Rocco Di Pietro

Rocco Di Pietro (born 1949) is composer, pianist, author, teacher, and habilitationist whose work crosses multiple disciplinary boundaries.

Di Pietro worked exclusively in musical composition for 20 years before earning degrees from SUNY Buffalo and Vermont College.

Gramaphone said of the book: "You can admire Di Pietro for his persistence in persuading Boulez to participate in these exchanges, and for provoking a number of reasonably stimulating comments, not least about his continuing desire to write an opera.

The Lost Project, based on the plight of missing children, employed the musical monogram techniques developed by Johann Sebastian Bach.

The Lost Project is presented in traditional settings (Dartmouth College and Stanford University) as well as the less-traditional (street corners, churches, and community festivals).

Next, he gathered essays for his fourth book, Musician Without Notes, and began work on another large interdisciplinary cycle, The Comedy Of The Real (2003–2009), a series of radio dramas in the form of "positions" emanating outward in a spiral.

The work focuses on creating something transgressive within post-modernism along with simulation, the hyper-real, and investigating body traps and entrainment processes in trance experience.

Also during this time, Di Pietro completed the works Rhizome for Evelyn Glennie for percussion, electronics, and stone instruments; and a new series of Chiaroscuros.

[5] While in residency, Di Pietro worked on several projects including Body Trap for the Wired Sound ensemble with Chris Chafe, Pauline Oliveros, and Chryssie Nanou; a new section of his ongoing cycle, The Comedy of the Real for Ge Wang and the Stanford Laptop Orchestra; and work on his orchestral piece Finale which received its official premiere at Stanford under the direction of Jindong Cai, conductor of the Shanghai Orchestra in China, in May 2012.

[7] The third movement of this symphony is Prayer, also written for Biava and Viro, and dedicated to José Antonio Abreu and the youth orchestras of El Sistema.