Composers

Carlo Alessandro Landini began his music studies at a very young age at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Music in his native city, Milan, and in 1978 and 1979 he graduated in Composition and Piano with full marks. In March 1981 he was awarded a second diploma in Composition (unanimously winning the Prémier Prix "à l'unanimité du jury") at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris (with Ivo Malec), where he lived for two years. Before that and since then, Mr. Landini attended masterclasses in Siena at the "Accademia Musicale Chigiana", with Franco Donatoni, in Aix-en-Provence with György Ligeti and Iannis Xenakis, and in Groznjan with Witold Lutoslawski. In 1981 he was granted the prestigious Fulbright award from the US Department of Education, thanks to which he spent two years (1981-1983) in the United States, studying and teaching at the University of California in San Diego. He won many national and international competitions including the Valentino Bucchi competition in Rome and the Ennio Porrino competition in Cagliari. Mr. Landini is the only composer who ever won two consecutive editions of the W. Serocki Warsaw Competition in 2002 and in 2004. He is a regularly invited guest of the "Ferienkurse für Neue Musik" in Darmstadt. He published scores for the Milan-based editors Rugginenti and Sonzogno, the Rome-based Edipan, and the French music publisher Alphonse Leduc (Paris). In March 2002 he was appointed an honorary member of the "American Academy for the Advancement of Science" (AAAS). In the spring of 2003 Mr. Landini was appointed Fellow of the Italian Academy of New York and Research Scientist at the Music Department of Columbia University in New York. He has held seminars at the University of California, at the Department of Graduate Studies of Columbia, at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and the State University of New York at Buffalo. In 2006 Mr. Landini was appointed Visiting Professor at UMBC (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), also lecturing at UM College Park in Washington, D.C. He is the author of an essay on Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio (Ivrea: Ferraro, 2001). He is member of ISCM and of the "A.N. Skrjabin" Scientific Committee in Bogliasco; since 2002 Mr. Landini has also been a member of the executive board of the "I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano" Foundation. Mr. Landini presently teaches Composition at the "G. Nicolini" Conservatory in Piacenza.