Eric Maestri Le Cose portrait du compositeur Ensemble LInstant donné - STR37068

Eric Maestri, born in 1980, has a trajectory toward composition that is equal parts expected and unexpected. The former includes formal education in Brescia and Turin, then Strasbourg, with additional training in Paris. The latter includes a detour into philosophy in Turin and a span of six years, in his 20s, when he was not active at all in composition. One already gets the sense from these basic facts that he is a composer critical of every move and a man with much more to off er than a mere experience in sound. I have no intention to suggest that he is someone for whom extra-musical ideas take precedence; rather, his experience in realms far beyond music have left an indelible mark on the sensations that he decides to turn into music. Rather than preconceiving music, Eric follows an intuitive path in his approach in which he tries to bring experience and writing into closer proximity: what he calls the compositional moment. He thereby uses the process of committing notes to paper itself as a source of energy and suggestion. In the constant struggle between the predictable and the unpredictable, he errs toward the latter.