Was
born on October 24, 1966 in Chieti, Italy, he began music studies with
E. De Renzis at the age of five, and earned his first Diploma Cum Laude
from the "Luisa D’Annunzio" Conservatory. During the course
of his studies, he was awarded several prizes in international music competitions
including First Prize: Capri ('87) and L’Aquila-Miami ('88), Pola
(’89), and the competition for teaching in Italian Music Conservatories,
and he attended prestigious masterclasses under H.J. Schellenberger and
B.Incagnoli, O. Michel Corona, G. Arpad, M. Erdely. He is also gratuated
Cum Laude in Philosophy (Università G. D'Annunzio – Chieti).
In 1990, joined by several members of few Italian Symphony Orchestra, Maurizio
Colasanti founded the chamber orchestra I Fiati Italiani, of which he is
currently Music Director. With this orchestra, he has enjoyed the privilege
of collaborating with such distinguished artists as A.Pay, B.Canino, B.Incagnoli,
M. Larrieu and I Solisti del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, as well as being
featured in national broadcasts by Rai Radiotelevisione , RadioTRE. In
addition, Mr. Colasanti has spent nine years as Music Director of the Majellarte
Summer Opera Festival. Since 1992 he is the Artistic Director of the Società
Italiana della Musica e del Teatro and the Premio Abruzzo. Maurizio Colasanti
has played as soloist and conducting with: I Fiati Italiani, Orchestra
Sinfonica di Pescara, Deutsches Kammerorchester, Loja Symphony Orchestra,
Sesi Minas Symphony Orchestra, I Solisti del Teatro alla Scala di Milano.
He has performed concerts with many important musical institutuions: Royal
Accademy Of Music (London, 1993), Konzerthaus (Freiburg 2000), Miami University
of Music (1999), Miami Symphony Orchestra (1988), Teatro dell'Opera di
Roma (1993), St. Martin In the Fields (London1992), Melba Hall (Melbourne
1999) Ottawa University (1997), Società Italiana della Musica e
del Teatro (2001), Teatro San Carlo (Naples, 1992), in Switzerland, Great
Britain, Germany, Austria, Canada, Usa, Slovenia, France, Belgium, Australia,
Brazil, collaborating with such distinguished artists as A.Rosand, C.M.Giulini,
D.Renzetti, P. Radura Skoda, K.Gilbert, G.Manzoni, F.Mills, A.Braxton,
G.Schuller. He has also performed for His Holiness John Paul II. Mr. Colasanti
is also very active as a composer. Between 1991 and 2002, his works performed
in many important music season as: Majellarte, Australasian Double Reed
Society, Festival Mitad del Mundo, II° Festival UFMG Belo Horizonte.
His works have been published by Santabarbara, Chiola Music Press, New
Music.He is principal teacher in the E.G.Duni Conservatorio di Musica in
Matera and he has teaching also in many institutions: Accademia Musicale
Pescarese, Conservatorio de Musica (Quito), Corsi Estivi Internazionali
(Lanciano), UFMG, Royal School of Music (Melbourne). He has recorded CD
with: Bongiovanni (Bologna), Menabo (Rome), Iktius (Milan), and Mondo Musica
Verlags (Munchen). During 2003, he will debut in the Wiener Heilingekreuzer
(Wien), Festival Kostantino (Moscow) Festival Ellipsis (Sardegna), the
"Marrucino" Theatre in Chieti and with the Moscow Soloist, and
he will record a monografic CD of E.Villa Lobos with BHSO (Sinfonies and
Choros), and with I Solisti della Scala (Weber winds Concerts). In March
2004 he is awaited in Canada and Austria for a tour with his Fiati Italiani
and I Solisti della Scala.
Maurizio
Colasanti