Osvaldo Coluccino

Osvaldo Coluccino (born Domodossola, 22 April 1963) is an Italian composer and poet.

His music has been performed in some of the major festivals of classical and contemporary classical music, by prestigious soloistes, conductors, orchestras and ensembles such as Ensemble Recherche, Nieuw Ensemble and Exaudi Vocal Ensemble, and has been broadcast by national radio stations such as SWR, Radio France France Musique, ORF, Rai Radio 3, BR-Klassik, Kulturradio RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg), Concertzender, RTBF Musiq 3, Klara (radio station) Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep VRT, RTP Rádio e Televisão de Portugal Antena 2.

He has received commissions by Gran Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Biennale di Venezia, Milano Musica – Teatro alla Scala, RAI National Symphony Orchestra, Transit Festival Leuven, Muziekcentrum De Bijloke Gent, Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles and others.

It was the music historian Luigi Pestalozza who discovered him as a composer, and the musicologists who wrote about him include, in Italy, Angela Ida De Benedictis (in Edizioni del Teatro alla Scala), Angelo Foletto (Repubblica), Mario Gamba (Il Manifesto), Mario Messinis (Il Gazzettino), Paolo Petazzi (Classic Voice and Takte-Bärenreiter), in Europe Reinhard Ermen (on MusikTexte, Cologne), Pierre Rigaudière (Diapason (magazine), Paris), Liam Cagney (Gramophone, London), Dirk Wieschollek (NMZ, Hamburg), Daniel Ender (ÖMZ, Vienna)… He has been engaged in an intense poetry activity from 1986 to 2003.

Discovered by Stefano Agosti, one of the most eminent literary critics of the twentieth century in Italy, his poems and prose have been published in monographic books, prestigious literary magazines such as Il Verri and anthologies.