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Name:	Antognini

First Name:	Ivo

Year of birth:	11.06.1963

Country of birth:	Switzerland

Resume:	IVO ANTOGNINI, born in Locarno, Switzerland. In 1963 Ivo Antognini obtains his degree in piano in 1985 at Lucerne. Composition has been of great interest to him since childhood, so he is all the while dedicated to the activity as a self-taught composer. His diploma in piano is followed by studies at the Swiss Jazz School in Berne with pianist Joe Haider. From 1989 to the present day he has composed a multitude of music for television and film. Ivo Antognini has released three Jazz albums with his original works: “The Dark Cloud”(1993), “Inspiration” (1998), and “Feggàri mou” (2005). Since 2006 he is composer-in-residence of the world class Calicantus Children’s Choir, lead by director Mario Fontana (Best Swiss Choir 2005 and 2007 and winner of four prizes during the 46th Montreux International Choral Festival 2010). He presented a series of his compositions at the “8th World Symposium on Choral Music” with the Calicantus Choir in July, 2008 in Copenhagen, and obtained extraordinary public and critical success. In 2008 he also was awarded two first prizes in Swiss national choral composition competitions: Kompositionswettbewerb SKJF-09 and the Concours de Composition Chorale Label Suisse 2008 - Espace2-Radio Suisse Romande. In 2009 his two choral works “My Song” on a text of R. Tagore and « Ave Maria » has been selected for the finale of the International Competition of Composition “C.A. Seghizzi” which will take place during the summer 2010 in Gorizia (Italy). He was also finalist of the 2010 Simon Carrington Chamber Singers Composition Competition in the USA with his piece “Nunc Dimittis” for mixed choir and received Honorable Mention with “Dos Palabras” for mixed choir in the 2010 Vanguard Premiere Choral Composition Contest. Starting from 2009, his music has been performed worldwide by top level choirs such us Trinity College Choir of Cambridge, Artists’ Vocal Ensemble, Vancouver Chamber Choir, Santa Fe Desert Corale, Cappella Nova, Coro Misto, Collegium Vocale, Lund University Male Choir, de Angelis Vocal Ensemble, Milwaukee Choral Artists, Swiss Youth Choir, Ipavska Chamber Choir, Astrolabium Chamber Choir and many others. Since 1987 he is Professor of Ear-training and of complementary Piano in the professional training level of the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano where he regularly holds master classes on improvisation for pianists. His choral works are published in Switzerland (Ed. Labatiaz), Germany (Ferrimontana and Porfiri & Horvàth Publishers) and in the USA (Alliance Music Pub.).

Website:	www.ivoantognini.com