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 musicians like Leonid Margarius, Giuseppe Andaloro, Pierluigi Camicia, Roberto Cappello, Leslie Howard, Fabrizio Dorsi (conducting).
He began studying composition with Carmelo Chillemi and moved by a need 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. In 2020 he graduated from the advanced music 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 under the supervision of Ivan Fedele.
He won several first prizes in chamber music, piano, composition and call for scores.
In his composer career, he has obtained over sixty awards, acknowledgements and performed in Italy, Vienna, Athens, Paris, New York, Seattle, Boston, North Hampton, Saint Petersburg, Busan (South Korea), São Paulo, Montréal (Canada), Bétera, Malaga, A Coruña (Spain), Kwidzyn (Poland), Chişinău (Moldova), Bangkok (Thailand).
His composition works and musical essays are published by the following publishers: 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, Phasma Music, Tactus, broadcasted by Radio CEMAT, Radio Mozart Italia. His interpreters 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.
His teaching career in Italian Conservatories includes the ‘Francesco Cilea‘ Conservatory in Reggio Calabria and the ‘Domenico Cimarosa‘ in Avellino. He is currently teaching music composition at the ‘Arcangelo Corelli‘ Conservatory in Messina.
Academic background
Pre‑Reform Conservatory Diploma in Piano (Diploma V.O.), 2014 — graduated with highest honours (10/10 cum laude).
Second-Level Academic Diploma in Piano (Master’s-level qualification), 2017 — 110/110 cum laude, honourable mention, and publication rights for the thesis (a dissertation on Jacques Chailley, including a full translation with unpublished addendum of his Traité historique d’analyse harmonique and a critical analysis of Ballade Romantique, supervised by Mario Musumeci).
Pre‑Reform Conservatory Diploma in Composition (Diploma V.O.), 2019 — 10/10 cum laude, honourable mention.
First-Level Master’s Degree in Socio‑Pedagogical Methodologies for Artistic and Musical Education, 2019.
Advanced Composition Course, Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna, 2020.
Second-Level Academic Diploma in Composition (Master’s-level qualification), 2021 — 110/110 cum laude, honourable mention.
International Summer School 2021, Lake Como School of Advanced Studies — Critical Edition of Musical Texts.
Postgraduate Diploma in Composition, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome, 2023.
Second-Level Academic Diploma in Choral Conducting and Choral Composition (Master’s-level qualification), 2023 — 110/110 cum laude, honourable mention.
