Sentieri selvaggi is a group made up of some of the best Italian musicians, united in a cultural project that wants to bring contemporary music to a larger audience.
The group, founded in 1997 by Carlo Boccadoro, Filippo Del Corno, Angelo Miotto, in the eight following years has acquired important successes.
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The group has established a close working relationship with composers such as Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, David Lang, James MacMillan and Louis Andriessen, who choose Sentieri selvaggi ensemble to perform in Italy their compositions, some of which are written specifically for the group.
Sentieri selvaggi is continuously invited by theatres and music festivals of unquestionable prestige in Italy (Teatro alla Scala, Teatro Regio di Torino, Biennale di Venezia, Amici della Musica di Palermo, Accademia Filarmonica Romana), by some of the most important italian cultural events (FestivaLetteratura - Mantova, Festival della Scienza - Genova) and by international festivals (SKIF Festival – Saint Petersburg, International Review of Composers - Belgrade, International Festival of Contemporary Music - Tashkent, Uzbekistan) - MITO SettembreMusica.
The group has been organizing for six years a contemporary music festivalin Milan; in 2005 Sentieri selvaggi produced a contemporary music season, titled Parole (Words). The project will go on in 2006 with Il Femminile (The Feminine), a season entirely dedicated to the relation between contemporary musical creativity and feminine. The 2007 season The Right to... is dedicated to the theme of rights which have been forgotten, scorned, struggled for, lost. Each evening is an exploration of a specific right accompanied by with music and words.
Sentieri selvaggi produces regurarly books and CDs (La Formula del fiore, Bad blood, Musica Cœlestis, Child) with the aim of making contemporary music known. In 2006 the record label Cantaloupe Music has released AC/DC, an anthology containing the most representative pieces of Sentieri selvaggi’s previous recordings. In 2007 Filippo del Corno's new record Hotel Occidental came out, a sort of diary recounting the composer's work with the Sentieri selvaggi ensemble directed by Carlo Boccadoro.
The staging of operas is an important and well recognized part of what Sentieri Selvaggi does: these productions (such as Orfeo a fumetti by Filippo Del Corno, The man who mistook his wife for a hat by Michael Nyman, The Sound of a Voice by Philip Glass), thanks to their great communicative impact, aroused a wide agreement from public and critics.