Da lontano: Ketty Teriaca and fifteen musical letters received during lockdown
Fifteen solo-piano pieces that eight composer friends, Italian and foreign, wrote or transcribed for Ketty Teriaca during lockdown. A record of friendship and dedication, which the Catania-born pianist also describes as a tribute to her mother and to all mothers who support their children's artistic pursuits.
Ketty Teriaca's Da lontano was released on Anaglyphos on 7 February 2023 and presented on 21 February at ZŌ Centro Culture Contemporanee in Catania, with the premiere of the Da lontano video directed by Nadia Arancio and an exhibition of works by Nunzio Fisichella in the foyer.
A tribute album
The project was born during lockdown. With chamber-music concerts on hold, Teriaca turned back to solo repertoire. She asked Luca Nobis for a piano transcription of a piece she had heard at one of his concerts. Pleased with the result, she extended the same request to seven other composer friends whose writing she admired. The result is a choral album of letters received from afar: each composer dedicated a piece to Teriaca, some of them previously unpublished.
It is also a tribute to my mother, and to all mothers who steadfastly accompany their children in their passions, supporting them through study and encouraging them through inevitable setbacks.
The quote is from Teriaca herself, given at the time of release.
The eight composers
Pianists: Maria Gabriella Cappelletti, Valentina Grisafi, Luca Nobis, Luciano Maria Serra. Guitarists: Giovanni Seneca, Mario Gulisano, the Brazilian Daniel Wolff. Composer in the strict sense: Marco Betta, currently superintendent of Teatro Massimo in Palermo, who contributes the largest number of pieces.
The fifteen tracks
- Da Lontano (4:40)
- Pace (2:37)
- Planare (4:30)
- Il Valzer dei Ciliegi (2:47)
- Ecuba (3:07)
- Due Piccoli Valzer Sentimentali (3:37)
- Per Elsa (2:43)
- A Brief Nocturne in B Flat Minor (A Dialogue in the Night) (6:11)
- Ultima Luce (2:47)
- Nives (2:24)
- Cristalina (3:14)
- Lamento Para Maroca (3:53)
- Notturno – Soledad (3:03)
- Intermezzo (3:34)
- La Vita che Appare (1:35)
Fifty-one minutes in total. The record works with dense, twilight harmonies, in a borderland between contemporary classical and concert listening: writing attentive to form, controlled pianism, no concession to the rhetoric of virtuosity.
Ketty Teriaca
Born in Catania, Teriaca graduated in piano at the F. Cilea Conservatory in Reggio Calabria in 1990, and completed her training with a degree at the DAMS in Bologna. She studied further with Bruno Canino, Vincenzo Balzani, Eliodoro Sollima and Pier Narciso Masi. She teaches at the A. Scarlatti Conservatory in Palermo and is artistic director of the international chamber-music festival Classica & Dintorni. She also performs with the Ensemble Darshan, specialized in live scoring of early-20th-century silent films.
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