Nicola Campogrande

The Travel Preludes are three short pieces ideally conceived for opening a concert. The first, Urgent Call, is like a bell calling the audience and stressing the importance ­- and at times the urgency...

Premiere: Rome/Italy, Palazzo del Quirinale, Cappella Paolina, October 19, 2025 In a Jazz Club Courtyard is the second movement from Urban Gardens for piano quartet. This movement takes place "in the...

This work was inspired by a recently rediscovered series of photographs taken by radio operator and photographer Amedeo Verri during the First World War. What struck me most was the positive energy em...

This work was inspired by a recently rediscovered series of photographs taken by radio operator and photographer Amedeo Verri during the First World War. What struck me most was the positive energy em...

In 1998 I composed "Cronache animali" based on poems by Toti Scialoja and called it a "pocket opera for singing actress and five instruments". It is a series of 33 microsongs, expressly not intended f...

In 2012 Nicola Campogrande received a rather singular commission when a total stranger asked him to compose a musical portrait of his fiancée. The man knew exactly what he wanted: a concerto for piano...

For a long time after Romanticism had come to the fore, it was generally agreed that Brahms somehow "did not get it": History and Progress - it was thought - were proceeding along one clear path and B...

Premiere: Sapporo/Japan, Concert Hall, January 18, 2026 Commissioned by Francesca Dego in memory of her father Giuliano and by the CIDIM Comitato Nazionale Italiano Musica For me, composition has alw...

The score is inspired by the urban gardens that are becoming a new, exciting presence in our cities. In such a setting I imagined the piano as an urban memory and the string trio as a green, vegetal p...

Musically portrayed In 2012, Nicola Campogrande received a rather unusual commission from a stranger who asked him to compose a musical portrait of his fiancée. The man knew exactly what he wanted: a...