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Matteo Silva (Ulm, 17 October 1960) is an Italian-German editor, music producer and ethnomusicologist. He was born in Ulm, Germany, grew up in Bologna and Lugano, Switzerland, and studied composing at Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with Niccolò Castiglioni; founder of the independent music record label Amiata Records; as radio editor he collaborated with Rete 2 from the Italian Radio of Switzerland and produced the “Encyclopedia of World Music” in 65 volumes for RCS Group and Editor Fabbri; for the group “Espresso – La repubblica” he produced the CD series of “World Music” published as attachments to the weekly Espresso, a work that for the first time in Italy made a big audience know about music of unknown cultures, often ones coming from non-European countries. For Amiata Records, Wergo, Naïve and Music of the World record labels he produced more than 100 contemporary and ethnic music CDs in the USA, Germany, France and Italy. He was one of the founders of Skeye music, which brought Carla Bruni and her first album “Quel qu’un m’à dit” to Italy just like the “Overhead” music group and other French and English artists. He produced music by artists like Arvo Pärt, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Sainkho, Ustad Nishat Khan, i Fratelli Mancuso, le Faraualla, Sangita Badhyopadhnay, Michael Vetter, Hans Otte, Gabin Dabiré, the Club Musical Oriente Cubano, Chögyal Namkhai Norbu, the Monks of the Sera Jé Monestary, The Bauls of Bengals. He often stayed in Asia, particularly in the Himalaya regions, where he documented and recorded several musical ceremonies of a species endangered of ethnic groups such as the Bön and Gurung, and he committed himself to the documentation of numerous Tibetan Buddhist ceremonies in exile just like other traditional songs of nomads of the Kham, of which he published a few CDs. In Italy, together with musicologist Walter Maioli, he was the creator of the archaeological musical project, Synaulia. He also produced and edited the music of Synaulia for Amiata Records and published “The Music of Ancient Rome” in 2 volumes (volume I Wind Instruments, volume II String Instruments). As composer he published electronic music albums Ad Infinitum (1993) and Omphalos (2001). Apart from his producing and editing activities, Matteo Silva is also a professor, author of essays, poetry and prose. As musicologist he wrote Music for Peace (1999), Beyond Music (2004), Copyright in digital media (2008). He resides between Florence and Rome and teaches at The European School of Economics in London and Rome.


Recognitions

  • 1998 Deutscher Schallplattenpreis[1] for the album Naked Spirit of Sainkho Namtchylak
  • 2000 Naird Award as the best independent producer of antique music
  • 2002 Diapason d’or[2] for the cd Bella Maria of Fratelli Mancuso
  • 2008 Nomination for Grammy Award in the Producer of the Year, Classical category

Bibliography

Discography

As composer:

As music producer:

Note

  1. ^ Echo Music Award
  2. ^ Diapason d'Or
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