VITTORIO MONTALTI

Vittorio Montalti was born in Rome in 1984.

He gained a piano diploma after studying with Aldo Tramma at the Conservatorio S. Cecilia in Rome where he also began studying composition, a subject he then continued with Alessandro Solbiati at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan.

He is currently an Erasmus student at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris where he is studying composition with Frederic Durieux and electronic music with Yan Maresz, Tom Mays, Luis Naon and Yann Geslin.

His interest in new technology led him to further his knowledge of electronic music by studying at the Scuole Civiche in Milan.

He has followed masterclasses and courses held by Luca Francesconi, Azio Corghi, Gabriele Manca, Luca Antignani, Mauro Bonifacio, Stefano Gervasoni, Ivan Fedele, Luis de Pablo and Toshio Hosokawa.

He has been awarded prizes in the composition competitions "Concorso Internazionale di Composizione del Conservatorio di Milano", "E. Carella" and "Vieri Tosatti". He also won the competition "Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano".

In 2009 he was selected to participate in the sixth forum for young composers organised by the Ensemble Aleph which was held between 16 and 23 April in Moulin d'Andé. The concert in which the works will be presented is scheduled for 22 May 2010 at the Théatre Dunois in Paris and will be repeated this Autumn during the Festival Slowind in Ljubliana.

His music has been played during many festivals and concert seasons(La Biennale di Venezia 2009, Festival Pontino 2008-2009, Rondò 2010, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Giornate Gesualdiane Internazionali (XI edizione), Accademia Internazionale della Musica/IRMus, RomaTreOrchestra, Concerti della Villa Reale in Milan, GAMO - Gruppo Aperto Musica Oggi, Festival URTIcanti, MUMAT-Museum of Textile Machines, the Danish Academy in Rome, Interfacce) by artists and groups such as Irvine Arditti, Dario Savron, Francesco Dillon, Emanuele Torquati, Francesco Gesualdi, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Annamaria Morini, Roberto Prosseda, the Ensemble Multilatérale, the Divertimento Ensemble, the Roma Tre Orchestra, the Piccola Orchestra Novecento, the Trio Perosi, etc.

He has received commissions from the Biennale di Venezia, the Festival Pontino, the duo Borrani-Fossi and the Roma Tre Orchestra.

His future projects include a commission from the Biennale di Venezia 2010 for a piece for chamber orchestra and a commission from the Divertimento Ensemble.

During the course of the Progetto Sonora of CEMAT, Francesco Gesualdi will play one of his pieces for solo accordion at the Italian Cultural Institutes in Melbourne and in Sidney (25 and 29 May).

He also taken part in a project on Paganini's Ghiribizzi that will be given its first performance by Luigi Attademo in Berlin this Autumn.

He has written sound tracks for 3D animated films shown during the Interfacce Festival at the Tor Vergata University in Rome.

He has collaborated with the music journal "Rondò".

He studied the "Science of Sound" for two years in the Faculty of Mathematical Physical and Natural sciences at the Tor Vergata University in Rome.