Alessandro Baticci is a composer, flutist, and electroacoustic performer working at the intersection of music and technology. His practice spans contemporary composition, sound art, and the design of new electro-acoustic instruments and digital systems, with a strong interest in perception, embodiment, and musical form. He studied composition, flute, sound engineering, and multimedia art in Milan, Vienna, and Graz, and is active internationally as a performer, lecturer, and researcher.
Baticci is an alumnus of the Lucerne Festival Academy and a fellow of Akademie Musiktheater heute (Deutsche Bank Stiftung) and the Bogliasco Foundation. His work has been commissioned and presented by institutions such as Lucerne Festival, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, IRCAM, Radio France, and the Stuttgart State Opera. Baticci was awarded the ERSTE Bank Composition Award and the ELÀN Award. He is fellow of the Bogliasco Foundation and the Academy "Musiktheater heute" by Deutsche Bank Stiftung.
At MacDowell, Baticci worked on musical scenes and new material for an upcoming opera project. The opera is set in the Amazonas during the years of rubber exploitation and marks the second collaboration with direction Gabrielė Bakšytė.
Alessandro Baticci
Studios
Barnard
Alessandro Baticci worked in the Barnard studio.
Originally built near the Lower House (a building since demolished) at MacDowell's Union Street entrance, Barnard Studio was funded by Barnard College music students. It was re-located to its current site in 1910. When the small structure was moved, its size was doubled with the addition of a second room…