Paolo Fradiani is an Italian classical composer and professor.
Born in Avezzano, Italy in 1984, studied music at Conservatoire of Music "Alfredo Casella" in L'Aquila and at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim. He studied music composition with Mauro Cardi at L'Aquila Conservatoire and with Sidney Corbett at the Mannheim Musikhochschule; studied jazz double bass with Luca Bulgarelli at L'Aquila Conservatoire.
His works have been performed by relevant orchestras, ensembles and soloists in Australia, Austria, [1] Belgium, Canada, [2] China, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, [3] Hungary, Italy, [4] Japan, Netherlands, [5] Norway, [6] Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, [7] Turkey, [8] United Kingdom and USA including Berliner Philharmoniker soloists; [9] [10] and was also broadcast on the Dutch national radio station NPO Radio 4 [11] and to the German SR 2 Kulturradio; and television broadcasters Arte TV (Germany/France), Podium 19 (Belgium) and Regio TV Bodensee (Germany).
Fradiani has received several prizes by Italian Ministry of Education [12] and Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism. In 2017 has been composer in residence at Società Aquilana dei Concerti “B. Barattelli”. [13]
He also composed the music for the silent film by Charles Bowers “Now You Tell One” (1926) for the Franco-German television Arte. [14]
His works have been published by 2eleven edition musiQ, Da Vinci Edition, Donemus Publishing, Edition Margaux and Universal Edition.
He is currently permanent professor of composition at Conservatorio statale di musica "Nino Rota" in Monopoli.
Compositions
Ballet
Opera
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