BIOGRAPHY
Diego Genta born in italy 1970, who graduated with honors in piano at the Conservatorio "G. Verdi "in Turin, he studied with Professor Carmen Pastore and is self-taught composer. As a pianist, has accompanied many choral concerts and opera in Western Liguria. From 2000 to 2008 he worked as a music teaching in elementary and middle schools for the "Music Project" supported by the municipality of Diano Marina. In 2007, he began his work as a contemporary composer and performer, finding a new way of artistic renewal. Diego Genta is cultured and refined composer and his piano works are the tangible evidence, and collect lots of profound words of praise from the composer, pianist Giovanni Allevi. He has created original music for the short film "Utopia" by director Lorenzo Fresco, who attended the Rome Film Festival and was broadcast on Sky satellite.Il short has been selected among the best in VIDEOFESTIVAL Imperia International in April 2008 and Turin “Short Film Festival”.
Closing date of the concert "Sentimental Journey" with his original compositions in June 2008 for the twinning between the towns of Diano Marina, Diano d'Alba in the show "Dianoforte" - music to accompany the presentation of the poetry book "Emotions" by Victoria. Crivelli Sabbatini - Christmas concert with the pianist-composer Milan Fabio Mancini - Gala Concert of the 4th edition of the International Videofestival Imperia. He has worked as an accompanist pianist at the last two events, "Young musicians 'Deer' s Association of St. George Music. And in July 2009 to guide the international competition "Rovere d’oro" by S. Bartolomeo al mare. In June 2009, comes the publication of the debut album "Sentimental Journey" (Sentimental Journey) with its original compositions and arrangements. The CD includes nine tracks of solo piano, three pieces for piano and orchestra with the participation of the Ensemble Instrumental Belle Epoque of Imperia and Mariano Dapor, first cellist of the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo
Special thanks to the co-producer of Tino Catto "Alps and the sea Holidays" In May 2010 some pieces of solo piano CD of Sentimental Journey, are the soundtrack to the DVD documentary "The man who eats the plants on Libereso Guglielmi (internationally renowned botanist and gardener Mario Calvino, father the most famous Italian writer). Directed by Linda Greco and DVDs produced by the Confesercenti Guja Boriani. In repertoire of classical pieces for solo piano (Chopin, Debussy), but mostly original songs from her CD "Sentimental Journey" and other contemporaries composers like Giovanni Allevi, Michael Nyman, Ennio Morricone.
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