Davide Anzaghi: Chamber Music Works

ACHROME Ensemble brings together six musicians committed to modern and contemporary chamber music. Its members began performing together in 2013, with the support of composers Davide Anzaghi, Pieralberto Cattaneo, Simone Fontanelli and Paolo Coggiola. Conducted by Marcello Parolini, the ensemble comprises flautist Antonella Bini, clarinettist Stefano Merighi, violinist Elia Mariani, cellist Emanuele Rigamonti and pianist Gabriele Rota.

Based in Bergamo, the ensemble presents the contemporary music series …e adesso musica! at Sala Piatti, in collaboration with MusicAperta, and organises an international call for scores. Its programmes combine twentieth-century repertoire with new works, including world and Italian premieres developed in close collaboration with composers. Its Da Vinci Classics recordings include Davide Anzaghi’s Chamber Music Works and Music for Dummies, featuring music by Federico Biscione, Alberto Cara and Paolo Coggiola.

Davide Anzaghi began his musical studies with his father, the musician Luigi Oreste Anzaghi, and achieved international success as a young accordionist before devoting himself to composition. He studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, where he later taught.

His music received major recognition in the early 1970s. In 1972 he won the National Composition Competition in Treviso, whose jury was chaired by Gian Francesco Malipiero. In 1974 his orchestral work Ausa won the Olivier Messiaen International Composition Competition, awarded by a jury including György Ligeti, Witold Lutosławski, Iannis Xenakis and Ton de Leeuw, with Messiaen himself as chair.

Anzaghi’s engagement with contemporary musical thought has retained a strong belief in the emotional and aesthetic dimensions of musical language. His output includes orchestral, chamber, vocal and solo instrumental works.