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Marco Attura

Marco Attura is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor. Biography He obtained diplomas in piano, composition, choral music and orchestral conducting (cum laude). He furthered his studies at the

Marco Attura is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor. Biography He obtained diplomas in piano, composition, choral music and orchestral conducting (cum laude). He furthered his studies at the Royal Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, Städtische Bühnen in Münster, Germany, the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto and the Academy of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, where most of Italy’s greatest operatic artists, and many of the finest singers from around the world, have studied and performed. He follows the masterclasses with Daniel Oren, and Jorma Panula. At the age of twenty, he made his debut on the podium of the Teatro degli Industri with Puccini’s opera “Gianni Schicchi” and later with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”. On the occasion of the X edition of the “Giuseppe Sciacca” International Prize for young scholars, he was awarded the 1st Prize Da Vinci Classics (first world premiere of Pietro Mascagni’s satanic rhapsody ), piano version by the author, Brilliant Classics, Tactus and Amadeus Arte. He is a teacher of Score Reading at the Italian Conservatories of Music and carries out conducting activities with one particular predilection for the opera repertoire, from the