Maurizio Colasanti

Maurizio Colasanti is an Italian conductor and composer. Biography At the age of 5 he began studying music with maestro Mimì De Renzis; just a year later he held his first solo concert with the band from his town, Pretoro. He graduated with top marks and honors from the L.D’Annunzio Conservatory of Music in Pescara. Subsequently he graduated “Cum Laude” in theoretical philosophy at the D’Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara University. His musical inclinations and interests led him to conduct the 20th century and contemporary repertoire of authors such as: Ottorino Respighi, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Luigi Dallapiccola, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Barbara Kaszuba, Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Krzysztof Penderecki, Sofija Asgatovna Gubajdulina, George Enescu, Bruno Maderna. Active in opera, he has directed major titles in both Italian, German and English, including: (Salome) by Richard Strauss, (The Rape of Lucretia) by Benjamin Britten, Les enfants terribles, by Philip Glass. He has collaborated with musicians such as: Uto Ughi, Aaron Rosand, Félix Ayo, Yamandu Costa, Anthony Braxton, Gunther Schuller, Georg Friedrich Haas, An