means a change of perspective, a step to another way of understanding music, indeed a passage to another musical reality. The toy piano is a new instrument for all of them, so they have to do prior work of exploration to understand how that new instrument works, and they have to react to its sound and possibilities; but at the same time it is a familiar instrument, so they can manage it very well. Also, it has a restricted range of possibilities that makes the writing easier. Last, but not least, the toy piano is freed from the sometimes overwhelming weight of music repertoire of the past. This gives the act of creating music a playful aspect, outside the overwhelming responsibility that the concept of composing sometimes implies. The response of the pupils was very interesting in many senses, as you will see and hear.

About "Toy Counterpoints", for Toy Piano

Published by BabelScores

1-Moderato
2-Allegro deciso
3-Toy Dance

My toy piano works are the result of Antonietta Loffredo's incitation to write for this instrument. These are pieces for a 25 keys toy piano. It is a very limited register but i loved the restriction of write a score combining careful and detailed writing with the naif and magic sound of this instrument. 

Toy Counterpoints is dedicated to Antonietta Loffredo. The first (Moderato) and the second (Allegro deciso) were composed at 2015 and premiered by Antonietta at Risuonanze, Incontri di nuove musiche at Molfalcone. The third (Toy Dance) was recently (2019) premiered at Como, at The Music as Play Festival. While the second piece is a kind of Passacaglia with some jokes in it, the first and the third move in a magic-oniric universe, but Toy Dance becomes almost hypnotic, a kind of inner ritual dance.

Conferencia-concierto de ANTONIETTA LOFFREDO en Madrid

25 de Febrero, 17h
Toy Counterpoints (Estreno en España)
Antonietta Loffredo, piano de juguete y piano

The Toy Piano In Contemporary Art Music
(LECTURE-CONCERT)
Obras para piano de juguete y/o piano de Sara Carvalho, Chris Adams, Antonio Giacometti, Diana Blom, Mercedes Zavala, Paolo Ricci, Lorenzo di Vora, Go Okawa y Kaveh Azimi

Semana Cultural 2016
Auditorio del Conservatorio Teresa Berganza
c/ Palmípedo 3, MADRID