Davide Ianni
Davide Ianni, Composer
Davide Ianni is an Italian composer living and working in the US, with an emphasis on chamber music and electroacoustic composition. He has been a full-time professor at the New England Conservatory since 2014.
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Davide Ianni is an Italian composer living and working in the US. He began his musical career as a classical and jazz guitarist eventually focusing on music composition and sonic arts. Renowned for his compelling and distinctive sonic palette, his research as a composer has focus on testing the boundaries between harmony and timbre and creating a convincing syntax through specific instrumental techniques.
With a repertoire spanning from solo to orchestral works, as well as compositions for fixed and live electronics, Ianni's music has graced prestigious festival and concert halls worldwide, including La Biennale di Venezia, Darmstadt, BEAMS, Boston Cyber Arts, Boston Guitar Fest, Nicosia New Music Festival, Third Practice, and Nuova Musica a Treviso. He has received commissions from esteemed ensembles such as the Callithumpian Consort, Sound Icon, Alea III, Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, L’arsenale ensemble, and the Boston University Symphony Orchestra, collaborating with accomplished soloists including Luca Piovesan, Marco Fusi, Maarten Stragier, Dario Calderone, Philipp Steaudelin, and Alexandre Lecarme.
Ianni holds degrees in Music Composition and Film Scoring from Berklee College of Music and earned his doctorate in Music Composition and Theory from Boston University. He has shared his expertise in Music Theory, Composition and Electronic Music as a faculty member at Boston University, Brandeis University, and as a full-time professor at the New England Conservatory since 2014. Notably, from 2012 to 2017, Ianni served as the Artistic Director of the Composit New Music Festival, a prestigious Italian summer program dedicated to the advancement and exploration of contemporary music and innovative musical thought.
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"The composer’s control over timbre of both extended instrumental techniques and electronic synthesis are readily apparent on this work’s surface, but the engrossing poetics of Inter Nos exist deeper within the piece––begging for a second listen."
- Peter Van Zandt Lane, Boston Musical Intelligencer
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