Biography (Scorrere verso il basso per la versione italiana.)
David Salvage (b.1978) is an American composer and pianist living in Bologna, Italy. Born into a family of non-musicians, at age four he asked his parents for a piano, a wish that was granted on the condition that he take lessons for five years. Instead, he took them for fifteen years, along the way developing an interest in composition, winning local and national competitions as a pianist and composer, becoming one of the first pianists selected for the prestigious Perlman Music Program, and winning a scholarship to Harvard University, where he shifted his focus to composition. He continued his studies at Manhattan School of Music and the City University of New York, earned his PhD with a dissertation on György Kurtàg, and went into academia full-time, teaching music theory and history. A lifelong Europhile, when the opportunity arose to live abroad, he took it, and now he is a dual citizen of Italy and the United States. He has been commissioned to write for orchestra, film, choir, and ensembles of all kinds and has received over a hundred performances at venues ranging from the Juilliard School in New York to the British Institute of Florence and the Minobu Town Center in Minobu, Japan. His music is published by Universal Edition, Vienna, and has been recorded on Deux-Elles and Navona Records. His most recent commission was a new work for the world-famous ocarina player Fabio Galliani. In Bologna, Salvage sings tenor in the Cappella Musicale di San Petronio and gives concerts with trumpeter Marco Trebbi (Duo Himmel). He is married with three children.
Versione italiana —
David Salvage (1978) è un compositore e pianista statunitense che abita a Bologna. Nato in una famiglia estranea alla musica, all’età di quattro anni ha chiesto un pianoforte ai genitori, un desiderio che è stato esaudito a condizione che prendesse lezioni per cinque anni. Le ha seguite invece per quindici anni, e lungo il percorso ha sviluppato un particolare interesse per la composizione, ha vinto premi regionali e nazionali come pianista e compositore, è diventato uno dei primi giovani pianisti scelti per il Perlman Music Program, e ha vinto una borsa di studio alla Harvard University, per poi decidere di concentrarsi sulla composizione. Ha continuato i suoi studi presso la Manhattan School of Music e la City University of New York, ha conseguito il dottorato di ricerca con una tesi su Gyorgy Kurtàg, e ha trovato lavoro nell’ateneo insegnando a tempo pieno storia della musica e teoria musicale. Filoeuropeo da sempre, ha colto l’opportunità di trasferirsi all’estero quando questa gli si è presentata e ora possiede la doppia cittadinanza statunitense e italiana. Ha composto musica per orchestra, film, coro e insiemi di diversi generi e le sue opere hanno ricevuto più di cento esecuzioni in sedi come la Juilliard School, il British Institute of Florence, e il Minobu Town Center in Giappone. La sua musica è pubblicata da Universal Edition Vienna e è stata registrata su Deux-Elles e Navona. La sua commissione più recente è un’opera nuova per l’ocarinista Fabio Galliani, famoso in tutto il mondo. A Bologna Salvage canta tenore nella Cappella Musicale di San Petronio e dà concerti col trombettista Marco Trebbi (Duo Himmel). È sposato con tre figli.
August 26, 2010 – 10:05 PM
These dissonances but serve to underscore The score nobody knows Except the taciturn composer, Fate. Sensing at the deep base Of our being the ultimate cadences before They gather to their close, We feel the fickle fingering and confess It’s already getting late. –from “A Love for Four Voices: Homage to Franz Joseph Haydn”
August 23, 2010 – 5:34 PM
Albumleaf 28: August 23, 2010 (Farmville)
August 19, 2010 – 9:00 AM
Albumleaf 27: August 18, 2010 (Farmville) Steering north-eastward from the Crozetts, we fell in with vast meadows of brit, the minute, yellow substance, upon which the Right Whale largely feeds. For leagues and leagues it undulated round us, so that we seemed to be sailing through boundless fields of ripe and golden wheat. By the […]
August 16, 2010 – 9:00 AM
Albumleaf 26: August 15, 2010 (Farmville)
Facing a perfect storm consisting of a computer virus, a five-day trip to a pianoless place, and an approaching commission deadline, Albumleaves will be on hiatus. I hope to resume posting in two weeks. Happy listening!
Robert Schumann zum 154. Todestag. Clara describes her visit to Robert in the Endenich asylum two days before his death. Johannes [Brahms] saw him and, together with the doctor, begged me not to go to him, put it in the light of a duty to my children not to upset mysel thus, etc. So I […]
Albumleaf 25: July 18, 2010 (Bologna) Perhaps the most striking sight in the Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna is that of two horse skeletons excavated from the present-day Via Delle Belle Arti. The two horses appear to have been ritually slain by the Etruscans, and the head of the axe used in the execution remains […]
Scattered Leaves. Album of Six Pieces. Op. 60. IV-VI. Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909) IV. Barcarola V. Romanza VI. Capriccio
Albumleaf 24: July 17, 2010 (Bologna) Click here for recording.
Albumleaf 23: July 14, 2010 (Bologna)