Mario Totaro graduated in Piano from the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro and in Composition from the Verdi Conservatoire of Milan, both with top marks and honours. He initially focused mainly on piano performance, refining his skills at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Carlo Zecchi and at the Imola \u201cIncontri col Maestro\u201d Academy with Franco Scala, Gy\u00f6rgy S\u00e1ndor, Alexander Lonquich, Aldo Ciccolini, Nikita Magaloff and Bruno Canino. Winner of numerous national and international piano competitions, he has performed throughout Italy and abroad, presenting programmes that also include improvisation and cross-genre fusion. In 1992 he founded the Trio Diaghilev (two pianos and percussion), with which he has performed major 20th-century repertoire and his own original works in prestigious concert seasons, including the Rossini Opera Festival, the University Concert Institution and CIDIM \u2013 Musica Duemila in Rome, the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana in Rimini, the A. Scarlatti Association in Naples, the Philharmonic Society of Trento, Autunno Musicale in Como, and symphonic seasons of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna, the Filarmonica A. Toscanini, the RAI National Symphony Orchestra of Turin, and the Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano, among others. In 1995 he was invited to represent Italy at the international festival \u201cEurop\u00e4ische Klaviertage\u201d in Iffeldorf, performing a recital broadcast live by Bavarian Radio. Some of his works have been performed by internationally renowned artists and orchestras (Michele Mariotti, Manlio Benzi, Alessandro Cadario, Orquesta Nacional de Espa\u00f1a), have received awards in international competitions (\u201cEnnio Porrino\u201d \u2013 Cagliari), have been reviewed in music journals (Amadeus, Musica), and have been broadcast on multiple occasions by RAI Radio (Radiotre Suite; \u201cIl brivido della classica\u201d from the Turin Salone della Musica; Piazza Verdi) and RadioClassica. He has received commissions from major artistic institutions including the Rossini Opera Festival, Feste Musicali di Bologna, Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, the Imola \u201cIncontri col Maestro\u201d Piano Academy, Rassegna Lirica Torelliana, and the Astor Piazzolla Centre. He directed the \u201cWorkshop on 20th-century and contemporary music\u201d at the Rossini Conservatoire (Pesaro) for many years. His compositions are published by Preludio Music and Da Vinci Classics. In 2012 he launched a long-term project dedicated to recording all his works for solo piano and chamber music. He is Professor of Score Reading at the Rossini Conservatoire in Pesaro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mario Totaro graduated in Piano from the Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro and in Composition from the Verdi Conservatoire of Milan, both with top marks and honours. He initially focused mainly on piano performance, refining his skills at the Mozarteum in Salzburg with Carlo Zecchi and at the Imola \u201cIncontri col Maestro\u201d Academy with Franco Scala, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593109,"parent":593244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-parts\/docenti-child.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-592745","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n