Born in Sanremo in 1968, Marco Reghezza graduated in piano at the “F. Ghedini”  public Music Academy in Cuneo, in 1991. He, then, attended several post graduate courses, both for piano and opera assistant maestro. In 1992, he attended a course for  assistant maestro at the International “Roveroni Master” in Alassio and was selected  for the opera season at the “Chiabrera Theatre”, in Savona; the annual programme included “Madama Butterfly” by G. Puccini and the world première of “Re  Sigismondo” by G. Rossini conducted by R. Bonynge.  In the same year he took part in the “Bottega”, an opera work-shop at the theatre in Treviso, with Peter Maag as teacher. In 1993, he began a partnership, as a piano co-player, which lasted five  years, with the French Choral “A Coeur Joie”, obtaining appreciation and  recognition in Southern and Central France.  In 1999, in Cuneo he graduated in music composition with Maestro Paolo Rimoldi. He adapted “Elisir d’Amore” by Donizetti, “La Serva Padrona” by Pergolesi and “La Cambiale di Matrimonio” by Rossini, for chamber orchestra. These operas were staged at the International Festival of Chamber Music in Cervo, in 1997 and in 1999 and he took part in them as a stage prompter. From 2000 to 2005, still at the “Cervo Festival”, he was appointed responsible for preparation of the program, a task he subsequently performed again, from  2002 to 2004, at “Piani Musicale”. He also joined this event as art co-director. In august 2003, in an unofficial performance at Imperia, Eliot Fisk, nowadays one of  the most famous classic guitar player in the world, played one of Reghezza’s guitar  pieces -entitled Phantasiestuck- in appreciation of its ideas, format and character.  In august 2004 he held a course of Composition and Aesthetics at the Summer Music Academy in Col di Nava, Imperia. This course is recurrently held at other places. From 2004 his pieces for piano solo  are played in concert by Giovanni Doria Miglietta, the winner of “XVII International piano competition of Ibiza”. In 2005 Marco Reghezza was one of the few composers admitted to the “Gala” at “Luoghi  Immaginari 2005”. The event took place in Terzo d’Acqui, (Acqui Terme). His piece (“Orfano”) for “voice and ensemble” was performed by: soprano Elena Bakanova (Boris Eltsin Prize) from Russia, violin Sergej Galaktionov, leader violin at the “Teatro Regio” in Torino and guest leader henchman at the “Teatro alla Scala” in  Milano and some soloists from the “Prometheus” quartet. The piece was conducted by Sergey Ferulov one of the most important representatives of the Conducting  School in San Petersburg. As well some of his compositions were played by the “Erasmus” string quartet from Milano. In 2007 he was appointed art director, for the coming summer, at the “Stellanello Cultura” concert show and he is going to be art director of a new series of concerts to be performed for the area of the Imperia hinterland. Some of his transcriptions of classic pieces were included in the repertoire of the “Camerata Ligure Ensemble” -two guitars, violin and flute- and were CD recorded by the “Philarmonia”, a recording company from Genova. He adapted some sound tracks of famous movies for the Lodi Philharmonic Orchestra and some of his  pieces of chamber music were issued by the publishing houses “Hyperprism” (Terni) and Berben (Ancona). In November 2007, he won the “Francesc Civil” International Competition at Girona, in Spain. The Sanremo Symphony Orchestra has recently asked him for two pieces to be performed in January 2008. In addition to his musical achievements, Marco Reghezza graduated in Modern Literatures at Genova University, in 1994.
Web: http://www.marcoreghezza.com/curriculum01.htm (2009)