Biagio Putignano, it is reputated by the criticism one of the most unusual composers of his generation. He is graduated in Composition, Electronic Music, organ, piano and Choral Music from the Conservatory Of Rome, Padua and Bari and he attended postgraduate courses in Milan, Rome, Città di Castello, Florence, Paris.
After an apprenticeship period at the end of the 1980s, ripened a writing in which the loud hedonism is harmonized with a refined lyricism, arriving to an original synthesis in which tracks of the experiences of very various compositors between them, what Gentilucci, Sciarrino, Xenakis Grisey and Muraill, take to an only and recognizable aesthetics. The time suspension, the continuos formal experimentation, the timbre investigation and the daring of certain articulation techniques are the pivots of his musical personality. . The costing work to the threshold of the silence binds his first production to the current one in an indissoluble stylistic unity much appreciated by the audience and the criticism. These characteristics are present since the first musical theatre work ‘Un Segno nello Spazio’ drawn by the homonymous I. Calvino tale  the Cosmicomiche, commissioned in 1993 by the Foggia Conservatory. All the next compositions have always really obtained a growing appreciation from the criticism for the  original sound, ‘ANTHEMION’ (1995) for orchestra, ‘RESONARE’ (1996) from 4 to 10 instruments with or without Live Electronics, ‘Passaggi di pietra’ (1996) for Ensemble and synthesis sounds, ‘Tracce di luna’ (1997) for flute, clarinet, viola, cello, piano and tape, ‘O notte di dolce silenzio’ (1997for only flute, ‘Gocce di luce’ (1998/99) for  G flute  and percussions, ‘I luoghi dell'Eclissi’ (1999) for violin and piano, ‘Dell'imitazione’ (1999) for piano and voice acting on text of E. Sanguineti, ‘Alla soglia delle nubi’ (2000) for four flutes, ‘L’esatto punto di Ô’ (2000) for alto sax and piano, ‘Architetture d’aria e di vento’ (2000) for symphony orchestra etc..
Remarkable success has obtained the ‘Cattedrali di Silenzio’ oratory on P.David witnesses Mt. Turoldo, for acting, soprano and Reinassance instruments, commissioned him in 2001 by the Ars  Organi  G. Frescobaldi Association in Lecce   in opportunity of the XIX International season. It is engaged in the composition of the work ‘MUSIGONÌA’ for soprano, Mezzosoprano, baritone and  chamber orchestra on booklet of  Paolo Perretti and the realization of a series of pieces for piano entitled ‘COMMENTARI’, new formal proceedings are tested in. To the Composing activity, he puts beside the didactic one. He  teaches graduate and postgraduate composition at Bari Conservatory, where he also gives postgraduate courses in composition at the jazz music departement and he is lecturer at the University Of Lecce. He is regularly invited to give courses and composition seminaries from Cultural Associations, universities, conservatories, Musical Institutes and Music Schools  in Italy and abroad. He edites the page of publishing and recording reviews  of the magazine Fa La Ut and he has published a few essaies on contemporary composers and aesthetic and musical  subjects. His musics are published from Rugginenti Publisher Of Milan, Agenda Edizione of Bologna,  Bèrben of Ancona , Edipan Of Rome
Web: http://www.biagioputignano.it/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=83:biography&catid=39:biografia&Itemid=27 (2012)