28/09/2022
It’s with an enormous pleasure that this year we can introduce you in our Marcello Italian Film Festival team: Michele Catania who will direct not just one concert at the Midlands Arts Centre - MAC, but also the GALA music event at Lucarelli Restaurant Mailbox on the 2nd of October in .
Michele Catania (b. 1984), music, piano, synthesizers, electronics: is a Sicilian composer from Milazzo. Demonstrating particular musical skills since childhood, he was initially self-taught with the help of his maternal uncles, after the Classical High School he graduated from Dams Musica in Bologna Master’s Degree in Musicology at the University of Palermo another Master’s in Composition at the Messina Conservatory under the guidance of M ° Carmelo Chillemi, after having followed the traditional course in Messina, Reggio Emilia, Bologna and Palermo. He also attended seminars and masterclasses in composition, jazz, choral music, conducting and improvisation at important institutions such as Le Altre Note and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama of London.
In 2021 he obtained the II level Master’s in Film Music Composition conceived and coordinated by M° Marco Biscarini from the Conservatory of Rovigo.
Active since adolescence as a pianist, guitarist and singer, he regularly performs in the most famous live music venues in Sicily and Calabria, with music ranging from pop / rock to jazz.
In the chamber sector he regularly holds concerts with different ensembles, preferring contemporary repertoires and original or rearranged music. He also performed as a concert pianist with the Vittorio Emanuele Orchestra.
As a composer he collaborates with the Cantica Nova Vocal Ensemble, the Albatros Trio, the Vittorio Emanuele Theater Orchestra, Marco Alibrando, Stefano Parrino. His compositions, transcriptions and arrangements have been performed in Italy (Festival Le Altre Note, International Choral Festival InCanto Mediterraneo, Palazzo Ducale in Genoa, Casa dell'Architettura in Rome, Conservatories of Messina and Genoa) and abroad (Istituto Italiano di Culture in Hong Kong, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art in Corby, University of Bremen).
Author of music for theatre, commercials, documentaries and films, he collaborates as assistant, arranger, orchestrator and programmer for the film composers MarcoWerba and GiulianoTaviani&Carmelo Travia in national and international film productions. He composed the original music for "This is Me" (Paolo Scarfò, official documentary of the Italian Pavilion of Expo 2015), the short film "Stella di Mare" (Salvatore Arimatea, Premio Tindari 2013), the documentary "The Wind Decides" (Giuseppe Consales, VITA Mention at Milan Independent Film Festival 2014), the short film "Fiori" (Kristian Xipolias, Rai Cinema Channel Award at RIFF 2022), and the tangos composed for "Dancing the Silence" (Salvatore Arimatea, soundtrack published in 2015 by Dughero / Warner Chappell) .
Since 2019 he has been a music teacher at the IC Novara di Sicilia School (ME), and holds courses in composition, applied music, improvisation and musical technologies.
Such a bigh honor having him in the direction of the festival 🎼
