Piermatti, Giacomo International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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was born in Foligno in 1986. He studied the double bass with  Daniele Roccato and Stefano Scodanibbio. Strongly connected  to contemporary music, he focuses on performing the key works  of the twentieth-century repertoire such as Luciano Berio’s  Sequenza XIVb, Iannis Xenakis’s Theraps, Giacinto Scelsi’s Mantram, Kaija Saariaho’s Folia, Salvatore Sciarrino’s Esplorazione del  bianco, Franco Donatoni’s Lem, and Stefano Scodanibbio’s Geografia amorosa, which he played at numerous international festivals such as Rassegna di Nuova Musica in Macerata, Artescienza  in Rome, Basseurope in Amsterdam, Crisalide in Forlí, and Italian Institute of Culture in.

He is a member of Ludus Gravis, a unique ensemble only composed of double basses and dedicated to the performance of contemporary music, with which he has participated in numerous  international festivals such as Musica d’Hoy in Madrid, Rassegna di Nuova Musica in Macerata, Angelica in Bologna, Music  of Changes in Klaipėda, Gaida in Vilnius, Imago Dei in Krems,  Venice Biennale, Borealis in Bergen, Vinterfestuka in Narvik, Lux  Aeterna in Hamburg, and Ad Lucem in Riga.

He has given first performances of works by Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, Jay Schwartz, Gavin Bryars, Stefano  Scodanibbio, Nicolas Tzortzis, Gerard Pape, Filippo Perocco,  Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, amongst others.

He has been active in the experimental music scene and has taken  part in several improvisations led notably by Giancarlo Schiaffini,  Julio Estrada, Vinko Globokar, and Butch Morris.

In the field of avant-garde theatre, he worked with Emilia Romagna Teatro and China National Peking Opera Company, CRT  (Milan), and Masque Theatre (Forlí).

In 2013 he played with the Lucerne Festival Academy under  conductors such as Pablo Heras-Casado and David Robertson.  He has also worked with Klangforum Wien, Ex Novo Ensemble,  Ensemble Suono Giallo, and Edison Studio, while his recordings  have been published by Wergo and ECM. ​