Artist · Conductor
Lucio Ivaldi
Biography
Lucio Ivaldi, born in Rome in 1965, has published vocal and instrumental compositions and a number of musicological papers.
In Rome he has founded and directed several ensembles, including Coro Polifonico Diego Carpitella, Coro Symphonia, Gruppo Vocale Symphonia, Orchestra Diapente and Consort Vocale Diapente. He has collaborated with Centro di Pratica Musicale, Ensemble Vocale Thesaurus and Centro Italiano di Musica Antica. He has organised concert series and taken part in more than one hundred concerts and competitions in Italy and abroad.
He produced five monographic Vivaldi CDs for the Discoteca di Stato of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities and served as choral conductor for the recording encyclopaedia KZ Musik, devoted to music composed in concentration camps between 1933 and 1945.
He was composer in residence at the Mythic Imagination Institute in Atlanta, USA. His work The Birth of Color received three performances during the Café Budapest 2016 contemporary music season, with strong responses from audiences and critics.
His activities described in the album booklet also include artistic direction of Associazione Pittura Musicale and teaching choral conducting and early music at the Conservatorio Licinio Refice in Frosinone.