His music has been performed by among others
Klangforum Wien, the
Ensemble Intercontemporain, the
Ensemble Modern, the
ensemble recherche, Instant Donné, and the
Ensemble Contrechamps and has been featured at festivals such as the
Donaueschinger Musiktage,
Wien Modern, the
Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik,
Ars Musica Bruxelles, und the Festival d’Automne à Paris. His name has also been spread across
Europe by numerous radio broadcasts. He is closely associated with the conductor Emilio Pomárico, the percussionists
Christian Dierstein and Adam Weisman, the bassoonist Lorelei Dowling, the violist Barbara Maurer, the clarinet duo Stump-Linshalm, and the singers Frank Wörner and Alda Caiello, for whom he has written solo works and solo parts. Among the prizes he has received for his works are the City of Stuttgart Composition Prize (1993), the Busoni Award for Composition from the
Academy of Arts, Berlin (1996), the Vienna International Composition Prize (2004), and the Ernst Krenek Prize of the City of Vienna (2006). From 2006 to 2008 Pierluigi Billone was visiting professor at the Kunstuniversität Graz, where he will resume his tuition in October 2010. He receives regular invitations to give seminars on composition and guest lectures (IEMA-International Ensemble Modern Akademie,
Conservatoire Paris, Conservatorium Amsterdam, Musikuniversität Wien,
Harvard University,
Columbia University). His music appears on the CD labels Kairos,
Stradivarius, Col-legno, Durian, EMSA.
Education He studied under
Salvatore Sciarrino and
Helmut Lachenmann. ==Works==