Short bio
An Italian native, Christian Paterniti (1990) graduated in piano and composition with top marks and honours.
Parallel to the piano academic education with Caterina Del Campo e Gaetano Indaco, he attended masterclasses and studied with eminent masters like Leonid Margarius, Giuseppe Andaloro, Pierluigi Camicia, Roberto Cappello, Leslie Howard, Fabrizio Dorsi (conducting).
He began studying composition with Carmelo Chillemi and encouraged by a search for creativity, he devoted himself mostly to compositional activity, also participating in various seminars: in July 2016 with the Oscar winner John Corigliano on music architecture; in October 2019 with Paolo Vivaldi on picture sound; from June to October 2020 he was admitted in high musical composition course with Mauro Bonifacio and Azio Corghi at the “Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna”.
In 2023 he received a postgraduate diploma at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome in the class of Ivan Fedele.
He won first prizes in chamber music, piano, composition competitions and call for scores.
As a composer, he has likewise obtained over sixty awards, acknowledgements and performance in Italy as well as in Wien (Austria), Athens (Greece), Paris (France), New York, Seattle, Boston, North Hampton (USA), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Busan (South Korea), São Paulo (Brasil), Montréal (Canada), Bétera, Malaga, A Coruña (Spain), Kwidzyn (Poland), Chişinău (Moldova), Bangkok (Thailand).
His composition works and musical essays are published by Florestano Edizioni, Preludio Edizioni, Agenda edizioni, Libreria Musicale Italiana and MD Edizioni (Italy), Pizzicato Verlag Helvetia (Switzerland), Da Vinci Publishing (Japan). His music has been recorded for Navona Records, broadcast by Radio CEMAT, Radio Mozart Italia and is performed in Italy, USA, Canada, Poland, Moldova. His performers include Ovidiu Marinescu, Anna Kislitsyna, Marco Ignoti, Giuseppina Scravaglieri, Gabriele Rota, NED Ensemble, ACHROME Ensemble, SEEM sax Quartet, Corelli Symphony Orchestra, Quatuor Molinari, Filarmonica Națională “Serghei Lunchevici”, Symphonic Orchestra Bulgaria Classic, Ensemble Novecento, Arxis Ensemble directed by Beat Furrer.
He has taught at the Conservatory “Francesco Cilea” in Reggio Calabria and “Domenico Cimarosa” in Avellino, and currently he is a composition teacher at the Conservatory “Arcangelo Corelli” in Messina.
Academic background (in Italian)
Diploma (V.O.) di Pianoforte, conseguito nel 2014 con 10 e lode.
Biennio Accademico di II livello in Pianoforte, conseguito nel 2017 con 110 e lode, menzione d’onore e diritto di pubblicazione della tesi (dissertazione sulla figura di Jacques Chailley, traduzione integrale con addendum inedito del suo “Traité historique d’analyse harmonique” e analisi critica della sua “Ballade Romantique” sotto la supervisione di Mario Musumeci).
Diploma (V.O.) di Composizione, conseguito nel 2019 con 10 e lode e menzione d’onore.
Master di I livello in Metodologie socio-pedagogiche negli insegnamenti Artistico-Musicali conseguito nel 2019.
Corso di Alta Composizione Musicale conseguito nel 2020 presso l’Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna.
Biennio Accademico di II livello in Composizione, conseguito nel 2021 con 110, lode e menzione d’onore.
International Summer School 2021: L’edizione critica del testo musicale presso Lake Como School of avanced studies.
Diploma di Perfezionamento di Composizione conseguito nel 2023 presso l’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma.
Biennio Accademico di II livello in Direzione di coro e composizione corale, conseguito nel 2023 con 110, lode e menzione d’onore.
