Mario Venzago – own compositions

Mario Venzago has always composed, initially as spiritual exercises for acquiring greater knowledge. Lately though he found more time to devote himself to this engrossing activity and is composing also for the works to be performed.

 

Toccata and Valse (2025)
World premiere still available
For large orchestra
Duration: 13min

3 Orchestra Pieces (2024)
Ulisse (20 min, WP 09/25 Halle) – Choralvariationen (8 min, WP 09/25 Halle) – Aufstieg (7 min, WP 03/25 Tallinn)
Performances in Tallinn, Halle, Wroclaw, Constance & Jena
Ulisse can also be performed on its own
Total duration: 35min

Cello Concerto (2025)
World premiere in January 2026 with the Philharmonic Orchestra Heidelberg and the cellist Christian Poltéra
A five-movement work; lyrical in nature with a rhapsodic character; straddling tonality and atonality; with influences ranging from Bach to jazz
Duration: 25min

Piano Concerto (2023)
Dedicated to Jean Louis Steuerman
Reminiscent of joint concerts with Bach and Schönberg
World premiere still available
Duration: 20min

Violin Concerto (2021)
Long process of creation with biographical character
Swiss & American influences
World premiere in June 2021 with the Bern Symphony Orchestra and the violinist Soyoung Yoon
Duration: 35min

Two act opera Der Klavierstimmer  (2022)
Based on a novel by Daniel Mason
Tells the story of a London piano tuner who, on behalf of His Majesty the King of England, travels to British Burma in 1886 to tune a grand piano for the highest-ranking officer there. Cultures collide.
Accordion and E-guitar meet Bach, the circle of fifths meets the microtonal music of Myanmar of the 19th century
Big orchestra with recordings, choir and ballet
Duration: 2h10 plus intermission

One act opera Windermer  (2021)
Dialogues from Raymond Chandlers‘ short story I’ll be waiting
Complemented by the performance of an old violin virtuoso, a gambling scene and a rap that quotes the almost 3000-year-old Song of Solomon and transforms it into the central love scene
Language: original American-English or in German translation by Hans Wallschläger
Big orchestra with recordings
Duration: 85min without intermission