Maurizio
Colasanti Conductor
Maurizio Colasanti is already well established on an international level as one of the most eclectic and dynamic conductors of his generation. An expert in contemporary music, he specializes in the Opera and classic romantic period. Premature musical talent he began music studies with E. De Renzis at the age of five, he play his first solist concert at age of seven and earned his first Diploma Cum Laude from the "Luisa D’Annunzio" Conservatory of Music. During the course of his studies, he was awarded several prizes in international music competitions including First Prize: Capri ('87) and L’Aquila-Miami ('88), Pola (’89), and the competition for teaching in Italian Music Conservatories (‘91), he attended prestigious masterclasses under H.J. Schellenberger and B.Incagnoli, O. Michel Corona, G. Arpad, M. Erdely in Geneva, Wien and Budapest. He is also gratuated Cum Laude in Philosophy (Università G. D'Annunzio – Chieti). In 1990, joined by several members of few Italian Symphony Orchestra, Maurizio Colasanti founded the chamber orchestra I Fiati Italiani, of which he is currently Music Director. With this orchestra, he has enjoyed the privilege of collaborating with such distinguished artists as A.Pay, B.Canino, B.Incagnoli, A. Rosand, C. M. Giulini M. Larrieu, P.Badura Skoda and I Solisti del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, as well as being featured in national broadcasts by Rai Radiotelevisione , Radio TRE. Maurizio Colasanti has played as soloist and conducting with: I Fiati Italiani, Orchestra Sinfonica di Pescara, Deutsches Kammerorchester, Loja Symphony Orchestra, I Solisti del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Wien Festival Orchestra, Orchestra del Teatro Marrucino di Chieti, Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, Villa Lobos Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfonica del Estrado del Mexico, Guanajuato Symphony Orchestra, Sinfonica De Mar Del Plata, Orchestra Sinfonica Porto Alegre, Orchestra da Camera di Firenze, New England Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra, Nancy Symphonic Orchestra and other. He has performed concerts with many important musical institutuions: Carnegie Hall New York, Royal Accademy Of Music London, Miami University of Music, Teatro San Carlo Naples, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, St. Martin in the Fields, Ottawa University, Miami Symphony Orchestra, Melba Hall Konzerthaus Teatro do SESI Porto Alegre, Società Italiana della Musica e del Teatro, Singapore Theatre, Shanghay Festival, in Switzerland, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Canada, Usa, Slovenia, France, Belgium, Australia, Brazil, Cina, Singapore, collaborating with such distinguished artists as A.Rosand, C.M.Giulini, P. Badura Skoda, K.Gilbert, G.Manzoni, A.Braxton, G.Schuller. He has also performed for His Holiness John Paul II.He is principal teacher in the E.G.Duni Conservatorio di Musica in Matera and he has teaching also in many institutions: Royal College of Music (London), Conservatorio de Musica (Quito), Corsi Estivi Internazionali (Lanciano), UFMG, Royal School of Music (Melbourne).During 2008 year his concert in the prestigious Carnegie Hall has been received from positive critics, in the same year was invited like conductor for Spanish and Italian tournee of P. Badura Skoda.He has recorded CD with: Bongiovanni (Bologna), Menabo (Rome), Iktius (Milan), Mondo Musica Verlags (Munchen), and Aulia. During 2010-11 season, he will debut in the Orchestra della Magna Grecia, Orchestra Sinfonica di San Remo, Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Chieti, Adana Symphony Orchestra, Istambul Symphony Orchestra, Festival Brahms, Wigmore Hall (London), Orquestra Sinfonica del Estado de Mexico, and Guanajuato Simphonic Orchestra (Mexico), and he will record a monografic CD of E.Villa Lobos with BSOMJ (Sinfonies and Choros), and with I Solisti del Teatro alla Scala di Milano (Weber and Kotzeluck winds Concerts).