Domenico Famà: Schizo-Valse, for Cello and Piano

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Domenico Famà: Polyhedric musician, Domenico is an Italian classical guitarist, conductor and composer.
He graduated in classical guitar with full marks at Conservatorio Stanislao Giacomantonio in Cosenza with Pietro Morelli and Orazio Carrara and then he became pupil of the guitarist/composer Angelo Gilardino in Vercelli. He graduated in conducting with Gilberto Serembe at the Italian Conducting Academy in Milan and studied composition with Enrico Dibennardo. He also achieved the Bachelor in Music Pedagogy in Catania with full marks and honors and attended courses with Luigi Attademo, Guido Salvetti, Lucio Matarazzo, Giulio Tampalini, Fabio Federico e Gaelle Solàl. In 2018 he debuted as conductor in Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini in Catania, special guest in a symphonic concert including works by Mozart, Rossini, Verdi and Bellini. In 2020 he founded in Catania the Orfeo Chamber Orchestra, working on several baroque and classical productions such as the Stabat Mater by Pergolesi for Associazione Mozart Italia. Appreciated interpreter of XX and XXI century guitar solo repertoire, he is the dedicatee of several new compositions for guitar - including Capriccio Etneo (Bèrben 2014) by Angelo Gilardino - giving the first performances. Absolute winner of many national and international musical performance competitions he carries out an intense concert activity throughout Italy, performing regularly on behalf of important musical organizations including Fondazione Taormina Arte, Teatro Rendano (Cosenza), Palazzo Cavagnis (Venezia), DocBi Centro Studi (Biella), Festival Ville Vesuviane (Napoli), Fondazione Teatro Garibaldi (Modica), Noto Musica Festival, Associazione Mozart Italia (Modica), Associazione Jervolino (Caserta), Teatro Donna Fugata (Ragusa), S.C.A.M. (Catania), Associazione Ricercare (Cuneo), Magazzino Musica (Milano), Vittorio Guardo Chamber Music Festival (Siracusa), Società Italiana Dante Alighieri (Catania). Active in chamber music, he is part of the baroque ensemble Il Cimento Armonico with which he made his debut as baroque guitarist in the production of the opera Acis and Galatea by G. F. Händel; he also plays regularly with the violinist Salvatore Domina, first violin of the Teatro Massimo in Catania, with the guitarist Alfredo D’Urso and with the soprano Giulia Mazzara. As composer, since 2011 he has been writing original music for various chamber ensembles - already publicly performed in different Italian concert seasons and favorably received by critics - including the Sonata for flute and piano Fragments de temps (2013), Due Impressioni parigine for flute and piano (2014), Sonatina for flute and guitar Lumières dans l’obscurité (2015), Rêverie (2018) and Petite Chanson (2020) for soprano and piano, all published by the international record label OMK Da Vinci Publishing in Osaka. In 2020 he wrote Due Ritratti per chitarra, published by the label Achille e La Tartaruga in Turin, awarded with five stars on the Italian magazine Seicorde. Since 2012 he has been the artistic director of Promethéus, with which, every year, he organizes a concert season, collaborating with the Department of Culture in Catania. He writes for the cultural magazine Incontri. La Sicilia e l’altrove and for the Italian magazine Dotguitar. Appeared several times in the Italian magazine Seicorde for his performances of contemporary music, he is the author of a biographical book dedicated to Angelo Gilardino and his guitar school. Winner of national competitions for teaching in 2016, he is principal guitar teacher at Liceo Musicale Turrisi Colonna in Catania and external teacher at Conservatorio Stanislao Giacomantonio in Cosenza.