Italian composer and conductor, born in Milan on March 19, 1969. He starts very young his musical training (violin, piano, organ and composition) in Trieste; in 1995 he graduates in composition at the Milan Conservatory with Azio Corghi, while attending the orchestra conducting classes at the Vienna Academy.
In 1995, following the award of two scholarships, he attends the annual master classes held by the “Accademia G. Petrassi” of Fondazione Arturo Toscanini in Parma and by Informatic Acoustic Center “Agon” in Milano.
He attends the master classes at the “Academy of Santa Cecilia” in Rome, where he obtains his Master Degree in 1997; he is also awarded the “S.I.A.E. prize” (Italian Authors’ and Publishers’ Association) as the most outstanding graduate of all courses held in S. Cecilia that year.
In 1997, he works for the “Accademia Musicale Chigiana” in Siena, for the Contemporary Music Festival, sponsored by the European Community.
After the academic studies, he conducted his own compositions as well as works of the traditional repertoire, in Italy and abroad. In 1995-96 worked as assistant (Buhnemeister) with Maximilan Cencic in Vienna at Wienerstaatsoper (Wiener Philarmoniker and Wiener Symphoniker) and, invited by Maestro Semyon Bychkov, assisted him in Florence (Orchestra del Teatro Comunale).
In 1996, invited by Maestro Jesus Lopez-Cobos, he works in Switzerland (Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne) with soloists as Gidon Kremer, Vadim Sacharov etc.
In the same year he was invited by Sir Georg Solti to assist him during rehearsals with the London Symphony Orchestra. During the 1997-98 season he worked, both as a composer and conductor, on the production of his own Ballett “...dal Barocco al Tango...” Op.30 (...from Baroque to Tango...), commissioned by the “Arturo Toscanini Foundation” in Parma and by the “Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Emilia Romagna” (O.S.E.R.).
He attends Masterclasses with final Degree in conducting (in 1998) with Maestro Yuri Ahronovich, becoming at the same time the only assistant of Maestro Alexander Rahbari, working continuously with him in Madrid (Orquesta Radio Television Espanola), Croatia (Zagreb Philarmonic Orchestra), Palermo (Orchestra Teatro Massimo), Bruxelles (BRTN Symphony Orchestra), Vienna (Wiener Symphoniker), Bern (Opera House Orchestra), Turkey (Istambul Symphony Orchestra), Prague (Czech Philarmonic Orchestra).
His catalogue includes symphonic works, chamber, vocal and stage music, published by Ricordi, Sonzogno, Berbén and Pizzicato Verlag Helvetia.
Some works of his have been recorded on CD (Koch-Discover International, Rivo Alto, etc.) and by “State Archives” in Rome and were broadcast by RAI (Italian Broadcast Corporation) and RTV Koper (Slovenia). In May 1999, some of his latest works have been successfully performed in New York at The Juilliard School of Music; summer 2000 his chamber works were played in Tokyo.
In November 1999 he gave lectures in a workshop organized in Paris (Université de la Sorbonne, Fondation Singer-Polignac) and in Le Mans, by “Le Circle des amis de Jean Françaix”, to commemorate the French Composer who died in 1997.
During 2000 he follows “Music for Cinema” masterclasses helded by Mr. Luis Bacalov that encouraged him composing in his own ecleptic-polistylistic way, Soundtracks and Stage Music.
Web: http://www.classical-composers.org/comp/pessina