Paolo is an Italian pianist and composer. He studied piano at the conservatoires in Brescia, Milan and Amsterdam, mentored by Mario Boselli, Paolo Bordoni, Andrea Rebaudengo, Emanuela Piemonti, Frank Peters and Ralph Van Raat. His activity focuses mainly on contemporary music. Since 2017, he is a member of the Nieuw Ensemble in Amsterdam and of Ensemble Resilience – furthermore, he frequently collaborates with the ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi in Milan. In Dicember 2015 he played Huang Ruo’s Chamber concerto “Yueh Fei” with the project “Score Collective” at Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. As soloist he played Maderna’s Concerto per 2 pianoforti e strumenti with LMC Ensemble during
Milano Musica 2015 Festival and Carter’s Double concerto in Orgelpark (Amsterdam) for the Prix Annelie De Man festival 2018. He worked with the pianist Hauschka during the Milano Piano City 2015 opening concert with the
project Music for seven key instruments and percussions. In duo with clarinettist Marco Danesi, he won the Storioni Toonzaal Prijs 2017, the Ysaye Interanational chamber music competition in Liege, and theat Salieri-Zinetti International chamber music competition. In 2016, his piece “Geometrie di vento” for Orchestra was commissioned and performed in Milan by the orchestra I Pomeriggi Musicali.
