Curt Cacioppo

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Curt Cacioppo

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

Life

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

Until 1980 he studied with Leon Kirchner , Earl Kim and Ivan Tcherepnin at Harvard University , where he obtained his master's and doctoral degrees and taught until 1983. He then became a professor of music at Haverford College in Philadelphia.

Cacioppo stayed in Italy from 1986 to 1987, and in 1988 he was composer in residence at the Grand Teton Festival . In the following year he founded the Duo Fiore-Cacioppo with the soprano Janice Fiore . In 1992 he was visiting professor at Villanova University .

Since the early 1990s Cacioppo has been a guest at many international festivals, such as the Settimana Organistica Internazionale in Italy (1994), the Gasteig Culture Center in Munich (1995) and the Conductors Guild National Conference in Los Angeles (1998). His works have been performed by orchestras such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra , the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (1992), the Emerson String Quartet , the Orchestra 2001 , the Network for New Music of Philadelphia , the Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia , the National Symphony Orchestra , the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra , the Tacoma Symphony, and others.

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

Works

  • Piano piece
  • Tuscan Folio for Orchestra, 1990
  • Piano Concerto
  • Ciclo metamorfico for piano
  • Sonata trasfigurata for piano
  • Canto notturno
  • Poems from Paternina
  • Invocation and Dance of the Mountain Gods for orchestra, 1993
  • di cibo celeste for organ, WP 1994 at the Settimana Organistica Internazionale
  • Wolf , cantata
  • Nayénezgani (Monster Slayer )
  • Pawnee Preludes for piano
  • Indian Country
  • Quattro canti indigeni nordamericani
  • Three American Fantasies , piano cycle, WP 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, premiered in 2002 by Hans Fagius at the Settimana Organistica Internazionale
  • Impressioni venexiane , string quartet, 2003
  • Trilogia dantesca for piano, orchestra and choir
  • Faust Narrative No. 1 for piano and violin

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personal data
SURNAME Cacioppo, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American composer and pianist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Ravenna , Ohio