VITO CLEMENTE is the winner of IX Competition for Orchestra Conductors of the European Community 2002 "Franco Capuana" with "Manon Lescaut"
by Puccini.
He took an honours degree in Orchestral Conducting, Piano, Vocal Chamber Music and in Band Instrumentation, Choral Music, Composition and university honours degree in Musical Discipline.
He studied with Roberto Duarte, Rino Marrone, Gustav Kuhn and Myung Whun Chung.
He is Principal Conductor of the "Tommaso Traetta" Chamber Orchestra and Musical Director of Teatro della Fortuna (Fano).
He recorded:
- CD "L'Histoire du Soldat" by IGOR STRAVINSKY with Michele Mirabella
- CD performing NICOLA BONIFACIO LOGROSCINO's "Stabat Mater" (first world recording - TELETHON)
- Double CD "Le Serve rivali" by TOMMASO TRAETTA
- CD "Miserere" by TOMMASO TRAETTA (first world recording - NEA)
- CD "Dialoghi" (VELUT LUNA)
- CD "Cristo - La sua ora (VELUT LUNA)
- Double CD "Colombina e Pernicone" by FRANCESCO MANCINI and "La Serva Padrona" by GIOVAN BATTISTA PERGOLESI (KICCO MUSIC CLASSIC)
- CD "Agli ulivi e alla notte" (SORRISO)
- CD "Dona Flor" (lyric opera)
- CD live - X International Competition for singers
- 3 CD "Profili", "Percorsi" and "Ispirazioni" - for the record company NEA - dedicated to the Italian '900
- Soundtracks for "L'amore ritorna" by Sergio Rubini
- Soundtracks for "Ho voglia di te" by Luis Prieto
- CD to Raffaele Gervasio (TACTUS) **** by "Le Monde de la Musique"
- DVD Stabat Mater by Pergolesi with Katia Ricciarelli (JUBILAEUM COLLECTION)
- DVD Bach eterno (PLANETA DE AGOSTINI)
He conducted many times I.C.O.'s Orchestras such as Bari Symphony Orchestra and Lecce Symphony Orchestra, O.T.Li.S. "Rossini" Orchestra, Tokyo Chamber Opera Theatre's Orchestra.
He also conducted orchestras such as Teatro Comunale of Bologna Orchestra's, Arena of Verona, Toscanini Philharmonic, Teatro Marrucino, Friuli Venezia Giulia, City of Grosseto, Sinfonica "Rusia, "Tchaikovsky" Chamber Orchestra, UFRG of Porto Alegre, Marchigiana Philharmonic, Italian Philharmonic, "Benedetto Marcello" Chamber Orchestra, Abruzzo Symphony Orchestra, Pro Arte, "Capitanata"Milano Classica, Rumenian Chamber Orchestra on tour at the Philharmonic de Stat Transilvania, the Philharmonia Mediterranea, the Plovdiv Bulgarian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Tirana Academy.
To remember: tournče in Japan (Tokyo New National Theatre, Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, Aichi Prefectural Theatre of Nagoya, Festival Hall of Osaka, Fukuoka Symphony Hall, Kobe Kokusai Kaikan with "La Traviata" and "Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio" by Verdi, "Nina, ossia La Pazza per Amore" by Paisiello, "Il Barbiere di Siviglia" by Rossini, "Alcina" by Haendel, "Il Matrimonio Segreto" by Cimarosa.
Others tournče: Argentina (Buenos Aires - Teatro Avenida de Mayo) Portugal, Rumania. Hungary, Brasil (Porto Alegre and Curitiba) Spain (Auditorium Nacional de Madrid) Czech Republic (Ostrava - National Theatre), Quatar, Germany (Munich Herrenchiemsee - Spiegelgalerie des Konigsschlosses) with Prager Kammerorchester.
He conducted in 2007 and in 2008 concert " 2 agosto " of International Competition for Composers for Radio 3 and RAI 3.
He also conducted for Giovanni Paolo II and Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, President of Italian Republic.
Teacher at Conservatoire "Nino Rota" (Monopoli), he is winner of competitions for teacher's posts and winner of national and international competitions and scholarships.
He recorded for RAI 1 and RAISAT (Festival di Pasqua di Roma) RAI 3, RAI 1, TELEMONTECARLO ("Premio Barocco", "Katia e Mara verso Oriente", "Note di Natale" MEDIASET ("Gran Premio della Lirica" on CHANNEL 5) MEDIASET ("Il Suono del Natale" on RETE 4) - and foreign television conducting soloists such as Al Bano, Pietro Ballo, Pippo Baudo, Enrico Beruschi, Angelo Branduardi, Lee Brown, Gabriella Carlucci, Rossana Casale, Paolo Limiti, Amedeo Minghi, Michele Mirabella, The Pooh, Massimo Ranieri, Katia Ricciarelli, Melba Ruffo, Antonella Ruggiero, Maria Teresa Ruta, Ivana Spagna, Roberto Vecchioni.
He works with Anna Caterina Antonacci, Ramin Bahrami, Pietro Ballo, Paata Burchuladze, Fiorenza Cedolins, Robert Cohen, Roberto De Candia, Fiamma Izzo D'Amico, Roberto Fabbriciani, Sonia Ganassi, Raina Kabaivanska, Denia Mazzola Gavazzeni, Bruno Praticň, Gloria Scalchi, Roberto Servile, Antonino Siragusa, Dimitra Theodossiou.
THE PRESS TALK ABOUT HIM:
"He was able to draw out from Orchestra and Choir so natural sound and breath" (Guido Barbieri "La Repubblica")
"He can obtain an ample sound and a sinfonic brath from the Prelude; while accompanying singers, he shows his remarkable training in conducting, as he controls orchestral volumes in comparison with voices and remarks refined notes at the same time" (Mauro Mariani - "L'Opera")
"His baton makes orchestra transparent and well measured and holds the stage reins" (Stefano Ragni - "La Nazione")
"It is worth coming and listening him before he leaves for a Japan tour" (Patrick Pen - "Il Tempo")
"…on stage Vito Clemente pays attention on rhytm in a very amazing, astonishing conduction" (Luca Del Fra' "L'Opera")
"Vito Clemente's conduction has been thrilling, coherent and very theatrical but also nuancee is dynamics and tempo, shedding light on the scorse but always attentive to the voices, in this cased never chocked" (Aldo Genua Lemene "Operaclick")
"…the orchestra was conducted by the self consciousness of an exaordinary Vito Clemente, very sensitive and precise. The opera was conducted in a new and fresh way, paying estreme attention to the economy of the scene" (Cesare Questa "L'Opera")
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