Valtinoni Pierangelo
2017 – “Cantata of War” for bass/baritone, male choir, clarinet, two cellos and piano.
Pierangelo Valtinoni studied Organ and Organ Composition, Choral Music and Choir Conducting, Composition and Conducting. He has given lectures and seminars on his own compositions at the 4th Franco Donatoni Composition Course in Mexico City, the Symposium Kinderchor Opern Neue Musik in Berlin and the 18th Europa Cantat International Festival in Turin, analysis and composition at the European Seminar for Young Composers in Aosta and the “Piergiorgio Righele” Academy of Choral Conducting in Venice, and a Masterclass in Operatic Composition for ViolOpera – Musical Theater in Treviso. He teaches Instrumentation and Orchestration at the Conservatory of Vicenza. He has been a jury member in several music competitions. As an organist and conductor, he has carried out an intense concert activity, privileging the 20th-century and contemporary repertoire.
He was founder and director of the Paralleli Ensemble of Vicenza and has directed the Icarus Ensemble of Reggio Emilia for several years, holding concerts in Italy (Venice: Festival Galuppi; Milan: Nuove Sincronie, Scuola Civica; Turin: Società Casella; Palermo: Musica su più dimensioni; Reggio Emilia: Di Nuovo Musica), Europe (Munich: Hochschule für Musik, Gasteig; Amsterdam: Gaudeamus Week 1998) and Mexico (Guanajuato: Festival Cervantino; Mexico City: Festival Donatoni).
His compositions are performed in Italy, Europe, Asia and America, are recorded for the Ariston-Ricordi, Tactus, Discantica, Internationales Forum Junge Chormusik, Osnabrücker Jugendchor, Fugatto and Song & Music Production labels and have been broadcast on Deutschland Radio, Radio Berlin rbb, Sky Classica and Radio 3. He has published for the publishing houses Boosey & Hawkes, Sonzogno, Carrara, Carus-Verlag, Feniarco and Cipriani. He has had commissions from the Komische Oper in Berlin, the Zurich Opernhaus, the Internationales Forum Junge Chormusik in Rotenburg-Wümme, the Gaetano Callido International Organ Competition in Borca di Cadore, the Marco Enrico Bossi International Organ Festival in Salò, the Duomo in Milan, the Klavier Theater 2002 Festival in Treviso, and, in Vicenza, the Società del Quartetto, the 2015 Biblical Festival, Ensemble Musagète, La Piccionaia, the Teatro Olimpico Orchestra, and Theama Teatro.
He has written four operas for children: Il ragazzo col violino, to a libretto by Roberto Piumini, performed in Vicenza in 1997 and published by Boosey & Hawkes publishing house; Pinocchio, to a libretto by Paolo Madron, one of the most frequently performed contemporary operas at present (Komische Oper Berlin, Hamburg Staatsoper, Leipzig Opera, Munich Staatsoper, Teatro Regio in Turin, Boris Pokrovsky Theater in Moscow, Teatro Circo in Braga, Teatro Olimpico and Teatro Comunale in Vicenza, Bassano Opera Estate Festival, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Shatin Town Hall in Hong Kong, Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima) and published by Boosey & Hawkes publishing house. From November 19, 2017, Pinocchio will be performed at the Volksoper in Vienna and from March 10, 2018, at the Landestheater in Coburg; La Regina delle nevi, on a libretto by Paolo Madron, commissioned by the Komische Oper in Berlin and performed at the Komische Oper in Berlin, Staatsoper in Hamburg, Dresden Conservatory, Umeå Opera House in Sweden, Teatro Comunale in Vicenza, Auditorium in Milan, and Tulsa Opera in Tulsa, Oklahoma and published by Boosey & Hawkes publishing house. On June 27, 2015, the DVD of the opera, recorded at the Komische Oper Berlin and produced by Boosey & Hawkes, was presented in Berlin; The Wizard of Oz, with libretto by Paolo Madron, published by Boosey & Hawkes and commissioned by the Zurich Opernhaus, staged from Nov. 19, 2016 to Feb. 5, 2017 in the same theater with German language translation by Hanna Francesconi. From October 5 to 8, 2017, the opera will have its national premiere in Bassano del Grappa with the new production of Opera Estate – Festival Veneto.
With the incidental music for the play Un teatro per Jules – L’ultima rotta di Verne by A. Marcolini, he won the prize for best musical commentary at the 60th National Festival of Dramatic Art in Pesaro. He received the 2014 ASAC Award for Choral Music.
In 2017, he was appointed an Olympic Academician by the Accademia Olimpica of Vicenza.
On commission from Boosey & Hawkes, he completed the orchestration of the finale of L. Cherubini’s Opera buffa Koukourgi, the world premiere of which took place on Sept. 16, 2010 at the Stadt Theater in Klagenfurt, Germany. As a researcher, he collaborated on the reconstruction of M.E. Bossi’s opera Malombra which had its world premiere at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna on September 19, 2005.