The collaboration between the composer and these performers started with a concert at Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice in 2016, where Emblema 5 was performed on commission by the Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia. Work for the album Emblema continued thanks to the concert at the Festival della Musica Contemporanea Italiana in Forli, and other rehearsals later took place in Venice on Sestiere Castello. Emblema 2 is a composition for 12 instruments and has not been recorded for this project. But this absence is also a poetic choice, in order to offer an intimate album with fewer instruments. All of the tracks included here are world premiere recordings. Born in Domodossoloa in 1963, Osvaldo Coluccino is an Italian composer and poet. He studied classical guitar and then continued with individual composition studies as well as university studies in Milan. His compositions have been commissioned by Biennale di Venezia, Milano Musica, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, and many others, and have been performed all across the globe.