{{short description|Italian concert organist and composer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Francesco Filidei | image = | image_upright = | caption = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1973}} | birth_place = Pisa, Italy<ref name="IRCAM" /> | death_date = | death_place = | education = {{plainlist| * Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini * Conservatoire de Paris }} | occupation = {{plainlist| * Organist | Composer }} | organization = | awards = | website = }} '''Francesco Filidei''' (born 1973)<ref name="IRCAM" /> is an Italian concert organist and composer. He has performed internationally. As a composer, he has collaborated with singer-songwriter Claire Diterzi and written operas premiered in Porto and Paris. His music has been performed by notable contemporary music ensembles. His Japanese wife, {{ill|Noriko Baba (composer)|fr|Noriko Baba (compositrice)|lt=Noriko Baba}},<ref>{{Cite web |last=ChristopherAxworthyMusicCommentary |date=2023-03-27 |title=Ilaria Cavalleri – Roma Tre Young Artists Piano Solo Series – War and Peace with integrity and artistry |url=https://christopheraxworthymusiccommentary.com/2023/03/27/ilaria-cavalleri-roma-tre-young-artists-piano-solo-series-war-and-peace-with-integrity-and-artistry/ |access-date=2024-06-19 |website=ChristopherAxworthy-MusicCommentary |language=it-IT}}</ref> is also a composer.
== Life == Filidei graduated from the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, where he won unanimously the first prizes in organ playing and music composition. He followed advanced courses of Salvatore Sciarrino, Giacomo Manzoni, Sylvano Bussotti, and studied further with Jean Guillou in Zürich.<ref name="IRCAM" /> From 1999 to 2005, he studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Frédéric Durieux and Michaël Lévinas, among others.<ref name="IRCAM" /> He graduated in composition with honours. At the same time, he took a composition course of the IRCAM.<ref name="IRCAM" />
He performs in concert, playing works by Franz Liszt, César Franck, as well as his own compositions and much contemporary music for organ and piano, in Italy and abroad. In 1998, he was awarded the S. Taddei Annual Scholarship and in 2004 the Meyer Prize and in 2007 the Takefu International Composition Award.<ref name="IRCAM" />
In his compositions, Filidei tries – as Sciarrino says – "to imagine a music that has lost the sound element".<ref name="IRCAM" /> His works are performed by notable contemporary music ensembles, such as the Ensemble 2e2m, the Ensemble InterContemporain, Les Percussions de Strasbourg, Alter ego,<ref name="IRCAM" /> L'Instant donné,<ref>[http://www.instantdonne.net/repertoire Repertoire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512133940/http://www.instantdonne.net/repertoire |date=12 May 2019 }} (in French) L'Instant donné</ref> the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.quartierdesspectacles.com/fr/activite/6565/nouvel-ensemble-moderneeclatmultiples|title=Quartier des spectacles – Nouvel Ensemble Moderne – Éclat/Multiples|website=www.quartierdesspectacles.com|access-date=18 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191018083955/https://www.quartierdesspectacles.com/fr/activite/6565/nouvel-ensemble-moderneeclatmultiples|archive-date=18 October 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> the Ensemble orchestral contemporain and were recorded by Radio France and Rai Tre.<ref name="IRCAM" />
He received the Musikpreis from the city of Salzburg, was composer in residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart in 2006 and was invited to the Casa de Velázquez in Madrid in 2007.<ref name="IRCAM" />
He worked with the singer-songwriter {{Ill|Claire Diterzi|fr}} for the musical and theatrical show ''{{Ill|L'Arbre en poche|fr}}'' presented in 2019.<ref>[https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/activity/spectacle/19448-claire-diterzi-larbre-en-poche Claire Diterzi – L'Arbre en poche / Serge Kakudji – Alexandre Pallu – Francesco Filidei] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024092259/https://philharmoniedeparis.fr/en/activity/spectacle/19448-claire-diterzi-larbre-en-poche |date=24 October 2019 }} philharmoniedeparis.fr 2019</ref>
His opera ''Giordano Bruno'' had its world premiere in 2015 in Porto.<ref name="Mattietti" /> The world premiere of his opera ''L'inondation'' (''The Flood'') was given on 27 September 2019 at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.<ref>[https://www.opera-comique.com/fr/saisons/saison-2019/l-inondation ''L'inondation''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191020073616/https://www.opera-comique.com/fr/saisons/saison-2019/l-inondation |date=20 October 2019 }} Opéra-Comique, 2019</ref> The libretto by {{Ill|Joël Pommerat|fr}} is based on the eponymous short story by Yevgeny Zamyatin published in 1929.<ref>[https://www.ricordi.com/en-US/News/2019/09/Filidei-Inondation.aspx ''L'inondation''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191024091732/https://www.ricordi.com/en-US/News/2019/09/Filidei-Inondation.aspx |date=24 October 2019 }} Casa Ricordi, 2019</ref>
In 2023 Teatro alla Scala and the Opéra de Paris jointly commissioned Filidei to create a new opera Il Nome Della Rosa based on the book by Umberto Eco. <ref>{{Cite web |title=Filidei’s new opera for Teatro alla Scala and Opéra de Paris |url=https://www.ricordi.com/en-US/News/2023/5/Filidei-Il-nome-della-rosa.aspx |access-date=2025-02-17 |website=www.ricordi.com |language=en}}</ref>
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<ref name="Mattietti">{{cite journal | last = Mattietti | first = Gianluigi | url = https://www.takte-online.de/portrait/detailansicht-portrait/artikel/geraeusch-und-sinnlichkeit-der-italienische-komponist-francesco-filidei/index.htm | title = Geräusch und Sinnlichkeit / Der italienische Komponist Francesco Filidei | journal = Takte | publisher = Bärenreiter | date = January 2016 | language = de | access-date = 24 October 2019 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20191024093746/https://www.takte-online.de/portrait/detailansicht-portrait/artikel/geraeusch-und-sinnlichkeit-der-italienische-komponist-francesco-filidei/index.htm | archive-date = 24 October 2019 | url-status = live }}</ref>
<ref name="IRCAM">{{BrahmsOnline|21883|Francesco Filidei}}</ref>
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== External links == * [http://www.cdmc.asso.fr/fr/ressources/compositeurs/biographies/filidei-francesco-1973 Biography of Francesco Filidei], Centre de documentation de la musique contemporaine (Cdmc). * {{Discogs artist}}
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