Garau, Lucio (b. 1959, Cagliari). Italian composer of mostly chamber and electroacoustic works that have been performed throughout Europe; hs is also active as a pianist.
Mr. Garau studied piano with Areltte Eggmann at the Conservatorio di Cagliari from 1968-77 and then privately with Massimo Bertucci and Vincenzo Vitale in Naples in 1978-79. He studied composition with Franco Oppo at the Conservatorio di Cagliari from 1980-90 and there also studied electroacoustic music with Nicola Bernardini from 1985-88. His honors include a residency at the GMVL studio in Lyon (1998) and commissions from the Angelica Festival (Bologna, 1998) and the Venice Biennale (2002), among others. Many musicians, including recorder-players Kees Boeke and Antonio Politano, pianists James Clapperton, Francesco Libetta and Andrea Padova, double bassist Fernando Grillo, accordionist Claudio Jacomucci, violinist Mieko Kanno, saxophonists Daniel Kientzy and Ulrich Krieger, vocalist Gabriella Ravazzi, and percussionists Roberto Pellegrini, Françoise Rivalland and Steven Schick have performed his music.
As a pianist, he has given concerts throughout Europe and in Latin America, where he held a series of concerts and lectures, and in early 2003, he lectured in the USA. In 1991, he formed the MiniM Ensemble, which is devoted to the performance of minimal music, and of which he is the artistic director.
As a researcher, he currently works on the relationship between score and so-called improvisation and has previously worked on minimal music in Cagliari and has devoted considerable study to the music of Sardinia.
Web: http://www.composers21.com/compdocs/garaul.htm (2010)