Curt Cacioppo

Curt Cacioppo (* 1951 in Ravenna / Ohio) is an American composer and pianist.

Vacioppo had as a child first piano lessons from his mother. He studied at the Music School of the Kent State University piano and composition, and attended master classes with Arthur Loesser, John Browning, Ruth Laredo and Robert de Gaetano. At New York University he obtained in 1976 under Gustave Reese the degree of Master of Arts with a thesis on the composer Johannes Ciconia. For his piano piece, he received an award from the American Society of University Composers at this time.

Until 1980 he studied with Leon Kirchner, Earl Kim and Ivan Tcherepnin at Harvard University, where he received his master's and doctoral degrees and taught until 1983. After that, he was Professor of Music at Haverford College in Philadelphia.

From 1986 to 1987, Cacioppo held up in Italy, 1988, he was composer in residence at the Grand Teton Festival. In the following year he founded with soprano Janice Fiore Fiore, the duo - Vacioppo. In 1992 he was a visiting professor at Villanova University.

Since the early 1990s Vacioppo was a guest at many international festivals, as in the Settimana organistica Internazionale in Italy ( 1994), the Gasteig Cultural Centre in Munich (1995 ) and the Conductors Guild National Conference in Los Angeles ( 1998). His works were of such orchestras as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (1992 ), the Emerson String Quartet, the Orchestra in 2001, the Network for New Music of Philadelphia, the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Kansas City Symphony, Tacoma Symphony, and others listed.

From 1990 to 1991, he was awarded fellowship in the Howard Foundation, 1993 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Prize and the 1997 Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 1996 his cantata Wolf was recorded on CD, two years later, he played with the Emerson String Quartet 's own works -in. As a pianist, he played first performances of compositions by Robert Ward, George Rochberg's, Ulysses Kay, William Bolcom, Ingrid Araucos, Alejandro Cardona and others. He also wrote music analytical writings about Beethoven, Schumann and Stravinsky for musical journals.

Works

  • Piano piece
  • Tuscan Folio for orchestra, 1990
  • Piano Concerto
  • Ciclo metamorfico for Piano
  • Sonata for Piano trasfigurata
  • Canto nocturne
  • Poems from Father Nina
  • Invocation and Dance of the Mountain Gods for orchestra, 1993
  • Di cibo celeste for Organ, UA 1994 at Settimana organistica Internazionale
  • Wolf, cantata
  • Nayénezgani (Monster Layer)
  • Pawnee Preludes for Piano
  • Indian Country
  • Quattro canti indigeni nordamericani
  • Three American Fantasies, piano cycle, UA 2000
  • Franciscan Prayer, 2000
  • To the Immortal Beloved, 2000
  • Quattro canti, 2000
  • Oboe Concerto UA 2000 at the Viva Vivaldi Festival in Venice
  • The Ancestors, Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano, 2001
  • A distant voice calling, string quartet, 2002
  • Visione delle crociate for Organ, UA 2002 by Hans Fagius at the Settimana organistica Internazionale
  • Impressioni venexiane, string quartet, 2003
  • Trilogia dantesca for Piano, Orchestra and Choir
  • Faust No Narrative. 1 for piano and violin
Ravenna (Ohio) Robert Ward (composer)
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