Massimo Di Gesu

Massimo Di Gesu is an Italian composer, born in 1970. Academic studies At the Milan Conservatory Di Gesu attained the Diploma in Piano in 1992, and the Diploma in Composition in 1995. He studied composition with Bruno Bettinelli, Besides further piano studies with Valerio Premuroso, he attended post-graduate composition courses at the Petrassi Academy (Parma), at the University of Central England (Birmingham), and at the University of Leeds. Style «At first, his musical thought could be traced back to the expressionism of Schönberg and the mastery of Berg. Actually, what is here perceptible is the mighty shadow of J. S. Bach» (Flavio Emilio Scogna on Gradus ad responsum for piano). and based on a distinctly atonal harmonic idiom His compositional technique enables the construction of melodic, harmonic, and contrapuntal structures ) linking the elements of the musical narrative: a work which the ensemble had commissioned on the occasion of the bicentennial of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth. La Scala String Quartet had already played Di Gesu’s works such as Ansikte mot ansikte (for Serate Musicali - Milano, and Ente Concerti Pesaro ) and WOLFiliGrANG (at the Rovereto Mozart Festival ). In 20