Andrea Ottani
Education
• 1998-2000 / Music theory, guitar theory and practice (with M° Gianni Totaro) through private individual lessons, Conversano, Bari, Italy
• 2001-2005 / Music theory (with M° Linda Lopriore), guitar theory and practice (with M° Domenico Lopez) through individual and group lessons by Private Music School “Insula Musicae”, Conversano, Bari, Italy
• 2009 / Preliminary English Test (Cambridge ESOL Entry Level Certificate) Council of Europe Level B1 (Pass with Merit - 88/100)
• 2010-2013 / Degree – Pro.Ge.A.S (Planning and Management of Events and Companies of Art and Show) - University of Florence, Italy
• 2014-(currently underway) / Degree – Music composition – Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Florence, Italy
Composition, harmony, counterpoint, orchestration with M° Andrea Portera. Pianoforte and score interpretations with M° Antonino Siringo and M° Leonardo Pieri. Arrangement and transcriptions with M° Kamran Kacheh. Music theory with M° Luigi Fiorentini. Organ, rhetoric in music, and ancient systems and practices with M° Simone Ori.
Work experiences
• Transcriptions and arrangements played in events
with the Composition Class of Scuola di Musica di Fiesole (authors: Mozart, Morricone, Piazzolla, Offenbach, in collaboration with Maggio Musicale); as freelance: for Quartetto Prometeo (athors: Cherubini, Vivaldi)
• Assistant conductor
for the conductor M° Guido Corti, in the event “Facciamo un opera? Pinocchio!”, by Studium Faesolanum, Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and Teatro Solare, direction of Daniele Caini
• Original pieces played in events
with the Composition Class of Scuola di Musica di Fiesole: in the event "ComiConcerto: accordi e disaccordi sull'oroscopo" with Paolo Hendel, by the Theather “Carlo Monni” in Campi Bisenzio, Orchestra dei Ragazzi (Youth Orchestra) of Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, direction of Marco Vicari, conducted by M° Edoardo Rosadini - with the original piece “Scorpio”; for Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina: with the original piece “Orfeo Suite”, played during the summer season 2016, in Museo del Bargello, Florence, Italy
• Pubblications
with the music publisher Sconfinarte: “Il Pifferaio di Hamelin – Quadro IV”
Notes
He was born in 1991, he approached the world of music at the age of 8, when he started to play guitar and study music theory.
Always having the music as his first interest and passion, started studying composition and working as music librarian in the school/conservatory Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, Florence, Italy.
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