Matteo Fargion

22 dancers. [30']

Made with 2nd year students at SEAD, Salzburg.

Premiere at Joseph Eckhart Theater 2/02/2024

24 dancers. [25']

Made with 2nd year students at SEAD, Salzburg.

Premiere at Joseph Eckhart Theater 10/03/2023

4 singers, 4 Moog Grandmothers synthesisers, violin, viola. [90']

Text, concept and direction by Spreafico Eckly.

Premiere at Rosendal Theater, Trondheim 14/10/2023, performed by Martha MacBean, Francesca Fargion, Matteo Fargion, Robert M Johanson, Björn Guo, Stefan Penjin and Live Sunniva Smidt.

soprano, alto, tenor, baritone, string trio. [90']

Text, concept and direction by Spreafico Eckly.

Premiere at Rosendal Theater, Trondheim 17/09/2021, performed by Martha MacBean, Francesca Fargion, Matteo Fargion, Robert M Johanson, Björn Guo, Stefan Penjin and Live Sunniva Smidt.

Music for En Route

Trumpet, alto sax, trombone, tuba, percussion [20']

Commissioned by Luca Silvestrini for Protein Dance

2 Synthesisers, snare drum, cow bell, floor tom and cymbal. [30']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion.

String Quartet [60']

Speaker and rock band [15']

Text by Chrysa Parkinson. Part of a series of talks set to music. Conceived by Burrows&Fargion. Performed by Chrysa Parkinson, Jonathan Burrows, Francesca Fargion and Matteo Fargion.

Speaker and rock band [30']

Text by Wendy Houstoun. Part of a series of talks set to music. Conceived by Burrows&Fargion. Performed by Wendy Houstoun, Jonathan Burrows, Francesca Fargion and Matteo Fargion. Podcast version commissioned by GIFT Festival

Voice, piano, orchestra, dancer. [18']

Conceived and directed by Burrows&Fargion, commissioned by London Contemporary Music Festival 2019, performed by the LCMF Orchestra, (dir. Jack Sheen), Francesca Fargion and Claire Godsmark.

Soprano, harmonium, Korg synthesiser, speaking voice [90']

Text by Mette Edvardsen. Text, concept and direction by Mette Edvardsen, commissioned by Kunsten Festival Brussels, performed by Angela Hicks, Mette Edvardsen, Matteo Fargion

2 voices, 3 pianos (tuned to 334Hz,440Hz,446Hz) [60']

With Andrea Spreafico. A sung punk history of music. Devised and directed by Andrea Spreafico and commissioned by Borealis Festival, Bergen. Performed by Robert M Johanson, Matteo Fargion, Martha Berit, Belt Mai Goto and Håkon Sjøvik Olsen

Piano, synthesiser, voices, percussion, ring modulation [90']

With Claire Croize. A dance piece by Claire Croize, commissioned by the Concertgebouw Brugge. Music performed by Francesca Fargion and Matteo Fargion

Good Morning Milton Keynes!

Brass band and chamber choir [15']

With Andrea Spreafico. Commissioned by Festival of Urban Living, Milton Keynes

Dance solo [23']

Commissioned by Labor Sonor, Berlin

Speaker and rock band [35']

Text by Mette Edvardsen. Part of a series of talks set to music. Conceived by Burrows&Fargion. Performed by Mette Edvardsen, Jonathan Burrows, Francesca Fargion and Matteo Fargion

Music for Lectures/ She Dancing

Speaker and rock band [18']

Text by Katie Coe. Part of a series of talks set to music. Conceived by Burrows&Fargion. Performed by Katie Coe, Jonathan Burrows, Francesca Fargion and Matteo Fargion

Dance piece with pre-recorded music and optional live choir [45']

With Karl Jay Lewin. Performed by Ellie Sikorski/Janine Fletcher, Claire Godsmark, Neil Callaghan, Karl Jay Lewin

Dance piece with live music [60']

Commissioned by Dance On, Berlin, for their debut tour. Concept, direction and music by Matteo Fargion. Choreography by Ivo Dimchev, Hetain Patel, Lucy Suggate, Noe Soulier, Beth Gill, Tim Etchells and Etienne Guilloteau

Dance piece for 6 performers and 36 clay objects [45']

Conceived and directed by Burrows&Fargion

Violin & Piano Music

Violin, piano, pre-recorded voice [15']

Commissioned by 840, performed by Ruben Zilberstein and Mateusz Rettner

For dancer, actor and musician (piano, voice, melodica, mandolin, ring modulation) [90']

With Andrea Spreafico. Performed by Robert M Johanson, Mate Meszaros, Matteo Fargion

Music for oslo

Chamber choir seated in audience [22']

For Mette Edvardsen's solo performance oslo

Irrlicht

2 voices, rattles, mouth organs [10']

Conceived and performed by Burrows&Fargion. Commissioned for the opening night of the Musikfestival Bern

Five Loud Portraits

Rock band and 5 seated artists [15']

Conceived and directed by Burrows&Fargion. Sung portraits of 5 local artists, performed at Meteor Festival, Bergen, by Jonathan Burrows, Francesca Fargion and Matteo Fargion

voices, various midi and other instruments, dancers, [140']

Year long online project consisting of short 'portrait' films of 52 performers with biographical songs. Made with Jonathan Burrows and film maker Hugo Glendinning. Music performed by Francesca Fargion & Matteo Fargion. Commissioned by Sadlers Wells Theatre.

Der Moderne Tanz

Piano and voice, dancer [15']

Conceived and directed by Burrows&Fargion. Performance/ installation commissioned by the Art-Music-Dance Staging for the Derrida de Moroda Archive exhibition, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg. Choreographed and performed by Claire Godsmark, music by Matteo Fargion. Film By Hugo Glendinning

Dance piece [35']

Concept and direction by Burrows&Fargion, choreography by Eleanor Sikorski and Flora Wellesley Wesley, commissioned by Nora

Mandolin and voice, dancer, [30']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion. Commissioned by the Venice Biennale

The Madonna Project

Melodica, voice, dance, [15']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion. Commissioned by the Venice Biennale

Rebelling Against Limit (a lecture/concert)

Piano pieces, speaker, slides [12']

Text by Jonathan Burrows, Drawings by Peter Rapp, Music by Matteo Fargion.

2 performers at tables, mouth organs [15']

Commissioned and performed by Tim Parkinson and James Saunders

Dance piece with songs [30']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion and a cast of older dancers. Commissioned by the Elixir Festival, Sadlers Wells

Piano, bass drum, kazoo, rattle and dance [45']

With Karl Jay Lewin. Conceived and directed by Karl Jay Lewin and Matteo Fargion. Performed by Karl Jay Lewin and Tim Parkinson

10 ABA Pieces

Piano [15']

Written for Tim Parkinson

Music for Vor dem Ruhestand

String quartet [25']

Incidental music for Elmar Goerden's production of Thomas Berhard's play for the Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna

Piano and 2 speaking voices, film [40']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion

Music for John Gabriel Borkman

Incidental music for Elmar Goerden's production of Ibsen's play for the Theater in der Josefstadt, Vienna

Dance piece with pre-recorded music on midi instruments [30']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion

Counting to One Hundred

Dance piece with pre-recorded music for multi-tracked voice and midi instruments [30']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion

Wrong Songs

Dance Piece [20']

Commissioned and performed by Mapdance, Chichester

6 Songs for Gill

Dance piece, [18']

Commissioned by Trinity Laban, performed by BA 3rd year students

Shouting Dance

Dance piece for teenagers, piano [30']

Conceived and directed by Burrows&Fargion and performed by 12 teenagers and Matteo Fargion. Commissioned by Cultuurcentrum Hasselt and Dans in Limberg, Belgium

Songbook

4 speaking and singing dancers, mouth organs [20']

Commissioned as part of Rotor by Siobhan Davies Dance. Performed by Charlie Morrissey, Annie Lok, Lindsey Butcher and Andrea Buckley

Music for The Question Room

Piano and slides [60']

Installation commissioned by the Science Museum, London

Live and pre-recorded piano, 2 voices [30']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion

Dance duet with 12 plastic cows, harmonium, melodeon, mandolin, mouth organs, voices, [30']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion

Minutes

Dance/music piece with harmonium, ukuleles, voice, dancer [180']

Part of The Collection by Siobhan Davies, premiered at Victoria Miro Gallery, London. Performed by Catherine Bennett and Matteo Fargion

Dancing Songs

Dance piece, [20']

Commissioned by Trinity Laban, performed by BA 3rd year students

Music for Two Quartets

Midi instruments, voices, [60']

Commissioned by Siobhan Davies Dance

Music for Schändung

Incidental music for Elmar Goerden's production of the Botho Strauß play for the Schauspielhaus, Bochum

Mouth organs, melodica, voices, dancer, tape, [45']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion

Dance duet, pre-recorded birds calls [30']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion

Music for Long Day's Journey into Night

Multi-tracked harmonium [21']

Incidental music for Elmar Goerden's production of Eugene O'Neill: Eines langen Tages Reise in die Nacht for the Salzburger Festspiele/Residenztheater München

String Quartet no 4 (Bow Songs)

String quartet [4']

Part of The Bow Project, devised by Michael Blake, performed by the Nightingale Quartet

Das Kontingent

arranged for piano duet and voices [25']

A version of the oratorio of the same name, commissioned for a reading at the Royal Court Theatre, London

Double Dickie

2 pianos [15']

Written for piano duo Post & Mulder

Dance duet [45']

Conceived, directed and performed by Burrows&Fargion. Winner of a Bessie Award, New York

Music for Rodogune

Child's voice and electronics [16']

Incidental music for Elmar Goerden's production of Pierre Corneille play, for the Residenz Theater, Munich

Music for The Girl on the Sofa

Piano, electronics, voice [17']

Incidental music for Thomas Ostermeier's production of the Jon Fosse's play, performed at the Edinburgh Festival

Music for Vor Langer Zeit im Mai

Piano [8']

Incidental music for Elmar Goerden's production of Roland Schimmelpfennig's play, for the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel im Haus der Kunst, Munich

You May Not Want To Be Here

violin, prepared piano, speaking voices. [30']

After a concept by Bruce Nauman, conceived and performed by Marc Sabat and Matteo Fargion at the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart

Das Kontingent (an oratorio)

Violin, cello, trombone, piano, actors/singers [60']

Text by Soeren Voima, commissioned by Schaubühne Berlin

Music for Die Schwärmer

4 Guitars [18']

Written for Elmar Goerden's production of the Robert Musil play, for the Staatstheater. Stuttgart

Lucio Infelice

Soprano, tenor, fortepiano [15']

Music for Singing, a dance piece by Jonathan Burrows

Piano [16']

Written for Stephen Clarke

Multiple midi pianos [18']

Music for Minty, a dance piece by Jeremy James

Short concert version for 3 amplified cardboard boxes [8']

Music for Hedda Gabler

Prepared piano [16']

Stage music for Hedda Gabler directed by Elmar Goerden, Stuttgarter Staatstheater

Music for Stiletto

Prepared piano, violin, midi instruments [7']

Film score for a short film by Adam Roberts, (Channel 4/BFI) written, performed and produced together with Marc Sabat

2 Lines

Wind ensemble [11']

Written for the Nederlands Wind Ensemble

Le Bellezze D'Hortensia (an opera)

Soprano, tenor, baritone, 2 pianos [40']

Commissioned by Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

Music for Aka Blue

Multiple guitars [12']

Music for a dance piece by Karl Jay Lewin

Piano, clarinet, trombone, cello [14']

Written for Quartet Avance, Freiburg

Tosca Songs

Soprano, piano [19']

Written for Beth Griffith and Dorothea Eppendorf

Multi-tracked Bodhrans, bass guitars, mouth organs; 3 amplified cardboard boxes [30']

Dance score commissioned by Siobhan Davies

Cello [11']

Written for Sophie Harris

Violin & piano [12']

Written for Clemens Merkel and Dorothea Eppendorf

Music for All Together

Singing pianist with foot rattle [8']

Written for a dance piece by Jonathan Burrows

Percussion, piano, trombone [12']

Commissioned by Quartet Avance, Freiburg

Voice, prepared piano, violin, rattle [5']

Written for the dance piece Tinnuts by Karl Jay Lewin

Donna a Cavallo

Virginals [8']

Written for Sophie Yates, commissioned by BBC Radio 3

Float Weave

Piano, percussion [12']

Commissioned by London New Music

Donna che Beve

Large Bass drum [17']

Written for Robyn Schulkowsky

Voices, clavichord, violin, prepared piano, rattle, body percussion

Written for dance pieces by Jeremy James

Harpsichord [16']

Part of the music for The Art of Touch, a dance piece by Siobhan Davies. Performed by Carole Cerasi

Duetti

Multiple pianos, Irish coins [45']

With Kevin Volans. Music for The Stop Quartet, a dance piece by Jonathan Burrows

Sette Canzoni (String Quartet No.3)

String quartet [16']

Written for the Modern Quartet, Toronto

Piano Quartet

Piano, violin, viola, cello [13']

Commissioned by Simon Jackson, performed by London New Music

Music for Body

Violin, cello, piano, [5']

Film score for a short film by Adam Roberts, commissioned by Channel4/BFI

Violin, piano [20']

Written for Charles Mutter and Sally Rose

Piano Quintet

Piano, string quartet [17']

Written for the Balanescu Quartet and Andrew Ball

Music for Our

Tape [45']

Music for a dance piece by Jonathan Burrows

Hungarian Songbook

Tenor, piano [12']

Music for Very, a dance piece by Jonathan Burrows

Lullaby

Tenor, piano [2']

Piano [11']

Written for Noriko Kawai

Separate Lives

Trombone, piano [13']

Music for Mickey Finn

Violin, viola, cello [9']

Music for a short film by Adam Roberts (Grand Prix du Jury, Angers International Film Festival)

2nd Piano Trio

Violin, cello, piano [12']

Still Life

Piano and optional counter tenor [25']

Music for a dance piece by Joachim Schloemer

Three Trumpets

Trumpet and pre-recorded trumpets [10']

Piano, violin, cello [12']

Commissioned by London New Music

Initiations Voluptueuses

Tenor, piano [2']

Text by Roger Clarke

Dull Morning

Piano [20']

Music for Outside

String Quartet, piano [5']

Music for a short film by Adam Roberts

Passi Tardi

Bass clarinet, percussion [11']

Winner of Sonorities Prize for Composition, Belfast. Performed by Roger Heaton and Robyn Schulkowsky.

Trio

Clarinet, bass clarinet, piano [7']

Written for London New Music

Dull Morning Cloudy Mild

2 violins, trumpet, piano, sax, double bass [45']

Music for a dance piece by Jonathan Burrows.

Two Pianos & Viola

2 pianos, viola [13']

Written for a dance duet by Chick Eldridge

Two Pieces

Flute, guitar, double bass [3']

Piano Quintet

Piano & string quartet [11']

No Flowers

Organ [5']

Passi Tardi

Crotales [11']

Written for Robyn Schulkowsky

Low Budget Tango

Flute, alto sax, guitar, violin, piano [3']

Amnesia

2 clarinets, violin, viola, cello, piano [16']

Commissioned by London New Music

String quartet [10']

Performed by The Balanescu Quartet, ICA, London

L'Ultima Follia

Piano [30']

Written for John Flinders

Two Pianos

2 pianos [3']

Ladder with View

Flute [7']

Written for Nancy Ruffer

6 Songs for Accordion & Howard

Singing accordionist [10']

Written for Howard Skempton

6 Songs for Accordion & Howard

Arr. for baritone & string qt / Arr. for baritone & piano

Widow Bird

Soprano, glockenspiel, [4']

Piece for Piano

Piano with practice pedal [7']

Full Fadom Five

Choir SATB [5']

Pining for Madame Lupukhov

String quartet [10']

Blood on the dining room floor

Flute, viola, trombone, marimba [10']

Low Budget Jazz

Trumpet, saxophone, piano, bass guitar, drums set, speaking voice, [5']

Trio

Flute, cello, piano [11']

Piece for 2 Pianos

2 pianos, [11']

First performed by Kevin Volans and Uwe Diegel

Saxophone quartet, crotales, drum set [13']

Piano Oboe Double Bass

Piano, oboe, double bass [8']

6 Songs

Soprano, piano [12']

Texts by John Lennon, First performed by Beth Griffiths and Kevin Volans