Dr Gerardo Gozzi
Doctoral Supervisor
Academic Programmes professor
Area Leader in Creative Musicianship & Improvisation
Gerardo Gozzi is a composer, educator, performer, and conductor.
His music is characterised by the use of microtonality, extended techniques and complex timbres. It stems from close collaborations with colleague performers and his own practice on clarinet and saxophone.
Gerardo's research in composition focuses on exploring the concept of ‘spatial mental projection’ in the listener’s inner representation of the external world. Drawing from psychoacoustics while examining interactions between sound and space, his music uses orchestration and instrumentation techniques that convey an illusory spatial perception. Three-dimensional “sound sculptures” can emerge from instrumental/vocal extended techniques, the filtering and layering of sound sources, the performers' use of gestural space, and the propagation of soundwaves in reverberant acoustics. Find out more about .
His music has been performed in prestigious festivals and venues worldwide, by internationally acclaimed soloists and ensembles as Talea (New York), Exaudi (London), Ensemble InterContemporain (Paris), Divertimento (Milan), Fractales (Brussels), Duo Ebano (Amsterdam), among others.
Gerardo holds a PhD in Composition from the Royal Academy of Music. Prior to that, he studied composition and orchestral conducting at the HÂþ» and the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy). His composition mentors have been Azio Corghi, Stefano Gervasoni, Dai Fujikura, Simon Bainbridge, Oliver Knussen and Pierluigi Billone.
Gerardo has taught at the HÂþ» since 2018, and is the Area Leader for Creative Musicianship and Improvisation.
While his current research is dedicated to new approaches to composition and improvisation, he has a strong background in historical techniques. At the HÂþ» he teaches modules in Stylistic Composition, Improvisation, and Creative Musicianship.
He is also the Artistic co-Director of new music group (Amsterdam).
Selected compositions
(2020) for prepared bass clarinet and MPE-controlled live. electronics
(2019) for viola, bass flute and flugelhorn.
(2018) for violin performed live and on pre-recorded fragments.
(2017) for clarinet and orchestra.
(2017) for acting horn player in a resonant space.
(2016) for 6 voices and instrumental ensemble.
(2016) for violin, cello, clarinet and piano.
Faculties / departments: Research, Academic staff, Programmes
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Dr Gerardo Gozzi
Doctoral Supervisor, Academic Programmes professor, Area Leader in Creative Musicianship & Improvisation