Giovanni Sollima

Because his works are characterized by a more diverse and eclectic approach to material than the early American minimalist composers, the American critic Kyle Gann has called Sollima a postminimalist composer. Sollima teaches at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and plays a cello by Francesco Ruggieri (made in Cremona in 1679). He has collaborated with the American poet and musician Patti Smith, appearing on her records and performing with her in concert. He also collaborates with the Silk Road Project.

Giovanni Sollima studied at State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart and Mozarteum University Salzburg. The recorded working language is Italian. The field of work recorded is music and cello music performance. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are opera. Places of work recorded in the authority are Rome. Employment is recorded with Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

• Musica per sonar a più stromenti dialogando fra antica et moderna (1979) • Notturno (1980) • Maithuna (1981) • Orgy (1982) • Tantra (1983) • The force that through the green fuse drives the flower by Dylan Thomas (1985) • La luna (1986) • Variazioni su un plastico (1986) • 4 works by Andy Warhol (1987) • 6 caprices (1987) • Flowers (1987) • Primo frammento da "Empedocles" (First fragment of Empedocles), text by Michele Perriera (1989) • Siciliana con variazione (1989) • E gli alberi germinarono, e gli uomini e le donne... (1990) • In B (1991) • Match Suite (1991) • Segno in memory of the victims of the Capaci massacre (1992) • Africa, quintet for 2 violins, viola and 2 cellos (1992) • Anno uno in memory of the victims of the via D'Amelio massacre (1993) • Violoncelles, vibrez! version for 6 cellos(1993) • Heimat-terra (1993) • The Songlines (1993) • Angeli nel vulcano (1994) • A gift (1994) • Spasimo (1995) • Sento il canto in curva (1995) • Il Tracciato di Marta (1995) • Voyage (1995) • John Africa (1996) • Studio per Aquilastro (1997) • Chi è (1997) • Lam (1997) • Yafù (1997) • Aquilarco, text by Christopher Knowles (1997–98) • Lamentatio ("Lamentation") (1998) • Pasolini fragments (1998) • Reperto n. 12 from a fragment by Schubert (1998) • S'ota love dance (1998) • A view from the bottom, text by Mumia Abu Jamal (1998) • Concerto rotondo (1998) • I canti (1998) • The meetings of the waters (1999) • Millennium Bug (1999) • Intersong I (1999) • Subsongs (1999) • L'interpretazione dei sogni (The interpretation of dreams) (1999) • Leonardo's ornithoptherus (1999) • Alone (1999) • Hell (2000) • Contrafactus (2000) • Il Tracciato (2000) • Viaggio in Italia, texts by Michelangelo Buonarroti, Giordano Bruno and Francesco Borromini (2000) • Intersong II (2001) • J. Beuys Song (2001) • Vram, text by Alessandro Baricco (2002) • Pillole (2002) • Bêri (2002) • Terra Aria from "B song" (2003) • Terra Danza from "B song" (2003) • Cello Tree from "B song" (2003) • Il bell'Antonio, Tema III

• Concerto grosso (1976) • String concerto No. 1 (1978) • String concerto No. 1 (1979) • Raccapriccio (1979) • Le Paradis Submergé (1981) • Two Nocturnes (1984) • Musivum (1987) • Le notti bianche (1988) • The Columbus Egg (1990) • In B, version for Jazz Band (1991) • Cello Concerto (1992) • Africa (1992) • Agnus Dei (1993) • Violoncelles, vibrez! (1993) • Sinfonia in luoghi aperti (Open Air Symphony) (1994) • MW (1994) • Angeli (Angels) (1994) • Adagio (1995) • Cartolina (Postcard) (1995) • Aria in rosso (Aria in red) (1996) • Lam & Dan (1998) • All the W (1998) • Guitar chemistry (1999) • Alleluja (1999) • Casanova (2000) • Canti rocciosi, with texts by Dino Buzzati, Dante Alighieri, Ernest Hemingway and 'street rhymes' in Sicilian, Italian and Ladin (2001) • Contrafactus (2001) • Tempeste e ritratti (Storms and portraits) (2001)

• Notti di Grazia (1991) - Melodramma in un atto, libretto by Dario Oliveri • Mittersill 101 variazioni sul caso Anton Webern (1996) - Video opera, text by Dario Oliveri, after Goethe • Cenerentola Azzurro (1994) - Text by Dario Oliveri • Casanova (2000) - Choreography by Karole Armitage • Matteo Ricci — Li Madou (2001) - Melologue, text by Filippo Mignini • J. Beuys song (2001) - Choreography by Carolyn Carlson • Ellis Island (2002) - Opera in 2 acts, libretto by Roberto Alajmo

• Match (1990) • Cordelia & co. (1991) • 3 pezzi for " Il sogno spezzato di Rita Atria" (1993) • 3 pezzi for "Pippo Fava" (1994) • I Pavoni (1997)

• Imagining Prometheus (2003) • Luminaria (2003)

• On 9 May 2007 Lasse Gjertsen released a two-part music video for two of Giovanni Sollima's pieces: • Giovanni Sollima's "Terra Aria" • Giovanni Sollima's "Concerto Rotondo" • "Musik auf Eis"