Adriano Banchieri was an Italian composer, music theorist, organist and poet of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He founded the Accademia dei Floridi in Bologna.
Gian Francesco Malipiero was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.
Salvatore Sciarrino is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music. Described as "the best-known and most performed Italian composer" of the present day, his works include Quaderno di strada (2003) and La porta della legge (2006–08).
Martina Franca, or just Martina, is a town and municipality in the province of Taranto, Apulia, Italy. It is the second most populated town of the province after Taranto, and has a population (2016) of 49,086. Since 1975, the town has hosted the annual summer opera festival, the Festival della Valle d'Itria.
Leporano is a town and comune in the province of Taranto, in the Apulia region of southeast Italy. The municipality of Leporano is a little maritime town at the Ionian Sea.
Nicola Campogrande is an Italian composer and music journalist. He is the Artistic Director of the MITO SettembreMusica festival. He writes for the newspaper Corriere della Sera. His music is published exclusively by Breitkopf & Härtel.
Francesco Nicolosi is an Italian pianist.
Fabio Cifariello Ciardi is an Italian composer of acoustic and electroacoustic music.
Bruno Bettinelli was an Italian composer and teacher.
Giulio Castagnoli is an Italian composer.
Marina Apollonio is an Italian painter and optical artist. She lives and works in Padua.
The Accademia Musicale Mediterranea is a music institute in Rome, Taranto, Martina Franca, Leporano and Fardella, Italy. It was founded by Cosimo Damiano Lanza in 1996 as a national centre for advanced musical studies. It is located in the Palazzo Lanza in Leporano near Taranto. Every year, the Academy organises Piano Master Classes. During the summer months a series of concerts are held un dee the title of Emozioni Concertistiche – Young Pianists Festival. Annually it hosts students from all over Europe and the Orient. Since 2004 it has synergistic collaborations with universities, conservatories and schools: Brigham Young University, USA ; Münchener Musikseminar in Munich, Germany; Conservatory of Gap; France, Conservatorios of S. Javier; Spain, Bocconi University, Milan; the Conservatory " Pedrollo " Vicenza; Conservatory "N. Piccinni ", Bari; International Academy of Arts in Rome, Italy. The director is prof. Cosimo Damiano Lanza and the president is prof. Valter Monteleone.
Juti Ravenna was an Italian painter.
Domenico Morgante is an Italian musicologist, organist and harpsichordist.
Ivan Vihor Krsnik Cohar, known also as only Ivan Vihor, is a Croatian classical pianist and chess player. He is the winner of the 2017 "Premio delle Arti", the most important Italian piano competition.
Luigi Torchi was an Italian musicologist.
Fabio Mengozzi is an Italian composer and pianist.
Salvatore Frega is an Italian composer of contemporary cultured music and experimental music, Director of the Versilia Music Academy and of TG Music.
Michele Sambin is an Italian theatre director and artist.
Count Guido Chigi Saracini, full name Guido Chigi degli Useppi Saracini Lucherini, was an Italian patrician, a musical patron and composer, and a public administrator. Having inherited the Palazzo Chigi-Saracini in the centre of the city of Siena, Tuscany, he applied his musical instincts to his new opportunities, restored the Palazzo in 1923, and established a concert society and later (1932) a musical academy there. The Accademia Chigiana, which flourishes today, grew under his supervision into a famous institution for higher instruction, research and performance in chamber music, playing an important role in the revival of Italian baroque instrumental music, and in the advocacy and performance of contemporary Italian classical music.
