Composer
Biography
Bologna-born and brought up in San Marino from the age of four, Massimiliano Messieri studied cello at the Sammarinese music institute and composition at Cesena and Bologna, taking advanced courses with Giacomo Manzoni, Franco Donatoni, Aldo Clementi, Gérard Grisey, Tristan Murail and Philippe Manoury, and attended IRCAM's summer academy in 1993 and 1994. His double concerto Virus won the "2 agosto" international composition competition in Bologna in 1997 and was played there by the Toscanini orchestra and broadcast by RAI. The cycle Zadig comprises twenty-one caprices for cello and hypercello and received its world premiere in Espoo in 2012, performed by Nicola Baroni. In 2009 he became artistic director of the San Marino Ensemble and the republic's international festival of new music.