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| | Calabria Pier Giorgio | | direttore d'orchestra | 
| Pier Giorgio Calabria's conducting activities encompass an enormous range of repertoire from opera and ballet to 20th-century avantgarde music. He has exposed American and European audiences to nation-wide and local premieres of operas and symphonic works by such contemporary composers as Dallapiccola, Eaton, Floyd, Menotti, Musgrave, Nono, Poulenc and Prokofiev. His operativ career received an initial impetus by his work with Claudio Abbado at La Scala in Milan, Carlo Maria Giulini in Florence and Nello Santi at Earl's Court, London. He guest-conducts regularly for Chicago Opera Theater, has been Music Director of Opera Illinois, and has conducted opera in Florida, California, Italy, Eastern Europe, and New Zealand. In the symphonic field, he has conducted orchestras such as the Auckland Philharmonia, Filarmonica Moldova, Romanian Radio-Television Orchestra, Sinfonia Varsovia, Milan Angelicum Orchestra, Bolzano Haydn Orchestra, Indianapolis Philharmonic, Lafayette Symphony, Orchestra Filarmonica di Ancona, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Du Page Symphony, Harlem Festival Orchestra, Hidden Valley Opera Orchestra, Milwaukee Pro Muscia Viva Ensemble. Born in Fidenza, Italy, Pier Giorgio Calabria studied conducting in Venice with Franco Ferrara. Thanks to a Fulbright Grant from the Italian government, he continued his conducting studies at Indiana University where he earned his Master's and Doctor's degrees with dissertations on works by Debussy. Consequently, he joined the editorial staff of the Paris firm of Durand-Costallat in preparing the critical edition of Debussy's 'La Mer'. |
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