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Thomas Pasatieri (born October 20, 1945) is an American opera composer.
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Thomas Pasatieri (born October 20, 1945) is an American opera composer.
Pasatieri was born in New York City, United States. He began composing at age 10 and, as a teenager, studied with Nadia Boulanger, [1] although his main teachers were Vittorio Giannini and Vincent Persichetti. [2] He entered the Juilliard School at age 16 and eventually became the school's first recipient of a doctoral degree.
Pasatieri has taught composition at the Juilliard School, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. From 1980 through 1984, he held the post of artistic director at Atlanta Opera.
He has composed 24 operas, the best known of which is The Seagull , composed in 1972. Two of his operas were premiered in 2007: Frau Margot by the Fort Worth Opera and The Hotel Casablanca in San Francisco. Other popular operas include La Divina and Signor Deluso .
In 1984, Pasatieri moved to Los Angeles, California, where he formed his film music production company, Topaz Productions. His film orchestrations can be heard in Billy Bathgate , Road to Perdition , American Beauty , The Little Mermaid , The Shawshank Redemption , Fried Green Tomatoes , Legends of the Fall , Thomas Newman's Angels in America and Scent of a Woman , among many others. In 2003, Pasatieri returned to New York to continue his concert and opera career.
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Thomas Pasatieri (b. 1945) ... Before entering the Juilliard School, Pasatieri studied with Nadia Boulanger. At Juilliard he worked with Vittorio Giannini...
In 1961, on a scholarship from the Juilliard School, Pasatieri began formal studies under Vincent Persichetti and Vittorio Giannini.
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