Salvatore Di Vittorio
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Salvatore Di Vittorio (born 22 October 1967 in Palermo, Italy) is an Italian composer and conductor. Di Vittorio is the music director and conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of New York.[1]
Biography
[edit]Di Vittorio began studying music in Italy as a child with his father Giuseppe, before learning composition with Ludmila Ulehla and Giampaolo Bracali at the Manhattan School of Music in New York City.[2] He also studied conducting with Giampaolo Bracali, Francesco Carotenuto and Piero Bellugi in Italy.[1]
His program music, focused on the program symphony or symphonic poem, is mostly influenced by Hector Berlioz and Richard Strauss.[1] He has worked with orchestras in: Italy (Orvieto, Palermo, Perugia, Florence, Rome), Bulgaria (Sofia), Belgium (Brussels, Ghent), United States (Danbury, Worcester, San Jose, Philadelphia, New York), Canada (Quebec, Vancouver), Egypt (Cairo), Brazil, Switzerland (Basel), Czech Republic (Prague), Austria (Vienna), and the United Kingdom (London).[2]
He has written works for various orchestras, such as Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Chamber Orchestra of New York, Teatro Massimo Opera Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and The Morgan Library & Museum. He has taught at Loyola School (New York City) and Adelphi University.[1][2]
In 2007, Di Vittorio was invited by Ottorino Respighi's great nieces, Elsa and Gloria Pizzoli, as well as Respighi archive curator and cataloguer, Potito Pedarra, to edit, orchestrate, and complete several early works of Respighi.[3] This included the first Violin Concerto, publicized in accordance with Edizioni Panastudio and Casa Ricordi in Italy. He premiered and then recorded three of these editions, along with his own Overtura Respighiana and first two program symphonies with the Chamber Orchestra of New York for Naxos Records[4] in 2010. These first recordings were released in 2011.[3]
Other restorations to note include Respighi's 1908 orchestration of Claudio Monteverdi's "Lamento di Arianna" (from the lost opera L'Arianna, 1608) edited in 2012, and Di Vittorio's completion of Respighi's orchestration of Tre Liriche (Three Art Songs, 1913), edited for its centennial anniversary in 2013. In 2019, Di Vittorio completed the first printed edition of Respighi's second Violin Concerto all'Antica. In 2021, Di Vittorio and the Chamber Orchestra of New York recorded the Violin Concerto all'Antica in 2019 alongside Respighi's Ancient Airs and Dances suites and the mezzo songs for Naxos Records.
In November 2012, Di Vittorio gave the world premiere of his Sinfonia No. 3 Templi di Sicilia in his debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana at the Teatro Politeama in Palermo, and was interviewed by RAI. The program also included the European premieres of Di Vittorio's Overtura Respighiana and Respighi's first Concerto per Violino (in La Maggiore). Di Vittorio was awarded the Medal of Palermo from Mayor Leoluca Orlando who "recognized the great importance of Di Vittorio's work as a promoter of the city of Palermo around the world".[5]
The world premieres of Di Vittorio's Fanfara del Mare "Su un Tema di Monteverdi" with the San Diego Symphony, commissioned for the centennial of Balboa Park and its Organ Pavilion at Copley Symphony Hall in 2015, and Venere e Adone for the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia in 2016.[6]
In summer 2016, Salvatore Di Vittorio became the first Italian composer to be invited to donate an autographed manuscript to The Morgan Library & Museum music archive. He composed La Villa d'Este a Tivoli in 2015 for the Morgan on the occasion of its exhibition City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics, June 2016.[7]
In 2018, Di Vittorio completed his Sinfonia No. 4 Metamorfosi (Metamorphoses), based on Ovid's Metamorphoses and three Italian paintings related to the story. In June 2021, Naxos released a second album of Di Vittorio's music that includes several world premiere recordings, including the new fourth symphony. Decca Classics released two recordings in 2021 involving Di Vittorio's published restorations of Respighi's works. The London Philharmonic released a recording of "Nebbie" from Tre Liriche under conductor Renato Balsadonna and tenor Freddie de Tommaso, and Teatro Alla Scala Opera Orchestra recorded Aria for Strings under conductor Riccardo Chailly.[8]
Between the 2021/2022 and 2024/2025 seasons, Di Vittorio premiered his Viaggi di Enea (Voyages of Aeneas) as one of two commissions for the Teatro Massimo Opera Orchestra[9] in Palermo—the second, his Metamorphosis Symphony under his baton at the opera house.
Di Vittorio's works are published by Panastudio in Palermo, under the distributor Casa Ricordi in Milan, Italy. His orchestral works are also listed in Daniel's Orchestral Music compendium.[10]
He resides with his family in New York and Palermo.
Works
[edit]The following is a list of works and compositions by Di Vittorio:[11]
Orchestral
[edit]- Enea e Didone, per orchestra d'archi (2023)
- Viaggi di Enea, per violino e orchestra (2022)
- Larchmont Harbor, per piccola orchestra (2021)
- Arie per Enea, per mezzosoprano e orchestra (2020)
- Suite Verdiana, per orchestra (2020)
- Ballo delle Muse, per violino e orchestra (2020)
- Sinfonia No. 4 "Metamorfosi", per orchestra (2019)
- Sarabanda Antica, per orchestra da camera (2018)
- Venere, per flauto, arpa e archi (2017)
- Preludio Sentimentale, per orchestra d'archi (2017)
- Canto Per la Nativita', per piccola orchestra (2016)
- Ode "Corelliana", per piccola orchestra (2016)
- La Villa d'Este a Tivoli, per piccola orchestra (2015)
- Fanfara del Mare (Sea Fanfare) "Su un Tema di Monteverdi", per orchestra (2015)
- Venere e Adone, per piccola orchestra (2014)
- Overtura Palermo, per orchestra (2013)
- Il Tallone di Achille (Achilles' Heel), per piccola orchestra (2010, completed 2013)
- Stabat Mater Speciosa, Per la Nativita', per coro (a cinque) e piccola orchestra (2012)
- Sinfonia No. 3 "Templi di Sicilia", per orchestra (2011)
- Concerto per Violino (in La Maggiore) [Respighi—Di Vittorio] (1903/2009)
- Overtura Respighiana, per orchestra (Based on music of Ottorino Respighi and Gioacchino Rossini) (2008)
- San Michele Arcangelo, per baritono, coro e orchestra da camera (Prologue from opera Fausto) (2005)
- Romanza dal "Romeo e Giulietta", per orchestra da camera (2004)
- Sinfonia No. 2 "Lost Innocence", per orchestra (1997, revised 2000)
- Sinfonia No. 1 "Isolation", per orchestra d'archi (1994, revised 1999)
- Elegy, per orchestra (Movement IV from Sinfonia No. 2) (1996)
- Preludio, per orchestra d'archi (Movement I from Sinfonia No. 1) (1994)
Transcriptions and revisions of orchestral music of Ottorino Respighi
[edit]- Berceuse per archi (1902, edited 2022)
- Violin Concerto "all'Antica" (1908, edited 2019)
- Tre Liriche, per mezzo-soprano e orchestra (1913, orchestration completed 2013) [Version for soprano (or tenore) and orchestra completed and published in 2020.]
- "Lamento di Arianna", per mezzosoprano e orchestra (1908, edited 2012) [Monteverdi—Respighi]
- Serenata, per piccola orchestra (1904, edited 2012)
- Suite in Sol Maggiore, per archi ed organo (1905, edited 2011)
- Suite per archi (1902, revised 2010)
- Aria per archi (1901, transcribed 2010)
- Concerto per Violino (in La Maggiore) (1903, completed 2009) [Respighi—Di Vittorio]
Other Transcriptions and Orchestrations
[edit]- We Have All the Time in the World, per orchestra d'archi (2020) (John Barry (composer)—orchestration by Di Vittorio)
- Orfeo, Toccata e Ritornello, per orchestra da camera (2017) (Monteverdi—orchestration by Di Vittorio)
- Clair de Lune, per piccola orchestra (2016) (Debussy—orchestration by Di Vittorio)
- O Mio Babbino Caro, per piccola orchestra (2016) (Puccini—orchestration by Di Vittorio)
Opera
[edit]- Fausto, Opera in due atti, per sei solisti, coro e orchestra da camera (Based on Dr. Faustus by Thomas Mann; Libretto in Italian: To be completed)
- Romeo e Giulietta, Opera in due atti, per sei solisti, coro e orchestra (Based on Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare; Libretto in Italian: 2003)
Choral and vocal
[edit]- Stabat Mater Speciosa, Per la Nativita', per coro (a cinque) e piccola orchestra (2012)
- San Michele Arcangelo, per baritono, coro e orchestra da camera (Prologue from opera "Fausto") (2005)
- Ave Maria, per coro femminile (1995, revised 1998)
- Magnificat, per coro misto (1995)
Chamber
[edit]- Castelli, per piccolo ensemble (2014)
- Sonata No. 2 "Reflections on a Nursery rhyme", per pianoforte (1996)
- Sonata No. 1, per clarinetto (1995, revised 1998)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d "Music Director & Composer". Chamber Orchestra of New York. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
- ^ a b c "Biography". Salvatore. Retrieved 5 April 2025.
- ^ a b Day, The Editor: Italy On This. "Salvatore Di Vittorio – composer and conductor". Retrieved 2 April 2025.
{{cite web}}:|first=has generic name (help) - ^ Discography List at Naxos website
- ^ Article at Il Saxofono website
- ^ Concert info at San Diego Symphony website
- ^ Concert information at The Morgan Library & Museum website
- ^ Recording at Decca Classics
- ^ Biography at Teatro Massimo website
- ^ Full list at Daniel's Orchestral Music
- ^ Works List at Di Vittorio website
External links
[edit]- Official website of Salvatore Di Vittorio
- Chamber Orchestra of New York
- Catalog of publisher Casa Ricordi
| International | |
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- 1967 births
- Living people
- Musicians from Palermo
- Italian male classical composers
- Composers from Sicily
- 20th-century Italian classical composers
- 20th-century male composers
- 21st-century Italian classical composers
- Italian classical musicians
- Italian male conductors (music)
- Manhattan School of Music alumni
- Columbia University alumni
- 20th-century Italian conductors (music)
- 21st-century Italian conductors (music)
- 20th-century Italian male musicians
- 21st-century Italian male musicians
- Ottorino Respighi