Sentieri Selvaggi is an Italian musical ensemble

Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles...

, specialising in contemporary music.

It was founded in 1997 by Carlo Boccadoro, Filippo Del Corno and Angelo Miotto. The ensemble has worked with composers such as Michael Nyman

Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Nyman, CBE is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, known for the many film scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi-platinum soundtrack album to Jane Campion's The Piano...

, Philip Glass

Philip Glass

Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...

, Fabio Vacchi

Fabio Vacchi

Fabio Vacchi is an Italian composer born in 1949 in Bologna.-Training and debut:Fabio Vacchi studied at the G.B. Martini Conservatory of Bologna with Giacomo Manzoni and Tito Gotti. In 1974 he participated in the courses of the Tanglewood Festival in the USA, where he was awarded the Koussevitzky...

, David Lang

David Lang (composer)

David Lang is an American composer living in New York City. He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Music for The Little Match Girl Passion.-Biography:...

, James MacMillan, Lorenzo Ferrero

Lorenzo Ferrero

Lorenzo Ferrero is a contemporary Italian composer with a predilection for opera, a librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and wrote over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo...

, Ivan Fedele and Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen

Louis Andriessen is a Dutch composer and pianist based in Amsterdam. He teaches composition at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague...

.

Sentieri Selvaggi has been a regular guest at Italian musical festivals including Teatro Alla Scala, Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...

 and MITO Music September, as well as at Italian cultural events including the Literary Festival at Mantua

Mantua

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 and the Science Festival at Genoa

Genoa

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, and at international festivals including the Bang On A Can Marathon in New York City

New York City

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 and the SKIF Festival in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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The group also organized a festival in Milan

Milan

Milan is the second-largest city in Italy and the capital city of the region of Lombardy and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while its urban area, roughly coinciding with its administrative province and the bordering Province of Monza and Brianza ,...

 which since 2005 has become a contemporary music season with a program of concerts, public talks, and master classes. Every program focuses on a specific theme: in 2010 the title of the season is Nuovo Mondo (New World).

The ensemble has also staged chamber operas, including Io Hitler by Filippo Del Corno, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat (opera)

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a one-act chamber opera by Michael Nyman to an English-language libretto by Christopher Rawlence, adapted from the case study of the same name by Oliver Sacks by Nyman, Rawlence, and Michael Morris...

by Michael Nyman and The Sound of a Voice

The Sound of a Voice (opera)

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by Philip Glass.

CDs

• La formula del fiore
• Bad blood
• Child
• Acts of beauty
• Hotel occidental
• Musica Cœlestis (books/cd)
• Zingiber

In 2006 the ensemble recorded the anthology AC/DC for the American label Cantaloupe Music

Cantaloupe Music

Cantaloupe Music is a record label founded in March 2001 created by the three founders of New York's legendary Bang on a Can Festival: Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, and Bang on a Can Managing Director Kenny Savelson. Cantaloupe Music has made a massive impact in the new music...

. In 2008 the recording of Il cantante al microfono with soloist Eugenio Finardi won the 2008 Targa Tenco award.

Repertoire

• John Adams: Gnarly Buttons, Allelujah Junction
• Louis Andriessen: Passeggiata in tram in America e ritorno (new version), Hout, Zilver, De Staat
• Christina Athinodorou: Aktaí (2008)
• Luciano Berio: O King
• Carlo Boccadoro: Bad blood, Bibì&Bibò, Keep Cool, Zingiber
• Gavin Bryars: Non la conobbe il mondo mentre l’ebbe, Jesus’ blood never failed me yet,
• Michael Daugherty: Diamond in the rough, Sinatra shag
• Filippo Del Corno: Dogma#6, Hotel Occidental, L’uomo armato, Mancanza di soldi
• Ivan Fedele: Maja, Immagini da Escher
• Lorenzo Ferrero: Glamorama spies, Tourists and Oracles
• Carlo Galante: La formula del fiore, Urban Ring
• Philip Glass; Facades, The Sound of a Voice, Wichita Vortex Sutra
• Michael Gordon: AC/DC, Industry
• Giya Kancheli: Exil, Nach dem Weinen
• David Lang: Developer, I fought the law, Stick figure, Sweet air    
• James MacMillan: Raising sparks, Parthenogenesis, The Prophecy
• Michael Nyman: Acts of beauty, Something Connected With Energy, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat
• Arvo Pärt: Miserere, Stabat Mater
• Steve Reich: Cello Counterpoint, Daniel Variations, Proverb
• Fabio Vacchi: Dai calanchi di Sabbiuno, Mi chiamo Roberta