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Salvatore Di Vittorio

Salvatore Di Vittorio (born 22 October 1967 in Palermo, Italy) is an Italian composer and conductor. He is the music director and conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of New York.

Biography

Introduced to music at an early age by his father, Di Vittorio studied composition with Ludmila Ulehla and Giampaolo Bracali at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. He also studied conducting with Giampaolo Bracali, Francesco Carotenuto and Piero Bellugi in Italy.

Career

His program music, focused on symphony, is mostly influenced by Hector Berlioz and Richard Strauss. 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).

He has written works for various orchestras, such as Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Chamber Orchestra of New York, <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Teatro Massimo</span>, San Diego Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and The Morgan Library & Museum. He has taught at Loyola School (New York City) and Adelphi University.

In 2007, Di Vittorio was invited to edit, orchestrate, and complete several early works of Respighi. This included the first <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Concerto per Violino (in La Maggiore)</span>, published by Edizioni Panastudio and <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Casa Ricordi</span> in Italy. He premiered and recorded three of these editions, along with his own <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Overtura Respighiana</span> and first two program symphonic poems with the Chamber Orchestra of New York for Naxos Records in 2010. Naxos Records released these first recordings in 2011.

Other restorations include Respighi's 1908 orchestration of Claudio Monteverdi's "<span lang="it" dir="ltr">Lamento di Arianna</span>" (from the lost opera <span lang="it" dir="ltr">L'Arianna</span>, 1608), edited in 2012, and orchestration of <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Tre Liriche</span> (Three Art Songs, 1913), edited for its centennial anniversary in 2013. In November 2012, Di Vittorio gave the world premiere of his <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sinfonia No. 3 Templi di Sicilia</span> in his debut with the <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana</span> at the <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Teatro Politeama</span> in Palermo. He composed <span lang="it" dir="ltr">La Villa d'Este a Tivoli</span> in 2015 for 'The Morgan' on the occasion of its exhibition City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics. In 2018, Di Vittorio completed his <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sinfonia No. 4 Metamorfosi</span> (Metamorphoses).

In June 2021, Naxos released a second album of Di Vittorio's music that includes several 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 "<span lang="it" dir="ltr">Nebbie</span>" from <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Tre Liriche</span> under conductor Renato Balsadonna and tenor Freddie de Tommaso, and the Teatro Alla Scala Opera Orchestra recorded Aria for Strings under conductor Riccardo Chailly.

Between the 2021/2022 and 2024/2025 seasons, Di Vittorio premiered his <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Viaggi di Enea</span> (Voyages of Aeneas) as one of two commissions for the <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Teatro Massimo</span> Opera Orchestra in Palermo—the second, his Metamorphosis Symphony at the opera house.

Di Vittorio's works are published by Panastudio in Palermo, under the distributor <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Casa Ricordi</span> in Milan, Italy. His orchestral works are also listed in Daniel's Orchestral Music Compendium.

Works

The following is a list of works and compositions by Di Vittorio:

Orchestral

  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Enea e Didone, per orchestra d'archi</span> (2023)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Viaggi di Enea, per violino e orchestra</span> (2022)
  • Larchmont Harbor, <span lang="it" dir="ltr">per piccola orchestra</span> (2021)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Arie per Enea, per mezzosoprano e orchestra</span> (2020)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Suite Verdiana, per orchestra</span> (2020)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Ballo delle Muse, per violino e orchestra</span> (2020)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sinfonia No. 4 "Metamorfosi", per orchestra</span> (2019)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sarabanda Antica, per orchestra da camera</span> (2018)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Venere, per flauto, arpa e archi</span> (2017)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Preludio Sentimentale, per orchestra d'archi</span> (2017)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Canto Per la Nativita', per piccola orchestra</span> (2016)
  • Ode "Corelliana", per piccola orchestra (2016)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">La Villa d'Este a Tivoli, per piccola orchestra</span> (2015)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Fanfara del Mare</span> (Sea Fanfare) <span lang="it" dir="ltr">"Su un Tema di Monteverdi", per orchestra</span> (2015)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Venere e Adone, per piccola orchestra</span> (2014)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Overtura Palermo, per orchestra</span> (2013)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Il Tallone di Achille</span> (Achilles' Heel), <span lang="it" dir="ltr">per piccola orchestra</span> (2010, completed 2013)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Stabat Mater Speciosa, Per la Nativita', per coro (a cinque) e piccola orchestra</span> (2012)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sinfonia No. 3 "Templi di Sicilia", per orchestra</span> (2011)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Concerto per Violino (in La Maggiore)</span> [Respighi—Di Vittorio] (1903/2009)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Overtura Respighiana, per orchestra</span> (Based on music of Ottorino Respighi and Gioacchino Rossini) (2008)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">San Michele Arcangelo, per baritono, coro e orchestra da camera</span> (Prologue from opera <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Fausto</span>) (2005)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Romanza dal "Romeo e Giulietta", per orchestra da camera</span> (2004)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sinfonia No. 2</span> "Lost Innocence", <span lang="it" dir="ltr">per orchestra</span> (1997, revised 2000)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sinfonia No. 1</span> "Isolation", <span lang="it" dir="ltr">per orchestra d'archi</span> (1994, revised 1999)
  • Elegy, <span lang="it" dir="ltr">per orchestra</span> (Movement IV from <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sinfonia No. 2</span>) (1996)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Preludio, per orchestra d'archi</span> (Movement I from <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sinfonia No. 1</span>) (1994)

Transcriptions and revisions of orchestral music of Ottorino Respighi

  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Berceuse per archi</span> (1902, edited 2022)
  • Violin Concerto "<span lang="it" dir="ltr">all'Antica</span>" (1908, edited 2019)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Tre Liriche, per mezzo-soprano e orchestra</span> (1913, orchestration completed 2013) [Version for soprano (or tenore) and orchestra completed and published in 2020.]
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">"Lamento di Arianna", per mezzosoprano e orchestra</span> (1908, edited 2012) [Monteverdi—Respighi]
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Serenata, per piccola orchestra</span> (1904, edited 2012)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Suite in Sol Maggiore, per archi ed organo</span> (1905, edited 2011)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Suite per archi</span> (1902, revised 2010)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Aria per archi</span> (1901, transcribed 2010)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Concerto per Violino (in La Maggiore)</span> (1903, completed 2009) [Respighi—Di Vittorio]

Other Transcriptions and Orchestrations

Opera

Choral and vocal

Chamber

  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Castelli, per piccolo ensemble</span> (2014)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sonata No. 2</span> "Reflections on a Nursery rhyme", <span lang="it" dir="ltr">per pianoforte</span> (1996)
  • <span lang="it" dir="ltr">Sonata No. 1, per clarinetto</span> (1995, revised 1998)

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