Pietro Borradori (Milan, 1965) is an Italian composer and pianist.
He began to play Piano at the age of 8 years-old. At 12, he started to compose his first short pieces for piano. He then studied Piano with Carlo Pestalozza in Milan, graduated in Musical Composition at the Conservatory of Milan with Giacomo Manzoni, and at Accademia Chigiana of Siena with Franco Donatoni. He subsequently studied in Freiburg with Emmanuel Nunes and in Paris with Gerard Grisey. [1] In addition to his musical formation he studied Architecture at the Politecnico of Milan. From 1987 to 1992 he taught Composition at the Conservatory of Music of Trento. His pieces has been performed by the main European Ensembles and Orchestras. He received among others commissions from institutions like Radio France, French Ministere of Culture, West Deutscher Rundfunk, Radio Televisione Italiana, Nederlands Radio Symphonic Orchestra, Festival Milano Musica, Fondazione Roma Europa, [2] Gulbenkian Foundation. He recorded monographic CDs for Fonit Cetra and BMG Ricordi labels. The works from 1987 to 1994 has been published by BMG Ricordi. [3]
Besides his activity as a composer, he acted as music promoter and artistic director as well as entrepreneur in the information technology field. In 1989 he founded together with Riccardo Nova and Andreas Dohmen the Nuove Sincronie Festival of Contemporary Music; he was in charge of the artistic direction of that Festival for all the ten seasons of its life. [4] He founded at the same time the Ensemble Nuove Sincronie, an Instrumental Ensemble dedicated to the new music repertoire.
In 1995 he founded Allegroassai, a Software House dedicated to the development of a new Music Notation Technology called Vivaldi, and the online Interactive Sheet Music Library project Vivaldistudio and in 2008 SimilarPages. a Specialized Search Engine designed to easily find similar and alternatives websites.
Since 2015 his interest has shifted towards the neoclassical field, minimalism and electronic music.
In 1993 his Streichquartett N.1 has been selected from RAI Italian Radio Television, to represent Italy to the International Tribune of Contemporary Music 1993.
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