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Rocco Di Pietro
Rocco Di Pietro, writer, sound cinematographer, educator, fluctuates between scored music and improvisation creating conceptual works that is trapped between genres.
Di Pietro has composed works for various media. His music has been performed by many musicians including Pauline Oliveros, Christiane Edinger, Christobal Halffter, Lukas Foss, Julius Eastman, Bruno Maderna, Frances Marie Uitti, Yvar Mikhasoff, Jan Williams, Anthony Miranda, Gunther Schuller, Dennis Russell Davies, the Buffalo Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, The Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra, CETA Orchestra, Ojai Ensemble Sonor, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Columbus Wind Orchestra, Earlham String Orchestra, the Avant Collective, and the Madd Lab Orchestra.
His book, Dialogues with Boulez, is available from Scarecrow Press.
He studied composition and piano with Hans Hagen and Lukas Foss in Buffalo and at the Berkshire Music Center in Tanglewood. He studied in New York and Darmstadt with Bruno Maderna. He holds degrees from both SUNY Buffalo and Vermont College.
Rocco Di Pietro is currently a Humanites and Electronic Music professor at Columbus State University, Ohio.
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