igor caiazza

CURRICULUM VITAE

He was Born in March on 1982 and actually he collaborates with Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Mozart, Wiener Symphoniker (Österreich), Orchestra and Filarmonica of Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Les Musiciens du Louvre (France), National Symphonic Orchestra of RAI, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra (International), Orchestra of the Arena of Verona, Orchestra of Teatro di San Carlo of Naples, Orchestra del Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Filarmonica Toscanini, Orchestra of the Tuscany, and so many others.

He has performed in the most prestigious World Theatres with important Conductors and Soloists among which Claudio Abbado, Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Zubin Mehta, George Pretre, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, John Eliot Gardiner, Myung-Whun Chung, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Daniel Harding, Daniele Gatti, Gustavo Dudamel, Kent Nagano, Eliahu Inbal, Semyon Bychkov, Edward Gardner, Krzysztof Pendereski, Jeffrey Tate, Herbert Blomstedt, Giannandrea Noseda, Vladimir Fedosejev, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Fabio Luisi, Rudolf Barshai, Wayne Marshall, Peter Maxwell Davies, David Geringas, Maurizio Pollini, Martha Argerich, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Mischa Maisky, Vadim Repin, Lang Lang, Ivo Pogorelich, Leonidas Kavakos, Uto Ughi, Roberto Fabbriciani, Hilary Hahn, Gianluca Cascioli, Bobby McFerrin,Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Viktoria Postnikova, and so many others, effecting recordings for various european Radio and Television, recorded CDs among which a production by Raitrade (gone out in February 2005 for the magazine "Classic Voice") and a DVD with Daniele Gatti.

After beginning with Rocco Salzano at five years old he studied at Conservatory of Music in Salerno where he graduated with a Diploma (with maximum grades) under the teaching of Carlo Di Blasi.
After he has had private lessons with Peter Sadlo (Soloist), Anton Mittermayr (Wiener Philharmoniker), Oliver Madas (Wiener Philharmoniker), Gustavo Gimeno (Royal Concertgebouw Amsterdam), Friedrich Philipp-Pesendorfer (Wiener Symphoniker), David Friedman, Dave Weckl, and others.
In the meantime he has won various International and National Competitions. He is resulted second qualified to the international audition for the "UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra" (conductor laureate: James Levine) with who he has collaborated for the Autumn Tour on November 2006.

About Contemporary Music he has collaborated with orchestras and chamber music groups for various first world executions, recordings and Festivals with various composers among which Ivan Fedele, Luca Francesconi, Daniele Lombardi, RenatoRivolta, at "Bienniale of Venice", with Soloists of the Young Janacek Philhrmonic Orchestra at "Cantiere Internazionale d’Arte" of Montepulciano, with the Orchestra of the CEMAT "Italian Sound for Europe" (formed by italian musicians of the EUYO) conducted by Peter Maxwell Davies.
He has effected recordings in Rome with Nicola Piovani (Oscar Prize for the Music of "The Life is Beautiful" by Roberto Benigni), for the Musical "Kiss Me, Kate" of Cole Porter , for the movie "Gangs of New York" by Martin Scorsese, for the Tenor Josè Carreras in Vienna and others.

Moreover he participates as drummer, marimba and vibraphone player to numerous and various National and International Jazz Festivals (among which "Terni in Jazz", "The Euf de jazz" to Le Mans (France), "Baronissi Jazz"), with musicians among which Tullio De Piscopo. Julian Oliver Mazzariello, Aldo Vigorito, Giovanni Amato, Mauro Ottolini, Gerry Popolo, Giampiero Virtuoso, Gaetano Fasano, Carlo Fimiani, Antonio De Luise, Alessandro Lanzoni, Stefano Giuliani, Tommaso Scannapieco, Max Govoni, Peppe Plaitano, Luigi Vitale (with which he has recorded a CD in duo with the name "Duo Kammerton"), Rocco Salzano and so many others.
He has been Leader of a Jazz Quartet in London with which has recorded a CD at the RCM Studios of London.
He participates to numerous and various concerts and recordings with orchestras, chamber music and as soloist.

About Composer
He has studied Composition with Lucia Ronchetti.
His compositions are been commissioned and performed composition by the Orchestra of the Conservatory of Salerno, by various chamber groups in Italy, by Renato Rivolta about the Course of Contemporary and Modern Music for Chamber Groups of the International Academy of the Music in Milan (Civic Schools); he has worked in collaboration with the artist Isabella Ducrot to a composition for Voices and Ensemble and currently he is writing for his Quartet (Quartetto Megaride).

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