Sergio Rendine was born in Naples the 7th September 1954 and graduated in composition with Domenico Guàccero at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome and in choral music and conducting with Giuseppe Agostini at the Conservatory Rossini in Pesaro. He is considered among the more important composers of our time, with commissions from leading musical institutions, including: the S.D.R. Radio Symphony Orchestra of Stuttgart; the N.D.R. Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg; W.D.R. Radio of Cologne; the Salzburg Festival; the BBC in London; the Opera of Frankfurt; l’Orchestre Philarmonique de Monaco; the Opera of Montecarlo; the Oslo Philarmonic; the Philarmonic Orchestra of La Scala; the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome; the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples; the Teatro Massimo in Palermo; the Strasbourg Festival and the Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto; the Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia; la Citè International des Artes of Paris; the Arena di Verona Foundation; the VII World Congress of Saxofone, Washington; the Lisbon Gulbenkian Foundation; the St.Petersburg State Symphomny Orchestra; the Bolshoy in Moscow; the Prague National Symphony Orchestra; the 2000 Grand Jubilee Committee; the  O.N.C.A., National Classic Orchestra of Andorra; the National Auditorium of Madrid, and many others.With his opera “Alice”, commissioned by RAI, he won the Barcelona “Hondas” Prize and the special critics prize of the “Prix Italia”. He was chosen by the Presidency of the Nobel Prize for Peace to compose, together with Matsudaira, Menotti, Penderecki and Schnittke, the “World Mass for Peace”, performed in Oslo on the occasion of the award. His “Missa de beatificatione in onore di Padre Pio da Pietralcina”, performed in the Sala Nervi at the Vatican, was commissioned as the official Mass for the beatification. His “Passio et Resurrectio” for soloists, choir and orchestra was written for Good Friday in the Jubilee Year of 2000; “Romanza – una favola romana –“, Opera in three acts, and “De Profundis, Secretum Teophili”, He has made more than twohundred works. For the 2009 the Andorra Government with the Liceu Theatre of Barcelona has commissioned him for composing the opera in three acts “Le somni de CarleMany”, first lyric opera in catalan. In 2010 has to write a Double Concerto for violin, cello and orchestra for E.Dindo and the San Remo Symphony Orchestra.He serves as administrative adviser to the Orchestra of the S. Cecilia Accademia Nazionale, commissioner of the SIAE for the opera section, and artistic director of the Teatro Marrucino of Chieti, the Lyric Theatre of the Abruzzi. Most of his compositions are published by G. Ricordi Co., Milan. Among the principal performers of his works have been Salvatore Accardo, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Michele Campanella, Josè Carreras, Carla Fracci, Cecilia Gasdia, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Enzo Gragnaniello, Micha van Hoeck, Will Humburg, Lindsay Kemp, Steven Mercurio, Milva, Amii Stewart, with many others.official site: http://www.sergiorendine.com/ [ - ]

Sergio Rendine was born in Naples the 7th September 1954 and graduated in composition with... [ + ]