Carmine Emanuele Cella is a composer and a researcher in the relations between mathematics and music. He studied at the G. Rossini Conservatory of Music in Italy getting degrees in piano, computer music, and composition. He also studied philosophy and mathematics and got a PhD in mathematical logic at the University of working on symbolic representations of music.
As a composer, he won many prizes and awards, including the prestigious Petrassi prize for composition awarded by the Italian president Giorgio Napolitano in 2008. Cella has also performed as a pianist with jazz groups and with artists such as Luciano Pavarotti and Mariella Devia.
Carmine Emanuele CellaFrom 2007 to 2009, Cella worked at IRCAM in the Analysis/Synthesis team where he worked on audio indexing. Today, he is a composer-in-residence in the institute.
Carmine Emanuele Cella has taught harmony, musical composition, computer music, and mathematical logic in several universities and conservatories. He currently teaches computer music in conservatories in Rome and Vicenza.