RITUALS for piano and sitar with compositions by Matteo Ramon Arevalos
RITUEL - for sitar and electronic tanpura (Raga Yaman Kalyan)
LOUTRA PHOTOS – for prepared piano with mosaic tiles
VIVO MARCIA FANTASIA – for piano
BABEL - for piano and ping pong balls
NOCTURNE 1996 – for piano
SONATA CARETTA CARETTA (3° Movement) - for piano
RITUEL – for piano and electronic tanpura (Raga Yaman Kalyan)
Matteo Ramon Arevalos began playing drums at the age of six, but soon switched to piano, then took up composition. He published two compositions for piano of his own for the music publishing house College Music: Vivo Marcia Fantasia (2002) and Nocturne 1996 (2006). From 2003 to 2006 Arevalos was the pianist for Ada, a family chronicle by the theatre company Fanny & Alexander, recording the DVD Rebus per Ada (Luca Sossella Editore, 2006). In 2008 he performed with the ondist Nadia Ratsimandresy produced Messiaen et autour de Messiaen for the centenary of Messiaen’s birth, released on a CD by ReR Megacorp, London. In 2009, with the group I. Feraud (Roberto Pagnani, painter – Domenico Settevendemie, writer – Riccardo Bottazzi, sculptor) Arevalos composed music for Variazioni sull’Angolo Diedro. In 2009 collaborated with photographer Alex Majoli on the Georgian Spring exhibition, curated by Magnum Photos, at the Galerie Uferhallen in Berlin. From 2009 to 2011 he collaborated with the electronic composer Paolo F. Bragaglia in the group Synusonde, publishing a CD Yug for Minus Habens Records in 2011. He worked with film director Elisabetta Sgarbi composing and performing original soundtracks for Raffaello – La Stanza della Segnatura (2010) and Sono rimasto senza parole (2011). In 2011 he participated in the 54th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale with the artist Vanni Cuoghi and the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, with the mosaic exhibition Reliquary, his recent composition Mantra Gita for soprano, prepared piano with mosaic tiles and percussionists of mosaic cutters. He recently recorded and released on CD by ReR Megacorp his second project for nodes martinet and piano entitled Sérimpie with the ondist Bruno Perrault. Is currently involved in concerts of contemporary classical music and concerts of his compositions for piano solo, sometimes connected to figurative art.
