Album DescriptionBorn in 1960, Pierluigi Billone lives in Milan and is one of today's leading avant-garde Italian composers. He studied with Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann and has been composer-in-residence at the Hamburg State Opera. Much of his career has been spent in Germany. He was winner of the Composition Award of the city of Stuttgart in 1992 and of the Busoni Compostion Award in 1997. He also received the Heinrich Strobel Scholarship in 1995, and the Bank of Austria Compostion Prize in 2003. A teacher and performer as well as composer, he has participated in numerous concerts as a guitarist. His music has frequently been performed at the Donaueschinger Festival and other venues. He has developed an individual brand of musique concrete instrumentale, or instrumental theater.