Davide Remigio

Davide Remigio (born 1963) is a composer of Australian and Italian origin. He is founder of "Quaternary musical composition".

Remigio was born in Melbourne on June 26, 1963, to Italian parents. His sister is Carmela Remigio, an Italian opera soprano. He returned to Italy in 1969 and studied violin and composition at the Conservatorio Luisa D'Annunzio in Pescara. Remigio began learning music theory at the age of nine. He composed his first composition "Giga", for solo violin, at the age of 11. At the age of 14, he enrolled regularly at the conservatory, where he studied harmony, counterpoint and attended a course for conducting (1979). In the following years, he made various compositions in aleatoric style for musical theater. He completed his studies in violin, musical composition, conducting, ensemble instrumentation and electronic music in the city of L'Aquila. He graduated in composition (Master of Music) in 1992 at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia [it] in Rome under Franco Donatoni, and in 1991 Music for Film with Ennio Morricone in Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena. He has taught Music Composition at the Italian conservatories of Potenza, Bari, L'Aquila and Milan.

In 1989, Davide was awarded the Silone Price Music for the composition "Homage to Silone" for narrator and orchestra, and in 1993 the Gaudeamus Foundation rewarded "Mordenti" for ensemble.

His music is published by Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Casa Ricordi, Universal Edition, Australian Autumn Music and Edipan. His work, "Saxes for saxophone octet" is in collection in national e-deposit at National Library of Australia.

In 1997 he founded the Quaternary Music, a composition technique with only four notes.

Quaternary musical composition is a compositional technique based on a quadriad of notes that the composer chooses before composing the musical work. The chosen quadriad of notes behaves like a true griffe-sonora, which defines the musical colour of the composition in all its particularities. The sound created by the quadriad of notes is so defined that it does not need so many changes of harmonic sounds to have a good of sound variety. This compositional technique helps the composer to create new compositions that are interesting from a harmonic perspective.

• 1974 - Giga, for piano
• 1975 - Duettino, for two violins
• 1976 - Foglio d'album, for piano
• 1977 - Capriccio, for violin
• 1979 - Convesso, for timpani
• 1980 - Orizzonti Sonori for narrator, soprano, 2 pianos and 2 percussionists
• 1980 - Studio, for piano
• 1980 - Absolute schreibschrift, for piano
• 1982 - Foglio d'album II, for violin and piano
• 1982 - Lamento, for voice and piano
• 1985 - Tesi, for violin, cello, and piano
• 1988 - Il naso di Lulu, for sopran and piano
• 1989 - Hyades, for guitar
• 1989 - Soft, for violin, viola, cello, contrabass
• 1989 - Tejat, for piano
• 1991 - Antares for solo clarinet
• 1992 - LEM, for two violins
• 1992 - Tuc, for glockenspiel
• 1993 - Studi moderni, for accordion
• 1994 - Minimal, for piano
• 1995 - Brevis for mixed choir and piano
• 1997 - Alla Mamma, for piano and soprano
• 1997 - Divertimento, harp and guitar
• 1998 - Ardo si, ma non t'amo, for two violins, cello and harpsichord
• 1999 - European Songs for children’s choir and orchestra
• 2000 - Cosentine Wind for sopran and wind orchestra
• 2001 - Il piccolo Elian, for narrator and ensemble
• 2004 - Auf dem berge for Sopran and piano
• 2005 - Teak, for contrabass
• 2005 - Celestino V
• 2005 - Cartolina a Mozart, for symphony orchestra
• 2008 - Canti lucani, for soprano, wind orchestra
• 2009 - Courage, for soprano and piano
• 2011 - Polish Landscape, for piano
• 2012 - Prelude, for flute, cello and accordion
• 2013 - Hands, for piano four hands
• 2013 - Alcor for oboe
• 2014 - Bari Prom, for piano
• 2015 - Autumn, for chamber orchestra
• 2016 - Trasformation, for violin and cello
• 2017 - Ritual, for guitar
• 2018 - Garderns, for sax quartet and four percussionists
• 2020 - La dolce Mila, for soprano, flute, cello and piano
• 2021 - Singing the silence, for soprano, alto, tenor and bass

• Italian National Music Committee, Davide Remigio works page,
• Universal Edition,
• Davide Remigio personal web-site, discography page.

• Davide Remigio - Official Website Archived 2023-04-12 at the Wayback Machine,
• Universal Edition,
• Sonzogno page,
• Italian national music committee - Davide Remigio,
• Davide Remigio, Composizione | Operabase,
• Remigio Davide-Petruci Music Library ,
• Artisti - Remigio davide | Il Saxofono Italiano .