Esther Lamneck and Alfonso Belfiore
This fall, Professor Esther Lamneck and the NYU New Music Ensemble celebrate a twenty-five-year partnership with Professor Alfonso Belfiore and the Department of New Technologies and Musical Languages at the “Luigi Cherubini" Conservatory of Music in Florence, Italy.
This alliance, which will be celebrated at an upcoming concert on December 8 at 5pm in the Loewe Theatre, has evolved since Lamneck and Belfiore’s first meeting in 1993 when Lamneck was director of the Music and Dance program in Pisa, Italy. Both Lamneck and Belfiore are dedicated to the training of young composers and musicians in their exploration of sound in space. These professors have a shared vision concerning the creation of multimedia art. Their work is significant in these changing times of redefinition of both composition and performance practice.
Lamneck and Belfiore’s growing collaboration now includes two festivals in Florence: “Il Corpo/la Luce/Il Suono” and the”International Diffrazioni Festival” along with the “Florence to New York Project” held at NYU.
This collaboration with Professor Belfiore has been an extremely meaningful aspect of my career. The work we have created over the past 25 years and the upcoming concert display our shared interest in multimedia performance. I look forward to our NYU students performing the music of their Italian counterparts.
In addition to directing the New Music Ensemble, Dr. Lamneck is the director of NYU’s program in Woodwind Studies. Belfiore is the director of Electronic Music and coordinator of the Department of New Technologies and Musical Languages at the "Luigi Cherubini" Conservatory in Florence. He is regularly invited as a visiting professor to NYU where he has held laboratories for electroacoustic and multimedia composition, creating several multimedia works for the New Music Ensemble.
The forthcoming NYU New Music Ensemble concert features works by Italian students from the New Technologies Department in Florence. The evening’s program will bring an exciting and varied electro-acoustic sonic experience that will be accompanied by dancers performing the choreography of NYU Steinhardt Dance Education professor Douglas Dunn.
"This collaboration with Professor Belfiore has been an extremely meaningful aspect of my career," said Professor Lamneck.
"The work we have created over the past 25 years and the upcoming concert display our shared interest in multimedia performance. I look forward to our NYU students performing the music of their Italian counterparts."