Rocco Cianciotta

  Rocco Cianciotta completed his Violin, Composition, Band Adaptation, Choir Music and Choir Conducting studies, having graduated with distinction on Orchestra, under Rino Marrone, at "N. Piccini" Conservatory of Music in Bari. He has attended Choir Group Conducting and Orchestra Conducting Courses with Roberto Duarte, Aldo Ceccato (“I Pomeriggi Musicali” Orchestra in Milan), Hans Zender (Mozarteum in Salzburg) and Yuri Ahronovitch (Academia Chigiana in Siena). In 1995, he founded Polimnia Choir and he has performed with this several concerts with orchestra in Bari, Naples and Lucera and other a capella at diverse churchs in Bari and Foggia provinces. In 1998 he was chosen as the best student at the Orchestra Conducting Course and this allowed him to conduct several concerts with the Bari Province Symphonic Orchestra. From 1999 he conducts the “Tommaso Traetta" Chamber Orchestra and with it he has cooperated in numerous concerts with not only ancient but also contemporaneous music programmes. He has conducted “Doña Flor”, Opera in only one act, by Van Westerhout, with the A.Gi.Mus Orchestra, at its theatre, in Mola di Bari. Having obtained a schorlarship and won the "I Pomeriggi Muliscali" Orchestra Conducting Contest in Milan, he conducted four concerts in October 2000. In June 2001 with “I Concerti nelle Corti di Capitanata” he conducted the Conservatory of Foggia Orchestra as well as “I Suoni del Sud” Orchestra. From 2002 he is the permanent conductor for the Conservatory of Monopoli Symphonic Orchestra (Italy) and with it he has conducted diverse concerts for soloits and orchestras. Presently he conducts the “T. Traetta” Choir in Bitonto and with this he has recorded "Miserere" by Tommaso Traettra. As a composer, he has made numerous symphonic fragments for the following orchestras: Lecce, Messina, Matera, Regio Calabria, Taranto, Repulic of San Marino, Verona and Hartford (U.S.A.), also he has made orchestations for “Banda dell'Aeronautica Militare Italiana” and the “Ciudad de Buenos Aires” Symphonic Band. Also he does adaptations and orchestations for Katia Ricciarelli, Cecilia Gasdia, Pietro Ballo and Andrea Bocelli, whose concerts have been broadcasted at the national mass media (Rai Uno, Rai Due, Rai Sat, Retequattro, etc) and also watched abroad (in Boston, Las Vegas, Fort Lauderdale, New Jersey, Hartford, Toronto, etc) Besides of composer, he is an ancient music expert and he reviews unpublished manuscripts by Tommaso Traetta and besides he carries out his teaching activities at Conservatory of Monopoli as Orchestral Practice teacher.