Alessandro Solbiati was born on 9 September 1956 and is an Italian composer of classical music, who has composed instrumental music for chamber ensembles and orchestra, art songs and operas.
11 Facts About Alessandro Solbiati
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Alessandro Solbiati received international commissions and awards, and many of his works are recorded.
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Alessandro Solbiati is an academic, teaching in Italy and France.
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Alessandro Solbiati studied further, from 1977 to 1980, at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena with Franco Donatoni.
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Alessandro Solbiati received commissions from La Scala, the RAI, Radio France, Mozarteum, Gulbenkian Foundation and Southbank Centre, among others.
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Alessandro Solbiati's music has been performed at notable festivals, in Australia, Austria, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Japan, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the US, and other.
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Alessandro Solbiati's music has been broadcast in Europe and America.
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Alessandro Solbiati set poems by Baudelaire, Rainer Maria Rilke and Friedrich Holderlin to music, among others.
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Alessandro Solbiati has taught composition at the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini of Bologna, the Milan Conservatory and the Centre Acanthes in Avignon.
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Alessandro Solbiati has held master classes at the Conservatoire de Paris and the Conservatoire de Lyon.
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Alessandro Solbiati's compositions achieved awards at international competitions, such as a string quartet at the International Milan Competition in 1980, and a violin concerto, Di Luce, winning the RAI-Paganini Prize of Rome in 1982.