The Conductor - Marina Militare

Captain Antonio Barbagallo was born in Catania on September 4, 1968. He graduated in composition, piano, band orchestration, coral music and coral conducting.

He also has a II level Academic degree in band conducting and orchestration from Santa Cecilia School of Music in Rome.

He studied organ and organ composition and, in 1999, attended an improvement course in Band conducting, orchestration and composition, run by the Santa Cecilia National Academy in Rome.

He also attended several improvement courses in orchestra, choir, and band conducting, composition, analyses and chamber music, taught by national and international teachers. He has also taught Band orchestration at the D. Cimarosa School of Music in Avellino and Theory and Solfege at the G. Navarra School of Music in Gela (CL).

He is an author and a choir, chamber, band and orchestra music transcriber. As a musicologist he writes for the “Strumenti e Musica” and “Risveglio Musicale” magazines.

He is a member of commission for many national competitions, teaches band conducting, history and repertoire analysis. From 1991 to 2000 he was Director of the vocal polyphonic music association “Orizzonti Musicali” – Schola Cantorum “Maria SS. Del Rosario” in Fleri (Catania) which performed in many concerts and produced several records.

At present he also conducts the Santarosa Polyphonic Choir in Rome, which has performed so far over 70 concerts.

He has been the conductor of the Fire Brigades National Band from 1996 to 2000; and in October the same year he won the public competition for Maestro of the Italian Navy Music Band with which he has performed many concerts, both in Italy and abroad.

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