ELECTROGENIC.
Opus. 67
Instrumentation: Solo Guitar
Duration: 6 Minutes, One Movement
Commissioned By: 21 Century Guitar Conference for Adam Cicchillitti
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PROGRAM NOTE.
The main prompt for this work was along the lines of "the intersection of guitar and technology". Not much of a Max/MSP gal myself, I instead looked to my books on the scientific visionary Nikola Tesla and re-read passages that had particularly inspired me during their first readings. Here, alternating current is discussed along with Tesla coils and other parts of a very important chapter of our technological growth as a world: our relationship with electricity. This work, ELECTROGENIC, is a soliloquy on the cyclical nature of alternating current, the meanings behind the words we use to discuss technology, and the excitement and bright voltage of electricity.
Details // Concert Prep
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commissioner biography.
Founded by Amy Brandon, the 21st Century Guitar Conference is an international interdisciplinary conference on the 21st century guitar. The 21st Century Guitar Conference was held in Ottawa in 2019. In 2021 the conference will be online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The 2022 conference will be in Indiana and the 2023 conference will be in Montreal.
ARTIST biography.
Known as one of the most promising guitarists of his generation, Adam Cicchillitti is an active performer, composer, teacher and arranger. His compositions and arrangements are published by renowned editor les Productions d’Oz. In 2016, he toured Eastern Canada with Jeunesses Musicales and baritone Philippe Courchesne-Leboeuf, showcasing his arrangements of German and Spanish song cycles for the intimate duo of voice and guitar. He has been a featured soloist at Angèle Dubeau’s Fête de la musique, Canada’s premier guitar festival Guitare Alla Grande, Place-des-Arts and Salle J.-Antonio Thompson. His critically-acclaimed video-recordings for Radio-Canada, featuring his arrangements of Schubert songs with Philippe Sly, have reached hundreds of thousands of people internationally through social media.
Adam is currently completing a doctorate in music performance at McGill University, studying with celebrated guitarist Jérôme Ducharme. Finalist, semifinalist and multiple prize-winner in several national and international competitions, Adam will tour with acclaimed guitarist Steve Cowan and Debut Atlantic in 2018. The duo will release a second album with Analekta, celebrating the music for two guitars by renowned Canadian composers, in October 2019. Adam is the founder of the guitar program at Ottawa Suzuki Strings and is a specialist in child pedagogy.