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.
Fra Armando Pierucci is an Italian Franciscan musician who lives in Jerusalem. He graduated from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome, from the Music Conservatories of Naples, and from the Rossini Music Conservatory in Pesaro. Some of his composition professors include Maestro Vincenzo Donato and Maestro Argenzio Jorio.
Ugo Gregoretti was an Italian film, television and stage director, actor, screenwriter, author and television host. He directed 20 films during his career.
Giulio Castagnoli is an Italian composer.
Anna Kravtchenko is an Italian classical pianist. She won the Busoni competition in 1992 and has been a piano Professor al the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano since 2013.
Sofya Gulyak is a Russian classical pianist. She was the first woman to win the Leeds Piano Competition.
Giulio Bas was an Italian Romantic composer and organist.
Francesco Libetta is an Italian pianist, composer and conductor.
Domenico Picciché, is an Italian pianist, composer and jurist.
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 under 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.
Antonio Diodato, known simply as Diodato, is an Italian singer-songwriter. He won the 70th edition of the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Fai rumore" and was scheduled to represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam before the event's cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia is a state conservatory in Rome.
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.
Anastasia Huppmann is a Russian-born Austrian concert pianist. Her repertoire includes compositions from solo works of Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, Joseph Haydn, Claude Debussy, Ludwig van Beethoven, the orchestral works of Sergei Prokofiev and Rodion Shchedrin.
Fabio Mengozzi is an Italian composer and pianist.
Salvatore Frega is an Italian composer of contemporary cultured music, Director of the Versilia Music Academy and of TG Music and Professor at the Conservatory of Cosenza.
