Dante Moro Competition 2021/2022

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DANTE MORO COMPETITION, FIFTH EDITION 2021

1st prize: ROBIN HAIGH (U.K.), with the piece “Suonatore”

The jury has decided to award other prizes, to worthwhile contestants:

3rd prize (second not awarded) to NATHAN HARRIS (U.K.), with the piece “Piano Concerto La caccia”

Special mention to ELENA CATTINI (Italy), with the piece “Pastore (La brezza)”
Robin Haigh
 Nathan Harris
 Elena Cattini
Robin Haigh
Robin Haigh writes music that channels the frivolity and opaque nostalgia of millennial life into a kind of hazy 21st century romanticism. His “completely refreshing”, “magical” recorder quintet In Feyre Foreste earned him a British Composer Award in 2017 aged just 24, and his “quirky, playful, bold and original” Britten Sinfonia commission Grin won an Ivor Novello Award in 2020.
Robin’s individual approach to music is informed by his early experiences writing for the progressive metal band he played in as a teenager growing up in Newham, East London. His pieces are often based on unusual concepts; Samoyeds (for the Ligeti Quartet) makes music out of the sounds of howling dogs, Aesop (an LSO commission) asks orchestral performers to play on recorders, and No One (commissioned by Presteigne Festival) reimagines the Harp via homeric memes.
Robin studied at Goldsmiths College and the Royal Academy of Music with teachers including Dmitri Smirnov, Edmund Finnis, and David Sawer, and has worked as an assistant to Sir Harrison Birtwistle. He is coming to the end of an AHRC funded PhD at the University of York, where he also teaches, supervised by Martin Suckling.

Nathan Harris
Composer based in London UK. He is currently associate Soundhub composer of the London Symphony Orchestra, and has degrees in composition (including MMus in Composition with distinction).
He has composed many compositions for piano, orchestra, and chamber works. He has had professional performances from concert pianist Nicola Meecham, and the organist Kevin Bowyer. He recently won a composition competition for an organ work, and the work was performed in October 2021 in Fleet Street London by the organist of Rochester Cathedral, Francesca Massey..
Elena Cattini
Nata a Carpi, Elena Cattini si è diplomata in pianoforte presso il locale Ist. Tonelli e ha qui intrapreso gli studi di composizione con G. Calì, poi proseguiti con P. Aralla al Conservatorio Martini di Bologna, dove si è diplomata in Composizione e in Musica Elettronica. Successivamente ha conseguito il diploma di I livello in Organo sotto la guida di R. Negri. È laureata in Conservazione dei Beni culturali ed è Dottore di Ricerca in Storia dell’Arte. Come compositrice ha frequentato corsi di perfezionamento tenuti da F. Carluccio, A. Guarnieri, C. Scannavini, F. Piersanti, Z. Randall Stroope e ha ottenuto riconoscimenti in concorsi e rassegne (tra cui “Poesie in musica”, Cesenatico; “Simone Ciani”, Siena; “Musica e arte”, Roma; “Premio Zucchelli”, Bologna; “Compositori a confronto”, Reggio Emilia; “Terza Biennale di musica contemporanea” di Koper, Slovenia; “Le note ritrovate”, Avellino; “La città dei Gremi”, Sassari; BASS2018LUCCA). Ha pubblicato per la casa editrice Friedrich Hofmeister di Lipsia. Ha insegnato in varie istituzioni, tra cui l’Università degli Studi di Firenze, il Liceo musicale Sigonio di Modena e gli ISSM Peri-Merulo di Reggio Emilia e Vecchi-Tonelli di Modena. Presso quest'ultimo tuttora svolge attività didattica come docente di Ear training.