Composer · b. 1958
Sergio Sentinelli
Biography
Sergio Sentinelli, born in Rome in 1958, is an Italian composer whose work includes choral music, instrumental writing and music for film. He graduated in composition and in choral music and conducting at Rome’s Santa Cecilia Conservatory, and attended seminars with Karlheinz Stockhausen, Salvatore Sciarrino and Ennio Morricone.
His music has been performed by ensembles including Musicanova, Coro Iride, Calycanthus and St. Jacobs Chamber Choir. In 1988 he received a special jury prize at an international film-music competition in Latina. Gary Graden selected Scivolando sui muri dei nostri grigi corpi for a seminar in San Candido in 2003 and Riuscirà la nostra voce for Europa Cantat in Turin in 2012. The album Quando canto presents a selection of his vocal works.