We are pleased to officially announce the results of our very first Call for Works. After a careful selection process, we are delighted to present the three composers whose works have been chosen to be featured in our upcoming concert:
- Quartet for a Broken World – Katia Geha
- A Very Short Party – Francesco Giomi
- Connections – Enrico Benato
These compositions will be premiered on the 13th of December 2025, during the concert at AGON (Viale Sarca 336, edificio 15).
Thanks to all who applied!
Quartet for a broken world
Katia geha
Katia Geha (b. 2002) is an Australian-Lebanese composer based in Basel, Switzerland, where she is pursuing a Masters degree in Composition at the Musik-Akademie Basel. Katia’s practice centres on experimental performance art music, often exploring conceptually grounded political frameworks that encourage performers and audiences to rethink social and political paradigms.
A graduate of the Sydney Conservatorium with first-class honours, Katia was selected for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s 21st Cybec Century Composer Commission, Ensemble Offspring’s Hatched Academy and Omega Ensemble’s CoLab Commission.
Her work has been performed in Aarhus (DE), Buffalo (NY), Bled (SI), Tempe (AZ), New Orleans (LA), and Gothenburg (SE). In 2025, Katia won first prize in the Engine Room International Sound Art Competition with her installation being shown at the Morley Gallery in London. Later in the year, she will have her work performed in Rheinsberg (Germany), and at the Beirut Arts Centre in Beirut, Lebanon.
A very short party
Francesco giomi
Francesco Giomi is a composer, sound director and improviser. He has worked with Luciano Berio as well as with other leading composers, musicians, choreographers, and directors, in addition to Italian and international orchestras and ensembles. For many years he has been active as a creator of works related to new technologies and as a conductor and performer of creative improvisations.
In the field of live electronic music and electroacoustic composition, he has collaborated with musicians and performers such as Uri Caine, Jim Black, David Moss, Stefano Bollani, Elio Martusciello, Sonia Bergamasco, Virgilio Sieni, Simona Bertozzi, Micha Van Hoecke, and has co-founded several collective ensembles, including the Tempo Reale Electroacoustic Ensemble and Zumtrio. His compositions have been released by Die Schachtel, Ema Vinci, Tempo Reale Collection, Miraloop, and Slowth Records.
He regularly leads workshops on free improvisation and live electronic music. He is also the author of over eighty scientific and musical publications and four monographs: L’istante zero (SISMEL, 2000); Rumore bianco. Introduzione alla musica digitale (Zanichelli, 2008); Musica imprevedibile (Arcana, 2022); Il suono elettrico (LIM, 2024).
He teaches Electroacoustic Musical Composition at the Conservatory of Music in Bologna and is the director of Tempo Reale, the Florentine center for music research, production, and education.
Connections
Enrico Benato
Enrico Benato is an electronic music composer and live electronics performer. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Electronic Music at the Arrigo Pedrollo Conservatory in Vicenza, and is currently pursuing a master in Electronic Music at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in Padua. He has also worked as a collaborator in the SaMPL educational and research laboratory dedicated to sound and music computing.
His artistic activity focuses on the design of hardware and software interfaces in embedded electronic systems, aiming to broaden musical horizons and create dialogues between digital sound and modern forms of expression.
His compositions have been personally created and performed for concerts held by organizations such as the DiSSGeA Department of the University of Padua, the NEAT Festival, Elettrotigliati Festival, and the Chigiana Summer Academy. They range from live electronics to experimental audiovisual performances, and even the creation of interaction systems between different artistic forms, such as dance and electronic music. He has created musical interfaces that transmit inertial data to be interpreted as sound, within a composition created in collaboration with members of SaMPL, Pollini Electroacustic Ensemble, and SpazioDanza.