50% PhD Seminar & Concert: Francesco Palmieri

CONCERT: Tuesday, 25 November 2025, at 19:00

Programme:
Salvatore Sciarrino (*1947): L’addio a Trachis (trascr. for guitar by Francesco Palmieri) [1980/2021]
Luciano Berio (1925–2003): Sequenza XI (for guitar) [1988]
Marco Momi (*1978): Sans dire (for guitar & electronics) [2021]
Marco Momi: Quattro nudi (for e-guitar & electronics) [2014/2018]
Maurizio Tedde (*1996): Nothing Really Rhymes (for e-guitar and electronics) [2025]

50% PhD SEMINAR: Wednesday, 26 November 2025, at 10:00

PhD supervisors: Michael Edward Edgerton, Seth Josel

Opponent: Kent Olofsson

This seminar presents the latest developments of the doctoral project Redefining Contemporary Guitar Performance Practice through Spherical Amplification via S.T.OOGE, tracing a path from an etymological re-reading of stereophony as “solid sound” and the ethical-aesthetic considerations that shape an epistemology of listening, to the technical realization of these ideas in the hardware and software development of S.T.OOGE. The presentation highlights new custom-made ambisonic encoding plug-ins for live frequency-dependent spatialization and explores the concept of the instrument as a dynamically controlled system. It will be further shown how these technical and conceptual strategies inform concert practice and studio production, illustrated by the recording project Sans dire, scheduled for release on Brilliant Classics in 2026, which was partly performed in the concert preceding this seminar.

Francesco Palmieri (*1996, IT) is a guitarist and researcher based in Berlin. Dedicated to contemporary music, he has performed in major festivals and concert halls (e.g. Festival d’Automne, ManiFeste, Ruhrtriennale, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Staatsoper Berlin, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Acht Brücken, Festival Ultraschall, Milano Musica) collaborating with leading ensembles (e.g. Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, Staatskapelle Berlin, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France) and composers (e.g. Salvatore Sciarrino, Enno Poppe, Beat Furrer, Clara Iannotta, Pierluigi Billone, Marco Momi, Simon Steen-Andersen). He is a member of the musical collective Opificio Sonoro (Perugia) and Ensemble PHACE (Vienna). Awarded 1^st prize at the Valentino Bucchi Competition 2019 and Nicati Competition 2023, he has recorded for Kairos, Brilliant, Liquen, and Contrastes Records. After his studies in Fermo, Seville, and Bern, Francesco Palmieri graduated in 2022 from the Basel Hochschule für Musik with a MA in Specialized Performance in Contemporary Music. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Artistic Research in Music at Lund University.

Visit Francesco's artist website – francescopalmieri.eu

Read more about Francesco’s PhD in the Lund University Research Portal – portal.research.lu.se

Learn more about PhD education at the Malmö Academy of Music, by visiting the following website – mhm.lu.se