Vittorio Montalti (Rome, 1984) obtained his Master’s degree in composition with Alessandro Solbiati at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Milan and in piano under the guidance of Aldo Tramma at Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome. Montalti has attended master-classes and courses by Luca Francesconi, Azio Corghi, Gabriele Manca, Luis de Pablo and Toshio Hosokawa. He has also studied composition with Frédéric Durieux at the CNSMDP in Paris and is currently in the Cursus 2 program at IRCAM.
Vittorio Montalti © Claude PavyHe was awarded the Silver Lion in 2010 during the Venice Biennale – 54th International Festival of Contemporary Music. Montalti also won several composition competitions such as “Concorso internazionale del Conservatorio di Milano”, “Galleria d’arte moderna di Milano”, “E. Carella”, “Vieri Tosatti” and was selected for the San Fedele Young Artists Prize 2010-2013. In 2009 he was selected for the Aleph Ensemble 6th International Forum for Young Composers.
He has received commissions from La biennale di Venezia, Divertimento Ensemble, Bergamo Musica Festival, Ex Novo Ensemble/SaMPL, Festival Pontino, Fondazione Culturale San Fedele and RomaTreOrchestra.
His works have been performed at various festivals as La Biennale di Venezia, IRCAM-Centre Pompidou, Gran Teatro La Fenice-Sale Apollinee, Festival Pontino, Festival Milano Musica, Festival MITO, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Bergamo Musica Festival, Rondò, Conservatoire National Superior de Musique et Danse de Paris, Auditorium San Fedele, Dunois Theater, Festival Slowind, Maison de la Télévision de Strasbourg, Zentral und Landesbibliothek Berlin, L’Imaginaire (Institut Culturel Italien de Strasbourg), Italian Culture Institute of Melbourne and Sidney (CEMAT- Progetto Sonora), etc. and has been broadcast by RadioTre and Radio Vaticana.
In this years he has had the possibility to work with many ensembles as Ensemble Multilatérale, Divertimento Ensemble, Texture Ensemble, Aleph Ensemble, Quartetto Prometeo, Dèdalo Ensemble, etc. and soloist as Irvine Arditti, Giovanni Sollima, Annamaria Morini, Enzo Porta, Maria Grazia Bellocchio, Francesco Dillon, Dario Savron, Laura Catrani, Daniele Ruggieri, Emanuele Torquati, Francesco Gesualdi, Luigi Attademo, Matteo Cesari, Franco Venturini, Ljuba Bergamelli etc.
He has also worked with orchestras such as Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto (cond. André de Ridder), Orchestra dell’Università degli Studi di Milano (cond. David Handel) and RomaTreOrchestra (cond. Dario Garegnani).