FRANCESCA GAZA

Her recent commissions include a work for mezzo-soprano and prepared piano ‘hänge ich, zwischen Zeiten’ written for Maria Laschinger and Olivia Zaugg and their Duo Blickwechsel, a piece for mixed choir for the Junger Kammerchor Basel with text by Sibilla Aleramo, a work for Studio 31’s microtonal Arciorgano premiered at the Gare du Nord with a small chamber ensemble as part of the Congress of Music Theory and Tuning, and an arrangement for the MIT Wind Ensemble in Boston. Last December, her new work ‘Weihnachtsmadrigal’ for the Solothurner Singknaben and the Cantus Firmus Baroque Orchestra was premiered as part of the Christmas festivities. She was selected as one of the composers for the Neue Musik Ensemble Phoenix’s Composition Competition Trabant, which rotates around Edgar Varèses piece ‘Octandre’. Next year, her new work for the baroque ensemble “Il Pomodoro” will be premiered.
She regularly writes new music for historical instruments and frames them within a context that bridges and transcends genres but is connected to their past, often bringing together musicians from a variety of styles in one ensemble.