Roberto Altieri

Italian composer, pianist, conductor and professor, born in Naples in 1958. He earned four degrees at the Conservatorio di Musica “S. Pietro a Majella” in Naples: Composition, Piano, Choral composition and conducting, Orchestral conducting. And then the Merit Diploma at the Masterclass of Composition at the “Accademia Chigiana” in Siena. Winner of several prizes in Italian and International composers competitions, he wrote more than one hundred works, performed in Italy and many European Countries. Some of his compositions ("Sirene" for orchestra and "Metamorfosi" for guitar) are edited by Bèrben, Ancona. He has had an extensive career as a choral and orchestral conductor. Professor of Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue and Composition at the Conservatorio di Musica “S. Pietro a Majella” in Naples since 1999. He edited a critical revision of Francesco Mancini’s cantata “La Rosa” for the modern-time prmière in 2001, and wrote, with the pianist M. P. Cellerino, two books about Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas.