John Young's 'Three Spaces in Mid-Air' in Lugano

John Young's acousmatic work Three Spaces in Mid-Air will feature at the Teatrostudio, Lugano Arte e Cultura in Lugano, Switzerland, on 12 January 2025 in a concert organised by the Conservatorio della Svizzera italiana's Spazio 21 series.
The theme of the concert is 'silence'. https://electropresence.com/en/even/47910-ear-2025-26-ear-1  

Three Spaces in Mid-Air was published on Young's solo CD Espaces lointains by empreintes DIGITALes in 2024, and was first prize winner of the 6th KLANG! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition (Montpellier, France, 2019).

New Work by Cristiana Palandri in Lugano

PhD Student Cristiana Palandri’s work A Letter to Johanna for piano, viola, an object and 
live electronics was performed in Lugano on 13 October 2023 by the Spheres Ensemble:
Chiara Ludovisi (viola), Bruna di Virgilio (piano) and Cristiana Palandri (electronics). 
The work is an homage to German-born American musician Johanna Beyer (1888- 1944).  
As a composer and pianist active in the United States in the 1930s, Beyer worked in 
the shadow of male colleagues such as Henry Cowell and John Cage. Despite her 
talent and her innovative and experimental musical language, Beyer’s work lay in 
obscurity for decades (her Music of the Spheres, composed in 1938, is the earliest 
known electronic work composed by a woman) and Palandri’s A Letter to Johanna is 
a tribute to Beyer's courage and innovation.  
 
The concert was a co-production of OGGIMUSICA and LuganoMusica, in collaboration 
with the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, with the support of the Canton of 
Ticino-Swislos Fund, the City of Lugano and Pro Helvetia.

                             

Cristiana Palandri

Johanna Beyer