Composers

He began to study music at a very early age. He graduated at the "Santa Cecilia" Conservatory of Rome in composition, piano and orchestral direction with Franco Ferrara and subsequently specialized with Goffredo Petrassi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and with Manuel Rosenthal at the Paris Conservatoire. In 1968 he was awarded the Premier Prix for conducting and the Prix Gabriel Fauré at the Young Composers Competition of Besançon.
He made his debut as conductor at the 1969 Contemporary Music Festival of Venice.
He recorded Petrassi's Il Cordovano and Bussotti's La Passion selon Sade with the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI for the Ricordi label.

As composer, Panni has participated in several of the most important European and American festivals and, from 1979 to 1985, was professor of composition and orchestral direction at Mills College, Oakland in California. His compositions include works for the theatre, concerti and chamber music, as well as pieces of electronic music. As transcriber, his revision of Cavalli's Giasone was presented at Genoa in 1972 and that of Pergolesi's Flaminio in Naples in 1982.