Composer profile - Marco Attura

MARCO ATTURA

Marco Attura, born on the 13th of November 1985 in Acuto, is an Italian composer, pianist, and conductor. He holds diplomas with honours in piano, composition, choral music, and orchestral conducting.

He has perfect his skills at the Royal Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, Städtische Bühnen Frankfurtand, Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto and the Academy of Teatro alla Scala.

When he was twenty years old, he made his debut at Teatro degli Industri with Puccini’s opera “Gianni Schicchi” and with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”, and he was also awarded *the 1st Prize at the X edition of the Giuseppe Sciacca International Prize for young scholars.

He has worked as a pianist and conductor at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale “A.Belli” in Spoleto, where he also currently substitutes. He was assistant to Muhai Tang for the first performance in Chinese of the opera “Marco Polo”, staged at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova in 2019. He has also supported important singers, such as Lella Cuberli, Renato Bruson, Claudio Desderi, Giovanna Casolla.

Marco has collaborated with various Italian orchestras, including the Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti di Napoli, with which he conducted Maestro Bruno Canino in Mozart’s K488 Piano Concerto, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and the Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento. He conducted the first performance of ‘Samson et Dalila’ in Albania at the National Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

The Casa Musicale Sonzogno and Universal Edition publish his compositions.

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