Massimiliano Donninelli

Was born in Jesi (Italy), achieved his studies of Saxophone with Albino Mattei, Enzo Veddovi and Jean-Marie Londeix, Composition, Orchestral Conducting with Zoltán Peskó and George Pehlivanian, he enters upon an international career, invited in festivals as Trieste Prima, Mittelfest, Otranto Festival, MGN Monaco, Biennale-Europa Mediterranea (Roma), Biennale Musica (Venezia) , Teatro La Fenice, (Venezia), X World Saxophone Congress (Pesaro), Milano Oltre, CDMC (Madrid), Zaal De Unie (Rotterdam), VIII Mednarodno Srečanje Saksofonistov (Nova Gorica), 14th World Saxophone Congress (Ljubljana), Centenary of Goffredo Petrassi (Trieste) and Luigi Dallapiccola (Pisino d’Istria).
He worked on concerts and seminars with institutions such as the Youngstown University (USA), Alberta University (Edmonton, Canada), Università di Klagenfurt, Regional Foundation for the Spectacle (FVG), SISSA (Trieste), Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies in Venice, Real Conservatorio Superior de Mùsica de Madrid, Escola Superior de Mùsica de Lisboa, Konservatorium Wien, Centro Nazionale di Studi Leopardiani (Recanati), he is teacher at the International Music Master-Class of Spilimbergo (Musical Insitute G.A. Fano-ANBIMA). He took part of the Jury of the “III International Saxophone Competition Alpe-Adria-Danubio” (Nova Gorica), the II International Competition for young Saxophonists “Saksistra 2007” (Koper), the 36 National Competition “TEMSIG” (Ljubljana) and the “III International Competition Paolo Spincich Prize” (Trieste).
He collaborated with the Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia, Lu Jia, Christian Lauba, Ovidiu Balan, Orchestra “Mihail Jora”, Valeria Moriconi, Luciano Berio, Claudio Ambrosini, Alessandro Sbordoni, Giampaolo Coral, Renato Rivolta, Alessandro Solbiati, Luca Mosca. His compositions are performed in Italy, Germany, Slovenia, France, Croatia and broadcasted by Rss Sky and Rete A. He wrote music for the theatre, CTK-Lecce, UPT Trieste and Regione FVG. He published with Pizzicato, Sloway Music Editions and Rusty Records. He recorded for CBC, Rai, Rai Slo, RNE, Radio Vaticana. He is the founder and the Conductor of “Ensemble di Saxofoni di Trieste”, the contemporary chamber group “PrismaEnsemble” and the “Gruppo-Laboratorio di musica da camera Contemporanea del Conservatorio G.Tartini di Trieste”. He collaborates with Chromas Ensemble (Trieste) and Ex-Novo Ensemble (Venezia). In 2003 he was nominated from the Italian Department of the Public Instruction to take part to the national commission to value the new didactic courses in the Italian Conservatoires of Music and Instituts of Music Officially recognized. He teached at the Conservatoire of Music “A.Scontrino” in Trapani, at the Institut of Music Officially Recognized “P.Mascagni” in Livorno and as a winner of State Competition for Chairs of teacher of Saxophone he teached since 1995 to 1996 at the Conservatoire of Music in Benevento and since 1996 he is the teacher of Saxophone at the Conservatoire “G.Tartini” in Trieste.

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