Murcof was founded early 2001 by only member Fernando Corona in Tijuana, México. This project is about experimenting with electronic and classical music in their more minimalistic expression, to bring face to face digital precision with acoustic warmth and try and find harmony and complementation between them, in a way as a form of reflecting today's digitalized way of interacting with the world, with each other and even ourselves; a reminder that, regardless of the means, the end user will always be human. And always approaching technology as a tool of expression rather than as an end in itself.
Francesco Tristano, aged 25, is establishing himself as one of classical music’s rising stars. Growing up in Luxembourg of an Italian mother and living in Barcelona since 2003, he has an impressive CV; The winner of the 2004 Orleans International Contest, a highly prestigious competition dedicated to 20th Century classical music, he is a graduate of the very selective Juillard School in New York where he studied from 1998 to 2003, before studying at conservatories in Luxembourg, Brussels, and Paris…He recorded several albums (Ravel - Prokofiev - Schlimé in 2006, Luciano Berio – Complete Piano Works in 2005, J.S. Bach – The Complete Keyboard Concertos in 2004, Goldberg Variations in 2002…
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