Artist · Conductor
Livio Cavallo
Biography
Livio Cavallo (b. 1973) studied piano at Cuneo Conservatory, Renaissance music and singing at the Saluzzo School of Advanced Musical Studies with Kees Boeke, and choral conducting on courses in Sommariva Bosco with Claudio Chiavazza and Elena Camoletto. He also studied singing with Giuseppe Maletto, Marco Farinella, Roberto Colombatto, Phillip Peterson and Barbara Zanichelli.
As a tenor, he has worked in Italy, France and Slovenia with ensembles including Cantica Symphonia, Il Falcone, NovAntiqua, Gli Affetti Musicali and the Ruggero Maghini Philharmonic Choir, and has sung with Academia Montis Regalis and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra. He has conducted first performances of music by Sergio Sentinelli, Bruno Gallizio, Maero and Andrea Baudino, and has worked with Baroque orchestras.
He founded the mixed choir Sicut Lilium and the vocal group Ensemble del Giglio, which have received awards at the thirteenth Regional Choral Competition in Cannobio, the seventh and ninth Lake Maggiore National Competitions, the San Colombano International Competition in Piacenza and the Arezzo National Polyphonic Competition. He established the Rassegna corale Madonna della Pieve in 2001 and Sentieri di Musica in 2004, and founded the Piccola Scuola di Musica in Beinette in 2010.