Federico Costanza is composer and sound artist/maker. He has been graduated in Piano, in Composition and in Electronic Music (with Alvise Vidolin) at the Music Conservatory of Venice. Several courses, as composer and electronic performer, with S. Sciarrino, B. Furrer, P. Billone, M. Levinas, T. Murail, G. Manzoni, A. Di Scipio, A. Richard, etc.
Artistic residence at ZKM Institute in Karlsruhe in 2012.
Performances of his music at: Spazionovecento XXIV in Cremona 29° Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte di Montepulciano, ASTRA Concerts in Australia, Biennale Musica di Venezia, XVIII Colloquium on Musical Informatics in Turin, Music Village 2011 in Greece, Art’s Birthday ZKM/HfG and SWR radio, Radio UNAM in Messico City, Music@villaromana in Florence, Arizona State University, Symphonic Season of Teatro La Fenice, Musica/Realtà Festival in Milan, #Siena2015Lab at Accademia Chigiana, at PLIVKA in Kiev, Festival MA/IN (2021, Potenza/Matera), etc.
His music and project has been performed by: Lugano Percussion Group, Mircea Ardeleanu, Young Janácek Philharmonic Orchestra, Kreutzer Quartet, DissonART ensemble, Beat Furrer, Liminar, ASU Contemporary Percussion Ensemble, Orchestra La Fenice, Stefano Montanari, Ex-novo ensemble, Alfonso Alberti, Luigi Gaggero and Ukho esemble, UMS ‘n JIP, e-guitarist/performer Carlo Siega, etc.
Commissions received from some cultural institutions such as: Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte–Montepulciano; Astra Society–Melbourne; La Biennale di Venezia; Infidi Lumi Company; Scuola di Musica di Fiesole; arTree company; Fondazione Teatro La Fenice di Venezia; Associazione Nuova Consonanza of Rome; M° Luigi Pestalozza chairman of Associazione Amici di Musica/Realtà of Milan; UMS ‘n JIP for The Italy Project, e-guitarist/performer Carlo Siega, etc.
Collaborations, performances and musical compositions for dance projects as: Twothousand | All! by Kinkaleri and performed in Florence; VN Serenade by dancemaker Cristina Kristal Rizzo and performed in LAC Lugano. And for theatre/performance/installation projects by Stefano Tomassini. Further collaborations with Antonio Attisani and César Brie. Reading and performances with the writer Tiziano Scarpa (Premio Strega 2009).
He has been invited by INCOMMON at the symposium La Lotta per il Teatro # 01, dialogues and meetings on contemporary performing arts, where he performed a concert with his electro-acoustic music at the IUAV University of Venice.
Some of his works are published and recorded by Ars Publica Edition, Report #00, Rivo Alto and broadcasted by Radio UNAM (Messico), SWR2 (Germany), Rai Radio3 (Italy).
At the same time he collaborates with the educational sectors of leading theaters (La Biennale and Teatro La Fenice of Venice), cultural institutions and academic institutions conducting projects and paths of experimental education, through performance and composition practices, for the dissemination of contemporary musical language and new practices related to sound. In addition teaching activities at the Siena Conservatory of Music.
His musical and spatial research of Sound is conceived as a continuous experimentation that does not allow an axiom or an opportunity and are manifested both in his acoustic/instrumental and electronic works.