Biography
Filippo Zapponi was born in 1976, in Milan. He began composing as a child and at the age of seventeen he entered the classes of Ivan Fedele and Giorgio Colombo Taccani at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano and at the Sezione di Musica Contemporanea, in Milan. In 1997, he was enrolled in Ivan Fedele's class at the Como Conservatory of Music “Giuseppe Verdi” and graduated with honours in 2000. Since 1997 he was also a student of Ivan Fedele at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg (France) where he graduated in 2001. In 1999-2001 he was Ivan Fedele's assistant and he worked at Luciano Berio's Centro Tempo Reale, in Florence.
In 2001 he moved to France, in that year he studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Brice Pauset and Stefano Gervasoni at the Session de composition du programme “Voix nouvelles” at the Fondation Royaumont, near Paris. In 2002, he was again Ferneyhough's student at the Centre Acanthes (Avignon, France) where he writed a piece for the Arditti Quartet. Selected twice by the Ircam Reading Panel, he attended the Stage d'été (2006) and the Cursus I (2008-09) at Ircam (Paris) where he specialized in new technologies for music with Yan Maresz, Philippe Hurel, Philippe Manoury and Marco Stroppa. From 2004 to 2007, he studied composition and analysis with Karlheinz Stockhausen (Stockhausen Courses Kürten) in Kürten, near Cologne (Germany). At the Stockhausen Foundation for Music, he also organized an annual meeting of composers. In 2007, he graduated with honours in Musicology from the University of Strasbourg with a dissertation on Stockhausen's opera Freitag aus Licht. Collaborations
His works, published since 2017 by BabelScores, have been performed in Europe, US, South America, Asia and Australia. Filippo Zapponi collaborates with many ensembles, soloists and festivals: Arditti Quartet, United Instruments of Lucilin, Accroche Note, Ensemble Linea, Sentieri Selvaggi, Ensemble Calliopée, Julien Leroy, Lorenzo Soulès, Mario Caroli, Jeffrey Lyman, Biennale Musica di Venezia, Festival Pablo Casals, Ircam, Philarmonie de Paris, Expo Milano 2015, Festival Musica, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), Pomona College (Claremont, California), Marillac Theatre, St. John's University (New York City), Soochow University School of Music (China), Bendigo International Festival of Exploratory Music (BIFEM) (Australia), France Culture, Fondation de France, Musée Würth-France, Mamc-Strasbourg, Opéra-Théâtre of Metz, Arsenal Concert Hall, Opéra National du Rhin, Radio Svizzera, among others.
He has undertaken many musical projects with pedagogical purposes, such as the children's opera Opera Mundi (2003) and Le voyage des grues cendrées (2008), the latter was awarded the prize “S'Unir pour Agir” of the Fondation de France. He has also collaborated with the Blicke Dance Company on several international productions. |
Filippo Zapponi has been teaching composition, analysis and orchestration at the Metz Conservatory “Gabriel Pierné” since 2008; he was appointed Professor (Professeur d'Enseignement Artistique Titulaire) in 2011 and Distinguished Professor (Professeur Hors Classe) in 2020.
In 2021, he led, with cellist and artistic director Claudio Pasceri, the composition workshop "Oltre le note" in Portacomaro (Asti, Italy) as part of the EstOvest Festival. In 2018-19 he taught composition at the stage "La Voce" in Bièvre, near Paris (France), together with Christine Musset (Feldenkrais) and Claudio Pasceri (violoncello). In 2017, he taught composition at the 22nd Musicalta Academy, Rouffach (France) and, from 2005 to 2014, he taught composition, analysis and orchestration at the University of Strasbourg (CFMI – Centre de Formation de Musiciens Intervenants). He has also given applied analysis seminars at the Cefedem de Lorraine (Metz, France). Awards
Athique I, for flute and piano, was the winner of the Counterpoint-Italy International Composition Competition 2018 and was premiered in New York (Marillac Theatre, St. John's University).
In 2015, Filippo Zapponi was awarded the first prize at the prestigious 6th International Composition Competition “Festival Pablo Casals” in Prades. In 2014, he was selected, out of more than 600 composers, at the International Composition Competition « Feeding Music – Compositions From the World for Italian Pavilion Expo Milano 2015 » for a new commission for ensemble and electronics which was featured twice at Expo Milano 2015. He was awarded the prize “S'Unir pour Agir” of the Fondation de France for the project Le voyage des grues cendrées, in 2008. Filippo Zapponi won twice the first prize at the XXI and XXII Composition Competition “Castello di Belveglio”, in 1999 and 2000. 
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