From an early age, he showed an interest in musical composition and graduated at the age of twenty in Composition and Orchestral Conducting, training primarily under Aurelio Samor\u00ec (Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro) and later Azio Corghi (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome). He also attended advanced courses with composers Franco Donatoni and Fabio Vacchi. With his success at the Masterprize in London in 1997\/98 (third prize), he began a career that led him to receive prestigious international awards for his orchestral, chamber, and vocal output, including the Valentino Bucchi Prize (2000), the \u201c2 Agosto\u201d Prize (2002), the Reina Sofia Prize (2004), the Guido d\u2019Arezzo Prize (2006), the Groot Omroepkoor Prize of Dutch National Radio (2007), the Pablo Casals Prize (2009), the Monodrama Prize (2013), the Barto Prize (2014), the Karol Szymanowski Composition Prize (2015 and 2018), and the She Lives Budapest Prize (2020). His works have been performed across Europe, Israel, the United States, Canada, Colombia, and China, by leading performers and ensembles such as the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding, BBC orchestras, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ulf Schirmer, the Spanish Radio Television Orchestra conducted by Adrian Leaper, the Polish National Radio Orchestra conducted by Christopher Lyndon-Gee and Jos\u00e9 Maria Flor\u00eancio, the Croatian Radio Television Orchestra conducted by Ari Rasilainen, the Netherlands Radio Choir conducted by Simon Halsey, Salvatore Accardo, Tzimon Barto, the Trio di Parma, the Ensemble Calliop\u00e9e, among others, and broadcast in around forty countries. He holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Urbino \u201cCarlo Bo\u201d and has long been interested in the relationship between music, literature, and the visual arts, frequently giving lectures and talks on these topics. He has collaborated with writer Raul Montanari, author of the libretto for the monodrama Incubi e amore for soprano, actor, and instrumental ensemble, and of the text for Trans Europe Express, a melologue for spoken voice, piano, and wind orchestra. His most recent works include Invisible Cities, a concerto for piano and orchestra inspired by Italo Calvino\u2019s Invisible Cities, commissioned by the XXX Zagreb Music Biennale, and Once beyond a time, based on a poetic text by Rafael Alberti, for the Polish National Radio Orchestra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From an early age, he showed an interest in musical composition and graduated at the age of twenty in Composition and Orchestral Conducting, training primarily under Aurelio Samor\u00ec (Rossini Conservatoire of Pesaro) and later Azio Corghi (Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome). He also attended advanced courses with composers Franco Donatoni and Fabio Vacchi. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593742,"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-592790","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n