Roberto Laneri: Sonora Crossroads, for Piano

Roberto Laneri is a composer, wind player — clarinets, saxophones and didgeridoo — and overtone singer. He studied philosophy in Rome and music in the United States, receiving a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. His teachers included Lejaren Hiller, Charles Mingus, William O. Smith, John Silber and Keith Humble.

After many years of work in contemporary music, his music has developed beyond established categories and conventional boundaries of time and place. His recording credits include collaborations with Charles Mingus and Peter Gabriel, alongside his own albums Two Views of the Amazon, Anadyomene, Memories of the Rain-Forest, The Tail of the Tiger, Sentimental Journey, Escher, Breath and Winds of Change.

He has published two books on the theory and practice of overtone singing, La voce dell’arcobaleno and Nel cielo di Indra. He has been a member of the Club of Budapest, founded by Ervin László to promote planetary consciousness. He taught at the Florence Conservatory until 2011.