Stefano Pantaleoni
*12 June 1959
Works by Stefano Pantaleoni
Biography
Eclectic and multifaceted personality, he ranged in various musical fields: from Rock music to contemporary classical music, from electronic music to musical pedagogy.
He completed his musical studies in Parma, graduating in Instrumentation for Band (1984) and Composition (1985) and in Bologna, graduating in Electronic Music (1997). In Parma he was one of the last pupils of the great master Camillo Togni. He subsequently specialized in composition, at the Fiesole Music School (1989), with another of the greatest composers of the second half of the 20th century, Sylvano Bussotti. He studied conducting with Pero Guarino.
Author of numerous and significant publications on pedagogy and music teaching at prestigious publishing houses, he has taught music pedagogy in various conservatories and has been a member of various technical / scientific commissions and committees of the Ministry of Education. In this regard, he has collaborated in the drafting of important legislative documents related to the reforms of school systems as a technician and disciplinary expert.
From 1998 to 2006 he was active in EU countries - Germany, Czech Republic, Hungary, Spain and Poland - holding international workshops as a composer in residence. At the same time as the experience he composed the soundtrack for six musicals.
Currently the catalog of works includes solo, chamber and orchestral music, stage music (children's theater), electro-acoustic and electronic music. Some of his compositions, published by EDIPAN - Rome, BONGIOVANNI - Bologna and DIAPHONIA - Messina, performed in important reviews, have been awarded in national and international composition competitions.
In 2009 he conceived the work in progress with the visionary title of ISOLEDIPENSIERO, a compositional project that has reached its 7 "release which has as its main feature the use and enhancement of vintage electronic synthesizers of exclusive Italian design and manufacture. These instruments are part of a personal collection among the most important in Europe: the magazine MAT2020 dedicated an article-interview - "The keyboards you don't expect" - published in the January 2020 issue, and subsequently published in the book "Suite Rock - the Prog between past and future "by A. Enrile and O. Lacagnina, published by Graphofeel, Rome 2020. The style is characterized by Kosmische musik veins that intertwine and contaminate with spectrum-morphological music, in a new creative proposal whose timbre / stylistic figure is that of a renewed electronic music with an ancient color.
He is currently a teacher of "theory of harmony and analysis" at the S. Giacomantonio Conservatory in Cosenza.
About the music
The style represents a sort of balance in the always difficult relationship between necessity and freedom through the dimension of a liberated tone that wants to offer itself to that communicative urge to shake off the tormenting, but sometimes enjoyed, sackcloth of structuralism.