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= Marco Attura =

Biography
Marco Attura is an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.

He obtained the Diplomas in Piano, Composition, Choral Music and Orchestral Conducting (Cum Laude) and subsequently perfected at the Royal Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, Städtische Bühnen in Münster in Germany, the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto and the Academy of Teatro alla Scala in Milan.

He follows the Masterclasses with Daniel Oren and Jorma Panula.

At the age of twenty he made his debut on the podium of the Teatro degli Industri with Puccini's opera "Gianni Schicchi" and later with Mozart's "Don Giovanni".

Substitutes at the Teatro Lirico Sperimentale "A.Belli" in Spoleto where he also worked as a pianist and conductor. In masterclasses of vocal technique, lyric and baroque singing, he supports important singers, including Claudio Desderi, Renato Bruson, Giovanna Casolla, Marina Comparato, Lella Cuberli and Mario Antonio Diaz Varas, dean of the University of Mozarteum in Salzburg. He was assistant to M ° Muhai Tang for the first performance in Chinese of the Opera "Marco Polo" staged at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa for the opening of the 2019 season. His compositions are published by the Sonzogno and Universal Edition, performed in music reviews and seminars, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome and at the World Music Contest in Kerkrade

(Holland), some broadcast for RAI Storia.

He curates for the Curci Music Editions the Italian version of Mario's Cantafavola "Aucassin et Nicolette"

Castelnuovo-Tedesco represented in world premiere in Jesi.

His collaborations include the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, I Solisti Aquilani, Orchestra Filarmonica di Benevento, and Nuova Orchestra Scarlatti di Napoli with which he conducted Maestro Bruno Canino in Mozart's K488 Piano Concerto.

He records for Warner Classics, Da Vinci Classics (first world premiere of Pietro Mascagni's satanic rhapsody, piano version by the author, Brilliant Classics, Tactus and Amadeus Arte.

He is a teacher of Score Reading in the Italian Conservatories of Music and carries out conducting activities with one

particular predilection for the opera repertoire, from the 1900s and at the same time, boasting more of 50 premieres.

Works

 * 1) Cops for ensemble (Commissione Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini di Jesi)
 * 2) Asylum Ballet Music for Ensemble
 * 3) Cantilena ed oblìo di un luogo estraneo e mai vissuto for Guitar and Piano
 * 4) Per aspera ad Astra ("Over the thorns to the stars") for two pianos and Percussion
 * 5) ... ad Astra (World Music Contest Kerkrade 2023) for Symphonic Wind Band
 * 6) Imago Matris for Flute and Strings Orchestra
 * 7) Victimae Paschali Laudes for SATB Choir and Organ
 * 8) Avalon for Wind ensemble (Commissione Ente Musicale e culturale “G.Puccini” di Suvereto)
 * 9) Il Lato nascosto Opera (Commissione Fondazione Pergolesi Spontini di Jesi)