Agnese Toniutti

Agnese Toniutti obtained her diploma with the highest score at the Conservatory of Venice with a dissertation on Giacinto Scelsi’s piano works; since then, she focused on the exploration of the contemporary and twentieth-century repertoire.

In her activity as a concert pianist, she experiments with a particular way of communicating with the audience; she proposes themed solo recitals whereby the musical performance alternates with short audio excerpts and written testimonies, resulting from her research on the documents, in parallel with her artistic interpretation. The documents she selects are elaborated in a “direction of the hearing” which tightly relates to the pieces she performs. Among her projects of research-performance are the monographic “portraits” dedicated to composers she studied with particular attention in her artistic itinerary (i.e. Giacinto Scelsi, to whom she is highly devoted both as a performer and as a scholar, Giancarlo Cardini and John Cage), as well as her programmes dedicated to the international artistic movement Fluxus (with premieres of works by Philip Corner and Dick Higgins) along with a project about the female creativity from the Fifties to present-day (including a research project about Lucia Dlugoszewski’s “timbre piano”). She frequently aims at artistic cooperation which puts the contemporary repertoire in dialogue with other expressive forms (recitation, dancing, photography, visual arts and video art). She performed as a soloist and as a chamber music player in several international festivals in Italy, Europe and the United States.