# Duo Alterno > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Duo_Alterno > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Duo_Alterno.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duo_Alterno > Source revision: 1329809150 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) The **Duo Alterno** is an Italian voice-piano [chamber ensemble](/source/Chamber_ensemble) specializing in 20th century and [contemporary classical music](/source/Contemporary_classical_music). The Duo made up of [soprano](/source/Soprano) Tiziana Scandaletti and [composer](/source/Composer)-[pianist](/source/Pianist) [Riccardo Piacentini](/source/Riccardo_Piacentini).[1] It was founded in Turin, Italy.[2] Duo Alterno's made its debut in February 1997 at the [Vancouver](/source/Vancouver) Italian Contemporary Music Festival, where it held concerts and masterclasses for the [University of British Columbia](/source/University_of_British_Columbia), the [Simon Fraser University](/source/Simon_Fraser_University) and the [Vancouver Academy of Music](/source/Vancouver_Academy_of_Music). Since then they have performed in the major Italian festivals and in more than forty countries, including [Europe](/source/Europe), [North America](/source/North_America), [South America](/source/South_America), [Asia](/source/Asia) and Australia, through concerts, masterclasses and CDs. ## Recent performances Recent[when?] international performances include: - [University of California in Berkeley](/source/University_of_California_in_Berkeley) - [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University) - Lincoln Performance Hall of [Portland-Oregon](/source/Portland,_Oregon) - Gasteig of [Munich](/source/Munich) - Xinghai Concert Hall of [Canton](/source/Guangzhou) - [Liaoning](/source/Liaoning) Grand Theatre of [Shenyang](/source/Shenyang) - Opera Ballet Theatre of [Ulan Bator](/source/Ulan_Bator) - BKA Theater of [Berlin](/source/Berlin) - [University of New Mexico](/source/University_of_New_Mexico) of [Albuquerque](/source/Albuquerque) - SoundaXis Festival of [Toronto](/source/Toronto) - MITO Festival of [Turin](/source/Turin) and [Milan](/source/Milan) - Mozart Festival of [Rovereto](/source/Rovereto) - [Sydney](/source/Sydney) Conservatorium - Federation Hall in [Melbourne](/source/Melbourne) - IIC in [Beijing](/source/Beijing) - [Moscow Conservatory](/source/Moscow_Conservatory) - [Janácek Academy](/source/JAMU) in [Brno](/source/Brno) - the University Theaters of [Vilnius](/source/Vilnius) - [Riga](/source/Riga) and [Kyiv](/source/Kyiv) ([Taras Shevchenko](/source/Taras_Shevchenko) University) - Nuova Consonanza Festival of [Rome](/source/Rome) - [Levine School of Music](/source/Levine_School_of_Music) in [Washington](/source/Washington,_D.C.) where [The Washington Post](/source/The_Washington_Post) particularly appreciated their "fine sense of comedic timing" [citation needed] - [Walt Disney Concert Hall](/source/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall) / [REDCAT](/source/REDCAT) in Los Angeles - the [Pyatt Hall](/source/Pyatt_Hall) of the [Vancouver Symphony Orchestra](/source/Vancouver_Symphony_Orchestra) - the Mugham Center in [Baku](/source/Baku) - the [Saint Petersburg Conservatory](/source/Saint_Petersburg_Conservatory). ## CDs - 1999 - *[Giacomo Manzoni](/source/Giacomo_Manzoni_(composer)). Du Dunkelheit* ([Milan](/source/Milan), Curci E. 11326 C.) - 1999 - *Musiche dell'aurora* ([Turin](/source/Turin), Italian Foundation of Photography - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00005) - 1999 - *Shahar* (Milan, Curci E. 11351 C.) - 2000 - *[Giorgio Federico Ghedini](/source/Giorgio_Federico_Ghedini). Sacred Music* (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7354) - 2001 - *Arie condizionate* (Turin, Italian Foundation of Photography - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00009) - 2001 - *Giorgio Federico Ghedini. Canti e strambotti* (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7365) - 2002 - *[Alfredo Casella](/source/Alfredo_Casella). Liriche* (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7371) - 2003 - *Treni persi* (Province of Turin - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00012) - 2004 - *[Franco Alfano](/source/Franco_Alfano). Liriche da [Tagore](/source/Rabindranath_Tagore)* (Turin, Nuova Era CD 7388) - 2004 - *Mina miniera mia* (Province of Turin - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00014) - 2004 - *Musiche della Reggia di Venaria Reale* ([Piedmont](/source/Piedmont) Region - Rive-Gauche Concerti RG 00015) - 2005 - *La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 1* (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33708) - 2006 - *La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 2* (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33743) - 2007 - *La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 3* (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33769) - 2007 - *Italienischer Gesangsabend mit dem Duo Alterno* ([Graz](/source/Graz), Steirischer Tonkünstler Bund STB 07/07) - 2009 - *La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 4* (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33833) - 2010 - *La voce crepuscolare - Notturni e Serenate del '900* (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33839) - 2011 - *La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 5* (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33895) - 2013 - *La voce contemporanea in Italia - vol. 6* (Milan, Stradivarius STR 33976) ## Tours abroad Italy - [Argentina](/source/Argentina) (1998, 2004) - Australia (2004, 2008, 2010) - Austria (2009, 2015) - [Azerbaijan](/source/Azerbaijan) (2014, 2015) - Belgium (2002, 2005) - [Brazil](/source/Brazil) (2012, 2016) - Canada (1997, 2003, 2008, 2009, 2013, 2014) - China (2002, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015) - [Chorea](/source/Chorea) (2001) - [Croatia](/source/Croatia) (2015) - [Czech Republic](/source/Czech_Republic) (2009, 2010, 2012, 2013) - Denmark (1999, 2008, 2016) - [Ethiopia](/source/Ethiopia) (2010) - [Finland](/source/Finland) (1998, 1999, 2010, 2015) - France (2001, 2010, 2015) - Germany (2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2013, 2016) - [Guatemala](/source/Guatemala) (2016) - [Netherlands](/source/Netherlands) (2005, 2014) - [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong) (2011, 2015) - Hungary (2010, 2014) - Japan (2006, 2007) - [Kazakhstan](/source/Kazakhstan) (2001) - India (2004) - [Indonesia](/source/Indonesia) (2001, 2004, 2015) - [Latvia](/source/Latvia) (2009) - [Lithuania](/source/Lithuania) (2009) - [Macedonia](/source/Macedonia_(country)) (2003) - [Malta](/source/Malta) (2011) - [Mongolia](/source/Mongolia) (2007, 2010) - Norway (1999, 2002) - [Peru](/source/Peru) (2012) - Russia (2005, 2009, 2014) - [Singapore](/source/Singapore) (2001, 2002, 2003, 2010, 2015) - Sweden (1999, 2008, 2015) - United Kingdom (2001) - United States (2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014) - [Turkey](/source/Turkey) (2005, 2016) - [Ukraine](/source/Ukraine) (2009) - [Uzbekistan](/source/Uzbekistan) (1998, 1999) - [Venezuela](/source/Venezuela) (2012, 2016) ## Repertoire - [Marcello Abbado](/source/Marcello_Abbado) - [Franco Alfano](/source/Franco_Alfano) - Davide Anzaghi - *Victor Andrini* - Marino Baratello - *Andrea Basevi* - *[Giorgio Battistelli](/source/Giorgio_Battistelli)* - *Umberto Bombardelli* - [Cathy Berberian](/source/Cathy_Berberian) - [Luciano Berio](/source/Luciano_Berio) - [Sonia Bo](/source/Sonia_Bo) - *Giovanni Bonato* - Mauro Bortolotti - Aldo Brizzi - *Gilberto Bosco* - Valentino Bucchi - [Sylvano Bussotti](/source/Sylvano_Bussotti) - *Curt Cacioppo* - *Beatrice Campodonico* - Mauro Cardi - [Alfredo Casella](/source/Alfredo_Casella) - *Pieralberto Cattaneo* - Mario Cesa - [Ernest Chausson](/source/Ernest_Chausson) - *[Fabio Cifariello Ciardi](/source/Fabio_Cifariello_Ciardi)* - *Giovanni Cima* - [Aldo Clementi](/source/Aldo_Clementi) - *Alberto Colla* - *Giorgio Colombo Taccani* - [Azio Corghi](/source/Azio_Corghi) - [Luigi Dallapiccola](/source/Luigi_Dallapiccola) - *[James Dashow](/source/James_Dashow)* - *[Fabrizio De Rossi Re](/source/Fabrizio_De_Rossi_Re)* - [Leonid Desyatnikov](/source/Leonid_Desyatnikov) - [Franco Donatoni](/source/Franco_Donatoni) - [Gaetano Donizetti](/source/Gaetano_Donizetti) - *Luigi Esposito* - [Lorenzo Ferrero](/source/Lorenzo_Ferrero) - Boris Filanovski - *[David Froom](/source/David_Froom)* - Sandro Fuga - [Stanislao Gastaldon](/source/Stanislao_Gastaldon) - *[Ada Gentile](/source/Ada_Gentile)* - [Giorgio Federico Ghedini](/source/Giorgio_Federico_Ghedini) - Riccardo Giavina - *Giuseppe Giuliano* - Domenico Guaccero - *Giovanni Guaccero* - *[Adriano Guarnieri](/source/Adriano_Guarnieri_(composer))* - *Richard Hermann* - *[Carlo Alessandro Landini](/source/Carlo_Alessandro_Landini)* - *Martin Q. Larsson* - *Corrinne Lateur* - *Luca Leone* - *Antonello Lerda* - *Paola Livorsi* - [Luca Lombardi](/source/Luca_Lombardi_(composer)) - [Bruno Maderna](/source/Bruno_Maderna) - [Gian Francesco Malipiero](/source/Gian_Francesco_Malipiero) - *[Giacomo Manzoni](/source/Giacomo_Manzoni_(composer))* - [Giuseppe Martucci](/source/Giuseppe_Martucci) - *Marco Molteni* - *[Ennio Morricone](/source/Ennio_Morricone)* - Carlo Mosso - [Luigi Nono](/source/Luigi_Nono_(composer)) - Franco Oppo - Marcello Panni - [Goffredo Petrassi](/source/Goffredo_Petrassi) - [Riccardo Piacentini](/source/Riccardo_Piacentini) - *Carlo Pinelli* - *Piera Pistono* - *Biagio Putignano* - [Maurice Ravel](/source/Maurice_Ravel) - Lodovico Rocca - [Gioachino Rossini](/source/Gioachino_Rossini) - Aurelio Samorì - [Giacinto Scelsi](/source/Giacinto_Scelsi) - [Arnold Schönberg](/source/Arnold_Sch%C3%B6nberg) - [Salvatore Sciarrino](/source/Salvatore_Sciarrino) - Christopher Shultis - [Leone Sinigaglia](/source/Leone_Sinigaglia) - [Antonio Smareglia](/source/Antonio_Smareglia) - [Alessandro Solbiati](/source/Alessandro_Solbiati) - *Daniela Terranova* - [Francesco Paolo Tosti](/source/Francesco_Paolo_Tosti) - [Fabio Vacchi](/source/Fabio_Vacchi) - [Giuseppe Verdi](/source/Giuseppe_Verdi) - *Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky* - *Vittorio Zago* (Composers who have dedicated works to the Duo Alterno are in italics) ## References 1. Swed, Mark (2012-10-03). ["Review: Duo Alterno in adventurous musical form at REDCAT"](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2012-oct-03-la-et-cm-duo-alterno-review-20121004-story.html). *Los Angeles Times*. Retrieved 2024-09-21. 1. ["Duo Alterno | CCRMA"](https://ccrma.stanford.edu/events/duo-alterno). *ccrma.stanford.edu*. Retrieved 2024-09-21. ## External links - [Official website](http://www.rivegaucheconcerti.org/en/duo-alterno) - [CEMAT website](https://web.archive.org/web/20071208011921/http://www.cematitalia.it/servizi/bio.php?lg=ita&cat=inte&id=444) - [CIDIM website](http://www.cidim.it/cidim/content/314648?id=281084&nc=Duo%20Alterno) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Duo Alterno](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duo_Alterno) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duo_Alterno?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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