Simone Santi Gubini

Simone Santi Gubini (born June 13, 1980 in Marino, Lazio) is an Italian composer and music theorist.

He studied piano and composition with Valentino Di Bella and Edgar Alandia Canipa, acoustics and electronic music with Giorgio Nottoli and phonetics along with musical theory at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. He continued his studies, deeping his knowledge of the ancient forms of Byzantine music and the 15th century technique of Vocal Counterpoint. He attended Master Classes with Tristan Murail, Brice Pauset (2005) and Helmut Lachenmann (2006). His musical growing up is largely self taught and influenced by several extra-academic experiences, as the meetings with the German composer Hans Werner Henze.

In 2010, Santi Gubini completed an extensive ensemble composition (Als Oben) for woodwind, percussions and voices which had been commissioned by the Vatican Board of Umnio Apostolatus Catholici. On March 25th, 2012 the Orchestra sinfonica Roma Sinfonietta, conducted by Patrizio Esposito, performed the world premier of Als Oben, at the Auditorium, Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli in Rome. His solo piano piece Mit anderen Augen was premiered at the Charim Galerie in Vienna on November 2011. The work was commissioned by the Austrian artist and filmmaker Edgar Honetschläger. The work was greatly appreciated and will be presented at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse (July 2012). He has regularly collaborated with the pianist Maria Flavia Cerrato who, for the first time in Italy in December 2009, performed one of Santi Gubini’s most significant composition for piano, (Objet des Mots). The work was premiered at the theatre, Furio Camillo in Rome. His electronic piece Prefigurazione ad-stanziarsi was premiered at the theatre, Massimo in Palermo (2003).

Simone Santi Gubini’s music is characterized by two distinct qualities: the absence of all traditional and historical musical techniques and theories, which can be clearly perceived both in live performance as well as by analyzing the musical score itself. Secondly, the artist’s creative expression is directly relevant to the musical material at hand. As an arduous researcher, Santi Gubini has developed an innovative system for composition that regulates both intervals and rhythms. The system is known as Composizione a Parti Uguali (2011) and is soon to be published. The musical works of Simone Santi Gubini are published in the editions of La Camera Verde, Rome.

At present he is working to the realization of a big opera: SOS (Sound of Sirens) in collaboration with Edgar Honetschläger. This opera is inspired to the Fukushima tragedy.

Works

 * Studio Ia for electronic (2001)
 * Studio Ib for electronic (2001)
 * Studio IIa for electronic (2002)
 * Prefigurazione ad-stanziarsi for voices and electronic (2003)
 * Miroir for piano (2003)
 * Exposé for piano, marimba, xylophone, timpani and percussion (2005)
 * Objet des mots for piano (2007-2009)
 * Als Oben for voices, instruments and amplification system (2009-2010)
 * Les Oiseaux fantastiques I for piccolo and flute (2010)
 * Les Oiseaux fantastiques II for flute (2010)
 * Phlebas for 40 voices (2010)
 * Mit anderen Augen for piano (2011)
 * Miroir / récursive for piano (2004 – rev. 2010-2011)
 * Studio in 3 strumenti I sul metodo compositivo ‘Ritmo in Diminuzione Additiva’ for flute, clarinet and bassoon (2008 - rev. 2011)
 * Abstrakte Natur lebendig, Studio I sul sistema compositivo ‘Composizione a Parti Uguali’ for piccolo, flute, oboe, horn in F, vibraphone, piano and amplified instruments (2012)
 * Ausgießung for piano (2012)