Orchestra Filarmonica di Roma

Ezio Monti

EZIO MONTI

conductor, composer, pianist

He has studied orchestral conducting with Franco Ferrara and composition with Costante Fantini and Paolo Renosto (and finishing his studies with F. Donatoni and S. Sciarrino).

He has orchestrated and directed the following Oratorios in three parts for single, polyphonic chorus and symphonic orchestra "La Divina Misericordia" (1998) (a work that allowed him the great privilege of a private informal encounter with thelate John Paul II), "La Madre della Misericordia" (2000) and "San Giuseppe" (2002) by Father Carlo Colafranceschi. The events have been transmitted on TV by TelePace (Vatican City) and SAT 2000. Il Melograno Records has published these works in 2-CD format.

He has elaborated, orchestrated and directed the compositions of De Paolis, an author who lived and worked in the first half of the 20th century in Civitavecchia. Melograno Records has also published on 2 CDs the live performance in the Theatre Traiano di Civitavecchia with the Orchestra Filarmonica di Roma on November 29, 2003 with the special guests Katia Ricciarelli, Sabina Macculi and Maurizio Zanchetti.

Since 1986 Monti has collaborated frequently with RAI TV as an executor and director, and also as a composer and author in several television programs.

He has made arrangements, directed soloists, chorus and the Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Milano in the televised musical by the director Giovanna Gagliardo "Viva l'Italia- our history in music", produced and transmitted from RAI DUE, for which he won first prize in the music section of the international festival of television in Nizza in 1995.

He is an author with Alfredo Franco of RAI UNO (TV) "Natura in Concerto" and with Sergio Spina, the program in 4 parts "Mixer Musica", transmitted by RAI DUE and presented by Spina.
Also, he has composed: music for the television film of Gillo Pontecorvo "il ritorno ad Algeri" (RAI DUE); "Mixer nel mondo", 10 grandi reportages (in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Countries) on RAI DUE; "Extra" in 8 parts (European coproduction transmitted in Italy, Germany, England, France, Spain, Hungary, Canada, Australia, etc.); numerous television introductions (Format, L'edicola del TG3, Omnibus, Mixer Musica, TG Salute, etc). Its music has been inserted also in "La piovra" of RAI UNO.

He has published 3 CD for the Fonit-Cetra and one for the RCA-BMG Ariola with its compositions and directed by himself. He has published numerous concert pieces, educational books for piano, harmony, solfeggio, and ensemble music.

As director Ezio Monti has produced numerous concerts with choruses and orchestras such as: Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari, Orchestra Sinfonica di Shoumen (Bulgaria), Orchestra da Camera dell'Emilia, Filarmonica Santasofiese, Orchestra della Romagna Toscana, All Strings Ensemble, Orchestra Novo Prometeo, Coro e orchestra dell' Accademia Musicale Tiberina, etc. He is principal conductor of the Orchestra Filarmonica di Roma with which he has carried out many concerts in Italy and in foreign countries: recently this orchestra has performed a great concert in Abu Dhabi (Arab Emirates) for the occasion of the inauguration of the manifestation "Italian Style" organized by the Embassy of Italy in the Emirates.
On October 22, 23, and 24, 2004, he has conducted in Rome and in Bucchianico for the world premiere of the sacred oratorio for soli, polyphonic chorus and symphonic orchestra "San Camillo De Lellis" of Father Carlo Colafranceschi (He also did the orchestration). The oratorio, with the presence of the soprano soloist Katia Ricciarelli, has created great enthusiasm and has been transmitted from SAT 2000 and TelePace TV.
Currently Ezio Monti is a teacher at the Conservatory of Music in L'Aquila.