Bellandi, Antonio: Concerto for Electric Guitar and Orchestra

Antonio Bellandi graduated with distinction in composition at the G. Puccini Conservatoire in La Spezia, studying with Andrea Nicoli, and completed a postgraduate course in composition at the same institution. He also graduated in piano at the L. Boccherini Institute in Lucca with Clara Cesa, and in the history of modern and contemporary music at the University of Florence with Franco Piperno.

His catalogue includes symphonic and chamber music, sacred and secular vocal music, and electronic works. His compositions have been performed in Italy, the Czech Republic, Germany, Macedonia and Azerbaijan. Selected by Giorgio Battistelli, he attended the composers’ masterclass given by Klangforum Wien during the contemporary music festival of the 51st Venice Biennale. He was also selected for the Ostrava Days Institute in 2009.

In 2011, his La leggenda del nocciòlo e del caprifoglio, for chamber orchestra and actor, won the Premio Nazionale delle Arti awarded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. His music has appeared at festivals including Ostrava Days, the International Guitar Festival of Lagonegro and Intersonanzen 2016. He has written for Sergio Sorrentino, Michele Bianchini, Fabio Sammarco, Antonino YekNur Siringo, Duccio Ceccanti, Ethymos Ensemble, ConTempora Ensemble of Skopje, Nyky Ensemble and the Exclusive Saxophone Quartet.