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Salvatore Di Vittorio

Italian composer and conductor (born 1967) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Salvatore Di Vittorio
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Salvatore Di Vittorio (born 22 October 1967 in Palermo, Italy) is an Italian composer and conductor. He is the music director and conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of New York.[1]

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Biography

Introduced to music at an early age by his father, Di Vittorio studied composition with Ludmila Ulehla and Giampaolo Bracali at the Manhattan School of Music in New York.[2] He also studied conducting with Giampaolo Bracali, Francesco Carotenuto and Piero Bellugi in Italy.[1]

Career

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His program music, focused on symphony, is mostly influenced by Hector Berlioz and Richard Strauss.[1] He has worked with orchestras in: Italy (Orvieto, Palermo, Perugia, Florence, Rome), Bulgaria (Sofia), Belgium (Brussels, Ghent), United States (Danbury, Worcester, San Jose, Philadelphia, New York), Canada (Quebec, Vancouver), Egypt (Cairo), Brazil, Switzerland (Basel), Czech Republic (Prague), Austria (Vienna), and the United Kingdom (London).[2]

He has written works for various orchestras, such as Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Chamber Orchestra of New York, Teatro Massimo, San Diego Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and The Morgan Library & Museum. He has taught at Loyola School (New York City) and Adelphi University.[1][2]

In 2007, Di Vittorio was invited to edit, orchestrate, and complete several early works of Respighi.[3][4] This included the first Concerto per Violino (in La Maggiore), published by Edizioni Panastudio and Casa Ricordi in Italy. He premiered and recorded three of these editions, along with his own Overtura Respighiana and first two program symphonic poems with the Chamber Orchestra of New York for Naxos Records[5] in 2010. Naxos Records released these first recordings in 2011.[3]

Other restorations include Respighi's 1908 orchestration of Claudio Monteverdi's "Lamento di Arianna" (from the lost opera L'Arianna, 1608), edited in 2012, and orchestration of Tre Liriche (Three Art Songs, 1913), edited for its centennial anniversary in 2013. In November 2012, Di Vittorio gave the world premiere of his Sinfonia No. 3 Templi di Sicilia in his debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana at the Teatro Politeama in Palermo. He composed La Villa d'Este a Tivoli in 2015 for 'The Morgan' on the occasion of its exhibition City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics. In 2018, Di Vittorio completed his Sinfonia No. 4 Metamorfosi (Metamorphoses).[citation needed]

In June 2021, Naxos released a second album of Di Vittorio's music that includes several recordings, including the new Fourth Symphony. Decca Classics released two recordings in 2021 involving Di Vittorio's published restorations of Respighi's works. The London Philharmonic released a recording of "Nebbie" from Tre Liriche under conductor Renato Balsadonna and tenor Freddie de Tommaso, and the Teatro Alla Scala Opera Orchestra recorded Aria for Strings under conductor Riccardo Chailly.[6]

Between the 2021/2022 and 2024/2025 seasons,[7] Di Vittorio premiered his Viaggi di Enea (Voyages of Aeneas) as one of two commissions for the Teatro Massimo Opera Orchestra[8] in Palermo—the second, his Metamorphosis Symphony at the opera house.[citation needed]

Di Vittorio's works are published by Panastudio in Palermo, under the distributor Casa Ricordi in Milan, Italy. His orchestral works are also listed in Daniel's Orchestral Music Compendium.[9]

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Works

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The following is a list of works and compositions by Di Vittorio:[10]

Orchestral

Transcriptions and revisions of orchestral music of Ottorino Respighi

  • Berceuse per archi (1902, edited 2022)
  • Violin Concerto "all'Antica" (1908, edited 2019)
  • Tre Liriche, per mezzo-soprano e orchestra (1913, orchestration completed 2013) [Version for soprano (or tenore) and orchestra completed and published in 2020.]
  • "Lamento di Arianna", per mezzosoprano e orchestra (1908, edited 2012) [Monteverdi—Respighi]
  • Serenata, per piccola orchestra (1904, edited 2012)
  • Suite in Sol Maggiore, per archi ed organo (1905, edited 2011)
  • Suite per archi (1902, revised 2010)
  • Aria per archi (1901, transcribed 2010)
  • Concerto per Violino (in La Maggiore) (1903, completed 2009) [Respighi—Di Vittorio]

Other Transcriptions and Orchestrations

Opera

Choral and vocal

  • Stabat Mater Speciosa, Per la Nativita', per coro (a cinque) e piccola orchestra (2012)
  • San Michele Arcangelo, per baritono, coro e orchestra da camera (Prologue from opera "Fausto") (2005)
  • Ave Maria, per coro femminile (1995, revised 1998)
  • Magnificat, per coro misto (1995)

Chamber

  • Castelli, per piccolo ensemble (2014)
  • Sonata No. 2 "Reflections on a Nursery rhyme", per pianoforte (1996)
  • Sonata No. 1, per clarinetto (1995, revised 1998)
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