Luigi Ceccarelli

Luigi Ceccarelli (born 20 April 1953 in Rimini, Italy) is an Italian composer. Biography Luigi Ceccarelli completed his musical studies in the ‘70s at the Gioachino Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro (Italy), where he studied Electronic Music and Composition with Walter Branchi, Giuliano Zosi and Guido Baggiani. His career as a composer began in 1975, and was strongly influenced by digital technology and research into Sound Spatialisation. In addition to his exclusively musical work, right from the start, he dedicated a significant part of his professional activity to experimental theatre, contemporary dance, cinema and visual arts. After moving to Rome in 1978, he began to collaborate with the Gruppo di lavoro intercodice - ALTRO (inter-codex work-group), an artistic association led by the painter Achille Perilli, and during this period, his contacts with artists in various other disciplines allowed him to develop forms of music that were closely related to the visual arts and the theatre. With ALTRO, he wrote and performed the music for the performance Abominable A, which was staged at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome. In 1981, ALTRO became a dance company with the name of Altro