biography
After his debut at 16 in France, Ezio began his solo career with various orchestras in Europe: from the Wiener Kammer Orchester to the Chamber Orchestra of Europe from the Deustche Kammer-Virtuosen to the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova.
At that same time he had already composed music for theater or dance. But the meeting with Ludwig Streicher will change his life, the great maestro pushes him to study with him and also to study composition and conducting with Schoelccker and Österreihcer at the Vienna Academy.
In the early 90s, although young, he is considered one of the rare solo double bass virtuosos. He performed as soloist and conductor throughout the world from the Carnegie Hall in New York City to the Palacio de las Bellas Artes in Mexico City or the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels.
In that period, Ezio taught courses in Japan and Paris, being part of the contemporary music life of those years with Gerard Caussèe, Pierre Yves Artaud, Laura Chislett or the Schidloff Quartet . At the same time, he continued to experience his music in "off theaters" such as the Teatro Nuovo in Naples (where great directors like Mario Martone has taken their first steps), Maison Baudelaire Paris, the IRAA Theatre Melbourne, the Festival of Sant Arcangelo and especially the Juvarra Teatro di Torino, where he will stage his first opera "Alcina." In the same year he took his first steps into the world of cinema, composing music for silent movies in the Cinema Museums of Turin & Bologna.
In 1998, the music of his first feature film "One Love" by Gianluca Maria Tavarelli led him to the attention of the European cinema. In 2003 with the film "I'm Not Scared” by Gabriele Salvatores, Ezio's music got the attention of general audience and international critics. His compositions for string quartet for the film by Salvatores became a "case" that led him even to a "special invitation" at the Oscars. That music, also inspired a memorable tour, debuted at the Teatro Regio in Turin across Italy. Among many awards: two consecutive times (the only composer who did) The Flaiano Award, The Imaie Rising Star, the award for best musician of the year 2007 of the association of cinema essay, and also the only classical composer ever to being rewarded with the Italian Grammy.
In 2005, a serious injury to his left hand brought him to focus only on conducting and composition. In the same year he founded, with elements of the Quartet of Turin, former elements of the Borciani Quartet and young European musicians, the Buxusconsort.
In 2005 during the recording of his quartet for saxophones and the score for the film Quo Vadis Baby in New York, he met Philip Glass and started to produce his works at Mr Glass studio with his producers and technicians. He moved to New York for a period.
His many current productions and collaborations includes: Christopher Wheeldon, the San Francisco Ballet, the BalletBoyz, Scottish Dance Theatre, Southbank Centre of London, Sydney Dance Company, Rafael Bonachela, James Thiérrée.
His music is constantly used by directors, choreographers, on movies, on television and broadcasted by the major radio broadcast around the world.
Ezio is Guest Conductor of orchestras around the world from San Francisco to Hanoy.
His composition style is based on the concept of the emotional exploitation. He uses systems like the typical avant-garde music series and cells or the sum of the harmonic typical of the spectralism, and an extreme use of dynamics ffffff - pppppp, as well as a particular focus on the psychology and the attitude and participation of the interpreter related to a deep idea of the Agogic. This elements combined, creates, as well as other evidence, "natural" melodies easy to be listened. On this basis Bosso's music is defined as one of the rare cases of marriage between avant-garde and the accessibility of popular music today.
"Bosso is perhaps the only composer associated with figurative minimalism of Sol Lewitt. What Lewitt did with lines to search "the essence of art," Bosso does with emotion. The dig, the results, will detect it, distorts it, until it becomes more and then shock us taking us back to the essence of our emotions "
M. Wallace Art ak.
Over the years, the curiosity about other forms of musical expression and artistic works and the "old" obsession to understand how things works led him to collaborate with many different musicians and artists. Among others: Pino Daniele, Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), Gustavo Beytelmann (Gotan Project), , the writer Roberto Saviano, the rapper Lucariello, the painter Jean Michelle Folon.
Social commitment is constant in his production and from long time Ezio collaborated and dedicated compositions to associations such as Libera, UNICEF, World Smile Project.
In 2009 he was commissioned by the Festival Sounds of the Dolomites for his second symphony, entitled Under the tree's voices and dedicated to the "Firs of resonance" of Val di Fiemme. After the premiere at the Festival Sounds of the Dolomites in July 2010, the Val di Fiemme dedicated a tree in the Forest that Play to Ezio Bosso, an honour given exclusively to outstanding musicians in the world scene.
In 2009 he was been awarded with the Premio Lavagnino as composer of the year for be an innovative composer in the classical music world and in the cinema.
In 2010 he ended the symphonic season of the Teatro Regio in Turin, conducting the world premiere of his First Symphony, Oceans. A huge success with a sold out and 15 minutes of applause. Also in 2010 he directed the first Italian to Icarus on the Edge of Time, an event of Philip Glass and Bryan Green at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa at the head of the orchestra Filarmonica '900 of which he is "a consultant for special projects" and to which he is bound with a particular affection and esteem. In 2011
In 2011 Ezio has been the first not Australian composer awarded in Melbourne with the prestigious Green Room Award, as best composition and performance for his I symphony Oceans.
From March 2011 he is the Principal conductor and Artistic Director of the British Orchestra The London Strings.
He has been the subject of two Dissertation Title in Literature and in Architecture, and his music is also the subject of the book Eso, The Architectural Space in Ezio Bosso's Music by the Faculty of Architecture in Turin.
Nowadays, critics and international audiences consider Ezio Bosso as one of the most important exponent of the so-called “new” or “post” minimalism, as well as one of the leading composers of his generation.Although younger his name is frequently associated to the great composers of Minimalism such as Glass, Adams or Nyman.He lives in London with 2 Basset Hounds.