) is an Italian

Italy

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 composer

Composer

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 and conductor

Conducting

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.

Life

He studied composition

Musical composition

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, piano

Piano

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 and conducting in Trieste, where he graduated in 1990 with highest honors. In 1998 he moved to France

France

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, where he has been living until 2007.

His works (mainly chamber, vocal and piano music) have been awarded in several International Competitions; he received First Prize in the Edvard Grieg Memorial Competition in Oslo

Oslo

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 in 2003, the ADNM Competition in Tarragona

Tarragona

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 and the Ivan Spassov competition in Plovdiv

Plovdiv

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 in 2004, the Tokyo

Tokyo

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 chamber music competition and the Renée B. Fisher Composer Awards in New Haven in 2005, the Onde Musicali competition in Taranto

Taranto

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, the ISCM-Miami competition and the competition of the Académie Internationale de Lutèce in Paris

Paris

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 in 2006. He has also earned second prizes and special mentions in Rome

Rome

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 (Premio Valentino Bucchi), Piacenza

Piacenza

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 (Egidio Carella Competition), Geneva

Geneva

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 (Prix Reine Marie José), Urbana-Champaign (Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award), Angoulême

Angoulême

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, Cuneo

Cuneo

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, Auckland

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 and many others.

His compositions (based on diverse processes as cellular proliferation and spectral synthesis) have been performed in festivals and in concert seasons in Europe

Europe

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, in the United States

United States

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, in Japan

Japan

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 and in New Zealand

New Zealand

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; they have been broadcasted by radios and TV channels. His first stage work, Le Songe d'un habitant du Mogol (text by Jean de la Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine

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, derived from a story in the Gulistan of Sa'di

Gulistan of Sa'di

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), commissioned by the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, has been premiered in Lille

Lille

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 (“Festival Lille 3000”) in 2007.
Most of his works are published by Symétrie (Lyon

Lyon

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, France).

As a conductor, he works especially into contemporary music; he premiered works by composers such as Bruno Bettinelli

Bruno Bettinelli

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, Aldo Clementi

Aldo Clementi

-Life:Aldo Clementi was born in Catania, Italy. He studied the piano, graduating in 1946. His studies in composition began in 1941, and his teachers included Alfredo Sangiorgi and Goffredo Petrassi. After receiving his diploma in 1954, he attended the Darmstadt summer courses from 1955 to 1962...

, Azio Corghi

Azio Corghi

Azio Corghi is an Italian opera composer, also a teacher and musicologist. He was born at Cirié, in the Province of Turin, studied at the Turin and Milan conservatories and was a pupil of Bruno Bettinelli...

, Pascal Dusapin

Pascal Dusapin

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, Michaël Levinas, Giacomo Manzoni

Giacomo Manzoni

Giacomo Manzoni is an Italian composer. He studied composition from 1948 in Messina with Gino Contilli, and continued his studies from 1950 to 1956 at the Conservatoire of Milan. In 1955 he obtained a doctorate in foreign languages from the Bocconi University in Milan.He wrote the music for the...

, Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

, Francesco Pennisi and many others. In 1996 he co-founded (with the composer Stefano Procaccioli) the Taukayensemble, with which he has commissioned numerous works, and has since served as its principal conductor and music director.

Selected works

Stage

• Le Songe d'un habitant du Mogol, "Scènes modulaires sur des fables de Jean de la Fontaine" for speaker, children's chorus, clarinet (+ bass clarinet), soprano saxophone (+ baritone saxophone), viola, cello, harpsichord and percussion

Chamber music

• Albertson-Variations for piccolo (+ alto flute), E clarinet, bassoon, viola and cello
• D'autres discordances for soprano saxophone (+ alto saxophone) and piano
• E già sono deserto – "Quasi un notturno" for viola and 5 instruments (2005)
• Etchings II for violin and piano
• Giants "Quattro incisioni" for 4 saxophones
• Histoires de cendre for 2 pianos and percussion
• Rouge Clair-Obscur for piccolo, E clarinet, bass clarinet, bass trombone, cello and double bass
• Schegge for clarinet, bass clarinet, cello and double bass

Piano

• Monologo Primo, "...d'une sphère sans lumière..."
• Monologo Secondo, "Sphynxs-Vari(A)zioni"
• Jeux et Berceuses
• Etchings IV, "Nove paesaggi facili"

Vocal and choral

• Ammonizione for mezzo-soprano, viola, vibraphone
• ...Astrali nidi..., "Quasi un madrigale" for 3 sopranos, 3 mezzo-sopranos, 3 altos, bass clarinet, viola and piano; text by Giuseppe Ungaretti
  Giuseppe Ungaretti
  Giuseppe Ungaretti was an Italian modernist poet, journalist, essayist, critic and academic. A leading representative of the experimental trend known as Ermetismo , he was one of the most prominent contributors to 20th century Italian literature. Influenced by symbolism, he was briefly aligned...
  
  
• Neiges, "Quasi una scena" for soprano, baritone, bass clarinet, trumpet, trombone, piano and 2 suspended cymbals; text by Jean Cocteau
  Jean Cocteau
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• Quare fremuerunt gentes for mixed chorus; Biblical
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External links

• Paolo Longo's page at The Living Composers Project Composer's page at the Federazione Cemat Paolo Longo at Symétrie