(Jan. 10) - The Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto organizes for the newt January 21st two events dedicated to Luciano Berio on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of his death. As part of the UOFT New Music Festival, at the Walter Hall will be performed for the very first in Canada his "Sequenze". A 3-hours concert, starting from 18.30, that will involve Joseph Petric and David Hetherington from the Duo ConTempera, with Petric dealing with the poetic interludes that accompany each sequence, with the same words written by Berio and the poet Sanguineti. In addition, the Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto has, in the afternoon of January 21, will host a lesson to be held by Damiana Bratuz, Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario and dedicated to the "Sequenze", in which the composer explored the sonic matter as sound, timbre and movement. (Red)

ABOUT LUCIANO BERIO
Born in Oneglia in 1925, Luciano Berio learns from his father and grandfather how to play piano. In the second half of the 40s, he studied composition at the Conservatory of Milan under Giulio Cesare Paribeni and Giorgio Federico Ghedini. In 1951, Berio arrived in the United States to study under Luigi Dallapiccola, and kept courses of composition in Darmstadt, Darlington (Summer School), California (Mills College), and at the Harvard University and Juilliard School in New York. In 1966 he won the "Prix Italy" for his "Laborintus II" (text by E. Sanguineti). In 1968 he composed his "Symphony". Berio returned to Italy in 1972. In 1974, he became director of the electro-acoustic division of the IRCAM in Paris. In 1994, Distinguished Composer in Residence at Harvard University, where he remained until 2000 when he became the president and superintendent of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. He died in 2003 in Rome.