Press
Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Symphony. Bartók, Carrara, Haendel, Gabrieli, «Santa Barbara Indipendent», January 23th, 2016
This outstanding concert by the Santa Barbara Symphony demonstrated the organization’s international reach and commitment to developing new music. It also displayed the realistic, aspirational side of modernism as practiced by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, and...
Nir Kabaretti conducts Carrara’s Machpelah, «Santa Barbara Sentinel», Montecito Journal – The Voice of the Village, Vol. 22, Issue 2, January 2016
Kabaretti, who was already a fan of Carrara’s musicbefore they met when the former was conducting The Nutcracker in Rome over Christmas 2013, was intrigued by the composer’s concept of the piece. It seemed like a very interesting idea, especially in time like this...
Andrea Milanesi, Carrara: “Silences of the war”, «Avvenire», March 2nd, 2016
[...] Cristian Carrara is surely one of the most prolific and original composers of his generation, whose talent – and you don’t have much of that these days – is recognized by everyone in Italy and abroad and it clearly emerges also in War Silence. [...] Maestro...
Gabriele Giuga, Carrara: “Reflect on the spaces of a silence”, «Messaggero Veneto», March 3rd 2016
How was War silence born? «It is a concert for piano and orchestra dedicated to the First World War, it is a work where the piano is metaphor of the man and the orchestra [is metaphor] of the world. It doesn’t have patriotic or evocative intentions, but rather a...
Laura Gaspari, Make music not war – A magnificent Strausser at the Fenice in Venezia
The great unveiling has been Carrara’s War Silence. The work of the friulan composer consists of three parts: “Trenches”, “Solitudes” (solitudes), and “Fruts” (children) and can be bipolar as much as contradictory and oxymoronic of his title. Impossible to be...
Jorge Coli, Festa com música, «Concerto», February 5th, 2016
[...] A primeira composição foi de Cristian Carrara, compositor italiano, hoje com 39 anos, de quem John Neschling havia programado há um ano a obra Tales from the Underground. Para mim, foi uma descoberta, e ela me havia surpreendido pelo lirismo, pelo encanto...
Charles Donelan, S.B. Symphony Premieres Double Concerto. Carrara’s ‘Machpelah’ Puts Violin and Cello in Dialogue, «Santa Barbara Indipendent», January 14th, 2016
This Saturday and Sunday, Santa Barbara’s Granada Theatre will become, for a weekend at least, the center of the world for contemporary Italian classical music, as that country’s foremost young composer, Cristian Carrara, will be here to attend the world premiere of...
Tim Dougherty, Santa Barbara Symphony to Perform World Premiere of Cristian Carrara’s ‘Machpelah’, «Noozhawk», December 16th , 2015
The Santa Barbara Symphony, under the baton of Maestro Nir Kabaretti, will present the world premiere of Machpelah, the newest work by brilliant young Italian composer Cristian Carrara, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016, at The Granada Theatre in downtown Santa Barbara. […]...
Maria Dolores Pesce, Slot machine, «Dramma.it»
Opera director Marco Martinelli preserves the beautiful music by Cristian Carrara, that surrounds and transforms the pit almost in a warm bed, and introduces short and intense stretch of writing the earth, the fertile black earth of Romagna, converted into money by...
Stefano Ragni, At Spoleto’s theatre sings the voice of the heart, «Giornale dell’Umbria.it», September 12th, 2014
“The player” and “The commonplace’s song” are the two narrative episodes on which spreads the music of Carrara, something viscous, of densely sweetened, very refined in the tastes and in the colors, changing as a ‘pucciniana’ harmonization, but supported by a subtle...