Francesco Di Fiore, piano
Valeria Di Matteo, video

Music by Philip Glass, Bear McCreary, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yann Tiersen, Michael Andrews, Marco Betta, Michel Nyman, Francesco Di Fiore, William Susman.

The “Sequence Shot” (piano-sequenza in Italian) is a film procedure coinciding with an entire sequence which than develops within a single frame. A celebrated film technique, long-analysed, adopted with frequency and in different variations in many cases.
Composer and pianist Francesco Di Fiore, in his new “video-concert” Pianosequenza, is inspired by this and by some of the most popular scores of recent years.

Music from The Truman Show, The Hours, The Sheltering Sky, Amélie, Donnie Darko, The Piano, At precisely Six O’Clock, Balancing Acts, When Medicine Got It Wrong, Secret Journey and many others.
Visuals by Valeria Di Matteo are based on film images.

NEW UPCOMING ALBUM
Zefir Records presents Pianosequenza, a new solo album by Francesco Di Fiore, containing music from film scores by Philip Glass (The Truman Show and The Hours) Yann Tiersen (Amélie), Michael Nyman (The Piano, A Zed and Two Noughts and The Diary of Anne Frank), William Susman (When Medicine Got It Wrong) and Di Fiore himself (At Precisely Six O’Clock).

Pianosequenza has been released on September 4, 2015 by Dutch label Zefir Records.

PIANOSEQUENZA TRAILER

Past venues:

LIVERPOOL, UK – The Capstone Theatre
BACAU, RO – Sala Ateneu
NANXUN, CN – Grand Theatre
HUZHOU, CN – Grand Theatre
FUZHOU, CN – Grand Theatre
FUQING, CN – Grand Theatre
NANTONG, CN – Grand Theatre
HARBIN, CN – Grand Theatre
SAN BARONTO, IT – XVIII Musicarte Montalbano Festival
MIDDELBURG, NL
AMSTERDAM, NL
GRONINGEN, NL
SNEEK, NL
NIZZA MONFERRATO, IT – Auditorium Trinità
BAGHERIA, IT – Palazzo Cutò

Francesco Di Fiore, piano
Valeria Di Matteo, video

Visual Piano is a shape-shifting project where piano music and visuals meet and interact.
It is a captivating and enjoyable journey inside contemporary music, including Francesco Di Fiore’s original music along with pieces by American Philip Glass, David Lang, John Cage and William Susman, British Michael Nyman and Neil Campbell, Dutch Douwe Eisenga, Italian Matteo Sommacal, Japanese Ryuichi Sakamoto.
A distinctive trait of this project is to blend these contemporary compositions with baroque music by Baldassarre Galuppi, François Couperin, Alessandro Scarlatti, Domenico Scarlatti and others.

Past venues:

LIVERPOOL, UK – Spring Season, The Capstone Theatre
MIDDELBURG, NL – Zeeuwse Concert Hall
BACAU, RO – Sala Ateneu
NINGBO, CN – Grand Theatre
ZHUJI, CN – City Theatre
DEZHOU, CN – City Theatre
HANGZHOU, CN – Xingguang Avenue Square
NIZZA MONFERRATO, IT – Concerti e Colline Series, Auditorium Trinità
LOVENO DI MENAGGIO, IT – Riflessi d’Arte Series, Villa Vigoni
LECCO, IT – Fondazione Borsieri
PAOLA, IT – Palazzo Stillo
MARINA DI PIETRASANTA, IT – Teatro S. Antonio
SHANGHAI, CN – Jing An Kerry Centre
BRATISLAVA, SK – Rakúske kultúrne fórum
SAN FRANCISCO, US – Center for New Music

365 days
53 compositions
17 piano four-hands
36 solo piano
207 minutes of music (3 hours and 27 minutes)

Miniature 2011 is a collection of compositions for solo piano and piano four-hands composed each week and shared (score and mp3) on my website. The project is a kind of music diary influenced by daily life. The project started on January 1st 2011 and ended on December 31st, never missing a single appointment to compose each week, every Saturday, for a total of 53 piano pieces and 207 minutes of music.
Artist Giorgio Gristina joined the project creating 53 “figured transcriptions”, one for each composition and composer Douwe Eisenga processed the audio clips of all individual compositions.

1.	llll	1 gen
2.	Vessel	8 gen
3.	Mirror I	15 gen
4.	Thought	22 gen
5.	Mirror II	29 gen
6.	Missing	5 feb
7.	Crag	12 feb
8.	Rain	19 feb
9.	Drops	26 feb
10.	Blue (piano four-hands)	5 mar
11.	Orange (piano four-hands)	12 mar
12.	Mirror III (piano four-hands)	19 mar
13.	Prism (piano four-hands)	26 mar
14.	Folktune	2 apr
15.	Zoe	9 apr
16.	Haiku	16 apr
17.	Blank	23 apr
18.	Discovery 3/09	30 apr
19.	Canvas	7 mag
20.	Observer	14 mag
21.	Mirror IV	21 mag
22.	Spectrum	28 mag
23.	Green (piano four-hands)	4 giu
24.	Mosaic (piano four-hands)	11 giu
25.	Skyline (piano four-hands)	18 giu
26.	Solstice (piano four-hands)	25 giu
27.	Stream	2 lug
28.	Flight	9 lug
29.	White Dwarf	16 lug
30.	Hush	23 lug
31.	Mirror V	30 lug
32.	F Time	6 ago
33.	Horizon	13 ago
34.	Heat	20 ago
35.	Dangling	27 ago
36.	Matteo (piano four-hands)	3 set
37.	Landings 9/11 (piano four-hands)	10 set
38.	H&G (piano four-hands)	17 set
39.	Bridge (piano four-hands)	24 set
40.	River Song	1 ott
41.	Sketch	8 ott
42.	Shapes	15 ott
43.	Yantra	22 ott
44.	Escape	29 ott
45.	Fall	5 nov
46.	Mist	12 nov
47.	Ballade	19 nov
48.	Echoes	26 nov
49.	Black (piano four-hands)	3 dic
50.	Icarus (piano four-hands)	10 dic
51.	White (piano four-hands)	17 dic
52.	Slide (piano four-hands)	24 dic
53.	Reflex (piano four-hands)	31 dic

piano & electronics + video

Visioni is a multimedia project for acoustic piano, electronics and video by italian pianist and composer Francesco Di Fiore.
Visioni is a single work in eight very different yet subtly related movements. Each movement is linked like the chapters of a book to tell the story of human evolution from the early origins of mankind to thehuman race’s final inevitable self-destruction.
It is an ideal “life cycle” narrated with music through the eight pieces. In live performance this music is combined with images created by the video artist Valeria Di Matteo.

VISIONI ALBUM

MALE’
piano & electronics

Male’ is a composition for piano and electronics, which is divided into 5 segments, three main blocks inspired by the literary works of the Trilogie Noir by Léo Malet and two shorter ‘transizioni’, two interludes that aim to separate the three pillars of the entire work. The music tries to evoke the atmosphere, flavor, vitality, fatigue, all maletian feelings of the ‘black trilogy’, with the turbulence and the calm atmosphere by Malet on which is impossible not to feel affection. The music of Francesco di Fiore is performed live on piano by Valeria Di Matteo and Francesco Di Fiore on electronics with the use of computers and keyboards.

Valeria Di Matteo, piano
Francesco Di Fiore, keyboards and electronics

HGW Project
ensemble & electronics

Created for Palermo based FOLKALAB Collective, HGW is a multimedia music project based on classic novels by science fiction author H.G. Wells.
HGW combines composed structures and sequenced electronics with a strong focus on improvised instrumental performance – alongside these musical elements are visuals, recorded speech/sound and narration. The work is structured in a series of movements corresponding to Herbert George Wells’ novels:

• THE ISLAND
• INVISIBLE MAN
• TIME TRAVELLER
• THE WAR

The ensemble for the piece varies from performance to performance in terms of instrumentation and musicians.

In this performance Francesco Di Fiore is leading (in alphabetical order):

• Mark Brocklesby, drum set and percussions
• Francesco Calabria, effects
• Neil Campbell, guitar and electronics
• Valeria Cimò, voice and percussions
• Nicole Collarbone, electric cello
• Mario Crispi, ethnic winds
• Francesco Di Fiore, piano and electronics
• Valeria Di Matteo, visuals
• Andy Maslivec, bass
• Danilo Rispoli, live electronics

[Live Recording in Palermo, june 25th 2008 at Kursaal Tonnara and in Liverpool UK, november 24th 2008]