Carlo Pedini (born 19 June 1956) is an Italian classical composer.
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Carlo Pedini (born 19 June 1956) is an Italian classical composer.
Born in Perugia, Pedini taught himself music from the age of 13, before studying with Fernando Sulpizi at the Perugia Conservatory, Franco Donatoni in Siena and Salvatore Sciarrino in Città di Castello. He now teaches at the Perugia Conservatory, having previously taught in Avellino, Adria and Pesaro. Since 1980 Pedini has won prizes in numerous competitions. In 1995 his orchestral piece Il Cantico dei Cantici ("The Song of Solomon") won a prize at the "2 August" competition in Bologna. In September 1990 the RAI National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vittorio Parisi took part in the 42nd Prix Italia in Palermo, playing Pedini's Predica agli Uccelli ("Sermon to the Birds") for soprano, piano, synthesised voice, tape and orchestra on a text by Lucio Lironi and Claudio Novelli. In 1993 the RAI commissioned his dramatic oratorio Il Mistero Jacopone (the story of Jacopone da Todi, the greatest Italian poet before Dante) for four voices, baritone, medieval instruments, chorus and orchestra, performed by the RAI National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Karl Martin, with the voice of Jacopone Mario Scaccia. In 2004 the Arena di Verona Foundation commissioned and performed the ballet L'anima del Perugino ("The Soul of Perugino"). In 2005 his "Requiem" for choir, organ and strings was performed at the Kusatsu Summer Festival in Japan. In 2007 his Magnificat (grande) for children's choir and instruments was performed at La Scala in Milan. From 1996-2003 Pedini was artistic director of Sagra Musicale Umbra, one of the oldest festivals in Europe. Works he commissioned or whose world premieres he organized include: Songs of Milarepa by Philip Glass (1997), Grido ("Shout") by Ennio Morricone (1998) and Concerto-cantata de Perugia by Leo Brouwer (1999). In 2004-2005 he was composer in residence for the Sagra Musicale Umbra festival. His compositions are performed and broadcast in Italy, France, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Russia, U.S.A, Japan and other countries. They are published by Casa Musicale Sonzogno, Milano. He is also known as a painter In 2016 he had the Premiere of "Agnus tropato" for three chorus in The United Kingdom with James Morgan Conductor and the BBC Singers [1] From 2011 to 2016 he was president of the "Guido D'Arezzo" foundation. He also has activities in the field of fine arts.
Of eclectic interests, he public in 2012 with the Roman publishing house Cavallo di Ferro her debut novel, The sixth season , selected among the finalists at the LXVI edition of the Premio Strega. [5] Based on the structure of the Thomas Mann's novel Buddenbrooks of which replicates the structure with other original contents, The sixth season is a sort of "experiment of composition" in which the author wanted to apply the rules of musical composition to the creation of a literary text.
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