Osvaldo Coluccino (born Domodossola, 22 April 1963) is an Italian composer and poet.
Osvaldo Coluccino (born Domodossola, 22 April 1963) is an Italian composer and poet.
His music has been performed in some of the major festivals of classical and contemporary classical music, by prestigious soloistes, conductors, orchestras and ensembles such as Ensemble Recherche, Nieuw Ensemble and Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, and has been broadcast by national radio stations such as SWR, Radio France France Musique, ORF, Rai Radio 3, BR-Klassik, Kulturradio RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg), Concertzender, RTBF Musiq 3, Klara (radio station) Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep VRT, RTP Rádio e Televisão de Portugal Antena 2. He has received commissions by Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Biennale di Venezia, Milano Musica – Teatro alla Scala, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Transit Festival Leuven, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent, Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles and others. Some of the major labels for contemporary classical music (Kairos (record label), Neos (record label), Col legno (record label), Another Timbre...) have released some monographic discs, while some scores are published by RAI Trade editions. It was the music historian Luigi Pestalozza who discovered him as a composer, and the musicologists who wrote about him include, in Italy, Angela Ida De Benedictis (in Edizioni del Teatro alla Scala), Angelo Foletto (Repubblica), Mario Gamba (Il Manifesto), Mario Messinis (Il Gazzettino), Paolo Petazzi (Classic Voice and Takte-Bärenreiter), in Europe Reinhard Ermen (on MusikTexte, Cologne), Pierre Rigaudière (Diapason (magazine), Paris), Liam Cagney (Gramophone, London), Dirk Wieschollek (NMZ, Hamburg), Daniel Ender (ÖMZ, Vienna)…
He has been engaged in an intense poetry activity from 1986 to 2003. Discovered by Stefano Agosti, one of the most eminent literary critics of the twentieth century in Italy, his poems and prose have been published in monographic books, prestigious literary magazines such as Il Verri and anthologies. He has also published artist books consisting of his poems and original works of art by renowned artists (see below in “Poetry”).
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Sylvano Bussotti was an Italian composer of contemporary classical music, also a painter, set and costume designer, opera director and manager, writer and academic teacher. His compositions employ graphic notation, which has often created special problems of interpretation. He was known as a composer for the stage. His first opera was La Passion selon Sade, premiered in Palermo in 1965. Later operas and ballets were premiered at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Teatro Lirico di Milano, Teatro Regio di Torino and Piccola Scala di Milano, among others. He was artistic director of La Fenice in Venice, the Puccini Festival and the music section of the Venice Biennale. He taught internationally, for a decade at the Fiesole School of Music. He is regarded as a leading composer of Italy's avantgarde, and a Renaissance man with many talents who combined the arts expressively.
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).
Lorenzo Ferrero is an Italian composer, librettist, author, and book editor. He started composing at an early age and has written over a hundred compositions thus far, including twelve operas, three ballets, and numerous orchestral, chamber music, solo instrumental, and vocal works. His musical idiom is characterized by eclecticism, stylistic versatility, and a neo-tonal language.
Andrea Molino is an Italian composer and conductor.
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Franco Mezzena born 4 November 1953 in Trento, northern Italy, is an Italian violin virtuoso. He studied ten years with Salvatore Accardo.
Riccardo Piacentini is an Italian composer and pianist, professor of Composition at the Milan Conservatory.
Susanna Rigacci is a Swedish-born Italian soprano.
Francesco Cilluffo is an Italian conductor and composer.
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Andrea Liberovici is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music and a theatre director.
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Lucio Gregoretti is an Italian composer. He composed operas, symphonic and chamber music, electroacoustic music, as well as incidental music for theatre plays, musical comedies, and film scores.
Mauro Macario is an Italian poet, essayist and director.
Vito Palumbo is an Italian composer. He has had pieces performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, the Gävle Symphony Orchestra, the Athenäum-Quartett Berliner Philharmoniker and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra.
Clara Perra was an Italian solo percussionist, music educator, pianist and composer.
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Mauro Cardi is an Italian composer.
Maria Gabriella Zen is an Italian composer.
