4/1/2015 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival : the UK's largest international festival of new and experimental music // Icarus Ensemble at hcmf//: Inter… http://www.hcmf.co.uk/IcarusEnsembleathcmfInterviewwithMarcoPedrazzini 1/6 Home 2014 Programme Composer in Residence News Features Watch & Listen Learning & Participation Blogs Donate Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival Buy Tickets GO friday 21st – sunday 30th nov 2014 the UK’s largest international festival of new and experimental music Home > Archive > 2011 Features > Icarus Ensemble at hcmf//: Interview with Marco Pedrazzini Icarus Ensemble at hcmf//: Interview with Marco Pedrazzini "[The ECPDP] is really a new experience, not only for us but for the Italian scene in general" Icarus Ensemble was founded in 1994 in Reggio Emilia, Italy. Since then, they've been performing basically everywhere in the world, giving a tremendous contribution to contemporary music in Italy and abroad. At hcmf// 2011 they present two concerts: the European Composers Spotlight on Wednesday 23 November and the programme of Romitelli works on Thursday 24 November. Marco Pedrazzini, cofounder and artistic director of the ensemble, speaks to Marcello Messina, who has been working with the ensemble this year as a composer on the European Composers' Professional Development Programme (ECPDP). What are your thoughts about the ECPDP? It's the first time we take part in such a project: these things are not that common in Italy, although we did similar experiments in the past. At the Civica in Milan there are some courses which lead to a final performance of students' pieces by an external ensemble. Something similar happens in the