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The Italian conductor, organist and composer, Pietro Consoloni, began privately studying piano in Pisa with Maestro M. Boccaccio and composition with Maestro F. De Sanctis De Benedictis (Liceo Classico Galileo Galilei Pisa, Class of 2012). In parallel with his classical training, he obtained a degree in Composition with full marks and honors at the Istituto di Studi Musicali P. Mascagni in Livorno. He later graduated with full marks and honors in Organ and Organ Composition at the Conservatorio di Musica G. Puccini Della Spezia. Subsequently he followed the two-year specialist course in Choral Conducting and Choral Composition, also achieving this degree with full marks and honors at the Conservatorio di Musica G. Puccini Della Spezia in Naples, and in the same year under the complete guidance of Maestro W. Marzilli the license course in Choral Conducting at the Pontificio Istituto di Musica Sacra in Rome, achieving the maximum qualification summa cum laude probatus.
Pietro Consoloni wrote the music for the staging of the Rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny by B. Brecht, Pinocchio by C. Collodi and The Tempest by W. Shakespeare, for the Ass. Carro di Tespi and all debuted in world premiere between 2013-2015 at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa. He accompanied his theoretical studies specializing in keyboard instruments, deepening the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire with Maestro R. Menichetti, a pupil of Gustav Leonhardt. He attended various master-classes in orchestra conducting under the guidance of Maestro V. Parisi with particular regard to W.A. Mozart's and Rossini's works. He is a pupil of Maestro B. Nicoli, director of the stage ensembles of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
Pietro Consoloni is co-founder and permanent director of the chamber ensemble I Bei Legami, with whom he works for the proposal of new artistic projects in the area; his activity at the helm of this team was widely appreciated at the Italian level.
Pietro Consoloni also carries out an intense concert activity as a solo organist invited to numerous organ contexts at a national level, among others, the concert at the Papale Basilica di S. Maria degli Angeli in Assisi (2019), where he performed Franz Liszt's program of appreciated virtuosity. Since 2015 he has been the Organist at the Primaziale Cattedrale of Pisa, providing regular liturgical and accompaniment services in the Cappella Musicale located there; he is titular organist of the Chiesa Nazionale di Santo Stefano dei Cavalieri and of the Chiesa Abbaziale di San Michele in Borgo in Pisa.
Since 2017 he has been collaborating conductor of the Coro “Vincenzo Galilei” of the Scuola Normale Superiore. Since 2019 he has been appointed member of the board of directors of the dell’Ass. Italiana Santa Cecilia of Rome. In 2019 he was semi-finalist of the AERCO international competition in Parma, representing Italy among 16 conductors from all over the world. Since 2017 he has written regularly in the sacred music magazine Bollettino Ceciliano e Cantet Vox. Since 2020 he has been collaborating with the Choraliter magazine of the Ass. Nazionale Feniarco.
His essay: Storia dell’attività musicale nella Cattedrale di Pisa tra i secoli XIX e XX (History of musical activity in the Cathedral of Pisa between the 19th and 20th centuries), was included in the volume Musica in Cattedrale. Fonti storiche e carte musicali: dieci secoli di armonie nel Duomo di Pisa (Pacini Ed. 2019), together with the contribution of other scholars such as Giacomo Baroffio, Gabriella Garzella and Stefania Gitto. Since 2020 he has been a scholar and collaborator for the Centro di Documentazione Musicale Toscano (Cedomus), based at the Fondazione Onlus Scuola di Musica di Fiesole. |
