Salvatore Di Vittorio


Salvatore Di Vittorio is an Italian composer and conductor. He is the music director and conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of New York.
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Biography

Introduced to music at an early age by his father, Di Vittorio studied composition with Ludmila Ulehla and Giampaolo Bracali at the Manhattan School of Music in New York. He also studied conducting with Giampaolo Bracali, Francesco Carotenuto and Piero Bellugi in Italy.

Career

His program music, focused on symphony, is mostly influenced by Hector Berlioz and Richard Strauss. He has worked with orchestras in: Italy, Bulgaria, Belgium, United States, Canada, Egypt, Brazil, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Austria, and the United Kingdom.
He has written works for various orchestras, such as Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Chamber Orchestra of New York, Teatro Massimo, San Diego Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, and The Morgan Library & Museum. He has taught at Loyola School (New York City) and Adelphi University.
In 2007, Di Vittorio was invited to edit, orchestrate, and complete several early works of Respighi. This included the first Concerto per Violino (in La Maggiore), published by Edizioni Panastudio and Casa Ricordi in Italy. He premiered and recorded three of these editions, along with his own Overtura Respighiana and first two program symphonic poems with the Chamber Orchestra of New York for Naxos Records in 2010. Naxos Records released these first recordings in 2011.
Other restorations include Respighi's 1908 orchestration of Claudio Monteverdi's "Lamento di Arianna", edited in 2012, and orchestration of Tre Liriche, edited for its centennial anniversary in 2013. In November 2012, Di Vittorio gave the world premiere of his Sinfonia No. 3 Templi di Sicilia in his debut with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana at the Teatro Politeama in Palermo. He composed La Villa d'Este a Tivoli in 2015 for 'The Morgan' on the occasion of its exhibition City of the Soul: Rome and the Romantics. In 2018, Di Vittorio completed his Sinfonia No. 4 Metamorfosi.
In June 2021, Naxos released a second album of Di Vittorio's music that includes several recordings, including the new Fourth Symphony. Decca Classics released two recordings in 2021 involving Di Vittorio's published restorations of Respighi's works. The London Philharmonic released a recording of "Nebbie" from Tre Liriche under conductor Renato Balsadonna and tenor Freddie de Tommaso, and the Teatro Alla Scala Opera Orchestra recorded Aria for Strings under conductor Riccardo Chailly.
Between the 2021/2022 and 2024/2025 seasons, Di Vittorio premiered his Viaggi di Enea as one of two commissions for the Teatro Massimo Opera Orchestra in Palermo—the second, his Metamorphosis Symphony at the opera house.
Di Vittorio's works are published by Panastudio in Palermo, under the distributor Casa Ricordi in Milan, Italy. His orchestral works are also listed in Daniel's Orchestral Music Compendium.

Works

The following is a list of works and compositions by Di Vittorio:

Orchestral

Transcriptions and revisions of orchestral music of Ottorino Respighi

Other Transcriptions and Orchestrations

Opera

  • Fausto, Opera in due atti, per sei solisti, coro e orchestra da camera
  • ''Romeo e Giulietta, Opera in due atti, per sei solisti, coro e orchestra''

Choral and vocal

Chamber