Diego Maccagnola

Diego Maccagnola

He obtained, under the guidance of Maria Grazia Bellocchio, the Diploma in Piano with full marks and the Academic Diploma of II level in Musical Disciplines with honors at the Musical Institute "G. Donizetti" of Bergamo. Then he attended Master classes in piano with Massimiliano Damerini, Sergei Dorensky, Paolo Bordoni and Benedetto Lupo , perfecting in chamber music at the “Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia” in Rome with Rocco Filippini and at the “Accademia Chigiana” in Siena with Alexander Lonquich. Awarded in numerous national piano competitions, he has performed as a soloist or in chamber ensembles in important Italian and international festivals and shows . He undertook a collaboration with the Florentine choreographer and dancer Virgilio Sieni, bringing on tour the choreographic works, "Solo Goldberg improvisation" and "Sonate Bach", performing with public and critical success the “Goldberg Variations” and the “Sonaten für Viola da Gamba und Klavier” by J.S.Bach. In 2017 he toured Japan, successfully playing Beethoven’s “First Concerto” with the Sereno Chambers Orchestra at the Aqua Cultural Center in Toyonaka and with the “Trio Kanon” at the Music Salon Amadeus in Kobe and the Petit L-Hall in Osaka. He combines an intense didactic and concert activity as a pianist with that of a chorus master. He has been a cantor since 1998 and assistant conductor in the productions of the Coro Costanzo Porta of Cremona. He also collaborates with the “Circuito Lirico Lombardo” as Chorus Master. Since 2000 he teaches piano and choral exercises at the School of Music and Choral Singing "Costanzo Porta" in Cremona. He is a professor of Piano Practice at the Superior Institute of Musical Studies "Vecchi Tonelli" in Modena.