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Maurizio Schiavo

The artist

MAURIZIO SCHIAVO

A great musician and a great talent, Maurizio Schiavo has studied baroque violin with Enrico Gatti and has followed master classes with Piero Toso and Sigiswald Kujiken. He also attended composition courses and was a student of Eliodoro Sollima and Niccolò Castiglioni: his works have been performed in important Italian contemporary music festivals. In 2008 he founded “Il Demetrio” ,one of the most lively groups with original instruments of the Italian scene , mainly devoting himself to the performance of the classical and baroque repertoire, combining the interpretative commitment with the musicological research on the Italian repertoire of the 600’-700’. He graduated in orchestral conducting with Giampiero Taverna and in orchestral conducting for the opera with Umberto Cattini. He has conducted in the first modern performance, also taking care of the revision, unpublished compositions by Antonio Cagnoni and Franco Vittadini; he has recorded the Quartets for flute and strings and he has conducted in the first modern performance the sacred compositions. As an instrumentalist he has reproduced the “Mottetti per voce e strumenti” by Bianca Maria Meda and numerous compositions by Alessandro Rolla.