On reflected fragments: an invitation to the music of Giovanni Bertelli. “Dear listener, if you wish to prepare yourself to the listening of this album,...

On reflected fragments: an invitation to the music of Giovanni Bertelli. “Dear listener, if you wish to prepare yourself to the listening of this album, may I thus be of advice: think of a boundless dump, a world of garbage, where waste is organized and sorted out in a way you couldn't have possibly imagined. Among the piles, you should be able to see busy crowds of people moving constantly, in waves. A group is building pavements, houses, trees, benches etcetera with the surrounding garbage; another one solemnly destroys whatever the first group has built and them another one reconstructs, and et cetera...” Giovanni Bertelli was born in Verona, Italy. He studied piano and composition at the conservatory of his hometown, graduating respectively in 2003 and 2007. From 2008 to 2010 he studied with Stefano Gervasoni at Paris' Conservatoire National Supérieur (CNSDMP). He is currently a PhD candidate for the SACRe program at PSL Research University in Paris. His research, supervised by Marc Battier and Frédéric Durieux, concerns the theatrical potential of performers physical gestures. In 2016 he was composer in residence of Divertimento Ensemble. This album is the culmination of that experience.