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Girolamo De Simone
12+ albums
pianoambientcontemporary classicalexperimentalAvant-Garde
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The pianist, composer and musicologist, Girolamo De Simone, born in 1964 in Naples, Italy, is regarded as one of the foremost exponents of the new Italian border music avant-garde. An eclectic figure in the Italian musical scene, he was inspired by pianist and composer Eugenio Fels, Riccardo Risaliti, and the late Luciano Cilio. As a pianist, he has performed in Italy and Europe, always arousing his audience's enthusiasm with his interpretations, at once terse and impassioned. As a composer, he was charged with important performancese in Europe (for UNESCO in Paris, the EEC in Bruxelles, the Swiss Radio-Television) and Italy (Radio Rai Due, Radio Rai Tre, Musica Verticale, Arsenale Musica, Musica Experimento). As theorist of "border music", Girolamo De Simone has published books and essays. He has anticipated by several years in many articles and reviews the themes of the contamination between different musical genres and the rejection of experimentalism. As a cultural operator, his aesthetic commitment has led him to promote many activities. Until 1993 he was director of the musical performance program of the Galassia Gutenberg expo in Naples. Later on, he became supervisor of the concert cycles Musica Millemondi - Teatro-Galleria Toledo in Naples, and Il Canto Dell'avorio, the concert season of the Ente di Rilievo Regionale Franz Liszt. In 1994, together with critics and composers of national prestige, he founded the contemporary music journal KonSequenz, as well as the Ko
